The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-02
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.

The American missionaries at Tan
gier have cabled President Cleveland
asking that Mr.. Barclay be retained as
consul there.
The Saturday Review of London
announces that Lord Standaff will
succeed Lord Dufferin as British Am
bassador at Paris.
A, French guardsbip bias started for
Yalova with $50, 900 to pay the ransom
of two French ladies, recently cap
tured near that place by brigands.
A Toulon cablegram says that during
the official trial of the new French
ironclad Jaureguiberry, one of her
boilers exploded, injuring nine men.
At the sitting of the chambers of
commerce of the British empire, res
olution asking the copyright be made
uniform throughout the empire was
passed.
A dispatch from Canea, Crete, says
that another Greek vessel, loaded with
munitions and provisions for the insur-
gents, has been seized by the Turkish
officials.
The British bark Belmore, by follow
ing the advice of the photographic
Office, made the trip from New York
to Sdyney in the remarkably short time
, of eighty days.
A cyclone visited the town of Topaz
Mexico, recently and accompanied by
waterspout buried the place witt
mud eight feet deep. Many bodies
have been recovered.
+, Sinister rumors have reached Athens
/. from Constantinople to the effect tina
: Armenians are being hanged in publi'
e places and ON bridges. The condition
: of the country in the interior is deplor
!, able.
Q At the session of the British Cham
S bers of Commerce Sydney delegat
|: proposed that there should be a.
arrangement based ON the principal o
free exchange of commerce within tn
70 empire.
= The Spanish officers admit havin
:, lost 1900 men in killed and wounds
- at Caicaiajara. The insurgents in tina
=. vicinity of Las Villa, number $500
~ men. Gomez has defeated the SPANS
in a number of recent engagements.
l. Reports have reached Panama of
terrible epidemic of yellow fever whic
70 prevails in Chiquimula, Guatemala
The disease has been fatal in almos
all cases, and many of the most notabl
families in the place have been exte,
>, minated.
A dispatch received from Tunis Il
a, other evening announced that repo,
was current there that the Marquis
y. Mores, we'll known in New York al
in the Western States, has been killt
south of Tripoli with his party
IS thirty-five men.
A special from Bombay says Il
British second-class twin screw cruis,
Bonaventura, flagship of the East Il
III dian squadron, flying the flag of Re-
ID Admiral Edmund Drummond, 10
he seventy men by sunstroke on the vo
be age from Colombo to Pondicherry.
VI The news by every steamer is &
increasing industrial activity of Japa
by There is kerosene oil boom in pr
Ia gress there now, owing to new disco
cries of wells and the adoption
American methods of extraction. II
al expert of matting-mostly to Amerl
increased from "a million yen
1904 IN as million in 1895
.a A story has been taking shape duri
:, the week to the effect that Germa
~ and England have arranged comp
- hensive understanding on the subject
= Northeastern Africa. 1t is believ
-. that bargain has been made by viii
10 Germany is to purchase ltaly's ter
= tories ON the Red sea and also take oy
~ her claims to suzerainty farther inlaI
ms Sir George Webbe Dasante is de
nd at London. Sir George Webbe |
he sante, d. c. L., was born at st. Vii
do West Indies, in 1917. He has trai
ill lated number Of tales of the No
! it and Icelandic, and has written nu
m Der of essays on Morse topics. FRI
of 1S45 to 1870 he was one of the ASST
ant editors of the Times. He "
knighted in 1876.
Cd Emperor William granted an imp
ing audience to Lii Hung Chang in
ST. Knights Hall of the old castle.
AN Hung was conveyed thither in
the royal carriage. escorted by Uhla
Emperor William and the Empr
the Augusta were seated upon tn
thrones, surrounded by royal Primo
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe and Freil
lis Marshal Won Bieberstein, the Minis
of Foreign Affairs, were also present