People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Earthquakes in Italy have been attended with loss of life and much destruction to property. Mexican natives attacked a surveying party of which an American engineer was the head, killing twenty. Government troops sent to punish the murderers were ambushed and defeated. Japan anticipates an immense trade with China as soon as the country is somewhat quieted down. The case of ex-Consul Waller, alleged to haveto have been mistreated by the French in Madagascar, is to be vigorously taken up by our government. Capt. Trench, commander .of the British troops landed in Nicaragua, died at sea. Congress of Mexico has passed the bill making train robbery punishable by death. Several earthquakes occurred on the Greek Island of Zante. The people were panic-stricken, but the damage was slight. The Spanish steamer Gravina, bound from Antwerp for Lisbon, was lost off Capones during a typhoon, and only two of those on board were saved. A number of warehouses and factories near the Leather Market, Bermondsey, London, covering one and one-half acres of ground, have been burned. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. A mysterious explosion took place In London in a carriage of the London, Chatham and Dover railroad. An occupant was badly injured. Near him was found a brass cylinder nine inches long.