Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The German Government has dispatched the war-ship Falko to the North Sea to watch the operations of English fishermen. German papers express satisfaction with the arrest of Herr Most and other anarchists, and express the hope that they will be severely punished. A terrible hurricane swept across the middle of Spain. In Madrid alone seventy persons are known to have been instanty killed and 230 others seriously injured. Snowstorms are reported in the north of Ireland and Scotland. Schumacher & Schull, rice merchants, of London, failed, with liabilities of $900,000 and no assets. It is rumored that Mr. Gladstone has some intention of withdrawing the homerule bill. There was a slight earthquake shock in the county of Dumbarton, Scotland. Stephens, the Englishman who is making a tour of the world on a bicycle, has been arrested in Afghanistan. Several manufacturing firms in the Province of Ulster, Ireland, are considering the advisability of moving to Germany. A meeting of the followers of Lord Hartington was held in London, for the purpose of cementing the Whig and Radical opposition to the home-rule bill. Sixty-four persons attended. The meeting unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that those present would oppose the second reading of the home-rule bill. Active efforts have been commenced for the Germanization of the four eastern provinces of Prussia. A large estate near Gnesen has been purchased from a Polish nobleman, to be sold in small tracts to German farmers on condition that they will not marry Polish women. Several persons were killed and damage to the amount of 1,000,000 francs was done to the buildings and vineyards at Montpelier, France, by a hurricane. Five lives were lost in the Italian town of Lonato, and two German ships were foundered in the River Oder. Gladstone is confident of the success of his Home Rule measure for Ireland, while Hartington, Chamberlain, et al. are just as confident that they can defeat it on the second reading. A great meeting of the opponents of the bill was held in St James’ Hall, London. The Conservative leaders who spoke against the measure were enthusiastically cheered.