People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

At St. Johns, N. 8., news is received that 500 wreckers made an attempt to rob the wreck of the steamer Mariposa and were driven off by customs officers. The annual report of Canada’s finance department for the year 1894, just issued, shows a great increase in the quantity of real estate mortgaged and in total loans. The value of the real estate mortgaged is $115,800,000, an increase of nearly $5,000,000. Total loans for 1894 are $121,600,000, an increase of over $6,000,000. The archbishop of Cuba and bishop of Panama have left Santa Cruz for Havana. At Santa Madona, Spain, an earthquake shock was felt, but no damage was done. Rich deposits of silver have been discovered by th# Tala Indians near Guadalajara. A. K. Ward, the Memphis embezzler, is said to be in Spanish Honduras and intends to build cotton mills on a large tract of land granted him by the H«iduran government