Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1886 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Another strike of miners is reported at Charleroi, in Belgium, where the fearful labor riots took place a few months ago. Ah unsuccessful attempt was made by the strikers to kill the mine manager. Increased agitation against the au- ... .A London dispatch states that a committee of the British Cabinet is preparing a bill to establish four national councils to represent the provinces of Ireland. The bill differs from Mir. Gladstone's measure chiefly in the omission of a legislative body at Dnblin. Otherwise it “fully meets the aspirations of the Home-Rulers in regard ■4O transferring to local bodies the direction

[ of Irish affairs now dealt with at WestJ minster. j _Tbk Czar of Russia is in. a state of in-, tense mental irritation; and is the subject of vagaries almost amounting to madness. ! He suffers greatly from inability lo„sleep, I and passes whole nights walking to and i fro in liis well-guarded apartments. purI ing these lcepless nights he oocnpies his restless mind in dictating to Ms secretaries 1 varying plans for the settlement of the 1 Bulgarian question and for extensive military campaigns. The imperial family and the ininisters-are alarmed at these indications of a precarious mental condition. •