Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

British officials at Cairo have tried unsuccessfully to persuade the home Government to appo:nt Gen. Wolsely as Governor General of the Soudan. The Gvernment has declined on the ground that such an appointment would unduly prolong the stay of the British army in Africa. In the Royal Alpha Masonic Lodge at London, Prince Edward was initiated by the Prince of Wales, and manifested the deepest interest in the work. An explosion in a coal mine near Saarbruck, in Rhenish Prussia, imprisoned 217 miners, only seventeen of whom had been rescued at last accounts. The bodies of two men, frightfully hacked with knives, were found on the track of the Cork & Bandon Railway, in Ireland. It is believed that the victims wore passengers on a train and were murdered for the purpose of robbery. The assailants are supposed to have occupied seats in the same compartment with them and to have thrown them out of the car window after stabbing them to death. James Stephens, the Fenian leader recently expelled from France, is said by his wife to be dying in destitution at Mons, Belgium. The cost of the French war thus far to China is estimated at $90,000,000. At last accounts fifty-one of the workmen who were entombed in the Camphausen mine in Rhenish, Prussia, had been taken out alive. One hundred and thirtyseven dead bodies had been recovered, and about forty .paen and boys remained unaccounted for. Sir Baldwin Malet, K. C. 8., British Ambassador to Germany, was married at Westminster Abbey to Lady Ermyntrude, second daughter of the Duke of Bedford. The ceremony was attended with almost regal splendor, the presents being valued at SIOO,OOO. An advance in force was made from Suakin in the direction of Hasheen. Cavalry, mounted infantry, and Indian infantry were sent to reconnoiter, while the Guards acted as a reserve. The Arabs retreated before the British as far as the hills near Hasheen, the main body of the troops under Gen. Graham supporting the skirmishing line. The scouts, on reaching the summit of the hills, discovered the Arabs massed in the village. When the main body of the British reached the hilltops the Hadendowah tribe rushed from Ambush and made an attack, in which several hundred Arabs were killed and wounded, as well as a number of the British. It was ascertained by a reconnaissance that the enemy were in force along the entire range of hills. The engagement ended with the retirement of the British. A dowry of $650,000 was given by the Duke of Bedford to his daughter on the occasion of her marriage with Sir Edward Mslet. The radical newspapers contrast the splendor of the wedding pageant with the poverty-stricken condition of the tenants who inhabit the slums from which the noble Duke derives his revenues. The Duke of Richmond, the largest owner of rented property in London, has reduced all his rents 10 per cent. The announcement has been made in the House ot Commons that Great Britain recognizes the right of France to search for contraband articles all neutral vessels bound for China. After purchasing the Schoenhausen estate the residue of the Bismarck birthday fund will be devoted to the establishment of a Bismarck foundation for some patriotic object of national importance. The British steamer Rhonddah was sunk in Bristol Channel by the British steamer Brooklyn City, from New York. A detachment of English and Indian infantry was engaged in erecting a zareba seven miles southwest of Suakin (March 22), when a large force of Arabs rushed upon them from Ambush. A square was quickly

formed, but the camels and horses were driven back upon the troops, causing great confusion. The Arabs penetrated the square from the north and south. The marines and Berkshire regiment on the east and west sides maintained a steady fire and kept the Arabs in check, repulsing them finally with the aid of the cavalry and artillery from the Hasheen zareba. The English loss was two officers and twentytwo men killed and thirty-three men wounded. This does not include the loss among the engineers, transport corps, and Indian troops, which had not yet been reported.