Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN

T. D. Sl'l.l.iVAN has been re-elected Lord Mayor of Dublin.- and a solicitor named O’Keefe was ehosen Mayor of:-Lim-erick. Each has pledged himself to refuse any honors offered during the year by the Queen. M. Rouqvet, Secretary of the Paris Municipal Council, having forwarded to United States Minister McLane the petition adopted by the Council, Nov. 29, asking that Governor Oglesby exercise Executive clemency toward the condemned Chichago Anarchists, Mr. McLane calls atten- : tion to the fact that the petition would be much more efficacious if addressed direct to the Executive of Illinois, but consents : to transmit the same as desired. It is reported that the French steamship • Chandernagore, with 1,200 French troops : on board, foundered during a cyclone near Algiers, and that ell hands were 105 t.... Spain has induced Bismarck to abandon his proposal to establish a naval station at the Caroline Islands.... A colliery explosion

in Durham, England, killed thirty miners. The corporation of Dublin adopted resolutions denouncing the conduct of the Government in prohibiting the National League meetings at Sligo and elsewhere. Lord Mayor Sullivan and Mr. Sexton delivered addresses. None of the Conservative members of the corporation were present. The Piincess of Wales has just completed her forty-second year. Emperor William of Gennanveelebrateson Jan.il the eightieth anniversary'of his entry into the German army.