Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

At Monte Carlo a young commercial traveler who was on his bridal tour and had stbpped for a few days at Monaco, committed suicide after ruining himself at the gaming table.. The cable announces the death of the Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown, the famous Baptist preacher of Liverpool, who in early life tan a locomotive on the London and Northwestern Road. The appointment of Mr. John Morley as Chief ““Secretary for Ireland is received with moderate friendliness bv the papers of the Green Isle. In the event of Morley’s defeat for re-election at Newcastle, Mr. Parnell offers to find him a constituency in Ireland. Michael Davitt has urged Mr. Morley, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, to take some measures for the relief of the starving people on the west coast, of the Green 151 e;.., Some three weeks ago some three thousand French troops near Tamatave, Madagascar, were attacked by the Hovas and driven from their camp. A second battle occurred a week later, when forty Sakalovas were killed. At a banquet given, him at St. Nazaire, France, M. de Lessens announced that the Panama Canal would be -completed in 1889.... The Brtish troops recently defeated and put to flight 400 Burmese near Yemethen. Sixty of the Burmese were killed and. many wounded. The British loss was light. .. .The miners’ strike which began in Liege, Belgium, two weeks ago, is extending all over that country. The strikers are under the control of the Anarchists. James McHenry, thg railroad magnate, was declared a bankrupt by a London court for having defaulted oil an installment due creditors... A private telegram received in London states that the German railway syndicate in China is meeting with no encouragement whatever. An extensive butter company of Berlin has been fined 2.000 francs for selling oleomargarine as the; product of the-c0w..... .In a criminal court at Limerick,'the police on duty were savagely attacked by five rioters Who had been- sentenced to imprisonment/ the furniture Of the room was well-nigh broken to pieces and- the magistrate was frightened from his bench before the ruc.tion was suppressed. A DUEL was fought on the field of Waterloo, in Belgium, the contestants" being -Mme- Valsayre, a native of France, and Miss Shelby, an American. The duel was the result of a dispute as to the relative merits' of French and American female doctors- After -a stormy—Altercation -between the disputants Mme. Valsayre threw her glove in Miss Shelby’s face, and aduel was forthwith arranged. The weapons were swqxds. Miss Shelby was slightly wounded on one arm. The four seconds ■were Americans. The latter expressed, themselves as satisfied that the duel had been conducted fairly, and that France’s honor had been upheld.,-’ : .rTwo important changes have taken place' in. the British Cabinet. The- RL. Hon. James Stanfield, Radical-member of Parliament for Halifax, has been appointed President of the Local Government Board in place of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, resigned. aiid the Earl of Dalhousie has been named to succeed Mr. G. O, Trevelyan as Setretaty for Scotland . Payment has -been suspended by Devot’s4>ank. at France, which has liabilities Of nearly $500,0(10. .: A cable dispatch states; that Brussels is in si state of the wildest excitement over the riots and uprisings in many parts of Belgium. The mob comprises theworst elements of thepopuloee, and is parading the streets, breaking windows, and committing other lawless acts. The police seem to be powerless to quell the disturbance. In a conflict with Belgian troops near Charleroi twenty rioters were shot dead. Thonssmds of workmen are idle because of the looting of glass factories ' worth $1,000,000.

— —"i—ll in 1 m 1 Rioters at Ju met, Belgium, upon (he appfoach of the troop* sent to disperse them, placed 200 women in the front ranks. The troops opened fire, and many of the women were wounded. Appeals for troops have been received from several points where factories and-mines have bee* wrecked. The damage done to property by the striking miners in Charleroi alone already amounts to $2,500,000. The strikers threaten to destroy the gas-works, and strong re-enforcements of troops have been sent to help protect the city.' The glassworks have been looted and destroyed, involving a loss of $1,000,000 and throwing thousands of persons out of employment.