Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Mr. Gladstone, it is said, intends to submit to Parliament his home rule and land measures embodied in the same bill. If the measure is defeated in the House of Commons Parliament will bo dissolved immediately. At Monaco, an English baronet who had been ruined at the gambling tables took his own life, whereupon a governess in his employ po soned herself with laudanum. The Belfast (Ireland) Presbyteries have adopted a series of resolutions expressing loyalty to the Queen, favoring land reform, occupying ownerships, reducing rents, and opposing local government in any shape. Extreme cold weather forced the Austrian railways to suspend operations. Several persons were frozen to death in the streets of Vienna. The hospitals of Paris are overcrowded with sufferers from frost bites. The conference at Constantinople of the representatives of the Powers accepted in its entirety the Turco-Bulgarian treaty, which creates Prince Alexander ruler of Eastern Roumelia. A man named Peronnier, believed to be insane, caused a sensation m the French Chamber of Deputies by drawing a revolver and tiring twice with a downward aim, at the same time throwing a letter toward M. Clemenceau. Peronnier was quickly seized, and hurried to prison. A mob of Socialists who had assembled in a nienaciug manner in Amsterdam, Holland, were charged by the police with swords and truncheons, and dispersed. The liabilities of the Princess Helena of Ypsih are said to amount t > £BOO,OOO sterling, The great indebtedness is said to have been caused by the extravagance of the Princess and h: r husband, who have spent £5,000,000 sterling in ten years. There have been strikes and lockouts among the trades in Dublin. None very extensive, and all have been settle 1 by arbitration. In a skirmish at Suakim thirty Soudanese rebels were killed by British soldiers. The donations at Paris to the Pasteur Hospital fund have thus far reached $50,000. The French Government will make a loan of 1.0.,0,000 francs to take up its floating debt and consolidate its six-year bonds.