Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A train-load of aristocrats and sporting characters went from London to Paris to witness a prize-fight between Knifton and Jem Smith. At the last moment the former declined to enter the ring on the ground that his friends were outnumbered and he might not receive fair play. M. R ouquet, Secretary of the Paris Municipal Council, having forwarded to United States Minister McLano the petition adopted by the Council, Nov. 29, asking that Governor Oglesby exercise Execut.ve clemency toward the condemned Chicago Anarchists, Mr. McLano calls attention to the fact that the petition would bo much more efficacious if addressed direct to the Executive of Illinois, but consents to transmit the same as desired. T. D. Sullivan has been re-elected lord Mayor of Dublin. He pledges himself to refuse any honors that may be offered by Queen Victoria during the jubilee year. The offering of bouquets to actresses has boon prohibited in Vienua on the ground that the practice has grown to an absurd extent The ancient Church of St. Mary Magdalene in London, with four warehouses on the same Btreet, was destroyed by tire; loss $590,000. Thirty men were killed in a coalmine explosion in Durham, England. The French Ministers have tendered their resignations to President Grevy. Contracts have been made in London for the construction of an iron tower, 440 feet high, at the head of Oxford street, to commemorate the Queen’s jubilee. It is reported that the British Government is about to institute vigorous measures against the Irish National League.