People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Cholera is increasing in Constantinople. In the vicinity of Broussa, about fifty-seven miles southeast of the capital, it iff raging furiously. Advices from Monjanga say that Gen. Duchesne has surprised 6,000 Hovas in the Tsmainoudry defile. The Hovas were routed and eighty of them killed. At a demonstration by 8,000 workmen in favor of universal suffrage held in Vienna serious collisions occurred with the police and twenty-six arrests were made. Enormous losses have been caused in Eastern Siberia by torrential rains lasting several days. Villages were flooded, many houses carried off. crops and stock destroyed, and immense damage done to railways. An illuminated address, signed by the leading amateur oarsmen of England, is being prepared to send to the Toronto crew which competed at Henley last June. It expresses admiration for the rowing and for the pluckiness of the visitors. The family of ex-United States Consul Waller has arrived at Marseilles. The United States corvette ranger has sailed from Guayaquil for Panama. She will be succeeded at Guayaquil by the Alert, now on her way to that port. Advices received from Antananarivo, Madagascar, are to the effect that a condition bordering on anarchy prevails in the district of Imorina, where everyone is fighting for power. A dispatch from Shanghai states the Chinese expect to retake possession of the Liao Tung peninsula about the middle of October. The same correspondent reports that Russia ha ssecured the privilege of a second Chinese loan of 100,000,000 taels.