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

FOREIGN.

The abstract of cases and deaths from cholera in Japan, covering twelve principal cities, shows J 9,554 fatalities out of 28,475 persons attacked. Consular reports show that American and Italian competition is cutting prices in the shoe trade at Berlin. German manufacturers are trying to devise a means for selling direct to the customer. . Because a party of civilians insulted and stoned him, a sentry at the barracks in Konigsberg, Germany, shot and killed one and severely wounded another. The German committee on the exploration for the south pole has resolved to start two vessels from Kerguelen Island and has allotted 950,000 marks for expenses. Colonel A. L. Rives, who recently resigned as general superintendent of the Panama Railroad, left Panama for New York. He has been eight years on the isthmus. The parliamentary party in San Salvador has issued a circular inviting all Latin American countries to form an international league to wage a commercial war against oppression due to European influence. The Japanese have captured the inland town of Katchl, Island of Formosa. * Congress at Lima, Peru, has definitely settled the Hualgayoe railroad concession. It is announced in London a Tyneside firm has received a Japanese order to build three new battleships. The Cunard steamer Campania, on its trip to Queenstown, passed a burning three-masted vessel that had been deserted by its crew. At London D'epotrLeslie county, W. P. Bentley, ex-member of the legislature, fought a duel with Bige Hignite. Both died within eight hours. Bentley had killed Hignite’s brother a year ago.