Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1887 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

A Berlin dispatch says: “An explosion of fire-damp occurred in a coal pit at Gelsenkirchen, in Westphalia. Ihe bodies of forlyone persons killed by the explosion have been recovered, and twelve more are»believed to be dead. Reports from the flooded districts in Hungary show that despair and distress is everywhere prevalent, and the homes of those who have fled to escape the floods have been pillaged by night marauders, and the people intent on saving their lives and stopping the overflow of the waters are powerless to prevent the removal of their property. The towns Of Mako and Vasarhly are in imminent danger of being inundated. The dykes are

giving way. The despair of the people is so great that several have committed suicide and many people have gone insane. A St. Petersburg dispatch says that severe shocks of earthquake have occurred at Vernome, in Turkestan. The town was almost entirely destroyed. One hundred and twenty persons were killed and 125 injured. Among the injured was General Ariede, the Governor of the province of Semiretchinsk. Shocks continue to be felt at intervals. The inhabitants of the town are panic-stricken and have fled for safety to the open country. In the English House of Commons on Friday Lord Salisbury presented the Egyptian convention. England is to evacuate Egypt in three years, and the right to appoint English officers to command the native army ceat e i at the end of five years. England retains the right to send troops to Egypt in the eyent of external or internal disorders. The convention is not to be valid unless ratified by the powers. Bulgaria is infested with bands of real live brigands.