People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Duke of Connaught (Queen Victoria’s son) has given orders that the army officers under his command at Aidershot shall qualify themselves to be judges of the food supplies furnished by army contractors for the troops, and also of the storage for horses. With a view of creating oases in the barren waste land of the interior, the authorities of South Australia are boring for artesian wells in a number of places. They will also plant Algerian trees in the neighborhood of these wells, should water in sufficient quantities be found. In a recent speech in the French chamber M. Lockroy inveighed against extravagance in the naval department, claiming that the English could build a war ship for about half what the same vessel usually cost in the French yards. It is said that two members of the house of commons who desired to visit Constantinople before the opening of parliament, to inquire into the grievances of the Armenians, were prevented from doing so by the refusal of the Turkish authorities in London to vise, their passports. The Paris Soleil says France is not inclined to abandon its demand for the extradition from England of Dr. Cor-’ nelius Herz, the Panama canal lobbyist. Three refugees from Sassoun who have arrived in London were eye witnesses of the Armenian massacres, and their evidence confirms the reports of the atrocities. Lieut. Col. Ludlow, military attache of the American embassy at London, who was recently appointed military engineer of the Nicaragua Canal commission. sailed for New York. Charles Baxter, executor of the estate of Robert Louis Stevenson, says it will probably prove worth between 1100,900 and 0160.000. Most of tlfis will be from profits from Stevenson's books. . 1 -■

State Treasurer Henry M. Phillips of Massachusetts sent In his resignation to the governor to take effect on the election of his successor by the legislature. Gov. Morton of New York has submitted to the legislature a message requesting it to provide a proper exhibit for the coming cotton states exhibition in Georgia. The Pulaski county (Ark.) grand Jury adjourned until May 6. The papers in the alleged legislative bribery case were laid before the jury by Prosecuting Attorney Pemberton, but no action was taken. Col. J. W. F. Hughes, the colonel of the militia whb was removed by Gov. I.ewelling of Kansas and court-mar-tialed for not driving the republican house from the legislative halls two years ago, has been appointed majorgeneral of the Kansas militia. The Tennessee senate adopted by a vote of 11 to 10 a Joint resolution asking congress to enace a free coinage law at a ratio of U to L