Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

An official in the French War Office has been dismissed on suspicion that he has been supplying secrets to foreigners. Father Keller writes from prison that he does not regret his loss of liberty and will not do the infamous thing the Judge asked of him if ho is kept in jail until he dies. Tho Chine e have an effectual way of dealing with tramps. Three hundred of the wanderers invaded a village. The inhabitants lured them into a temple, fired it, and only forty escaped. The Cambridge crew defeated the Oxfords by three lenglhs in (ha annual rowing match on the Thames. The great ocean yacht race between Coronet and Dauntless was ended at 12:50 noon, Sunday, March 27, when the former boat passed the winning point off Queenstown, tlio run from New York having been made in fourteen days, ni cteen hours, three minutes, and fourteen seconds. The Dauntless had not been sighted when its rival reached the goal. The whole number of nautical miles sailed was 2,949. The longest day’s run was 291.5 miles, made on Saturday, March 26, and tbe shortest 38.8 miles, made on Tuesday, March 22. The weather was uncommonly stormy. No less than seven heavy gales contrived to keep the sea in a foment for eleven days of the trip, and for two days the weather was so severe a-S to make tho question of tho yacht’s living iliroiigh-oljem somewhat doubtful. She behaved splfinduTty, however, in all sorts of weather, and proved herself one of the stanchest, if not one of the fastest, vessels of her size afloat. Mgr. Eampolla del Tinduro, Papal Nuncio at Madrid, has been invested with the Cardinal’s hat. Fears of a revolution in Spain have caused the issuance of orders to keep tha garrisons at Madrid and the other chief cities in readme-s for imme iiate action. A convention has been signed between the Portuguese and Chinese Guvernmenis, in which China recognizes Portugal’s right to the possession of Macao. Orders have been given at St. Petersburg to place in a state of readiness for service eighty-seven torpedo vessels belonging to tho Baltic fleet and the Fifteenth, Division of the army.