Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Six residents of St. Petersburg have been sentenced te d.-ath for complicity in the plot to ass 'Siinato the Czvr oa March 13. The London Times pronounces Lord Salisbury’s offer to settle the fisheries question “generous and almo -t Qu xotic.” It is officially stated in London that Lord Salisbury, in a dispatch sent to Washington March 21, sai t tlial tho British Government, uudcrsian ling the action of the United States in denouncing the fishery articles of tho treaty of Washington to be in a great degree the result of disappointment at being called upon to pay £l,l O,OUO under tho Halifax fisheries award, offers to revert to tho old condition of affairs without pecuniary indemnity. Througliout France much excitement prevail;; b cause of the arrest of a special French commi s.iry by G-rmaa officials on the frontier near In were unfavorably affected by the announcement. The number of emigrants from Ger-„ many who pas e i througn Hamburg, Bremen, and Stettin during the year 1880 was 66,671, or a decrease of over 2.’,'00 from tho previous year, when 88,900 persons left tho empire. The German Commissioners to whom was delegated the duty of investigating the case of the arrest of M. Helinaebels, the French Commissary, report that Sclmaebels was arrested on Oormau soil. They also assert thit the evidence against the prisoner i$ overwhelming. There are numerous charges of high treason against him.