The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-11-19
FOREIGN NEWS.

near Kaiseriea and that sixty persons
have been killed.
Private advices from Cuba show that
the insurgents are holding their own
and at the same time getting ready to
make some good moves.
A Madrid cablegram says a credit of
SO, 900, 900 peseta (about $40, 900, 900,
will shortly be sanctioned by the Span
ish government for naval works.
Terrific storms have prevailed on
the Portuguese coasts. A fishing boat
foundered in the Bay of Setubal and
her crew of fourteen men were lost.
A new tandem record for quarter
of mile, with a flying start. has been
established by Colliver and Chinn, at
Catford, England. Their record was
"a 3-5 seconds.
Bold pirates attacked French sail
ing vessel off the Rifiian coast. and,
after overpowering the crew and seiz-
ing the plumber, were in turn captured
by Spanish officials.
McGregor and Nelson. on tandem
bicycle, at the Crystal Palace, London.
have broken the record for from
thirty-two to fifty miles. They COW
cred the later distance in I:47:0S go.
Late cablegrams received in England
from Bombay. India, say that the
drought in that country still continues,
with no signs of abatement, and that
the crop situation in India is daily be-
coming more serious.
A cablegram from Melbourne. Aus
tralia. says that the gold yield of the
colony of Victoria for the first three
quarters of the present year amounts
to 5S2,512 ounces, an increase of 81,
900 ounces over the same period of
1895.
A Berlin cablegram says that the
North German Gazette declares the
statement is correct that the recent
order renders the import of American
canned meat virtually impossible by
providing for an examination of each
tin in importatiOns.
An effort is being made in the Ha-
waiian Islands by the government and
the planters to bring to the Islands
several thousand Armenians to labor
in the cane fields This will be ON the
recommendation of men who have
been in Turkey.
The recent visit of the Gar to Paris
enriched the Parisians to the extent of
$40, 900, 900, as that sum was expended
for hotel accommodations and in stores,
places of amusement and elsewhere by
visitors to Paris during the fetes in
honor of the Russian ruler.
Professor Max Wolf, director of the
Astrophysical Observatory of Heidel.
berg, Germany. has discovered many
asteroids, among them No. BAL ON Sep.
TENDER %, 1892. In 1898 he visited
California. and has named this planet
California. in honor of this visit.
The Admiralty of the English Navy
has completed plans for fully manning
that institution and strengthening the
naval reserve. There is also reason tC
believe that the Minister of War il
engaged upon some plan for increasing
the strength and efficiency of the Brit
ish army.
In regard to the Spanish trouble il
the Philippine Islands, an authorized
person. in those Islands says that tn,
Home Government is deceived as t
the state of affairs ON the Islands an(
that the situation is grave. TIL,
trouble is race movement which can
not be easily subdued.
The arrival of thousands of tons o
California wheat at the port of Cal
cutta, India, has had the effect o
causing reduction in prices in som,
parts of the districts affected by TIN
famine. 1t is believed that a total 0
30, 900 tons of wheat have been pur
chased for importation into India.
In the recent meeting of the Cham
Der Of Deputies in Paris, M. Denys
Deputy for Cochin. China, said that i
was the duty of France in the name o
humanity to prevent the occurrence o
further massacres in Armenia; and NJ
Hanotaux, Minister of Foreign Affairs
said that to accomplish anything Their
must be united action among tn
powers.
Another state secret is out. This +
the effect alleges early in 1876 Russi
asked Prince Bismarck whether Ger
many would remain neutral if Russi
attacked Austria, as the Russian arm
was tired of inaction. Bismarck il
reply recalled the German Ambassado
from st. Petersburg aud Informe
Austria of the proposition. The resul
was the war cloudburst further cas-
over Turkey.
President Dole and Cabinet of tn
Hawaiian Islands, with the granite
consent and advice of the Council o
State, both given unanimously, hav
issued complete pardon TO the OK
Queen, Liliuokanlani, convicted by tn
military commission of 1895 of mis-
prison of treason. Her sentence wa
hard labor for five years and fine c
$4,000. She was held a prisoner c
state for a few months only.
A dispatch has been received in Lor
don from Madrid stating that tn
town of Huelva had been swept by
tidal wave from the Atlantic Ocear
The loss of life has been terrible. TIL
steamer Cartagena was overwhelme
by the great wave and most of the pei
sons ON board drowned. Huelva is
maritime city of Spain. with populs
ton of about 10000. 1t is the capits