Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1888 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

A dispatch from Berlin says Emperor William’s condition is worse, and that intense anxiety prevails. His symptoms of catarrh of the stomach are decreasing. Though sleepless in the night-time, the Emperor manages to obtain rest during the day. Advicse from Ban Remo say that the Crown Prince’s throat continue? to improve. His voice is good and his health excellent A cable dispatch from London states that— Thousands of persons packed Fleet street, attracted by a public notice that the great Sullivan would be at the Sportsman office at two o clock. Ths police sent a special detail, whose members had all thev could do to suppress a riot. Sullivan’s business was to sign with any or all comers for a fight, and he had his money with him. A long wait, and nobody came. Sullivan grew furious, and called Smith, Kilrain, and Mitchell, especially the last-named, the hardest kind of names. In vain his friends tried t soothe him. Alter an hour’s waitinc the police came up, scared but deferential, to know if the big fellow couldn’t do something to quiet the crowd down stairs. This touched Sullivan’s heart and he said: “I’ll go down and give ’em a chance to see me." So he went down and smiled benignantly, while the crowd surged about him, patted his brawn and called him pretty names. He went through the crowd like a snow-plow, took a cab and drove away, followed still by shouting, surging thousands. It is reported by cable from Berlin that a general blockade of Bulgaria is contemplated by the Powers in the event of Prince Ferdinand’s refusal to resign the Bulgarian throne. A telegram from Sofia says the Government is preparing for war. Prince Ferdinand is credited with saying lie would rather leave his bones on the field of battle than abdicate, which would mean the assassination of Bulgaria, Judge Murphy, at the Munster Assizes, sentenced fourteen moonlighters to terms of imprisonment of from eighteen months to eighteen years. He expressed himself as certain that with its growing faciiyjes the law would be able to cope with moonlighters, and soon force them to disappear. There is much excitement in Galway over the arrest of John Roche and nine other residents of Woodford on a charge of assembling in violation of law.