People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Spain has given evidence of much regret over the Allianca affair. By the bursting of an immense reservoir at Eplnal, France, it is thought 200 lives were lost, and property valued at $10;000,000 destroyed. Gen. Maximo Gomez, the active leader of the Cuban revolutionists, and the man most feared by Spain, has landed in Cuba. British troops have landed in Nicaragua and taken possession of the town of Corinto. China may yet refuse to ratify the peace treaty. A cattle plague is raging in several of the governments of South Rutssla. 'The stockholders of the Cheque bank of London have decided to sell the American end of the business to a New York syndicate for $50,000. Ex-Consul Waller has been placed in the French civil prison of St. Pierre, the military authorities refusing to keep him any longer in Fort St. Nicholas. The Norwegian premier has informed all the parties in the Storthing that he can not accept office again and that he is urging the king to come to a d.cision on the proffered resignation bf the cabinet. The German reichstag has decided to impose a duty upon quebacho wood and other foreign substances used in tanning and to exempt from duty tanning requisites used in dyeing and chemical works.