People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Newspapers of Spain pretend to regard as unfounded the rumor that President Cleveland will appoint a Cuban commission. The British /barkentine Beeswing, from Portland, Oregon, to London, furnished food and water to the famished sailors of thO Spanlsh barkentine Joven Beatrix, disabled off Flore’s Island, of the Azores. The Canadian government has announced that it Is the intention to ask the house not to remain In session after April 25. This'ls a triumph for the opposition, as up to the present the government supporters have contended that parliament would not adjourn until Jane 3. Sir H. H. Kitehner, brigadier general In command of the Egyptian forces, and Slatin Pasha have started for the front to assume the direction of the Nile expedition. A duel has taken place at Rome between General' Mocannl, minister of war in the Crisp! cabinet, and Signor Barzoldi, atlsifig out of the sharp personal alter catlap regarding the recall of General Baratleri from Abyssinia. Signor Barzoldi was wounded In the left cheek as a result of the duel. After a cootimiqua session of thirtynine hours the Canadian House of Commons passed the second reading of the Manitoba remedial bill by a majority of eighteen.., Thje motion of. Mr. Laurier that the second reading of the measure be adjourned six months, was defeated by a majority of twenty-four. The bill now goes Into the-committee stage. As the Parliament expires April 24 there is no chance of the'bill becoming a law. A dispatch to the London Globe from Cairo says that the khalifa has proclaimed jehed (holy war) against Egypt and has called all the dervishes capable of bearing arms to enroll under his banners. Trustworthy information has been received from Havana that the battle fought a few days ago in Plnar del Rio, which the dispatches sent out with the sanction of the'press censor described as a Spanish victory, was In reality a lamentable defeat for the forces of General Weyler. ,