People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Fred Munroe, a prominent American banker, committed suicide at Paris Saturday. 11l health is believed to have been the cause of the act. George Augustus Henry Sala, one oi London’s foremost journalists, died In that city Sunday. A crank fired two shots from a revolver In the French chamber of deputies Friday. No one was hurt. He was immediately arrested and poved to be q harmless lunatic. A report to the London press says Great Britain has landed marines at Pera, a suburb of Constantinople, to protect the British embassy. Pasha, ex-grand vizier of the Turkish empire, and president of the council has taken refuge in the British

Smoassy at (jonstanunopie to escape .the sultan’s wrath. It Is possible that If the European powers insist upon their demands respecting Armenia the sultan will declare a holy war, in which every Mohammedan in the world will take part. The consequences of such an act may deter the powers from pushing Turkey too far. The Norwegian bark Elsie, from Quebec to London, was wrecked on Anticosti Island. The crew has reached Halifax after intense sufferings.