Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1888 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The French President has had the nerve to take the Boulanger bull by the horns and sling him out of the army. The court-mar-tial sitting on Gen. Boulanger's case found him guilty of insubordination in going to Paris without leave, and on the strength of this finding President Carnot has signed a decree placing him on the retired list and depriving him of his command. A cable dispatch from Berlin says: “Reports from the flooded districts along* the Vistula say that within an area of ten miles square seventy-seven villages are submerged. The damage is estimated at $50,000,000, Twenty-nine lives have been lost and 10,000 head of cattle have. perished. The inundation in the vicinity of Cassels is increasing. The floods along the Wezer extend over a vast territory. The Fulda, Eder, Schwalm, and Lahn Rivers have also overflowed their banks. Disastrous storms are reported in England, France and Spain. Much damage has been dona to property.” In a speech at a banquet at Birmingham, England, Mi. Joseph Chamberlain, who, during the day, 'was presented the freedom of the city, paid a high tribute to the American plenipotentiaries whom he met in the fishery negotiations and to the American people. At the Wicklow (Ireland) Assizes the moon lighters Daniel Hayes and Daniel Moriarty were found guilty of the murder of Farmer Fitzmaurice in County Kerry in January last, and were sentenced to be hanged. Moriarty subsequently made a confession of his guilt and then tried to cut his throat A mob of Turkish dames in Constantinople besieged the office of the Finance Minister and demanded the arrears of pensions due their husbands. The Minister fled to escape their fury, and a woman who urged a more pacific policy was killed by the enraged women.