Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The French Government has decided to release the Montceau-les-Mines anarchists, but will not pardon Prinoe Krapotkine or Louiso Michel. The Communists of Paris propose to march to the City Hall on July 14, with a red flag bearing the word “amnesty.” A magistrate at Lurgan, Ireland, named Liddel, was fired upon while driving with his wife, the latter receiving a wound. A cable dispatch from London says: “The cholera has driven thousands of Americans from French soil to I.ondon. Any infectious cases in the latter city will be taken lo Gravesend hospital. The authorities bavo been asked to intercept a steamer from Marseilles for Cardiff, on which there are said to bo two cases. Ten deaths were reported at Toulon on Monday ovening, and fourteen at Marseilles. Cornwall, Secretary of the Dublin Fostofllce, has fled the city since the failure of his suit against O'Brien, as have also several other persons involved with him in criminal acts. The French Admiral Courbet telegraphs to Paris that he has occupied a town on the Chinese coast. The war, therefore, has commenced. The bullion in the Bank of England decreased $1,870,000, in the Bank of France about $1,000,000, and in the German Imperial Bank about 92,000,000. Orangemen have been arrested at Newry, Ireland, for shooting a Nationalist. A commission has been appointed to inquire into the cause of the alarming increase in the number of Buicides in the Prus- | sian army. Michael De Young, of the San Francisco Chronicle, and a select party were entertained at a banquet by Irving, the actor, in London. Some Orangemen shot a Catholic near Belfast, Ireland. The police arrested one of the Orangemen, but he was rescued A fierce fight ensued. A London dispatch says that, should the House of Lords reject the franchise bill in the fall, the Government will dissolve Parliament, and a goneral election will take place before Christmas.' Several persons who have figured in the O’Brlen-Cornwall case in Dublin hive been arrested on criminal charges. The dej teetives are looking ior Cornwall. Considerable excitement prevails in consequence of the arrests. Another attempt has been made to kill the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. The rails over which his train was to pass near Pola were removed. This was discovered in time to prevent a serious and perhaps fatal accident. The New York dry-goods house of Halstead, Haines & Co. made an assignment for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities aggregate about 92,090,000. Cholera continues to prevail, and the

increase in the death srate at Marseilles has increased the general alarm. The origin of the disease is traced to Egypt and England's carelessness there. Israel H. Hamburger, of New York, has made an assignment. He was in the stationery business, and his liabilities are put at $60,000. Elias Brown, a comb manufacturer, also made an assignment. At Conshocken, Pa., John Mann, a Shoemaker, stabbed his daughter seventeen, and then himself fifteen, times, and died. The daughter will die. She repelled the unlawful advances of her father.