Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Dr. Taepen, Principal of the Hamburg School-, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment; for writing to a newspaper asserting that the Socialist Deputy Viereck is a natural son of Emperor William. The expulsion of Russian Poles from Posen and Silesia continues, and is attended yMth- much cruelty and hardship. The number’fb be expelled is 30,009. The Indian Government proposes a loan of $50,000,000, to be expended on the extension of the railway system. It is reported that the dynamiter Cunningham has shown signs of insanity since his imprisonment. The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the British grain trade, says: “The cold weather brings the season dangerously late fpr “the crops, which are already so backward. The quantity of cold rain which has fallen is unfavorable for the wheat crop,' the color of which is getting worse daily. Should the weather change it is still doubtful whether wheat w*tild regain what’it has lost during the month.” A soldier who was at the fall of Kbar.tQum has reached London. At the time of the fall the city was On the verge of a famine, he reports, and on entering the enemy massacred about 18,000 people. Gen. Gordon was among the number, and his head was cut off and carried in barbaric triumph and exultation to the Mehdi himself, who received it with eager satisfaction. Sunday, the 24th of May, being the anniversary of the fall of the Commune, the Communists of Paris attempted to hold a demonstration at the tombs of their comrades in the Pere La Chaise Cemetery. The police interfered and prevented a display of seditious emblems. A serious conflict ensued, in which several men were wounded. The police finally dispersed the rioters, thirty of whom were arrested. Queen Victoria celebrated her sixtysixth birthday on the 24th of May. But nine of the fifty-five sovereigns who have preceded her on the throne have attained age.