San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-27
FOREIGN NEWS.

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LONDON, May 27.-The Times
publishes a dispatch from Kobe,
Japan, stating that matters in
Corea look serious. Changesi in the
ministry are constant. Prince
Pack, who had been a refugee in
Japan for ten years, and who was
the last hope OF the Japanese, has
now abandoned the policy OF Count
Inouye, the Japanese minister at
Seoul, and is intriguing with the
Queen and secretly communicating
with the Russian minister. 1t is
reported that Count Inouye be-
lieves that the reform OF the coun-
try is hopeless. 1t is expected that
he will return shortly to Japan.
CONSERVATIVES ELECTION.
LONDON, May 27.-The Rt. Hon.
Chas. T. Richie, Conservative, was
elected yesterday to the parlia-
mentary seat for Croinden, made
vacant by the resignation of the
former occupant. Mr.. Richie was
not opposed.
SPAIN Is IN FAVOR.
LONDON, May PA dispatch to
the Times from Madrid says:
At the last cabinet meeting Senior
Navarro Reverter, minister OF
finance, delivered a long speech in
reference to the resolution recently
passed by the lower house Of the
Prussian Diet in favor of bi-metal.
lism and the international regula-
ton Of currency. Senior Reverter
declared that Spain was unequivo-
cally in favor OF such an agreement
as the Prussiap Unterhaus had
suggested.
A GUNBOAT FOR CUBA.
MADRID, May 27.-The Spanish
government has decided to build at
CadiZ a gunboat for permanent
service in Cuban waters. The tor
pedo boats Martin Alonzo and Fill.
ipinas will sail for Cuba tomor.
row.
CRISPIS INDEBTEDNESS.
PARIS, May 27.-Signor Gioletti,
eX-premier and ex-minister OF the
interior,of Italy,has written a letter
to the Figaro, in which he asserts
that Premier Crispi's indebtedness
to the State bank Of Rome is 1885,
600 livres.
ATTACKING THE OPIUM TRADE.
LONDON, May Pin the House
of Commons Friday Sir Joseph
Whitwell Pease, liberal, member
for the Barnard division, Of Dur.
ham, made a motion attacking the
report Of the opium commission
and the opium trade generally, and
demanding that the Indian gov
eminent suppress it. The Rt. Hon.
Henry Fowler, secretary of state
for India, strongly opposed the
motion. The suppression of the
opium trade, he said, would de-
prive 100000 people Of their an
tire livelihood and create a great
deficit in the Indian revenues. The
motion was defeated by a vote of
176 to SO.
CUBAN LEADER NOT DEAD.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May PA
special from Tampa, Fla, says:
A telegram received this evening
by Cuban leaders from Jamaica
emphatically denies thatlMarti, the
Cuban leader, is dead. 1t has
turned out as predicted, that it was
only a hoax Of the Spaniards to
weaken the Cuban cause so that
the Spanish government could Sc.
cure a loan from the German gov
eminent in order to success
fully carry out their purpose in
whipping the Cubans. The people
OF this city and especially the ones
in a position to know, gave very
little credence to the report when
it was first circulated, and they are
very jubilant tonight w the
news received.
\ TURKEY ROAST. -
LONDON, May PA destructive
fire says a Constantinople tele-
gram has occurred in the suburb
Of Psamitia. One hundred and
seventy-eight houses and five shops
were destroyed. The majority of
the occupants were Armenians or
Greeks OF the poorer class.
MORE ENGLISH BOATS.
LONDON, May 27.-Messrs. Laird
Brothers, Birkenhead, have re-
ceived an order from the admiralty
for three torpedo boat d~estroyers OF