Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

An American girl in Paris has entered upon a fast of thirty days, under the surveillance of a committee. The British Colonial Exhibition has closed. There was a total of 5,550,749 visitors, and the average daily attendance was 33,846. William O’Brien, of United Ireland, has declined the seat in Parliament for the South Division of Sligo which Mr. Sexton vacated. A cablegram from Mandalay states that the British intend to replace King Theebaw on the throne of Burmah and evacuate the country. The Ghilzai rebels in Afghanistan have been badly defeated by the regular troops, and mauy cart-loads of their heads sent to Cabul as a token of the victory. The King of Denmark, in a telegram to the Bulgarian Regency, expressing thanks for the honor done his son, declines to permit him to accept the throne under any conditions. Ward, the London socialist, who was arrested whilo speaking in Trafalgar Square on Lord Mayor’s day, has been finod 10 shillings for disturbing the peace. A tradesman of Dublin has been forced into bankruptcy by being boycotted by the National League, His business fell off 00 per cent Count Kalnoky, in declaring the foreign policy of Austria, said her interests in Bulgaria were for the maintenance of treaty rights, without regard to internal affairs. Fifty-three compositors have been sentenced by the Aachen (Germany) Trade Court to pay damages to then- employers for leaving work and joining in a strike without giving notice. The German merchant fleet comprises 4,135 vessels, with a registered tonnage of 1,282,499 tons and crows numbering 38,931 men. This is a decrease, from 1885 in number of vessels of 122 and in touuage of 11,839 tons. John MacPherson, known as the “Glendale martyr,” and the Rev. Donald Macallom have been arrested iu the Isle of Skye, charged with inciting violence, in advising a meeting of the crofters to resist the removal of cattle.