The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-10
FOREIGN NEWS.

the text of the treaty signed at Paris
by President Fsure and the Gar will
be published shortly.
The failure is announced in Lnodon
Of Webster & Benny, warehouse men.
The liabilities are estimated at $780,
900 and the assets at 100000.
A German inventor discovered
method of putting stone sOles on boots
and shoes. The quartz soles are said
to be flexible and practically indie
structible.
1t is reported in Taniger that owing
to strong pressure France, after mass
ing troops on the frontier, has been
obliged to abandon the expedition to
the extensive south of Morocco and
Algeria i'll Africa.
A special dispatch received in Lon
don. from Bombay, says that 200
Sepoys recently looted the bazaar, at
Pawalpimdi. The police were power
less to control them and two persons
were killed and several injured in the
struggle.
Rain has fallen in Rajputana and
is also expected in Central India. 1t
is believed that the distress of the
famine will diminish where it has
rained, but will not be totally removed.
The fall in the temperature is increas-
ing the plague.
A dispatch to the Standard from
Madrid says the Government. has init
mated to General Weyler that, for
reasons of international and domestic
politics it will not be expedient for
him to return to Havana until he has
achieved a decisive victory over Maceo.
A Hamburg cablegram says the Ham
burgre Nachrichten. Bismarck's organ,
fatty accuses England of trying to
kindle an European blaze under the
pretext of helping the Armenians. The
Nachricten says further that Europe,
with inconceivable blindness, is play
ing into England's hands, and warns
Germany not to be allured by the
dangerous adventure.
A Paris cablegram says action for
divorce has been commenced by Prince
Joseph of Caraman- Chaimay, Belgian
nobleman, against his wife, the Prin-
cess of Caraman. Chaimay. formerly
Miss Clara Ward of Detroit, involving
the story of the abduction of the Prin.
cess by Hungarian gypsy violinist.
1t is reported that the Princess was
eccentric to the degree of being men.
tally unbalanced.
The French newspapers generally
approve the speech made by M. Hano-
taux the Minister of Foreign Affairs il
the Chamber, in reply to the question
of M Milleraud, Socialist, as tt
whether convention between Franc,
and Russia actually existed, and if so
what were its main lines. The news
papers recognize that III. Hanoteau,
! could not be more explicit. The So
cialist newspapers alone complain o
his reticence.
, A serious riot recently occurred a
! Lubbock, growing out of the strike o
hands employed in Thiels' enamel fac
tory. The places of many of TIN
strikers had been taken by rev hand
and the strikers marched to the factor.
in body and attacked the new men
, A number of shots were fired ON boil
sides and several Of the combatant
; were wounded. A number of striker
, were arrested.
A conference of nations on the sub
+ ject of the worlds wheat market is un
derstood to be desired by least one o
, the great foreign wheat-growing EN-
pires. 1t is stated in official circles il
+ Washington that Russia is PARTICULAR.
friendly to such an idea and is believe,
, to be making overtures not only to tn
! United States but to England, tn
Argentine Republic and Austria
: which are the principal wheat-growinI
I nations of the world.
. Ex-Secretary of State John w. Foste
and wife have returned from trip t
Honolulu by the steamer City 0
Picking and have gone to Washington
3 The mission of the ex-Secretary to tn
{ Hawaiian islands was to secure an ex
tenson of the cable franchise of O. g
. Spaulding from San Francisco to Ha
n wall to Japan and Australia. MI
3 Fosters mission failed of its purpose
+. the Government refusing to entertai
8 the proposition of giving such an OK
Y tensive franchise to any one exclusively
!. Foster takes cheerful view of tn
r matter, however. He thinks that wit
{ the cooperation of the United State
. the thing can yet be accomplished.
Italo Campanini. the great tenor
S who was we'll known in the Unite
g States. died recently near Parma
9 Italy. Italo Campanini was one G
v the greatest tenors of the century. H
Is sang in every country in Christendon
h and at the zenith of his career create
+ Juror equaled by but few of the gres
t artists. In addition to magniticer
l. natural voice he enjoyed the advantag
II of a training that made him mastt
IS of vocalization. There was probabl
G no singer known who better understood
# the methods of tone production or WI
y employed them with better result
Even when with advanced years h
- voice lost that sweetness and purit
8 which had won plaudits from gre,
= audiences. Campinini still commando
y the admiration of his listeners by IL
= artistic handling of his voice. In Il
4 autumn of 1878 he sailed for Ne
= York for the first time. During, tn
= engagement he sang in Aida for Il
:, first time. Since then he travelled
!. many lands and sang the tenor roles
q q nearly eighty operas. A number
= years ago Campanini purchased a
- estate near Parma. Italy. not far fro