Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Polish members of the Austrian Reichsrath have received three hundred telegrams imploring them to make an effort i to persuade the Government to protest ' against the Russian decree which forbids I foreigners from acquiring lauded property jin Russian Poland. ..’.The Belgian strikers are becoming more desperate, and have attacked the troops who were guarding the mines and- tried to use dynamite on the property of non-strikers Over 200 lives were lost by the Theater Comique fire in Paris... .M. Rouvier has undertaken the task of forming the French Cabinet. The number of lives lost by the burning of the Opera Comique greatly exceeds the previous estimates. M. Reveillon, in the Chamber of Deputies Thursday afternoon, estimated that at least two hundred persons were killed and burned. A dispatch from Paris says: Inquiries for 15(5 persons who are supposed to have perished in the flames have been made by relatives and friends. The firemen have been working all day recovering bodies from the ruins. One group of twenty bodies was found in a terribly mutilated condition. The remains are principally those of ballet-girls, choristers, and machinists. Five of the bodies are those of elderly ladies, and one of them is that of a child. The remains of three men and two women were found in the stage-box. where the victims had taken refuge from the flames. It has been estimated that many bodies lie buried in the debris in the upper galleries, whence escape was exceedingly difficult. Lying together at the bottom of the staircase leading to the second story were found the bodies of eighteen ladies, all in full dress, These ladies' all had escorts to the theater, but no remains of men were found anywhere near where the women were burned to death. Sixty bodies were found floating in the cellar, which is flooded with water to the depth of five feet. The remains were terribly charred, and were only recognizable by means of trinkets. The walls of the theater began falling this evening, and the search for bodies hnd to be abandoned for the day. The library attached to the theater was entirely destroyed, with all its contents, including many valuable scores. Six thousand costumes were burned in the wardrobe. The theater was insured for 1,000.000 francs.

The Paris theater known as the. Opera Conrique was destroyed by fire Wednesday evening, and nineteen lives w-ere lost. Forty-three received injuries more or less severe. A dispatch from Paris says: The iron curtain was lowered in front of the stage, and this prevented the fire spreading immediately to the auditorium and allowed the audience time to escape. Most of the casualties are due to nervousness. Many persona who were unable to trust themselves to walk the narrow ledge of the cornices around the building jumped, off in terror. One woman coolly walked all arouna the cornice, w hile the flames were bursting above, until she reached the fireescape. Tho victims are almost all singers. A new Ministry has finally been formed for France without General Boulanger. M. Bouvier is Premier and Minister of Finance; General Saussier succeeds Boulanger in the War Office, and the other portfolios are taken by Flourens, Spaller, Fallieres, Jaures, Develle. Etienne, Cochery, and Berthelot. The Cabinet is composed of moderate Republicans, and is said to have assurances of support from the party of the Right. It is a safe prediction that the days of the new Government will be few and full of trouble. A mining horror of frightful dimensions is reported from Blantyre, eight miles from Glasgow, Scotland. An explosion of gas in the Ucfbton coal pit filled the mouth of the shaft with debris, imprisoning about one hundred and fifty colliers. Forty-five men at work in the “upper seam” were taken out, one of whom died immediately after reaching the surface. It is believed that seventy or more miners have perished. The official press at St. Petersburg warns Turkey that her opposition to programme in Bulgaria will sooner or later result Seriously for her... .The socialists of Belgium are improving the opportunity-of-fered by the great labor strikes th indulge in public demonstrations. The situation throughout the kingdom appears to bekverycritical, and it will probably require a liberal expenditure of cold lead before peace and order are restored.