Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1887 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

While a party of 250 pilgrims were crossing the Danube river near Paks in Hungary their boat was capsized by a hurricane. One and twenty-seven were rescued and eighty-seven are still missing, and the bodies of 101 who were drowned have been recovered. Editor William O’Brien was welcomed by thousands of people on his arrival at Dublin Saturday. He was met at the station by the lord mayor and corporation and by Messrs. Davitt, Kenney, and others. > London dispatches announce that the government leaders are elated over their success with the coercion bill in committee, and that the Gladstonians and Parnellites is regarded as a doubtful form of protest. Mr. O’Brien, the editor of the United Ireland, who arrived at Queenstown Friday on the steamer Adriatic, from New York, received an ovation upon leaving the vessel. There has been a great conflagration in Botuschany, Roumania, a city of 40,000 inhabitants. Eight hundred houses were destroyed and seven persons were killed. The Queen’s jnbilee was. celebrated at Glasgow, Thursday. A grand memorial religious service was held in the cathedral. Six thousand poor people were given a dinner at the public expense. One of the features of the celebration was a review of 10,000 troops. A number of banquets,and balls was given Friday evening. At a meeting of the Dukes of Coburg and Edinburgh recently,"at Rerlin Germany, it | was decided not to depart from the legal line of succesion.