Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Dispatches received from Cape Coast Castle, capital of Gold Coast, West Africa, says that a conflict is proceeding between the Becquahs and Adansis, two native tribes, and that in consequence the roads are blocked and all trade with the interior is temporarily stopped. The Becquahs recently captured forty-five German traders and killed them by all the most terrible tortures and mutilations. Cholera in a violent form has appeared among the fishermen of Bretagne, France. Natives in the River Tanna district East Africa, have murdered Missonary Houghton and his wife near Lamoo. Later advices from Cape Coast Castle,West Africa, say that the forty-five traders murdered by the Becquahs were natives, belonging to the Gamin tribe, and not Germans, as the first dispatches stated. The volcano zEtna, says a cable dispatch, is in violent eruption. Torrents of lava are issuing from eleven craters. Berlin cable advices are to the effect that the present relations between France and Germany are more strained than they have been since the last war. Minister Pendleton was too greatly prostrated by the death of his wife to be able to cross the Atlantic and attend the obsequies. Besides an official assurance of the sympathy of Emperor William, he received a vast number of cablegrams of condolence. At a conference of the Liberal Union, in London, the principal speech was made by the Marquis of Hartington. He declared that the present Irish policy of the Government must be vigorously opposed by both Parliament and the country, which was now threatened with a general election. The Duke of Argyll also made a vigorous attack upou Gladstone’s Irish policy. A Berlin dispatch announces the death, at his home in that city, of Leopold von Ranke, the eminent German historian. He was born at Wiche in Thuringia Dec. 21, 1795, and was consequently in his 91st year. Don Carlos has issued a manifesto repudiating the infant son of Queen Christina as the rightful successor to the throne of Spain. There has been some fighting between Greek and Turkish troops on the frontier—file result of mutual misunderstanding. The eruption of Mount Etna is the greatest known in centuries; and is increasing in intensity and volume every day. Many dwellings have been totally destroyed.