People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The Rome Italie states that the Crispi ministry authorized Gen. Baldissera to negotiate a peace with Menelek after the defeat of Adowa. The Egyptian council at Cairo Saturday stated that Lord Cromer, the British agent, had announced that 1,000 British troops, drafted at European stations, were coming there directly to take part in the advance upon Dongola. Advices from Havana say that Col. Galvls has routed the insurgents under Maximo Gomez, killing fifty. The Spanish columns, it is also reported, continue to press Maceo closely. After a concert Sunday night at Barcelona, Spain, the bulk of the audience started to make a demonstration before the United States consulate, but gendarmes promptly barred their way and dispersed the crowd before they had reached the building. Several were injured in the scuffle. Russia’s secret treay with China relating to Manchurringia has been confirmed. Extraordinary rights are granted Russia in the document. The odelathing, or lower house of parliament of Norway, by a vote of 44 to 40 adopted a bill providing for the recognition of a separate Norwegian flag. Knights of Labor, in session at Ottawa, Ont., decided to form a Canadian federation, having no connection with United States labor orgnizations.