Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Workmen excavating in Dublin beneath Christ Church Cathedral discovered a chapter house, which was buried in the ruins of the great fire in the thirteenth century. It contains carved effigies, coins, and tiles. Galeote, the assassin of the Bishop of Madrid, says be did the killing to avenge his honor, and that God decreed the crime. Lord Churchill thinks the chances for the .land bill passing the British House of Commons are better than people are willing to admit The Turkish advanced posts attempted to surprise the Greeks, who had been erecting earthworks within the neutral line. They were repulsed by the Greeks, who pursued the Turks and captured two guns. The Greeks then occupied three positions within Turkish territory, which the Grecek Government ordered them to evacuate. It is semiofficially stated that France will refuse to join the other Powers in the plan proposed- by England to coerce Greece into disarming. The watchmakers of Grammont, Belgium, having entered upon a strike, barricaded the bridges over the Dender lUver and assailed the gendarmes with stones. A large number of the rioters were captured. The Spanish Sanitary Council has authorized the general adoption of Dr. Ferran’s practice of inoculation against cholera. A collision between Orange and Catholic toughs occurred after the holding of a loyalist meeting at Glasgow. Later an Orange mob attacked a Catholic chapel, which was crowded with worshipers, and smashed the windows. On the grounds of the projected international exposition at Paris will l.e erected an iron tower V 34 feet high, to be surmounted by electric lights, visible for nearly two hundred miles. The scheme will require an outlay of $1,000,000. Queen Victoria and her daughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales, have come tc anopen rupture, owing to British intervention in the Turko-Grecian question. The King of Greece is brother to the Princess of Wales. The total number of deaths which have resulted from the conflagration which recently devastated tho town of Stry in Austria is 128. The Burgomaster estimates that it will cost $1,200,000 to rebuild the burned houses. The loss on private property was $900,000.