Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

It is rumored that the Paris Exposition, announced for next year, will be postponed until 1893, in order to dissociate it from revolutionary memories. The French temperament is curiously illustrated by the hubbub that has been rained over the production of Wagner’s opera of “Lohengrin” in Paris. The Paris papers very sensibly condemn the popular opposition to the opera, and say it is absurd to confound art with patriotism. It is announced that the Government will suppress the performance of “Lohengrin” if it continues to be attended by anti-German demonstrations. The anti-German feeling is running high at Paris. Threatening demonstrations take place daily, and the situation appears to be critical The performances of Wagner’s operas at the Eden Theater have been suspended. A detective force will be organized In Germany, especially intended to watch spies. The steamer Asie has been lost in the Mediterranean with a number of passengers. , It is reported that the Czar will commute all but two of the death sentences imposed on his would-be assassins to life imprisonment.

There is a cloud over the relations between Italy and Spain, caused by the threatened establishment by the latter of a coaling station in the Red Sea on a spot claimed by Italy. The Borne government has asked an “explanation” of Spain.

The Prefect of St. Petersburg will no doubt discover fresh conspiracies against the Czar’s life presently. He has been given 100,000 rubles outright and a pension of 6,000 rubles for his services in frustrating the recent alleged plot.

A hot sirocco blew the whole week throughout Hungary, destroying vegetation and rendering it inflammable, says a Vienna dispatch. At Nagy Karoly in Transylvania 400 houses were destroyed, and 5,000 people rendered homeless are camping in the open air. At Torocca houses were burned and four lives were lost At Buskberg a church and thirty-seven houses were destroyed. Many houses were burned at the village of Meregyo, At Eperies all the churches and public buildings were destroyed and the cemetery was devastated.' At the latter place many inmates of a convent school are missing, and several girls were killed I y jumping from windows. It is estimated that the total losses will reach 82,5 0,0. X). No credence is given at Berlin to the rumored alliance between France and Russia. Prince Bismarck’s scheme to make the imperial finances of Germany independent of contributions from the individual states is likely to prove successful The jubilee subscription business has become a public nuisance in England. The subscription solicitors are having a hard time of it, the mass of the people showing a disposition to ridicule the whole affair.

The anti-Gcrman demonstrations in Paris excite no feeling in Berlin, but the situation in Alsace-Lorraine increases the difficulty daily. The frontier posts on each side have ceased to exchange courtesies, and act as if war might break out at any moment.