Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1887 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The evictions at Bolyke, Ireland, continue. Conflicts between the people and the officers occur daily. La France declares that the number of lives actually lost in the Theatre Comique fire at Paris exceeds 200, and accuses the authori-

. ties of keeping the real facts from the public. Ten persons were killed and much property destroyed by a landslide on the Spitzen Mountain, Switzerland. Emperor Francis Joseph and Emperor William are to meet at Gastein this year. In response to a circular of inquiry sent 1,030 “representative members” of the. Wesleyan Church in England, 69 per cent declared themselves opposed to the coercion bill A large proportion of the minority also state 1 that they did not approve of the measure, although they refused to sign a remonstrance against it in their capacity of church members. There is no doubt that the great bulk of the “dissenters” in England adhere to Gladstone on the Irish question. The Government’s support comes mainly from the Established Church. A monster procession in honor of Mr. Gladstone was held at Swansea, Wales. Mr. Gladstone, with promine at Liberals of Wales, occupied a special stand from which ho reviewed the parade. One hundred thousand We.shmen, wearing rosettes and bearing banners, and accompanied by numerous bands, marched past the stand. Cannou were fired and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. After the men all passed they massed to hear Mr Gladstone, who spoke for an hour. He said the waste of time in the House of Commons was due to the fact that the coercion bill was badly framed, badly conducted, and was wanting the basis of facts. It was extravagant and insidious in its objects, and totally mismanaged, as well as misconceived. Lord Salisbury’s complaint of obstructio.l was unmanly and effeminate. It fatigued the Conservatives because they were not given a longer Whitsuntide holiday. He warned them that they would be even more tired, for it would be impossible to permanently govern Ireland coercively in the light of the day and in the atmosphere of freedom. De. Mackenzie, the English surgecn who examined the German Crown Prince’s throat, says his malady is not cancer, bu. a nonmalignant growth, and that the prognosis is favorable.