Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Senegambians have rebelled against French authority and are up in arms. In a recent attack on the invaders they killed nine soldiers and wounded thirty-two. Probably owing to the vigorous measures of the Government, the riotous demonstrations in Belgium are subsiding. The entire regular military force of the kingdom is under arias. A bill to permit cremation has been adopted by the French Chamber of Deputies by a large majority. Work has been resumed in all the factories and collieries in the Charleroi district of Belgium. President Grevv of the French Republic has received a letter threatening him with violence. His house is guarded by police. Greece still continues her war preparations, and the London Tuva', declares that a conflict, with Turkey may ho precipitated within a week. Thursday, April 1, being the seventyfirst anniversary of the birth of Prince Bismarck the. Chancellor was congratulated by Crown Prince Frederick William,, and lio received numerous telegrams and letters. The roof of the theater at Heromal, Japan, caved in from the weight of snow, 150 persons being killed or wounded. Alarming news from Bulgaria and Greece caused the British Cabinet to hold a special meeting. Orders have been sent to Devonport to have all the torpedo vessels ready for sea on short notice. Hundreds of officers of the German army have tendered their services to Prince Alexander in the event of an invasion of Bulgaria by the liussians. The Lord Mayor of London presided over an immense mass meeting held to protest against the granting of a Parliament to Ireland. With,only two hundred votes in the negative, a resolution was adopted condemning Mr. Gladstone for his intention to hand Ireland over to Mr. Parnell. Panama-Canal shares showed a further drop last week on the Paris Bourse. M. Cernuschi telegraphs from Paris that, in his opinion, “should tlio policy of the silver men in the American Congress he against limited coinage, silver will be saved and become the equal of gold throughout the world.” Another of the wolf-bitten Russians under treatment by Pasteur at Paris has died from hydrophobia,. Mail advices confirm the report of the sudden fa ling out of the bottom of the great volcano Kilauea, on one of the Sandwich Islands. The Cambridge crew defeated the Oxford, in the annual race on the Thames, by half a length. The race was against head winds, and it very ex-citing one. The distance was four miles, and the time 32:29>£. A Paris dispatch says that M. M. lloclio and Duquercy have been arrested at Decay. ;viilo and taken in letters to prison. Socialist leaders have also been arrested in Brussels. Eleven Captains of a German regiment located at Brandenburg resigned on account of a public reprimand given by their Colonel. The Ernperor was informed of tho occurrence and ordered their arrest and trial for conspiracy.