Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The draft of an extradition treaty sent from London to Washington includes dynamiters, defaulters, and embezzlers among offenders subject to surrender. Much damage to property and crops in the province of Elis, Greece, has been caused by terrific storms, and the people are in great distress. Earl Rosebery, British Foreign Minister, is said to have sent to Russia a precise a’.ul emphatic protest against the closing of Batonm as a free port, characterizing Russia’s action in doing so as a “flagrant violation of the treaty of Berlin. ” The police of Berlin are vigorously oxecut ng the Socialist law. Deputy Vierrek has been summoned for trial as a member of a secret society. London Socialists held a meeting last Sunday, and were requested by the police to disperse. This they refused to do, and one of the leaders announced that if the police persisted in their present policy they would drive the Socialists into secret un ons, to the terror of tho Government classes. No arrests were male. Nineteen men of the British warship Goshawk went ashore at Port Royal, Jamaica, and while there a storm arose. They attempted to return to the ship in the storm, and on nearing the vessel their boat capsized. The next morning three of the sailors were found on the bottom of the boat drifting toward Port Henderson, and two on one of the royal naval buoys iu Port Royal harbor, to which they had swam. The other fourteen were drowned. James Julior, of London, has been placed iu a lunatic asylum for writing an offer of marriage to Queen Victoria and calling at Windsor Castle for an answer. General Boulanger, the French War Minister, and Baron de Lareinty fought a duel near Paris. Tho Baron fired at the General without hitting him. Boulanger then fired into air. Thus wounded honor was avenged. The convention between the steelrail manufacturers of England, Belgium, aud Germany, formed for the purpose of preventing ruinous competition, has expired. It is stated that the convention will not be renewed. A London dispatch of the 19th inst. sums up the result of the Parliamentary elections as follows, with seven constituencies remaining to be board from: Conservatives, 318; unionist liberals, 74; Gladstonians, 187; nationalists, 83, a unionist muster of 392 ranked against 270 home-rulers. Thus far there is a majority of 122 against Mr. Gladstone on his Irish policy. The conservatives have a plurality of 56 over the liberals of all kinds, but they fall 27 below tho united vote of the liberal# and nationalist