Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Th? labor riots in Belgium are growing serious. While Emperor William was being driven to the railway station at Rome,Wednesday, the carriage overturned, the horses fell, the groom was thrown from his seat, and the carriage damaged, bat the Kaiser escaped injury. The Norwegian Ministry has resigned, ownig to the refusal of King Oscar to sanction a resolution of the Norwegian Storthing in favor of the appointment of Norwegian consuls to represent the shipping and commercial interests of Norway abroad, instead of Norway’s depending for consular representation upon consuls representing both Sweden and Norway. While services were being held in the church of Torre Annunziata, Naples, Sunday evening, the altar draperies were blown against a lighted candle. A conflagration and terrible panic ensued. Women and children were thrown down and trampied upon in the mad rush of the congregation for the exits. Tho flames were soon extinguished, but when order had been restored it was discovered that eight women and five children had been crushed to death. Serious injuries had been inflicted upon hundreds of others. The absence of Queen Victoria in Florence has spared her the pain of reading in the London papers the ungrateful declarations of a man employed as carter on her Windsor private estate. The man was defendant in a civil action involving the payment of money and pleaded poverty. Tho Queen, he said, paid no better than other people and her people had to work harder. His wages were ten shillings per week and lodging, which did not leave him much to spare, after feeding himself. A London cable of the 26th says: The Conservative leaders who did their utmost to incite riots in Belfast are beginning to blanch at the .specter they have raised and anxiously warn their dupes that disorders such as have disgraced Ulster during tho last few days, will rather help than retard the success ol home rule. The Belfast members of Parliament sent dispatches from the House of Commons entreating the Unionists oi Belfast to avoid disputes with their political opponents. The fact that tho soldiers in Belfast have unhesitatingly obeyed orders in dealing with the rioters has proved to fanatics and Ulster men that, resistance is useless. The bull-fighting season in Spain opened at Madrid, Sunday, with more than *thc usual enthusiasm. In ono of the first encounters of the day’s sport a bull caught his daring tormentor and drove a horn deep into his side. Tho furious beast dragged his victim some moments about the ring before the attendant rescued him. Men and women in the vast arena watched the dreadful spectacle in breathless enthusiasm. The almost lifeless body of the toreador was finally carried out, sawdust was sprinkled on the pools of blood, and the spectators settled down to witness tamer sports of the day.