Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN

It is stated that a syndicate of .European capitalists will probably buy the Sandwich Islands for $10,000,000... .-.The cholera continues to. rage at Venice with unabated virulence, an average of twenty new cases and ten deaths occurring daily.... .Mr. Gladstone has asked the House of Commons to wind up its business as speedily as possible, so that Parliament might be dissolved. People have been shot by scores 1 in the Belfast riots. The dispatches indicate ts terrible state of affairs. Herbert Gladstone attributes the reign of terror to Lord Randolph violent speeches. John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, is investigating the troubles. An Associated Press reporter who was an eye-witness of the rioting, tells what he saw’ on the last night of the reign of terror:

After their day’s labor, ha^sndfid.thousands of. WOfkffi'gnien'gatlfered in the vicinity of the Bowers Hill police station. They execrated thepolice and cried out: “We will have ten lives sot every one of the murdered.’’ The county police were'then withdrawn and some wellknown local constables were sent to reason with the mob. The latter demanded the withdrawal of all the police. Archbishop Levre and several Presbyterian clergymen, after this, implored the mob to- disperse. —Their-ad--dresses proved . altogether useless, and even while the clergymen were speaking the rioters kept up a desultory stone-throwing at the police. One stone struck a divine squarely in the face and hurt him severelv. While all this was going on at the Bowers Hill barracks a mob hod taken possession of York street. They first concentrated in front of a wine store kept by a Catholic named McKenna. The building was soon seized and, wrecked, and all .of McKenna’s stock of was emptied in the street. This mob then proceeded to McCloskey's tavern. The police bad taken warning and'got there first. A set light took place. It was waged with desperation on both sides. The police fired twenty-four rounds of buckshot at the rioters, but the mob . finally - drove tliem -away and smashed McCloskey’s tavern to pieCfes, distributing the liquor to all who would drink or carry liquor away. Several Ofthe rioters were wounded in this fight and left helpless in the street by their comrades, who, maddened with liquor and excitement, rushed to the work of wreck and pillage. A number of other taverns were- destroyed and all their stocks of wine, whisky and beer thrown out to the crowd in the streets, who drank it ravenously or carried it away in jugs and buckets. In the latter work scores of Women and children were engaged all the time the rioting lasted. Toward midnight the mob, after having wrecked and looted all the taverns in the vicinity, returned to McCloskey 'sand set the house on lire. The glare attracted the police, who reformed and marched dowii there to put out the fire and save the town from a conflagration. They had to fight for every foot of the way they made. At times, when the flames flared high. the sight of the uniformed officers scattered among the mob, filling the street from house to house,-each officer fighting on his own account and all in The sime direction, every man shouting or cursing, the woiiren and children at the windows shrieking and gesticulating, .was terrible. Finally the ploice got together and carried on their battle with buckshot. • This eventually scattered the mob.

The British Parliament, it is given out, will be dissolved' on the 24th inst., and writs for a new election will be issued immediately thereafter. Mr. Gladstone, in a manifesto to the electors of Mid-Lothian, states the issue to be whether Ireland shall be governed by coercion or. allowed to manage her own affairs. He expresses ths e ; - belief that Scotland will take warning by the deplorable riots in .Belfast. The Nationalist's now have eighty members-of Parliament, and are entitled. he concedes, to claim that they speak the views of the Irish nation.... It is rumored in diplomatic circles in Berlin that if the bill expelling the Orleans princes becomes a law in France serious trouble will result to that country. The Emperor of Russia has not yet received the French Ambassador, and it is said that he will not if the princes are expelled F. H. Winsk»n. tho United States Minister to Russia,' has procured concessions for the construction of important lines of railroad in the direction of the Afghan frontier. The Shah, as a guarantee, has granted a twentyyeaw’ contract “te develop all the richee of

Persia.”....Dr.‘Holmes continues to receive Hie highest honors, mat the English people can lavish upon a guest. Not since Longfellow’s visit has .any American received such testimony of affection and enthusiastic admiration.... The railwayslof Great Britain are capitalized at an average valuation of $212,400 per mile, while those of the United States are bonded and stocked for about $60,000 per mile- - -At a factory in Berlin daily trials of electric street-cars are being made, and it is expected that they will soon be adopted by the Berlin companies.. The Rev. Newman Hall has declared in favor of local government for Deland.