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

FOREIGN.

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 International Navigation oempany 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. At St. Johns it is reported there is great destitution along the south and west coast of Newfoundland. Revoil has been appointed French minister to Brazil. Emperor Francis Joseph has refused to sanction the election of Dr. Luerger by the anti-Semites as burgomaster of Vienna. The Turkish grand vizier has resigned and the country is said to be on the eve of a revolution. Surveying on the Mexican exposition grounds has begun. The management expects to lay the corner stone of one of the principal buildings in three weeks. Mail advices received at Auckland from Honolulu say that cholera has ceased entirely in Hawaii and the port is clear from infection. Advices from Samoa announce that ail is quiet there. At Toronto, Ont., the second trial of the Hyams brothers for the murder of Williams Wells in January, 1893, was commenced. The British ship Indian Empire reports, upon its arrival at Callao, encountering a severe storm in which 100 tons of coal were jettisoned and the ship dismantled. Liu Yung Fu, the Black Flag leader in Formosa, is said to have escaped on a German warship from Amping to Amoy.