Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

President Grevv will send a special envoy to Berlin to congratulate Emperor William ou the approaching ninetieth anniversary of his birth. George Franklin Anderson, the Detroit man who was arrested in England for swindling, has been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg is beiDg urged by tho army officers as Prince of Bulgaria. Nine of the Ilustchuk rebels have been sentenced to death. King Oscar dissolved the Swedish Parliament for refusing to vote the estimates asked by tho government An explosion in a Belgian colliery suffocated 144 persons. The rumor that China has given Germany the Chusan Islands has again started the whole fever of French discontent about the colonial scheme. The position of Austria in the event of war is at present rather uncertain, but it looks extremely likely that she may decide to take tho sunny side of the road and affect to discover that, after all, no Austrian interests would be prejudiced by a Russian occupation of Bulgaria. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has resigned the office of Chief Secretary lor Ireland on account of continued trouble with his eves, and Arthur J. Balfour, Secretary of State for Scotland, has been appointed in' his place. The retiring Secretary goes to Berlin for treatment The Marquis of Salisbury regards the change as a disaster to the country, and, speaking on the Irish question, said what was needed was the restoring of the law machine so that juries would act The question was not a national one, for while the agitators in England demanded freedom, in their own country they preached the heroic gospel of how debtors could escape paying creditors. The struggle on the part of England was for tlie existence of the empire, and would succeed.