Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A cable dispatch from Rome reports the explosion of the powder mills at Pontremoli, killing thirty men and wounding seventeen others. Pontremoll Is in the Province of Massa e Carrara, at the southern declivity of the Appenlne range of mountains and twenty-three miles northwest of Carrara. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria and his son have abandoned their proposed

trip to Constantinople through fear of dynamite plots. A sensational murder is reported at Prague. A civil engineer had his head and leg cut off, and they were carried from the bedroom to the kitchen. His money and other valuables were not touched. A cable dispatch announces the death of Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir-ap-parent to the throne of the Netherlands. The deceased Prince was an Admiral m the navy of the Netherlands, a Major General in the army, and the last male heli of a famous race.