The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
FOREIGf NEWS.

HaNtn NC
Valdora, is dead at Jhambery, aged 81
years.
A meeting of americans has been
convened in Capetovn in behalf of the
members Of the johannesburg Reform
Committee, now uuler sentence at Pre-
tOria.
The release of Italian prisoners by
King Menelek, brought about by Rus
STA, has been accepted by Italy. Russian
interference is also believed to have
caused the abandonment of the English
Italian movement il the Soudan.
A cablegram finn Iquitquiqos, the
capital of the Department of Loreto,
recently reported &c be in state of
rebellion, says a counter movement
against the insurgelts has been made,
and that the Legal Project is once
more back in the pDyince of Loreto.
A dispatch to he London Times
from Bulywayo, dited May gath says:
Captain Halstead reports that the rebels
made determined attack upon Hope
Fountain fort for two hours, but with
out loss to our side Cecil Rhodes is
expected to arrive here about June 9th.
A dispatch from davre to the Figato
says that considerable excitement has
been caused there by the action of the
American Consul i'll preventing the
shipment of a cargo Of cattle destined
to the United States. A Washington
dispatch says the action of the Ameri-
can Consul in preventing the shipment
of cargo of cattle was based on the
tariff act of August, 1894.
A Pretoria dispatch to the London
Daily Telegraph, says Mark Twain,
who is i'll South Africa on lecturing
tour, has visited the Jail at Pretoria.
He reports that he found the reform
prisoners i'll good spirits. A dispatch to
the Times from Cape Town says: ''Pe-
titions are being promoted in all the
towns of South Africa republic in favor
of leniency to the reform prisoners. ~
1t is believed the mystery attending
the discovery near Cheroburg of the
body OF a young man i'll a trunk has
been cleared. 1t is reported that
Joseph Aubert and Marguerite Dubois,
who were arrested at Courville with
the trunk i'll their possession, have
confessed that they killed the young
man, whose name was Delahef, in
| order to obtain a collection of postage
stamps which he owned. The collec-
ton was worth $4,000.
The British ship Horsa, with a cargo
of pineapples, and bananas, from jana
lea, May 10, bound to New York,
arrived at Southport in distress, having
been ON fire. 1t is completely Quilted
from stem to amidships. Captain Nc
lntosh, who brought the vessel into
Southport, reports that ON the 18th inst
Captain Cook, the master, was missed
between 3 and o'clock in the morning
and it is supposed he fell overheard.
A conference will soon be held at the
Colonial Office, London, by delegates
from the Canadian and Australian colo
MES. Joseph Chamberlain presiding,
at which it is expected final decision
will be reached on the British project
OF establishing a Transpacific cable
from Vancouver to Australia, Ex-
Premier Bowel and Sir Donald Smith,
representing, Canada, has arrived in
London, and Mr.. Hosmer, President of
the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Com
pany, will also be present.
A Ministerial decree has been issued
i'll Germany abridging the constitu-
tional right of petitioning the Govern
ment, so far as the entire army of Gov
eminent officials is concerned, and
making it punishable offense to
petition the Government on public
measures unless the petitioning officials
take the same view as the Government.
As result, intense indignation pre-
walls among the whole body of Govern
ment officials, as the decree curtails
their present privileges, and protests
are being made on all sides.
Colonel Landa, operating Quivocan
in Cuba, has killed nine pacificos dur
ing the last ten days. All belonged to
the farming class and were not insur.
gents 1t is said that thirty eight
quiet people have been killed within
that vicinity within a week. Major
Lopez of the battalion Isabella Colica,
in operations around San Antinio Las
Vegas, Havana Province, between the
18th and goth of last month, killed
sixteen pacificos, These men were
taken from the fields and from their
houses and killed with machetes.
The Government of the Transvaal has
issued green book containing fresh
letters and kilograms from Lionel
Phillips, president of the reform COM
mittee, to Belt and Wernher, express
ing objections to meddling in politics
and desire to avoid further revolu-
tionary disturbance of industry. The
book also contains telegram from DR..
Jameson to Mr.. Stevens, secretary of
the British South African Company at
Cape Town, saying: Tell Rhodes that
F. J. Newton will help as much as
possible. =" Mr.. Newton is Colonial
Secretary and Receiver General of
Bechuanaland. He was absent at Mafe-
king at the time of the raids into the
Transvaal
Seventeen hundred Spanish troops
under General Suarez Valdze, had
fierce engagement with large rebel
force under Maceo and Preico Diaz.
which was occupying the hills of De-
canso. After five hours fighting, the
position of the insurgents was captured
The rebel loss is said to be thirty-nine
killed, including Major Naranjo and
two strangers. The Spaniaris had
twenty seven wounded, including Gen
eral Valdez. The rebel band under
Mirbel attacked the town of Tapaste,
province of Havana, and burned nine
teen houses on the outskirts The pnn.