Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A feature of the observance of St. Patrick’s Day in England was the appearance of many Englishmen wearing shamrocks. Six per cent, gold bonds of the Mexican National Railway Company to the amount of $10,530,000 have been offered at public subscription in London at 92 per cent It is now supposed that the recent plot to assassinate the Czar of Russia was planned by Degaioff, alia3 Jablonski, tho famous Ninilist leader, who has thus far escaped arrest Father Keller, of Youghal, Ireland, was arrested for declining to receive summouses to court. When he reached Cork in custody be was met by the Mayor, municipal council, and a band of music, and greeted with loud cheers. Mr. Gladstone, in a letter to the editor of the Baptist, doclares in emphatic terms that all other quostions must wait upon the settlement of the Irish question. It was a question involving social order, and it was in the nature of questions involving such an issue lo push their claimi to precedence over other questions. The triple alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy is said to place each of these Powers on an equal i ooting. All will undertake Ihe protection of individual interests, the infringement of which might disturb tho peace of Europe. Father Keller, who was arrested at Youghal, Ireland, was driven to the court in Dublin in the Mayor’s carriage amid an enthusiastic demonstration. He refused to give any testimony as to his custody ot tenants’ moneys as trustee under the “plan of campaign,” and was committed to. prison for contempt of court The people marched with him to Kilmainham, singing national songs, and he entered the prison leaning on Archbishop Wa'sh’s arm. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that “arrests in connection with the attempt ba the Czar’s life continue. An institute for the higher education of women has been closed, and tho rector of the university threatens to stop his lectures. It is stated that two more officers were hanged at the barracks last Sunday. It is reported that the Czar received a letter, dated March 1, from tho executive of the Nihilist committee, informing him that at a sitting of the committee on Feb. 22 he was condemned to death, and that fifty members were appointed to execute the sentence. ■