Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Bismarck made a strong speech in the German Reichstag in favor of the Government’s military bill The empire was bound to maintain peace at that quarter of the globe, he said, but for this a strong army was required. Close and friendly relations existed between Austria and Germany; in fact, there was a good feeling toward all the Powers, and the cordiality toward Russia was beyond all doubt Gen. von Moltke also spoke in favor of the bill Lord Iddesleigh (Sir Stafford Northcote), while ascending a staircase in the official residence of Lord Salisbury at London, fell in a faint and expired in twenty minutes. For many years he had suffered from cardiac affections. He was born in 1818, and commenced his political career as private secretary to Mr. Gladstone in 1843. He recently withdrew from the Conservative Government

The tenants on the Clanricarde estates at Loughrea, Ireland, have resolved to seek protection in bankruptcy, in which plan they have the sympathy of all outside creditors. Russia -will raise $30,000,000 for extra expenditures by means of a loan. In the German Parliament the army bill was amended by limiting its duration to three years, instead of the seven demanded by the Government, by a vote of 186 to 144. Prince Bismarck immediately read an imperial message dissolving the Reichstag, and a decree was soon issued for general elections on Feb. 21. The police of Berlin have forbidden the sale of a pamphlet issued by a socialistic society in Chicago in denunciation of the anarchists’ trial. During a dense fog the Dublin steampacket Banshee, with three hundred passengers on board, ran on the rocks at Holyhead. The steamship Eleanor went to her aid and was stranded, but the Banshee floated off within three hours. Pending Lord Randolph Churchill’s explanation to his constituents, which is anxiously looked forward to, of his action in withdrawing from the Cabinet at so critical a mo-’ •ment as the present, general public opinion seems to be that he resigned his office of Chancellor of the Exchequer in a fit of petulancy brought on by a series of events which revealed to him the fact that the. Cabinet were not prepared to allow him to have entirely his own way in all matters, great and small -