Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — FROM FOREIGN LANDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

Heavy frost throughout Switzerland caused great dumuge to crops. The Catholic bishops of Davenport, la., and Omaha, Neb., have arrived in Rome. Baron Dzanowicz has shot and killed Count Ostrorog, a rich land owner of Minsk, Russia. A. W. Terrell, American minister to Turkey, has left Constantinople for Cairo, Egypt. He intends to make u tour of Syria. The Spanish steamer Gravina, with her cargo, has been lost off Capones in a typhoon. Only two of her crew were saved. ' uThe Government of Uruguay lins given notice to Great Brituin of the termination of the Anglo-Uruguayan treaty of commerce. William Brown, the Baptist minister Who pleaded guilty to the charge of bigamy, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. At the Velodrome d’lSet, Paris, the kilometre bicycle race was won by Houben. Banker, the American, who started at the scratch, was second by a second. It is officially announced that Mr. Ernest M. Satow, British minister to Morocco, has been appointed minister to Japan in place of the Hon. P. lo Poor Trench. United States Vice-Consul Droier was tendered a banquet at Copenhagen by the members of the Royal Danish Commission aud the Danish exhibitors at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Much regret is expressed in England at the failure of the negotiations for the federation of Newfoundland with the Dominion of Canada. Canada, it is thought, has behaved most liberally. Jabez Balfour, the Liberator Society swindler, was rearrnigned in London. The magistrate declined to discuss the question of the prisoner’s extradition, contending it was sufficient for all purposes that Balfqur was there under a magistral warrant. s •> >1 oi'l ,