Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A London dispatch says that every village on the island of Niapu has bean destroyed by an earthquake. The island ii covered twenty feet deep with volcanic dust and a new hill 200 feet high has been formed. The island had a population of about five hundred, all of whom escaped. Hundreds of people are dying daily in Corea of cholera. A formidable movement in favor of Russia is said to be spreading throughout the Bulgarian army. There is a deficitf of $10,000,000 in the revenues of New South Wales, which has been undergoing the greatest period of commercial depression known in twenty-two years. Queen Christina of Spain has commuted the sentences of the condemned insurgents, and has also signed the decree freeing ihe Cuban slaves from the remainder of their terms in servitude. The estimates of the Prussian Ministry of Finance show the budget of 18S6 closing with a deficit. Lawrence’s cotton-mill and four houses at Chorley, Lancaster County, England, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is $1,000,0C0. Emperor William has sent to the Sultan of Morocco a gift of twelve volumes of the Talmud in Hebrew. A new Spanish Cabinet has been formed as follows: President of the Council, Senor Sagasta; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senor Moret; Minister of Justice, Senor Martinez; Minister of the Interior, Leon Castillo; Minister of Public Works, Senor Rodrigo; Minister of War, General Castillo; Minister of Marine, Admiral Adrias; Minister of Coloniesr Senor Balaguer.