People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

An explosion in the Sala Caladia company’s mills in Matara, Spain, killed a number of persons. The dead bodies of nine men and the manager had been recovered. The English, Scottish and Australian chartered bank at London failed with liabilities amounting to $40,000,000. A general uprising of natives against Christians is threatened in Corea. Samuel Williams & Co., cotton brokers at Liverpool, suspended with liabilities amounting to $250,000. Uncle Sam's colors have been lowered from the government building at Honolulu, Commissioner Blount has officially declared the protectorate of the United States at an end and public affairs were in sole control of the provisional government. It was feared that an attempt would be made to reinstate the queen, but the provisional government would never give up until compeUed to do so by force of arms. A fire at Vesseprim, a town in Hungary having a population of about 12,000, destroyed 141 houses and did damage to the extent of 500,000 florins. One thousand persons were homeless. A bloodless coup d’etat tym. s effected at Belgrade and King Alexander 1., the youthful ruler of Servia, who had heretofore governed the country through regents, now rules in his own name. Letters received at Zanzibar from the son of Tippo Tib confirm the report that Emin Pasha had been killed in battle. Observations of the total solar eclipse of the sun were taken on the 16th at Mina Aris, the Harvard college station in South America. The demand for universal suffrage in Belgium has created a crisis which cannot much longer be kept from decisive issue. The city of Brussels was already in a state of siege and civil war seemed to be imminent. The island of Zante, one of the prinj cipal lonian islands in Greece, was visited by an earthquake that wrecked many buildings in &lhte, killed twenty persons and injured hundreds of others. Many villages in the interior were entirely destroyed. The celebration of the silver wedding of King Humbert and Queen Margaret, of Italy, was celebrated in Roma.