People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A mob of 15,000 men, mostly students, stoned the United States consulate at Barcelona, Spain, and had to be dispersed by soldiers. They afterwards publicly tore up and insulted American flags. J. Hofmeyer, leader of the Afrikander party, in writing to a friend, pointedly accused Cecil Rhodes of having knowledge of the Jameson raid, which be hid from his colleagues for thirty-six hours after Dr. Jameson started. Halifax, N. S., had a fire Sunday morning that entails a direct loss of $250,000 and an indirect loss much greater. Attorney-General Sifton’s motion protesting against the Dominion Government’s interference with Manitoba’s school laws by the passage of a remedial bill was adopted in the Legislature after an all-night sitting by a vote of 31 to 7. The king of the Belgians has decided to make war on the dervishes throughout the Congo State. It is reported that all the available vessels on the Congo have already been chartered. The Spanish eortes has been dissolved. European papers continue to discuss the probability of Britain’s evafuation of Egypt, ip spite of denials from London. M. P. De Smet de Maeyer, Belgian minister of finance, has been appointed premier. He succeeds M, J. do Burlet, who goes to Lteboh as minister to Portugal. tW