Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Thunderstorms raged in Germany for three days. Many persons and hundreds of cattle were killed. Damage to the extent of $200,000 was done to vineyards in the Rhine valley. Germany is about to change all the garrisons o her western frontier. The Prussian Landtag appropriatad 50,000,C00 marks for the north coast sea channel. There is good authority for stating that the financial troubles of the King of Bavaria will be setiled very soon. The French Chambers have voted urgency for a bill to expel the Princes. Important gold discoveries are reported from Kimberley, Australia. Austrian newspapers are stirred up over a remark recently made by the Russian Czar, at Moscow, which is interpreted to signify warlike designs on his part against Turkey. By the loss of the steamer Lydeemon, from Melbourne for Sidney, seventy persons were drowned. A Paris cablegram states that Prince Jerome Napoleon is about to visit the United States to meet bis son, who is returning from a trip around tlie world. In consequence of a protest by Prince Bismarck, the Belgian Government lias prohibited a labor demonstration of great magnitude which w f as to take place in Brussels. China has decided not to renew her contracts with the German officers now in her service. The Salvation Army congress opened in London last week. Two thousand officers and many thousand soldiers from all parts of the world were in attendance. The University of Cambridge has decided to confer upon Oliver Wendell Holmes tlie degree of Doctor of Letters, and will also tender him a banquet. Minister Phelps had an interview in London with Lord Rosebery on the fishery d spute, in which it appeared that tlie Government w-as rather glad that tlie trouble had occurred, for it believed it would hasten a lasting settlement of the questions involved. A Spanish revenue cutter fired upon and seized three trading boots at Gibraltar. The cutter was .subsequently captured by a British armed launch. The passage of Mr. Gladstone’s home-rule measure on second reading is assured. Lord Hartingtou and his Whig followers will vote against the bill, but Mr. Chamberlain and his Radical adherents will abstain from voting, thus assuring its success.