People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, with Archduke Otto and Count Coluchowski, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, has started for St. Petersburg. The duchess of York was safely delivered of a daughter at York cottage, Sandringham, England, Sunday afternoon. Mother and child are both doing well. It is learned that the present visit of a squadron of eight British war ships to Deiagoa Bay is intended to frustrate the intrigues of Germany, Portugal and the Transvaal to change the status quo to the disadvantage of Great Britain. The total of the cases of bubonic plague at Bombay up to date is 11,706. There have been 10,020 deaths from that disease. Many of the inhabitants of Bombay are now returning to this city. A special dispatch from Cape Town announces that a squadron of eight British warships entered Deiagoa bay, causing great excitement. But according to the general opinion at Cape Town only a naval demonstration is intended. 'liie Italian Geograpmcai Society has received news of the safety of the Botego expedition, reported to have been destroyed by the Abyssinians. Colonel Manos, in command of the Greek forces of the frontier of Epirus, has telegraphed to the government that the Turks have bombarded the military hospital at Alta, although the Red Cross flag was hoisted over it. Australia has this year reached the 100,000,000-ounce line in her production of gold—that is, she has, since 1851, produced that amount of gold and the yield of that precious metal is on the increase. The pope has elevated the archbishops of Lyons, Rennes, Rouen and Santiago de Compostella to the cardinalate and formally proclaimed the previously named bishops of Buffalo, Cheyenne, Wilmington and Mobile.