Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]
FOREIGN.
Lord Randolph Churchill in effect states that the gag law is to be established in the British House of Commons at the next session as a means of further repressing the Parnellites. Edward Solomon, Lillian Russell’s husband, has been arrested in London on the charge of bigamy, preferred by his first wife. Two naturalized American citizens, who have been visiting their birthplace in Germany, have been ordered to leave the empire. A Sofia dispatch says that the Russian ultimatum, of -which General Kaulbars is the bearer, demands the immediate raising of the state of siege in Bulgaria, the liberation of all political prisoners, and the indefinite postponement of the elections for members of the National Assembly. However, there are no signs of flinching on the part of tho regency; on the contrary the anti-Russian feeling increases daily. The British Government has decided to greatly increase the garrison at Belfast. In a railroad accident at Berlin three soldiers were killed and twenty wounded.
In a compartment of an underground railway carriage in London Moritz A. IGser, the bead of an important foreign house, was murdered by unknown persons. His watch and chain were not disturbed, but his money had evidently been taken. By an explosion of fire-damp in a coal mine near Sohalke, Germany, forty-five persons were killed and sixteen injured. An Italian brig loading with benzine at Fiume, Austria, was set on fire by lightning, and eight men perished in the flames. Rumor has it that King Charles of Roumania may not unlikely be chosen Princo of Bulgaria. His friendship toward that unfortunate country has endeared him to its citizens. Six persons, including three Glasgow magistrates, were suffocated while viewing a monster blast at Lochfyneside quarries in Scotland. The Pope is actively put suing his project to found an important university at tho Lateran Pal ico for advanced scientific and literary studies o:i the part of the clergy. . The forcible collection of school fees in London is accompanied by ■ cases where every scrap of household furniture has been seized and sold. The Radical clubs advise resistance to the law. The speech of Queen Victoria proroguing Parliament until November 1L states that a successor to Prince Alexander is to be elected in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of Berlin, and that a commission has been appointed to inquire into the failure of the recent acts respecting the tenure and the purchase of laud in Ireland. In the Federal Court at Buffalo four cigarmakers from Binghamton were held in 51,000 each for on attempt to boycott non-union factories.
