Foreign News

It now appears that the announcement of the removal of the prohibition against the iinpoitation of American pork into Ffance was premature. The bill passcd one house but was not reached in the other and has conseqnently gone over the sesskm. ïlio prohibition was an act of retaliation oí the French government due to tho passage cf the McKinley bill. : :■ ■■: ;■■ I France has just been the scène of a horrible railroad disaster caused by a collision of two excursión trains. The reservoir of gas on one of the trains exploded and set fire to the ■wreckage, before scores of people couU roleased. Forty-three persons were killed, many being burned to death. The majority of the victims were women and children. Besides the dead one hundred and four persons were injured. They have lightning in England just the same as in this coamtry. On Monday three persons were killed by lightning at Aylsbury. # # # # A hundred whales were driven on the Oakney coast of Scotland, last week, and the inhabitnnts turned óui en masse with every kind of weapon, to massacre the huge aquatic mammals. Not one escaped. The people of that section, who were having a hard time existing, now feel that they are rolling in wealth. The news from Chili is not very iull, or reüab'e Ths war drags along and President Balmaceda ia earning a reputation as being one o the cruelest tyrants who have drawn fcreath; The whipping post has been everywhere established by Mm tTwenty young men were most cruelly flogged for taking passage in an English steamer. Young and old men are seized and tortured with the idea o) getting compromising avowals out ol them. Two distinguished ladies were thrown into jatl for looking at a small newspaper which opposed tho president, and a general reign of terror has commenced'. The Russian persecution of the He brews continnes with force Fire was set to the Hëbrew settlement near Viele and fourteen were burned to dcath, besides twenty iKin-i fearfiilly burned'. One young man, who pave chase to the Kussians who set Ure to the buildinfcs and in the flght killed three of them, was arrested and wlll be sent to Siberia.