Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Tlie number of emigrants gathered at Queenstown is greater than can be accommodated, and many are compelled to camp in the street 1. Archbishop Croke and all the priests of h;s diocese have signet a memorial'protesting against the passage of the now Irish coercion bill. * - The Berlin Post charges that the French cavalry evolutions at Luneville appear to proceed entirely from a wish to aggravate and alarm Germany England has assented to the Russian demand for that branch of the Oxus now held by the Afghans, in exchange for which concessions will be made of territory on the west frontier. The packet steamer Victoria, -with ninety passengers on board, ran on the rocks at Dieppe, France, during a fog. Several of her passengers attached life-belts to their bodies, and then jumped overboard and were carried out to sea. Twenty of them were drowned; all the others were safely landed. A commission of Bulgarian officers has been permitted by Austria to take through her territory a large quantity of war material from Krupp’s ordnance works. In accordance with the report of Cardinal Gibbon , the congregation of the Sacred College at Romo has decided to recognize the Knights of Labor. The miners of Northumberland, England, h ive decided by a vote of 4,100 to 3,000 to continue their stiiko. Chamberlain has indorsed what Maj. Saunderson said in reference to Irish Nationalists. He spok at Inverness, and what he said was received with applause and hisses. The British Government has ordered a rigid inspection of al vessels arriving from America, the purpose being to guard against the landing of dynamiters. i The International Congress of Astronomers, in so .sion at Paris, has adopted Admiral Mouchez’s plan for photographing the heavens. Tho pictures will be taken simultaneously at different observatories throughout the world by the gelatine bromure photographic process, these pictures by the aid of the microscope revealing tho chemical structure of the stars. The now system will revolutionize astronomical science.