Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Bulgaria is to purchase, for $400,000, the property in that country owned by Prince Alexander, retaining half that sum to liquidate the Prince’s indebtedness to the national bank. A Vienna dispatch to the London Times asserts that Russia, Germany, and Austria will take common action in regard to the vacant throne... .Father Fahy, a priest of Woodford, Ireland, has been sent to prison for six months for threatening a landlord whose tenant had been evicted... .The eleven English fishing boats seized by France have been released. Cholera is gaining ground in Austria and Italy. The disease is still at Seoul, Corea. In July there were 38,600 fatal cases out of a population of 250,000. At Shinshu 5,000 and at Torai 6,000 deaths in -one month are reported... .Japan advices say that the total number of cholera cases in Japan since its first appearance this year is 59,000, of which 37,000 ended fatally... .Seven persons were instantly killed by the collapse of a suspension bridge at Ostrau, in Moravia. A squadron of uhlans was riding across when the structure fell. Nottinghamshire lace manufacturers ask their employes to accept a wage-reduc-tion of fifty per cent. A lockout is imminent. .. .At Bucharest, in Roumania, an assassin shot at M. Bratiano, the Roumanian Prime Minister, on the street. The bullet missed its aim and wounded a member of the; Chamber of Deputies. The angry populace nearly wrecked an opposition newspaper office, and vainly ored to take the assassin from the hands of the authorities. Emperor William has recovered from his recent illness.... Prince Carlos of Portugal and Princess Louise, daughter of the Prince of Wales, are betrothed.... The Lancashire master cotton spinners have abandoned their proposed attempt to reduce wages 5 per cent... .The boat race between William Beach, of Australia, and Jacob Gaudaur, of St. Louis, on the Thames, for SI,OOO a side, was won by the former by four lengths.... An interesting feature of the late French military maneuvers was the experiment of balloon surveying. Surveyors reconnoiter in a captive balloon that is connected with the inflation apparatus carried in a cart below at a ga110p.... A n»ob in Belfast gathered around a J policeman who was arresting two drunken i man for fighting, and it was with the ; greatest difficulty that the prisoners

were secured. As soon as the batrack doors were close behind the prisoners a fearful attack was made upon the building by the mob. Outside shutters were torn down, apd windows were smashed with brickbats and paving stones. The four constables within the barracks fired eleven rounds, killing one man and wounding several others. In the melee a woman was wounded and has since died. The cable reports two serious riots in Liverpool. One resulted from an encounter between Orangemen and Nationalists; the other had ils origin in inflammatory speeches at a socialist meeting. Many of the rioters were arrested.