Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Paris correspondent of the Berlin Post writes that the former opponents of General Boulanger are turning toward him as to the rising sun, being unable to struggle against the popularity of the man who is regarded by the masses as the long-expected liberator. The correspondent adds that the whole country is anxious for revenge, and is arming with the belief that the hour is coming. Dr. Holub, the African explorer, his wife, and the entire party accompanying him, have been massacred by natives in the interior of the dark continent Egyptian securities rose 2 per cent, in London on the rumor that a British protectorate was to ba established over that country. Mrs. Henry the English novelist, whoso demise is announced, was born in Worcestershire in 182 ), and inherited literary tastes from her father, a glove manufacturer named Price. The Russian Mediterranean fleet has been ordered to Japan. John Bright has written another letter criticis lig Mr. Gladstone’s Irish po ivy. The striking coal-miners in Scotland are resorting to many acts of lawlessness In the House of Commons, Sir Michael Hicks-Beacli stated that moonlighters recenty invaded three farm-houses in County Cork and cut the hair of the women because they had been speaking to policemen. The French Government is purchasing timber in Bohemia for the purpose of construciing barracks. A possible disruption of the Liberal factiom in England is contemplated. The cholera has made its appearance in Slavonia. Ihe Hotel Continental at Berlin was burned, and several persons perished. It was constructed in 1885 at a cost of $1,000,000, and was larg dy patroniz <d by Americans. At the cloge of a meeting at Glasgow, which was addressed by socialist speakers on behalf of the Lanark miners, the crowd pelted the mounted police with mud and stones. The police charged and scattered the mob. It is announced that all forts in Belgium along the frontier of France have received a complete war armament. The preparations Tiave been even carried to the extent of mobilizing the troops. The Fremdenblatt of Berlin tells Belgium that it is her duty to strengthen her army and be ready to defend her frontiers, and that it would be absurd to depend upon the powers to guarantee her neutrality.