Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A Paris telegram states that two English women have been exposed in a matrimonial swindle by which several young Frenchmen wore made to hand over large sums to the younger as bridal presents and settlements. The leading newspaper at St. Petersburg dec.ares that the return of Prince Alexander to the Bulgarian throne would constitute a real provocation, and add a fresh element to the conflict One of the keepers in the Paris Zoological Gardens was killed by a hippopotamus. An Edinburgh dispatch says that the Marchioness of Queensbery has instituted an action for divorce against her husband, the Marquis of Queensberry. A Rome dispatch says that Prince Louis Napoleon, son of Prince Jerome Napoleon (Plon Plon), will finish his military education in the Italian army. Seven person were killed and several houses demolished by an earthquake at Djemei, Tunis. Advices received at Madrid from Spanish representat ves abroad tend to increase the fears of a European war. The Russian Government has ordered large numbers of repeating rifles for the army, in accordance wstli the report of a military commission. Prince Alexander authorizes the announcement that he ;s about to make a prolonged tour of Egypt and the East in order to put an end to the rumors that he intends to return to Bulgaria. Of the American registered packages lost in the Belgian mail robbery of November, 140 were found under a soi4 in a hotel parlor at Brussels, only fourteen of them having been rifled. Official reports from Ireland show little diminution in the number of non-pay-ments of rents and evictions of tenants. It is rumored that Mr. Ruskin will shortly enter the Roman Catholic Church. Hii rocent intercourse with Cardinal Manning has strengthened his impulses in this direction While a number of bailiffs, assisted by lob pol eemen, wero evicting tenants in Mayuoe, County Clare, the people were called together by the ringing of the chapel bell and the blowing of horns. Headed by the priests, they reinstated three evicted tenants as care- , takers, and in two instances forced the bail ffs to abandon their attempts to evict tenants and withdraw from tho scene. During the disturbance Father O’Fiynn, Inspector Heard, and several policemon were injured by being hit with stones.