The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-01
FOREIGN NEWS.


FOREIGN NEWS.
1t is said that Spain is ready to
grant Cuba home rule if the insur-
gents surrender.
The English have advanced to
Kospeh camp, the most completely
fortified post ON the Nile and started
forward to Absarrat.
A dispatch from Havana announces
that fifty-one insurgents, who were
confined in the Cabanas fortress and
Moro Castle. have been shot to death.
Herr Schuster, director of Handles
geesellscfhaft in Berlin, has been
arrested upon charge of embezzle-
ment. The amount of his defalcation
is estimated at 5000, 900 marks.
Affairs in Turkey, relative to the de-
thronation of the Sultan, are rapidly
reaching a crisis. The Young Turk
party is covering Constantinople with
placards melting the people to action.
At the international convention of
trades unions at Edinburgh, resolu-
ton was adopted expressing the opinion
that railway servants should not be
employed continuously for more than
eight hours.
Rumors are afloat in Berlin of3 an
impending customs war between Ger
many and Russia. 1t is stated that
Russia intends to retaliate for some
vexatious restrictions upon Russian i'm
ports imposed at the instigation of the
German agrarians.
News from Havana is to the effect
that dUplorable condition of affairs
exists in the islands. The Spaniards
are doing nothing toward the suppress
sion of the rebellion. Both sides are
numbering and plundering non-combat-
ants. Many prominent residents of
Havana have been arrested by the
Spanish authorities on suspicion.
A London cablegram says, with
} regard to the charges made by Baron,
} Colville of Sulross that the transatlan'
tic steamers Iun through the Solent al
speed which raised waves that dc
damage to the docks the North Germar
Lloyd Steamship Company writes tc
the Times explaining that their steam
er, the Spree, has a new commander
and that they will investigate Baror
Colville's charges.
Sir Charles Dixie, who is an author
ity ON European politics and ON British
imperial defense, has written Ions
letter ON the Armenian agitation il
which he refers to the provoking tickle
, ness of English public opinion on thu
varying phases of the Eastern question
: and warns the country, looking to thu
, weakness of the feet and the unpopu
$ larity of England, against isolated
: action against Turkey.
4 A cablegram from Lima, Peru, vi,
$ Galveston, says the President-elect o
t Chile, FREDERICK Erazuriz, has entrusted
to Anibal Zanartu the task of forming
4 new cabinet. Word has been re
S eived there that the Bolivian Cabine
Q has been modified by the appointment
!. of Senior Majas as Minister of War
: Senior Pifilla Fomento and Jose Vicent
s Ochoa as Ministers of the Interio
and Justice, and Senior Gomez a
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
!. Captain General Weyler has con
= ferred with the commanders of hi
q army in Havana, and also with tn
q commanding officers of marine an
= the chief of the medical department
These conferences are precursors of tn
coming campaign, which is intende
+ to be both vigorous and resolute
l. Weylers is to assume personal com
l. mand at Plnar del Rio, Cuba. Th
o insurgents have burned two Tobacco
Z plantations in MatanZas, near Papos
II causing loss of $500 600.
The directors of the bank of Eng
If land have advanced the banks rate c
,. discount from to 2 = per cent. Thi
1t is the first time the bank has increase
e the discount rate since February %
/, 1894. This action of the director
lie was unexpected and is regarded as
N precautionary measure having an effec
y to check the drain of gold to til
United States and the continent. Tn
), immediate effect of the announcement
r of the increase was to cause declin
:. on the stock exchange of conEuls
home railway shares and America
railroad stocks.