Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1884 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Emperors William and Francis Joseph met at Ischl on the 6th inst. The Austrian Emperor escorted William to his hotel. The Peace Congress, in session at Berne, adopted a motion favoring the neutralization of interoceanic canals. Lord Northbrook, First Lord of the British Admiralty, and Mr. Hugh Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, are going to Egypt to investigate the condition of affairs in that country. The Cork Municipal Council have conferred the freedom of their city on Mr. William O’Brien, editor of United Ireland, on account of his efforts in exposing the Dublin scandal. Mr. O’Brien is a native of Cork. His parents were humble people in that city, and the honor is an unprecedented one. Capt. Hofer, a noted Austrian officer, shot his wife dead at Presburg, Hungary, and then committed suicide. A group of Parisian railway capitalists are to join with the Russians in building a road from the Caspian sea to Bassorah, on the Persian Gulf. Michael Davitt writes to a friend in Boston that there is no truth in the reported disagreement between himself and Parnell. William O’Brien, editor of the United Ireland, declares that he will never pay the judgment for £3,0.70 pronounced against him in favor of Crown Solicitor Bolton. If an appeal be refused, he will file a petition in bankruptcy. The police of Vienna are alarmed over the prevalence of incendiary fires, and they believe that a conspiracy has been formed to destroy the main buildings of the capital. William Henry Hurlbert, ex-editor of

i the New York World, was married in Yorkshire, England, at the home of Mr. Beckett ! Dennison, the of the bride, to Miss Katharine barker Traey, pt New York. A distinguished company of British nobility and gentry attended the wedding. Admiral Lesseps, with five vessels of the French squadron, bombarded and captured the town of Keiung, on the island of Formosa. The French Minister announces that the occupation of the place can be shortened by the Chinese agreeing to pay an indemnity of eighty million francs in ten year ly installments. •