Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A Berlin dispatch says: “A reliable Government majority is assured. Returns from 265 districts show the election of 44 Conservatives, 18 Imperialists, 43 Conterists, 83 National- Liberals, 8 new German Liberals, 6 Socialists, 15 Alsatians, 4 Poles. In -forty-four districts supplementary elections will be necessary, which will be held March 3. The total Socialist vote shows an increase of 500,000.”... .Bismarck has shown his good feeling toward the Czar by imprisoning for a month the Berlin newspaper man who reprinted the report that the latter in a drunken frenzy had shot a Gorman diplomatic attache named Villaume. - Paris newspapers are happy over the result of the election in Alsace-Lorraine, which is interpreted to mean that Germany is not able to obtain the hearts of the people of the* annexed provinces. Tse Royal Irish Land Commission has reported rather unfavorably to the landlords. Thev estimate that prices of Irish products Lave fallen 181 per cent., and attribute the prevalence of illegal practices to a great extent to unfair rents... The Berlin Saffonal Gazette says the alliance between Italy, Germany, and- Austria for reciprocal defense and'to guarantee the possessions of the parties to the arrangement is assured of eemplefioir.Tdthough" possibly delayed for the time by the Italian Ministerial crisis Henry M. Stanley telegraphs from Zanzibar that Portugabneeds a warnihg from England and Germany.... A jury at Dublin disagreed as to the guilt of. Dillon, O’Brien, and others connected wit,h the plan of campaign. The result, of the German elections for members of the Reichstag, says a Berlin dispatch, “shows the election of thirteen new German Liberals (including two who favor the septenate), seventy-five Con- 7 servatives, thirty-one Imperialists, eightynine National Liberals, ninety-two Centerists, including three who will support the ariny bill, fifteen Poles, fifteen Alsatians, two Guelphs, one Dane, and six Socialists. Re-elections will be necessary in sixty districts. Exactly one-half of 7 ,the members so far elected are distinctly pledged to the support of the septenate, without counting" the re ballots. Although a majority of the districts in which new elections are to be held are certain to be carried by the opposition candidates, the total result will give Prince Bismarck a working .majority independent of the center members, many of whom will vote for the septenate or al stain from voting. lhetotai vote.of Alsace-Lorraine is: French, 72,480; German, 16.022. Herr Bulach, vtto was defeated in Alsace, was unopposed until he declared himself in favor of the septenate. The Socialists’ failure in Alsace-Lorraine is noteworthy. Their best man, Hoeckel. at Mulhouse, only polled 41p votes. The new German Liberals lost 28 seats, the Centerists 6, the Demccrats *•',' and the Guelphs! l .” Dispatches from Rome assert thatjiegotin—tions have been satisfactorily concluded for a renewal of the alliance between Italy, Germany, and Austria, which expires next Slay,,, .'Richard RiaVecker some years ago tookront .naturalization .papers at' Shelbyville. 111, On returning to Germany to secure an estate which he inherited he was arrested for having evaded military duty, ....Estimates of the loss of life in Italy by the earthquake shocks place the number at 2,014*. . Active preparations for war are being made in France, and it is regarded as -probable, should the present Ministry remain in power a fortnight more, that there will be an open declaration of hostilities. The feeling is, however, that Gen. Boulanger will be out of the Ministry within the next

two weeksi German preparations are not go upparentj bptthe concentration of troops at Melz, SfiSßbtafe/ Meniz, and Coblentz goes steadily 0n... .The trial of the 110-ton gun, the most powerful piece of ordnance eVer fired in England, Las? “ taken place, successfully at the Government butts, Woolwich. The gun measures 44 feet and weighs 111 tons. The caliber is 16} inches. It was loaded with 600 pounds of powder and a confide cylinder shot weighing 1,800. pounds. Two more shots were then t,red successfully with charges of 700 and 800 pounds... .Cardinal Jacobini, the I’ope‘s secretary,“dfed of rheumatic gout. He was consoled by the Pope in person in his dying hours. - ___