People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Canadian customs officers at Windsor have begun wholesale raids on respectable smugglers who have been buying their clothing in Detroit, Mich. William McEwan was hanged at Glasgow, Scotland, for the murder of a woman. A DEFICIENCY of 3,000,000 francs was discovered in the Rome (Italy) branch of the Bank Napolli. The Ilkeston lace factory at Ilkeston, England, was damaged by fire to the extent of 8200,030. The firm of P. & L. Tessier, one of the most prominent mercantile houses at St Johns, N. F., and which has been in existence for forty years, has failed for over 8800,000. Capt. Nelson, who was with Stanley in Africa, died in Kaikugar, East Africa. After living twenty-seven days without food and water the passengers and crew of the wrecked sloop Juane arrived in Colon. on board the sloop died of starvation. Casimib Livau, a watchmaker at Geneva, Switzerland, has just completed a watch which, instead of striking the hours and quarters, announces them by speaking like the phonograph. M. Cucinello, manager of the Bank of Naples, was arrested in Rome for the embezzlement of 2,000,000 lire. A battle between 600 peasants and a body of gendarmes occurred at Termini, Italy, and eight of the peasants were killed and twenty were severely wounded.

An outbreak of cholera in the Neitlebeij asylum in Halle, Germany, caused great anxiety. In twenty-four hours seventeen new cases and nine deaths were reported. An ice field 40 miles wide and 200 miles long extends from the mouth of the Danube to the northeastern coast of Crimea. The one hundredth anniversary of the execution of Louis XVI. was appropriately observed by the royalists of France. Masses of requiem were celebrated in many churches. The wall of a shaft in the colliery at Pont-y-Pridd, England, collapsed, and six men were killed. It was reported that the chief leaders in the Garza revolution in Mexico had been captured by Mexican forces. Sixty persons were frozen to death in Russian Poland in one week. One day the thermometer fell to 61 degrees below zero.