Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 1 May 1894, Page 2

Foreign.

The Vouaaclie Zeitung thinks the Powers are heartily tired of the Samoan Treaty, and would dissolve it if England, under Australasian pressure, gave the signal. The Norddeutsche AUgenieine Zeitwig considers New Zealand has. no voice in the matter at all. A body of Coxey's followers ran a train into Dakota, and defeated and disarmed a body of 85 men sent by the Marshal in pursuit. The President has ordered troops to stop the train. Coxey will be the candidate) of the party known as the Populists] for the Presidency. The present movement is regarded as a political one. Several towns in Colorado are planning to pay the fares of 500 men to the capital. The Knights of Labour also threaten to marqh an army upon _ Ottawa. - A body of troops surprised 650 of Coxey's men asleep, at Keogh. r No resistance was offered, and the railway authorities will prosecute tht men. ...... .._.,., ".",'. , : _. -'r^h^l/" Eighteen bauds oT Coxey's army, numbering 7000 men,; are mentioned as marching upon Washington. Before the Marshal's men ; weilL^ defeated by Coxey's \ fo^overj •|t^' Dakota, a heavy running, fire wii ' ' kept up between the occupants : pf the trains. About 300 Unionists are marohinj; to Lotuca to compel the miners Ikfhfc -.v * to join in the strike, and troops ijayerV been ordered to the scene in/ ejtpias-;^ tatiou of trouble. .' f: Railway and steamer^^traffio throughout the States is paralysed, owing to the scarcity of coal conse* quent on the miners' strike. The guard at the White House has been increased, i .' .;J*r ,:; President Cleveland remains at _„, Washington, though l \?arrSed"Jto r Svp4flK the streets, since the"' CpxeylSs possess dynamite. .. ' " f | ; V' News has been received that fche Lotuca workmen fled, and the trob'pi i * w dispersed the Unionist coercers. . The earthquakes, in Greece, ha,ye caused widespread havoc thtOßghoul the country. ■ v ; — Atlanti is nearly in rnin».^ ; ... Hundreds of families there and elsewhere are homeless. ' A shock occurred while the s«r* ( vice was being held in acatb^rattii the city. There was * crowded congregation, and a panic l^j||i«L which was only allayeft 6M|&e presence of mind of M. Thebes has Jbeen utterly tisstroyed by renewed shocks/ and it ifl «»#* mated that fully three hu^clred persons have been killed; \'f The Larissa prison was wrecked by an earthquake and the prieodel*! liberated. ..1 :;' -i