The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-31
FOREIGN NEWS.

Inc great powers have agreed tina
Turkey must be coerced into acting il
more civilized manner toward th,
Armenians.
The sugar industry in the British
colonies in the West Indies is threat
ened with destruction by the bount,
system adopted by the European pow
ers.
dispatch from Corunna to the
Cologne, Germany, Gazette says that
the number of persons lost by the
laundering of the steamer Salier may
possibly reach as high as 500.
An explosion recently occurred in a
match factory at Aschaffenburg, Ba.
varia, demolishing the building, kill.
ing fifteen women and girls, and seri.
ously injuring some others.
Adyices from West Africa state that
French deserter who had been cap
tured explored cargo of gunpowder
on French launch. Twenty persons
were killed. The launch sank.
There have been two fatal cases of
the bubonic plague in London. The
disease was reported from Bombay,
where it has caused many deaths and
general panic among the native resi-.
dents.
Thomas Gallery, Secretary of the
National Sailors and Firemens Union
of Great Britain, predicts that the
talked.of international strike will come
AMI will affect the American seaports
as we'll as those of Great Britain.
The Temps of Paris says that an in
ternational conference will be held in
that city in March to discuss proposals
having in view the abolishing of the
system by which consumers bear the
burden for the bounties granted to
sugar manufacturers.
There is no truth in the report re-
ceived in London in a special dispatch
to the Berlin Tageblatt that Ex-Sultan
Murad, brother of the present Sultan
OF Turkey, had escaped from the place
where he had been confined for twenty
years, is not credited in Official and
dlplomatlc circles there.
The loss of life by the laundering of
the North German Lloyd steamer
Salier, which sank on Corona's Shoals
in gale that swept the Atlantic, re-
Gently, is now positively known. The
steamer, in addition to crew Of rs
men. carried 81 storage passengers.
Every soul went down, making total
of 200 persons that persisted through
the laundering of the steamer. The
steerage passengers were bound for
Argentina, where they intended to
settle. The Salier carried no cabin
passengers. Lloyd's agents at Corunna
report that the Salier foundered in
dense fog. The Salier, the agent says,
had fearful rough passage from
Bremen to Corunna. Thus far twenty
eight bodies from the Inflated Salier
have been washed ashore, at Vego.
Spain, including that of the Captain.
1t was found that his watch had stopped
at O'Clock, presumably ON the morn.
ing, the vessel went down. The dead
were reverently inferred.
A terrible disaster occurred at Heres,
sixteen miles from Cadiz, Spain, few
days ago, through the collapse of
building. A house containing twenty
five persons fell without warning, bury
ing all the inmates in the debris. The
house fell upon an adjoining tenement
building which also gave way. The
tenement-house was inhabited by
eighty five persons and all were burned
by the wreckage. Eleven dead bodies
and forty six seriously injured have
been taken from the ruins. The scene
about the ruins was pitiful one.
The news spread rapidly, and it was
not long before an immense crowd had
gathered there. Friends and relatives
of the buried people made loud out
cries. AS each body was brought out
people would crowd around it to try
and recognize the battered features.
Volunteers were plenty to aid in the
work of excavation. Men, women
and children worked like fiends in a
mad effort to save life. The blame
TOR the accident has not been placed.
A searching investigation, however,
is promised.
An earthquake, the most violent ever
experienced in England, has shaken
every shore from Durham to Surrey
and from London to the Welsh coast.
The subterranean disturbance was first
noticed about $3.50 o'clock in the morn.
ing and lasted from to 80 seconds.
At many points two distinct shocks |
were experienced. The most severe
shocks were felt at Chelton, Ledbury
and Dean Forest The earth-shaking
was accompanied by a loud rushing
sound. Buildings were violently
shaken, furniture shifted, doors thrown
open, and pictures and other orna- +
ments upset. The inhabitants, panic.
stricken, fled from the houses. The |
earthquake also visited Birmingham
and various points in Shropshire, and
was violent in Worcester and the /
country surrounding that city. The %
was great excitement among the peo-
pie about Poole, who thought the end
of the world had come. Houses shook
for nearly a minute at Bristol and
causing much alarm. Railroad
at Crewes report that they
felt the rails oscillate. At Eversham
the shock was followed by brilliant
light in the sky.
Viscount Coughs Successor,