Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1888 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The German police have increased their precautions on the frontier, and now refuse admittance to everyone who is not provided with authority to enter Alsace-Lorraine. Geeman Socialists in Switzerland have parodied Emperor Frederick’s amnesty decree and spread 150,00) copies in the principal towns of Germany Twenty-five persons who had copies in their possession have been arrested at Leipsic. Ameeican tourists now sojourning in Europe speak very highly of the wonderful improvements which are being made at Zurich, Switzerland, with a view of adding to its attractions as a pleasure resort Within the past four years a vast sum of money has been expended in substantial and tastefully arranged granite edifices. Over three miles of water front has been reclaimed from the lake and transformed into a park and promenade, covered with forest trees, Alpina plants and mosses, giving to visitors a public resort unsurpassed in picturesqueness and beauty. A greater number of American pleasure-seekers are now visiting Zurich than has been known before. 'lhe Cologne Gazette, srys a Barlin dispatch, publishes the following: Great excitement prevails in diplomatic circles in Berlin over the possibility of the speedy resignation ot Prince Bismarck because of the proposed marriage of Prince Alexander of Battenberg ana Princess Victoria of Prussia. Prince Alexander wishes to accompany Queen Victoria to Berlin as a suitor for the hand of the Princess. The bearing of the reports are so serious that they can not be passed over. Until the Bulgarian question shall have been settled by all the powers, the projected marriage can only be judged from a political point of view, ond on that account the marriage is an impossibility. The German policy has its root in the endeavor to avoid anything that would be likely to arouse the slightest inducement for suspicion, and in the Bulgarian question Germany must, in accordance with the declaration made by Prince Bismarck in the Reichstag, remain a wholly uninterested party. A mubdebeb who had been released on ticket-of-leave near Tempesvar, Hungary, says a Vienna dispatch, went to the house of the Judge who condemned him and killed the Judge’s wife with a revolver. Then he went to the house of the notary and killed the latter’s deputy. From there he went to his own home and split the skulls of his wife and children, after which he fled and has not yet been captured.