Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1888 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

A cable dispatch says that two expresstrains ou the Dutch State Railroad collided near Meppel, Holland. Twonty-aix persons were killed and many others injured. Au 1,800-ton bark, believed to be an American vessel, was wrecked at the entrance of Waterford (Ireland) harbor. Her.crew, consisting of twenty-five persons, were all drowned. The vessel is suppose! to be the ship Eureka, Captain Southard, of Sau Francisco. A large vessel was wrecked off Duncannon, Ireland, and all hands are believed to be lost. The winter is unusually severe iu many parts of Europe. In Vienna the water-supply is beginning to fail on account of cold weather, and, owing to ice in the Danube and heavy suows in Bulgaria, the mails due at Constantinople failed to arrive on time. The body of Archie McNeil, who went to France to report tho Smith-Kilrain prize fight and had been missing since, has been found on the beach at Boulogne, says a London dispatch. There were distinct marks on his throat, showing that he had been strangled. He had in his possession when last seen coin, Bank of England notes, and a watch, all of which were missing when his body was found. Several £5 notes which McNeil is known to have had when ho loft Paris have been cashed in the Bank of England