Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The chief clerk of the Paris postoffice fled with $40,000 in money-orders. A frightful accident is reported by cable from London. The Hebrew Dramatic Club gave an entertainment at a theater in Princess street, Spitalfields, which was attended by about 500 persons, mostly Jews. Some one in the gallery, doubtless for a joke, shouted, “Fire!” The gas was immediately turned off at the meter, and a terrible panic ensued. The people rushed in a solid mass for the doors, and numbers were trodden under foot. When the panic had subsided, it was found that twelve women and five youths had been trampled to death in the rush to escape, and many others injured.

The marriage of Prince Roland Bonaparte and Princess Letitia will take place in April at Turin, The upper house of the Prussian Diet has unanimously adapted an address to Emperor William expressing the willingness of the Prussian people to vote the means necessary for defending the German Empire. Alexander, the deposed Bulgarian Prince, is making a tour of Egypt incognito. Europe is filled with reports of French preparations for war on Germany. The new French Cabinet, which was formed Dec. 11, 1886, is already in deep waters, and its Resignation may be expected. The Budget Committee of the Climber of Deputies has, by a vote of 18 to 6, rejected the amended budget presented by M. Dauphin, Minister of Finance, providing for an issue of bonds to the amount of $375;000,0C0 francs, redeemable in sixty-six years, to meet the temporary needs of the Government

The Cabinet crisis in France has probably been averted by the withdrawal of the supplemental budget of $75,000,000 introduced by the Minister of Finance. Evictions continue in Ireland with unusual severity. Messrs. Dillon, Harrington, and others, who are at Glenbeigh, have plainly told Sir Michael Hicks-Beach that the responsibility for the condition of affairs there lies largely at his door. An enthusiastic meeting of 10,001 Nationalists was held at Killarglin, near Killarney, Saturday, to protest against the evictions. Joseph Chamberlain, in the course of a speech at Harwick, Scotland, said that from what had passed at the conference of Liberals and Radicals a complete agreement withthe Liberal leaders might be attained. The Scottish Protestant Alliance sent a memorial to Queen Victoria, setting forth that the aggressions of the Papacy in Great Britain and the supremacy of the Pope were subversive of the Queen’s authority, and that the aim of the Papacy was the Vatican’s conquest and subjection of the country. A British steamer collided at Shanghai with a Chinese transport, causing the loss of several mandarins and a hundred soldiers.