People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Forces of the Quito government have been defeated* and Col. Talbot was killed in a battle with the patriot forces led by Gen. Serrano at Portetc, near Cuenca. Fifteen thousand pounds have been expended by a commission for the relief of the distress in Newfoundland, in addition to which guarantees have been given to the amount of £7,000. The steam trials of the American line steamer St. Louis over a measured course in the English channel were a success. The course was 104 knots and the time four hours and forty-one minutes. John Daly, ex-member of the house of commons for Cork, while alighting from a train at Sydney fell between the platform and the carriago and had his left hand and foot badly injured. The foot was amputated. The consul general of Mexico in Salvador reports that the tenacity of the yellow fever there warrants the conclusion that the disease will continue increasing in violence, lasting probably till November. Great Britain has notified her ambassador at Pekin to demand of the Chinese government permission for an international investigation into the recent massacres.