People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — FOREIGN [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN

The name of Baron Coureel, the eminent( French jurist and diplomat, will probably be suggested as the fifth or final arbitrator on the court of arbitration between Venezuela and Grsat Britain. In view of the very satisfactory tests of American armor plate heretofore sent to Russia, the Russian government has asked the Carnegie and Bethlehem companies to submit proposals for furnishing armor plate for two large battleships. Signor Chiardia, a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, otyl Signor Dalmati, the well-known advocate, who will attend the international postal congress at Washington as the representative of Italy, have started for the United Scates. During a gale in the English channel the British steamer Moyune, 3,010 tons, outward bound for India and the east, was driven ashore off St. Catharine’s Point, Islt of Wight. The passengers and crew were rescued by the bucket apparatus. Aubrey Beardsley, tho artist, has been formally received into the Roman Catholic Church. His health, which has been precarious for a long time past, is now better, and he has gone to the Riviera. Owing to a slight accident to the Italian warship Liguria, she has been replaced by the cruiser Dogali, which sailed to be present at the ceremony of dedicating the Grant mausoleum. Prince Bismarck is much improved in health. In the lawn tennis covered courts championship contest at London, England, W. V. Eaves defeated E. D. Lewis, the holder of the championship, by .3 to 0. In the lawn tennis doubles championship Nisbett and Greville beat Eaves and Martin, 3 to 2. A dispatch from Essen-on-the-Buhr, Germany, announces that ten persons were killed to-day through an explosion of fire damp in the Oberhausen pit.