People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Professor Quldie has been sentenced to three months’ Imprisonment at Munich, after having been convicted of lese-majeste. The Spaniards of Argentina are raising large sums of money to assist Spain in suppressing the Cuban revolc. It is reported at Aldershot camp that the Ninth Lancers have been ordered to get ready to start for Egypt and take part in the Soudan campaign. An imperial irade has bee* issued commanding all Turkish students now t

abroad to return to Turkey. The object of this order is to prevent these students from joining the young Turk movements. Li Hung Chang, the distinguished Chinese statesman, who is to represent the emperor of China at the ceremonies attending the coronation of the czar at Moscow, has arrived in Ceylon. He was received with high honors. Li Hung Chang, after leaving Moscow, will proceed to Berlin, Essen, Paris and London, and thence to America, returning to Peking in November. An official denial has been issued at St. Petersburg of the statement published that Port Arthur had been ceded to Russia by China, as a result of a secret offensive and defensive alliance between the two powers. Colonel John A. Cockcrill, the wellknown newspaper correspondent, died Friday night of apoplexy in Shepherd’s hotel, Cairo. Egypt. London Board of Trade returns for the first quarter of 1896 show imports amounting to $561,476,710, against *5504,189,300 for 1895, and exports of $306,165,215, against $263,601,805 last year. At Cannes the daughter of Grand Duke Michael, son of Grand Duke Michael-Nicolaievltcb. was baptized In the Russian church, the Prince of Wales and Grand Duchess of Mecklen-burg-Schwerin being ner sponsors.