People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Kaiser William has appointed the Russian empress hononary colonel of the Second Dragoon guards. A child of an eminent Berlin physician died suddenly as the result of the administration of diphtheritic serum to prevent the disease attacking it. Herr Otto Camphausen, formerly Prussian minister of finance, is dead at Berlin. The arrival of the Czar and the Czarina at Moscow Monday afternoon may be said to inaugurate the festival season in celebration of the coronation, for which the city and the whole empire have made months of preparation. The correspondent of the London Daily Mail at Johannesburg, Transvaal, says that a private dispatch received there states that the four leaders of the reform committee, Colonel Francis Rhodes, John Hays Hammond, Lionel Phillips and George Farrar, will be fine<T £25,000 ($125,000) each and will be sentenced to ten years’ banishment. An explosion at Bida, in the Nupe country on the Niger river, Africa, razed to the ground the palace of the Emir Meleki and has killed 200 people. A Berlin dispatch to the London Standard says that a military court has sentenced Count Von Kotze to two years’ imprisonment in a fortress as a punishment for his duel with Baron Von Schrader, which resulted in the death of the latter. The British vice consul at Boma has been instructed to lodge an appeal against the acquittal of Captain Lothaire, the Belgian officer who was recently tried for hanging Stokes, the English trader of the Congo Free State.