People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — THE WORLD IN BRIEF. [ARTICLE]

THE WORLD IN BRIEF.

Li Hung Chang is accused by the emperor of China with having attempted to prove to the world that he was greater than his sovereign. Miss Lucy Uhl, daughter of the United States ambassador to Germany, was married in Berlin yesterday to Professor Guy Thompson of Yale University. The Venezuela cabinet has accepted the agreement between Salisbury and Olney, subject to ratification by congress. The Spanish rabble at Havana is threatening the lives of the few Americans living there. The budget committee of the chamber of deputies in Paris has been asked for 200,000,000 francs to strengthen the French navy. The reichstag in Germany Monday commenced the first reading of the mail steamer subnegation bill, which is being strongly opposed. The Figaro, a Paris newspaper, strongly commends President Cleveland’s message. A mob in South Africa tare the British flag to shreds. Ambassador Thomas Bayard will be banqueted on March 2 by the lord mayor of London. Advices from Blantyre, the chief town of **British Central Africa, announce the dispatch of three British columns against the Angoni Zulus under Chief Chikuski, who have invaded southwest Nyassaland and burned a British missionary station, besides massacreing the inhabitants of a number pf villages. Chikuski commands -30,000 warriors, and the British troops only about 500. Great anxiety was felt at .when these advices left that town, and an attack upon it was feared. England has lost faith in Lord Salisbury’s boldness and alertness. The cause is the menace to European powers by Russia and Great Britain’s inactivity. The Engliish Union of Railway Servants has won a decided victory in its strike against the London <fe Northwestern.

The port of London is on the wane, and, is losing its prestige as the distributing center of Europe, according to the report of Sir Thomas Sutherland. The Czar’s recent treaty with Ghina is regarded as a diplomatic victory for Russia. Venezuela wants the protocol modified, as it is unsatisfactory to the populace. There is a movement on foot in Ireland to secure a revision of the financial relations between that country and Great Britain. There is a lively court war on in Germany, and the Kaiser is holding interviews with every one of importance. Over 700 laborers from Sierra Leone have commenced work on the Panama canal. The French government will abolish its penal colony at New Caledonia and Establish a substitute on the island of Madagascar. The Russian wheat crops in the southern colonies have been badly damaged by drouth. ' The Duidical remains at Dartmoor, England, have been destroyed by contractors to secure stone to mend the roads.

The ambassadors of the powers demand that the Porte recall within forty-eight hours the Porte’s special envoy to Cete, Saad Ed Bin Pasha, who is accused of thwarting reforms projected there. United States Consul Mertens. at Valencia, Spain, will warn the captain of the filibustering steamer Laurada not to land on Spanish shores, as it will precipitate a clash. General Weyler says he has returned to Havana to clear the Havana provinces of insurgents. Major Cirujeda, who assassinated Maceo, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Counterfit gold coin is being extensively circulated in St. Louis, Mo. A hog weighing 1,000 pounds was slaughtered near Cambridge, Md.

A mob attempted to lynch Elmer Weatherholtz, a wife slayer, at Woodstock, Va. The economical scheme to abolish forty counties in Kansas will be defeated. Despite the use of anti-toxin, William H. Osgood, a New York club man, died of erysipelas. Indiana records of great historical value have been discovered in a cave near Lamville, Minn. The American liner St. Louis beat the Lucania into the port of New York after a stormy passage. A second attempt was made to blow up the Louisville express near Ditchley, Va., Saturday night. George E. Ross, the fugitive clerk of the United States Express Company, is under arrest at Baton Rouge, La.

The new revenue cutter, Walter A. Gresham, showed remarkable speed in its trial trip at Cleveland, Ohio. Cardinal Gibbons is a believer in the Kneipp cure and waded in the dew near Baltimore, Md., with beneficial results. O. L. Partridge, of Alpena, Mich., has been convicted of embezzling $20,000 from the Alpena Loan and Building Association. Harry Lockwood, a young farmer residing near Newark, Ohio, is charged with attempting to kill his mother with dynamite. B. F. Rosenthal, the Chicago school trustee, is circulating a petition having in view the nomination of Wash Hesing far mayor: Ex-Governor Robert E. Patti son of Pennsylvania was in Chicago Sunday, Bohemian turners gave a free public entertainment to Bohemians Sunday afternoon at Eighteenth street and Ashland ave., Chicago. The object was to keep young men and boys away from saloons. Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, wife of the commander of the American Volunteers, addressed large audiences at the Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago, and in Evanston Sunday on work among the convicts. She will found a home in Chicago for released felons. The Salvation Army contemplates the foundation of a winter shelter for the unemployed in Chicago. Mayor Swift and his party returned from Florida Sunday afternoon. Charles Butters of Johannesburg, South Africa, member of the reform committee of sixtythree and a prisoner with John Bays Hammond at Pretoria jail, is in Chicago. John Leddy and Patrick Doyle tried to “bunko” a granger at the Grand Central Depot, Chicago, Sunday and were arrested by Officer Gibbons of the Central station. Lorin Burnam, 83 years old, died at Rogers Park, 111., Sunday. The police searched in vain for $3,000 he is said to have had. The railroads are cutting down their issue of free passes. M. A. Spurr, convicted of falsely certifying checks while president of the Commercial National Bank of Nashville, Tenn., has been sentenced to thirty months in state’s prison. A wild man is living in the woods near West Hammond. On Saturday last he drove a party of rabbit hunters from the district. Lndwig Schuett, a German emigrant, attempted to kill August Fleigel, consul general of the German empire in New York, Saturday. Frederick Hibberly, a wealthy Terre Haute, Ind., farmer, has been sued for SIO,OOO damages for breech of promise by his divorced wife. Recruiting agentft are getting many volunteers for the Cuban army in Arkansas.

Advices received at Key West, state that Weyler will deny the assassination of Maceo over his own signature. The 150-mile pipe line of the Pipe Line and Refining Co., has been completed to Kankakee, and the oil will be shipped to Chicago in cars. The Choctaw Indians have agreed with the Dawes commission for the allotment of lands and the abolishment of tribal governmen t in eight years. George Harris of Dubuque, lowa, was injured so seriously while being initiated into a camp of the Modern Woodman that an operation may be necessary to save his arm. On account of suspicious circumstances the body of Tessie Mefford will be exhumed. The girl, who was only 9 years old, died at the home of her grandmother, Rebecca Derrickson, in Chicago one week ago. A bill will be presented to the Pennsylvania legislature, abolishing the scaffold in the execution of condemned criminals and substituting gas. It is proposed to turn the gas into an air tight cell while the condemned man is asleep. ' The fusion governor-elect of Washington will have a law passed abolishing the lobby. President Cleveland has gore to South Carolina on a hunting trip.

The negotiations between the United States and Great Britain for a treaty of general arbitration covering all subjects of difference between the Englishspeaking nations, is nearly ready. Three expeditions left as many Sorts in Florida for Cuba to elp the insurgents Sunday night.