People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The report that the French government is about to reopen the question of the Panama scandal and prominent members Of parliament were to be prosecuted on this account, is authoritatively denied. Lord Salisbury has made a proposition to the European powers looking to the dismemberment of the Turkish empire. Gen. Campos has urged the Spanish government to grant economic and governmental reforms to Cuba. The insurgents are so confident of ultimate success that they may accept nothing but absolute independence. Mexican authorities have notified United States officials that Richard C. Rowe will be extradited. He is wanted in lowa for embezzlement of $33,000. Mgr. Satolli denies that the pope has granted a dispensation to Count Bela Zichy and Miss Mabel Wright, divorced wife of Fernando Yznaga, as the church does not recognize divorces. A new minister to the United States will soon be sent to Washington from Corea to succeed the minister who died while on leave in Corea. • Dispatches from Constantinople say that Russia is preparing to occupy Armenian territory. The report has occasioned much disquietude among the European powers. Ambassador Bayard delivered an address at Edinburgh, Scotland, Thursday, in which he denounced socialism and aristocracy as the two greatest evils of the day.

The Int&rnational Navigation company has libeled the Netherlands-Amer-ican line steamship Obedam, which was towed into Halifax Saturday with her shaft broken, by the Pennland, for SIOO,OOO. Revoll has been appointed French minister to Brazil.