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

FOREIGN.

M. Henri Sevene, a civil engineer in the employ of the French government tobacco factories, is on his way to Chicago to secure modern machinery for manufacturing tobacco and matches. A rebellion against the authority of the sultan has broken out among the Arabs in the vicinity of the holy city of Mecca, and Turkish troops sent to subdue the uprising have been defeated. Count Edward von Taafe, the famous Austrian statesman, and many times premier of the empire, is dead. A Seoul, Corea, dispatch says the Tai-Won-Kun has practically given up his attempt to play usurper. General Cho, minister of war, has been dismissed, and the Btatus of the dead queen who, after death, was degraded to the level of a concubine, has been

restored. Japan is losing ground in Corea, and Russia’s influence is growing. A special to New York from Guatemala says President Barrios has just received a letter from Mrs. Carlo Ezeta, in which she claims that she is a citizen of Guatemala and urges the president to use every possible effort to induce Salvador to turn over to her the Ezeta property, which, she declares, was arbitrarily confiscated. She claims the property belongs to her and her children. Mrs. Susan Etcherson, aged 61 years, shot herself through the heart at the residence of her son at Greencastle, Ind. She has been insane for some time. A post mortem examination of the remains of Dan Turner, killed at Prairieburg, lowa, in a saloon fight, developed the fact that he was murdered. Burglars robbed the hardware store of Sumner <& Morris at Madison, Wis. of property worth SSOO. The store is less than fifty yards from the police station. Tramps who threatened to burn Cumberland, Wis., unless they were fed and sheltered have all disappeared, with the exception of four leaders in jail. No further annoyance is apprehended,. although citizens, heavily armed, are patrolling the streets. In Dooly county, Georgia,, Tony Sutton and his son, who killed an officer sent to arrest them, were lynched. A passenger train ran into an open switch at Preble, N. Y., killing the engineer and fatally injuring the fireman. The members of “A Bowery Girl" troupe were on the train, but none was seriously hurt. Somebody had tampered with the switch with the deliberate intent, evidently, of wrecking the train.

H. H. Holmes, convicted at Philadelphia of the murder of Benjamin F. Pitzel, was denied a new trial and sentenced to death. Two negroes at Fayetteville, Tenn., after being tried and convicted for attempted assault, were taken from jail by a mob and hanged. Troops were unable to reach the scene in time. The general store of Hinton & Roberts at Oconee, 111., was robbed two successive nights, Thursday and Friday of last week, of considerable money and goods. The burglars, B. Blackey and R. Bagley, young men, were captured at Sandoval and are in the Shelby County jail unable to give bond. Bushrod Kelch shot and killed his divorced wife at Cleveland, and then sent a bullet through his own head. The bullet, which lodged between the two lobes of his brain, was extracted and he will probably recover. Gov. Altgeld has honored the requisition of the governor of Kansas for Gyp and Ed Corson, wanted in Harper county, Kansas, for grand larceny and under arrest at Jerseyville.