People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Frederick William Farrar, D. D., F. R. S., Archdeacon of Westminster, has been appointed Dean of Canterbury. The regular annual visitation of cholera at Mecca, which follows the advent of pilgrims there, is in full swing. Two Americans named Thoerner and Kiogel, who are walking around the world, have arrived at Monte Carlo. The ex-speaker of the English house of commons, the Rt.-Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel, has been created a viscount. Fresh earthquake shocks were felt at Laibach. Much damage was done to houses and considerable alarm was caused among the inhabitants. The mint in Santiago, Chili, has Just issued 600,000 silver dollars to six banks. Holders of the bills of those banks are making a rush for the silver. A revolt has broken out in Santiago del Ter Estero, the central province of the Argentine Republic. Senor Legar, the governor of the province, has fled from the capital. German librarians will meet next month at Frankfort-on-the-Main, at the third Deutscher Historikertag. The trial of Yi Li Yosliun, formerly Corean minister to Japan, charged with murder and treason, has begun at Seoul. M. Zola has been elected president of th'e Societe des Gens de Lettres for the fourth time. The election was Unanimous. A Russian general named Gregorleft has been sent into penal servitude in Siberia for eight years for selling military secrets to the Austrian government. The Tyrol is to have new roads, the landtag having voted 100,000 gulden for that object. Many parts of the road from Cowara to Buchenstein, through the Dolomite region, will be ready next summer. Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Aus-tria-Este, the emperor's heir presumptive, will publish the diary of his first voyage round the world, made two years ago. The first volume deals with India, Ceylon and Java. A Mrs. Ebb-Smith drowned herself in the Thames the other day. She was a respectable woman of 50, well to do, but had been driven out of her mind by worrying over the sensation made by ‘‘The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmlth." The new amendment to the French marriage law proposes to declare that all Frenchmen who have attained the age of 25 and women who have attained the age of 21 shall be free to marry after giving three months' notice to their parents.