Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1887 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

Gbeat excitement is reported at Honolulu over the threatened revolution against King Kalakaua. Gen. Boulanger has been appointed to the command of the Thirteenth Corps of the French army. St. Petebsbueg dispatch: The Official Messenger announces that twenty-one persons were tried here between June 0 and 16 charged with being members, of tne secret society, the “Will of the People;” of complicity in several murders, including that of Col. Sudeikin; of participation in robberies and dynamite outrages and with starting secret printing presses. Fourteen of the accused, including two women, were sentenced to death, hut ilie sentences of two of the men were commuted to exile in Siberia and those of tho others to imprisonment at hard labor. Two others were sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, and one to imprisonment without labor. Three"t>f the accused were acquitted.