People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The amendment to the address in reply to the queen's speech proposing a dissolution on home was rejected in the house of commons, the vote being 236 to 256. Austria has issued 4 per cent gold rentes to the amount of 50,000,000 florins In pursuance of a plan to establish a gold standard. It is reported at Honolulu that an American protectorate will be declared over Hawaii when the political conspiracy has been disposed of. Report that the pope had declined to mediate in behalf of Turkey on the Armenian question is confirmed. The Japanese have captured the island of Lin Kung Tao, at the entrance to the harbor of Wei-Hal-V.’ei. At Alexandria, Egypt, a med attacked and beat three men belonging to a British cruiser. An inquiry is in progress. A terriffic snow storm prevailed throughout Ireland, doing much damage. In the north train service was suspended. J. Cranston, an Hawaiian exile, who claims to be an American citizen, says that he was not tried and that no charges were made against him. China telegraphed to her peace envoys full power to act in the negotiations with Japan fur a settlement of the war. Owing to the intense anti-foreign feeling in tbe Shan Tung Peninsula, American missionaries i-re fleeing for safely. Great Britain, France and Russia are said to have determined to dlctat? terms of settlement of the oriental war. Timothy Healy has resigned from the Irish parliamentary committee because of the election of two Dillonites. In a battle at Wei-Hal-Wei the Chinese Ironclads Chen Yuen and Ting Yuen were sunk and the other vessels of the fleet disabled. United States Consul Jones denies the rej>ort that officers of the Concord had Ih en seized by the Chinese at Chin Kiang. A bill making Incurable insanity a ground for divorce was ordered to third reading in the lower house of the Illinois l-gislature.