People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Premier Greenway and Attorney General Sifton, of Manitoba, are arranging to leave at once for Ottawa. They have been summoned there by Sir Charles Tupper in the hope of making an amicable settlement of the parochial school question. A mob stoned the United States con sulate at Valencia, Spain, in spite of the precautions of the authorities and the alertness of the police. The police made a strong charge and dispersed the crowd. Supreme Chancellor Richie of the Knights of Pythias has issued a proclamation that the supreme lodge will meet in Cleveland Aug. 25, and saying that if satisfactory arrangements can be made locally and with the railroads the encampment of the military branch of the order may be held there. The Italian Ministry announced its resignation in the Chamber of Deputies Thursday, and Premier Crispi added that it had been accepted by the king. Who will be announced as Premier Crispi’s successor is not known. Rioting in Rome and large cities of Italy still continues. Li Hung Chang has left Pekin to attend the coronation of the czar at Moscow. Dr. Buhl, who was vice-president of the reichstag in 1889, is dead at Deidessheim. Several churches, the postofflee and fifty buildings were left in ashes by a fire at Asperen, South Holland. Mail advices from Honolulu state that the absence of the officers of the cruiser Bennigton from the opening of the legislature Feb. 19, though expressly invited to be present, is re garded as an insult ot the government A. J. Balfour, first lord of the treasury, stated in the house of commons that he did not believe anything would be gained by Great Britain taking the initiative in proposing a monetary conference. There was no truth in the report that Prince von Hohenlohe, the German chancellor, had arrived id London. Losses aggregating $1,500,000, insured for only $190,000, were caused by the fire in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Feb. 12. Great distress exists among the poor in consequence. Seventy-one bodies of victims of the Cleophas coal mine disaster in Prussian Silesia have already been found, and it is believed fifty persons are still unaccounted for. Officers of the Panama Canal company have cabled from Paris, formally denying the statement that a contract had been made between the Panama and Nicaragua canal compnies.