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

FOREIGN.

Trustworthy information has beOh received from Havana that the battle fought a few days ago in Plnar del Rib, which the dispatohes 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. General amnesty for the Insurgents of the island of Crete, including common law offenders, has been proclaimed by order of the sultan. The steamer Lucania, from New York for Liverpool, has passed Queenstown. She could not land passengers and raajtl, owing to bad weather. The marquis of Salisbury, on behalf of the has presented to Mr. Middleton a check for £IO,OOO as a testimonial of appreciation for his services as chief organizer of the conservative party. J. G. Field, aged 63, who yas taken from his home In Wingham, Ont., by white caps, clad only in his night gown, tied to a tree, terribly beaten and left to freeze, has died in a hospital at London, Ont.. of his injuries. The British bark. Lord Templemore, Capt McWilliam, from San Francisco on Oct. 19, has arrived at Liverpool. Three great fires occurred Tuesday at Lutch (Lutzk), Russia. A cotton factory which was destroyed was alone insured for 800,000 r.ubles (about $635.000). The losses sustained are tremendous. Ther are rumors that a rebellion has broken out in Bolivia, The first appear ance of the new Italian ministry in the chamber of deputies resulted In the unanimous granting of of 140,000,000 lire for carrying on the Abyssinian war. Sir H. H. Kitchener, the brigadier general In command of the Egyptian forces, has been definitely appointed to command the British Egyptian expedition which will advance on April 1 on Wady-Halfa up the Nile and toward Dongola. The Peruvian government has contracted to purchase 800 horses and 10,000 Mansur rifles for the ariny. During the recent snowstorm in the province of Orel, Russia, 130 persons were frozen to deatu in one night.