People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

A band of Greek insurgents invaded Macedonia and defeated a detachment of Turkish troops at Kara-Tsari, near Moussa. Only three out of eightyfive escaped.. Eighteen of the soldiers were captured, and the rest were killed. A. J. Balfour, first lord of the treasury and government leader in the house of commons, replying to a question in the house, said that the time had not yet arrived to consider the matter of advising the queen to pardon the Irish prisoners convicted of treason. Mary, the eldest daughter of Charles Dickens, died at London Thursday. Twelve of the fillibusters recently landed in Cuba by the steamer Three Friends have been killed by the Spaniards, according to letter* received here. Cardinal Taschereau of Quebec has suffered a relapse, and his condition is serious. The aged prelate has not been robust for some time, but for the last few months has enjoyed fairly good health considering his advanced age. News has been received that the Indians are threatening the colony at Perene, in Peru, wjiere many Americans and English have been settled. The telegraph offlceg there have been abandoned and detailed news of the outbreak is anxiously awaited. Forces have been dispatched to the assistance of the colonists.