People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Barney Barnato, the South Africangold king, is to visit the mines at Cripple Creek, Col., with a view to investment. The American missionaries in Turkey are reported to be all safe. Suffering among the Armenians whose villages have been destroyed is described as appalling. The American ocean liner Indiana was badly damaged by a collision with a British ship in the Thames at London. ' * Pillsbury, the American chess champion, has won four games and lost none in the tournament being held at St. Petersburg. The embassies of the great powers at Constantinople have been placed in condition to withstand a siege. The situation is extremely critical. The Red Cross society has agreed to take up the work of aiding the starving Armenians, and has issued an appeal for funds.