Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Hundreds of civilians have been arrested in Spain who are suspected of complicity in the recent revolution.. . .It was announced in the British House of Commons that negotiations were in progress with the United States for the removal of the friction between the fishing interests of this country and Canada. The excavators at Pompeii have dis-, covered near the eastern gate a new street of tombs.... Continued depression in the German iron trade is reported. It is attributed to English competition.... General Villacampa, the leader of the revolt at Madrid, was found -concealed in a mill near Moblijas. Seventy-three of the itwufr. gents have been captured -at scattered points by royal troops,. ..«■• During the -fietce riots in Belfast last week a mpb'got into a fight in a tram-car stable, and, surging out into the street, threw a passing car from the track and overturned it. The car was filled with passengers. The terror-stricken passengers crowded close under the seats and under one another, and shielded themselves as best they could with the floor-mats and seat-sections. Several were hurt. The situation was dreadful until the military rescued them and escorted them to a place of safetj# The funeral cortege of a man named Boyle, while xe,tumipg from the cgmetery,..waaßttackedby a mob, who assailed the mourners with stones. The military charged on the mob and arrested a score of rioters. Another mob in a different locality attacked with stones the Black Watch Regiment of Welshmen, although the soldiers were fully armed and in fighting array. The troops with fixed bayonets charged in double-quick time on the mob and drove them from the scene, wounding a great number of the rioters and arresting tw0.... All of the officers implicated in the attempt at ■ revolution in Madrid have been condemned -to death. The common soldiers generally repent Of .their folly and are yielding to the authorities. They blame their officers for leading them astray. A band of rebels at Ocana, Spain, killed its commanding officer and then returned to its allegiance and prayed for mercy. Loyal soldiers are still scouring the country in search of the insurgents. Arrests of persons of well-known republican views continue....lir the British House of Commons Mr. Parnell’s bill for the suspension of evictions was defeated by a vote of 297 to 202.... Mr. Gladstone denies that he is about to join the Catholic Church. ” \ : * Irish constabulary surprised a party of moonlighters atFeale bridge, shot one dead, and captured six... .Three German soldiers were killed and twenty wounded by a collision of trains, near the depot at Berlin... .A dispatch from Essen announces that an explosion of fire-damp occurred in a coal-pit near Schalke, Germany, and that forty-five persons were killed and sixteen injured, eight of the latter being in a precarious condition.... Spain has sustained Cuba in her refusal to carry out the treaty arrangements as understood in this country, making mutual concessions to American and Spanish vessels trading between Cuba and the United States. . .A dispatch from Bulgaria’s capital says that the Russian ultimatum,of which Gen. Kaulbars is the bearer, demands the immediate raising of the state of siege in Bulgaria, the liberation of all political prisoners, and the indefinite postponement of the elections for members of the national assembly. The Government has been informed that a hostile demonstration against Gen. Kaulbars at the Russian agency will furnish an excuse for Russian interference. There are no signs of flinching on the part of the regency, and the anti-Russian feeling increases daily. An engine specially constructed to use petroleum as fuel is successfully drawing railway trains between Alexandria and Cairo, in Egypt.... Six persons, including three magistrates of Glasgow, wens suffocated while viewing a blast at the Lochfyne quarries which required seven tons of gunpowder.... Fresh discoveries of gold in the Transvaal, South Africa, are absorbing

much attention. The new mines are said to be very rich in auriferous deposits.... Rioting broke out afresh at Belfast early on Sunday morning. A crowd stoned the police, who retaliated with bullets, fatally wounding a young man named Daria Moore. Twelve constables were injured by stones,. . .The speech of Queen Victoria, proroguing parliament until November 11, states that a successor to Prince Alexander is to be elected, in accordance with toe provisions of the treaty of Berlin, and that a commission has been appointed to inquire into the failure of the recent acts ’ respecting the tenure and the purchase of lapd in Ireland.