The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-13
FOREIGN NEWS.

churches.
A dispatch from Ilfracombe, a bath
ing place ON the north coast Of Devon
shire, announces that half the business
portion Of the port has been burned.
The loss is $500, 900.
An Odessa dispatch to the Times an
nounces that official reports are to the
effect that the harvest has been fail
ure throughout the most fertile grain
producing districts in the south OF
Russia.
All business in exchange with Costa
Rico has become paralyzed in conse-
qence of the going into effect of the
new law prohibiting the importation
into Columbia of foreign silver. The
political situation throughout the
country is quiet.
The International Socialist Labor
and Trade Union Congress, which was
held in London was devoted to wrang-
ling as TO whether anarchists would be
admitted. The anarchists present be-
hayed i'll a turbulent manner. At
tempts TO eject them failed and the
chairman adjourned the meeting.
DIR. Grenfell, superintendent of the
British mission to deep sea fishermen,
operating in Labrador, writes to the
st. Johns papers that the most extreme
poverty exists in the northeast portion
of Newfoundland and ON the coast of
Labrador, and that many of the inhab-
itants are i'll starving condition.
The London Board of Trade has de-
cided that the loss of the steamship
Drummond Castle off Ushant Oh June
IS, resulting in the drowning of about
$50 persons, only one passenger and
two seamen being saved, was due to the
fact that she was not navigated with
proper seamanlike care in view of pre-
vailing conditions.
M. DelOry, mayor of Lille, has been
suspended from the performance of
his duties for having been concerned in
the issuing of Socialist manifestos, the
circulation of which occasioned dis
orders among the people. M. Delory
was in London whittier he went for the
purpose of attending the International
Socialist Trades Congress.
1t is announced that syndicate has
been formed for the purpose of acquir-
ing all the brass and iron bedstead
manufactures in England, and which
are mostly located in and about Bir-
mingham and the Midland counties.
The subscribed capital of the trust is
SIG, 000,00 If the scheme is put
into execution about twenty factories,
employing Is, 900 hands, will be closed,
and there will be an advance of at least
20 per cent in the card prices.
There has been trouble brewing fol
some time between the Swiss and
LATHAM workingmen of Zurich, and
it finally eliminated in riot. The
police were totally incapable of hand
ling the enraged mob and military
assistance was asked for. A detach
ment of soldiers with ball cartridge,
was ordered to the scene and their pres
? ence awed the rioters, who finally dis
persed Seventy arrests were made.
The executive committee of the Rus
i sian Free Press Fund is mailing t,
trade declarations and Independent
{ organizations in the United States al
appeal for funds for the support of tn
40, 900 factory operatives who, sine
! the second week in June, have been OF
strike at st. Petersburg. The strlk
= affects all the factories of the capita
: and comprises skilled and unskille,
> men and women in the textile, tobacco
sugar, metal and other trades.
r A dispatch from Chez Foo says
$ The German third-class cruiser Ilti
t was lost in a typhoon on July 18th
0 ten miles northward of the Span-Tun,
a promontory, which is about seventy
D five miles southeast of here. Ten mel
D were saved. All of the others, includ
f ing Che officers, persisted The It'll
was small cruiser of 4S9 tons dis
placement, with two ten and one-hal
, centimeter guns and two light guns
: She was lunched in 1878, having cos
. about e133,000
q The New York Heralds' Lima, Peru
special says that President Peirola ha
4 opened Congress. The President sal
> that all the foreign relations of tn
|, government were in friendly an
satisfactory condition. The revolution
: had been happily suppressed 1t wa
!, suggested that amnesty should b
!. granted to all but the leaders. TIL
country was prosperous, and all citi
! zens of good intentions were satisfie
with the laws, with the currency an
the era of economy in government ex
penses which had been established.
!. According to Geographic advice
. received, the rising of insurgents il
q Macedonia has become extremely for
: midable. Greece, while pretending +
q take stringent measures against an
4 persons engaging in raid upon tn
q Macedonian frontier, has allowed uI
: ward of 600 men, all of them arme
with Lebel rifles, to enter Macedoni
r from Greek territory. These men
= after surprising and cutting to piece
q Turkish troops at Mossa, succeeded i
q repulsing a strong force of Turks
!. soldiers which had been sent from Sale
q MICA to reinforce the Moussa troops.
The following Bulwayo dispatch hs
). been received by the London Chronicle
!. "Nicholson's patrol, 800 strong, hs
= been checked in narrow gorge at tn
= north of the Matoppo hills, leading I
. Laughs stronghold. The enemy i
!. great strength occupied and impregns
= BILE position and they were full
:. equipped with rifles and ammunition
= 1.-THE Cape boys, with Nicholson
patrol, cleared TIE neighboring height
: of the enemy, killing twenty of tn
;. rebels, but gallant attempt to force