Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Jolm and Sarah Magee were arrested in London charged with attempting to procure money from the Prince of Wales by writing threatening letters. Em'gration from Germany during the nine months ending Oct 1 was 86,000, as against 135,000 for the same period in 1884. The French Government has ordered a suspension of hostilities in Madagascar as a preliminary to negotiations for a treaty of peace. The Liberal press in Russia is urging an alliance with England as the best means of settling tho Eastern question and of punishing the perfidy of Germany and Austria. St. Petersburg dispatches state that a terrible dynamite explosion occurred in the PJerjuchin mine in Siberia. Tho accounts are conflicting, some placing the number killed at four hundred, and others as high as ono thousand. Stephen Barker Guion, the wellknown owner of steamships, died suddenly of apoplexy at Liverpool He was bora in New York in 1820.