People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — Desperate State of Affairs in Pern. [ARTICLE]

Desperate State of Affairs in Pern.

San Francisco, Aug. I.—John Hicks, of Wisconsin, who returns to this country after four years’ service as minister to Peru, says that affairs in Peru are in anything but' an encouraging state, and that the country is all but bankrupt. The silver question has already become a serious problem, and the whole country is in a state of political unrest pending an election of president to succeed the present incumbent Before the elec tions, howevqr, a revolution which is now threatening may throw Peru into internecine war.