Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Mr. Matthews, Home Secretary foi Ireland, has been re-elected to the House of Commons for East Birmingham without opposition. In anti-Jewish riots in Ivieff, Russia, the houses of many Hebrews were wrecked. Louise Michel has been sentenced in Paris to four months’ imprisonment and a fine of 100 francs for “seditious language.” Two socialist leaders of London have been fined SIOO each for obstructing the streets by a meeting July 18. A Belfast dispatch says the excitement occasioned by the riots has been revived by an outrage committed by the Orangemen of Queen’s Island upon a Catholic named Johnson. The latter was returning to his home from work, when he was se zed by the Orangemen and given a coat of tar and feathers. The Catholics aro very indignant at the outrage, and vow vengeance against the perpetrators. * Christine Nilsson was married on the 13th to Count do Casa Miranda, of Spam. Forty lives were lost by an explosion in a colliery at Leigh, E.igland. The English Cabinet has decided to appoint a royal commission to inquire into the Belfast riots. Belfast rioters began their bloody work again Sunday morning, and for four hours a rifle fight was waged by expert marksmen postal at street corners, and upon roofs and chimney-stacks. Immense crowds of partisans, who carefully kept out of range, were prepared to assist by supplying ammunition and removing the wounded. The sides were equally divided. An Orange procession, while passing through the streets of Widnes, Lancashire, was jeered at by spectators. The Orangemen thereupon broke ranks and attacked the crowd One of the spectators was stabbed and mortally wounded, and two policemen and a number of other persons were injured. Prince Bismarck is reported suspicious of Russia because of the Bear’s attitude toward Batoum and Bulgaria. It is thought the Chancellor will attempt to have a peace alliance formed between Germany, Austria, and Great Britain.