Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Evangelical Missionary Society of Basle, Switzerland, has purchased the Baptist missionary settlement on Ambas Bay, West Africa, and has surrendered the same to the German authorities in the Cameroons, England consenting. The Pope persists that Dr. McGlynn must come to Rome. The extensive infantry barracks at Aldershot, England, wme burned last week. As the tenants on the Irish estates of Lord Lagsdowne refuse to compromise, the eviction of all in arrears will be commenced on April 20. The Swiss Government has resolved to take vigorous action against anarchists. An English civil engineer has gone to Cabul to con-lilt with the Ameer of Afghanistan about the construction of a railroad from Cabul to Herat. The Canadian cruiser Vigilant recently fired a blank shot at an American fishing vessel within tho three-mile limit at Beaver Harbor, but failed to stop her. Mrs. Michael Davitt was presented with a handsome furnished cottage at Ballyrock, near Dublin, by some friends of the father of the Land League. A general feeling of antagonism to the Irish coercion bill is being manifested in England. Mass meetings protecting against the bill are being held everywhere, and the Liberal press is using its best efforts to keep up the agitation. Mr. Gladstone has issued a manifesto to the miners, urging their assistance to defeat the coercive policy of the Tories.