People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1895 — TWENTY-FIVE KILLED [ARTICLE]

TWENTY-FIVE KILLED

TERRI3LE EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE REPORTED. ! \ Two Ships Blown to Pieces at Oberwesel, in Rhenish Prussia Many Houses Wrecked —Other Foreign News of Interest. Cologne, March 20.—A report Is in cir- : culation here to the effect that a ter- ; rible explosion of dynamite has taken ! place at Oberwesel on the Rhine | Twenty-five persons are said to have ; been killed, two ships are reported to I have been destroyed and many houses ■ are announced to have been wrecked I by the explosion. | Oberwesel is a town of Rhenish • Prussia, about nineteen miles from Coblentz. Its population is estimated to be about 2,500. Amsterdam, March 20.—A local paper publishes a dispatch saying that the disaster reported from Cologne was the result of the explosion of the cargo of 40,000 pounds of dynamite on board the ship Elizabeth at Salworth, in the district of Dusseldorf, yesterday evening. According to this dispatch thir- ‘ teen persons were killed and five ini jured and one went insane. The scene i after the explosion is described as being one of terrible destruction. HE LIKES CARLISLE. , Interesting Statements from an English Visitor. i London, March 20.—The Pall Mall Gazette publishes an interview with Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, formerly ■ comptroller of the national debt office, who has just returned from the United i States, where he has been in communication with the United States government as the representative of British holders of Central Pacific bonds. He is quoted as saying that he found the executive to be all right and Secretary Carlisle to be businesslike and reasonable. According to Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, Secretary Carlisle stated that he would rather not touch a cent of the debt owned by the railway than that the Central Pacific should be subjected to the pound of flesh principle. I FRENCH ARMY IN GOOD SHAPE, I President Faure Presides at a Session of the Military Council. Paris, March 20.—A few weeks ago sensational and inflammatory speeches were made in the.chambers concerning the alleged inferiority of the army of France as compared with that of Germany. Today, by way of protest against these unpatriotic expressions of i opinion, President Faure presided in ' person at the secret session of the su- ' preme military council. This is the first time since France became a republic that a president has exercised this prerogative. In the council the present standing of the army was reviewed, the unanimous opinion being that it was on a substantial peace footing. Poor Bear the Burden. : New York, March 20.—Hon. Joseph Chamberlain Was recently quoted as saying in a speech delivered in London: “You may try as hard as you like to take the taxes off the poor and put them on the rich; you may try all these schemes of betterment taxes and taxes i on ground rents; you may try till you are black in the face, but in the long run all these taxes will be shifted by the rich onto the poor.” | Will F'ight the Editors. Madrid, March 20.—The officers of the garrison have drawn lots in order to decide which of them should demand satisfaction from the editors and authors of the recently published utterances deemed to be insulting to the Spanish army. Irish Municipal Franchise Bill. j London, March 20.—The municipal I franchise bill for Ireland passed its second reading in the house of commons , and was referred to the grand commit- ' tee without division.