The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-20
FOREIGN NEWS.

nous.
The Society Of Associated Anarchists
of London announces the appearance
next week of a weekly paper, to be
sold for one half-penny and which is
to be the English organ of their propa-
ganda. It is to be called the Alarm.
Official advices received state that
the Cretan insurgents have attacked
the MussuIman families living in the
Kenouira District and that 1900 of the
Mussulmans have been killed. The
date upon which the massacre occurred
is not given.
In the House of Commons Sir Mat
thew White Ridgley, the Home Secre-
tary, announced that DR.. Jameson and
the other prisoners who were convicted
of taking part in the Transvaal raid
would be treated as first-class misde-
meanants during their terms of i'm
prisonment.
The color question has suddenly
come into prominence in France by the
recall of General Doods, the hero of
the Dahomey campaign, from his post
of Brigadier-G General in Indo-China,
and it is generally believed that this
mulatto, having been born in Senegal
of Sengalese mother.
1t is learned that the Chinese Gov
eminent withholds its permission to
Russia to construct railways through
Manchuria. A convention which was
to give effect to this permission is still
unsigned. The attempt to raise funds
in America for railways in. China has
failed, and the projected Chinese
American bank has collapsed.
Lii Hung Chang, upon his arrival at
Southampton, from Havre, was re-
ceived by various officials of the British
Government. The distinguished Chi
nese visitor proceeded directly to Lon
don, where he was installed in Lord
Lonsdale's magnificent mansion in
Carleton House Terrace, which is to be
his residence during his visit in Eng
land
A special from Lima, Peru, says:
The city is decorated, and many thous-
ands of citizens are here. The fetes
are in honor of the opening of Con-
gress. There was civil procession,
which was viewed by 900 persons.
President Pierola's speech has made a
good impression. but the greatest
praise is accorded that Of Vice. Presi.
dent Billinghurst.
A dispatch to the Daily News from
Athens says: Hassan Pasha has been
reinstated as Governor of Heraklion in
the island of Crete as being the only
man able to cope with the situation.
On his refusing to admit TO the town d
mob of Mussulmans who were bringing
in the bodies of two Mussulmans shot
by insurgents, he was torn from his
horse and severely maltreated.
A dispatch from Berlin says thai
the various European courts have re
ceived letters from the royal famil,
of Greece announcing that King Georg,
may abdicate in favor of the Grown
Prince if Greece is compelled by tn,
powers to desist from her aspiration
to make the island of Crete part O
the Grecian dominions. The state
ment is treated as an idle rumor.
Advices received from Alexandria
Egypt, show that the cholera outbreal
there has got beyond the control of tn,
sanitary authorities. During sever
days 1900 deaths were reported, and il
the following six days 100 deaths
So far 5000 deaths have occurred from
the present outbreak, and it is feare,
that these figures will be largely in
creased before the disease runs it
course.
1t is reported that the Cuban Junti
in the United States this week raised
fund amounting to 1875, 900. Part o
the money has been changed into gol,
and is now on shipboard bound 70
Cuba, where it will be placed in tn
hands of the officers commanding tn
insurgent army. The balance ha
been retained by the heads of the Junt
in Philadelphia and New York, VIII
will use it In way that will bes
serve the Cuban cause.
News has been received of terribl
disaster in North Glamorganshire
Wales. An explosion from firedam
occurrd in the Bryan Coach collier
and debris closed up the entrance S
effectually that forty miners are i'm
prisoned. 1t is not definitely know
that the men are dead. Very few pee
pie expect, however, to find ther
alive. 1t is said that the force of tn
explosion was sufficient to kill them
even if the noxiOus gases did not CON
plete the work.
A dispatch from FL Rama, Mics
ragua, says: Heavy rains caused tn
rivers Rama and Siquia in this neigh
borhood to rise rapidly ON July got
last. The panic-stricken inhabitant
took refuge ON the high grounds and o
board the steamers in the river Rams
Two of these steamers, the Milton an
the Horrock. were carried by force c
the current far down the stream, tn
crews being powerless to stop them
The Governor Of Bluefields at ono
organized relief corps and put pre-
visions on board steamer for thos
who had been carried down the river.
Disastrous floods. due to extremel
heavy and continuous rains. hav
wrought great havoc along the Easter
coast of the island Of Nippon. the mai
island of the Japanese empire, an
fragmentary reports state that owe
5000 houses, many dikes and bridge
and roads have been swept away an
destroyed and the farm lands flooded
causing total loss of many millions {
yen. For five days, the flood has bee