People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The new Irish land bill was presented in the British house of commons by Secretary Morley. A battalion of Spanish regulars was rotated by Cuban rebels r ear Manzanillo. The defeat and dear, i of Gen. La Chambre are confirmed. 'Pri-mier Ribot favors participation by B ranee in the interna/ ional monetary conference proposed "by Germany. Fifty rebels captured by government troopß in Colombia were shot. An attack on canal property is feared. Mgr. Khrimirian, the Arm enian patriarch. says 11,000 of his countrymen were butchered in the Sassoun district. The seventeenth anniversary of the coronation of Pope Leo wa»s celebrated at the Vatican with much ceremony. ' M. Percher, one of the editors of the Journal des Debats of Paris, was killed in a duel with M. Le Cheato lier. Government troops have captured the whole insurgent band in Cuba. The prisoners have been taken to Matanzas for trial. Count Oyama, of the Japanese army, reports two engagements with Chinese troops, 200 of whom were killed in one battle. Guatemala will retain lobbyists in Washington to secure the interference of the United States in case Mexico declares war. Except in Manchester, where the bimetallic feeling is very strong, Great Britain is opposed to the monetary conference. An excursion train jumped the track on a mountain side near the City of Mexico, forty-two persons l>eing killed and thirty or more seriously injured. Insurrectionists in Colombia have renewed their activity, and an engagement is said to be imminent near Cucuta. One soldier and one policeman were killed by Cuban insurgents in an engagement at Buenavidos. Hercules Robinson, formerly governor of Hong Kong and other places, has been appointed governor of Cape Colony.