The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-09
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.


A dispatch to the Times from Paris
says: The Due de Nemours, second son
Of King Louis Philippe, died at Yer
sailles.
Sir Leonard IIIIey, Ex-Governor of
the province of st. Johns, N. B., and
formerly pominent in Dominion affairs
is dead.
John Hays Hammond, one Of the
leaders Of the reform committee, re-
Gently released from prison, sailed for
England.
Minister Andrade of Venezuela has
received advices from Caracas as to the
final ratification of the constitutional
amendment by which Venezuela
adopts a gold standard.
The London Grand Jury has indicted
DIR. Jameson, Hon. H. f. Coventry,
Major X. White, Colonel F. White,
Sir John Willoughby and Colonel H.
Grey for the Transvaal raid.
The most exciting election campaign
ever held in Canada closed with the
utter rout of the Tory Government.
The returns show that the Liberals
have carried the country by at least
twenty-six majority.
/ A cablegram from Glasgow says the
Pan Presby terrain Council unanimously
accepted an invitation to hold its meet
ing at Washington in 1899. and
| fbanGaI Coz, Ero fo, tho 70
ton extended,
The American Consul at Sagua la
Grada reports that yellow fever is on
the increase among the troops at that
place. AT Cienfuogos the Consul re-
ports forty-nine deaths from smallpox
and yellow fever for the past week.
A London cablegram says that Sir
Joshua Prestwich, professor of geology
at Oxford, formerly president of the
! Geological Society, vice-president of
! the Royal Society and author of valua-
BILE geological works, is dead, aged "a.
Reports to the Surgeon General from
the Inspectors in Cuba show considera.
BILE increase of death from contagious
diseases in the island. The official al
Santiago writes that ''small -pox ii
raging epidemically, and the cases
which can be counted by the hundreds
+ are increasing daily"
In conversation at the Austrian del
egation dinner, Emperor Joseph, re
ferring to the new electoral reform
law, said: II know well enough tina
the newly created electors will not b
satisfied, but universal suffrage ha
: been failure in all countries wher
the system has been introduced. |
does not suit Austria.
At the first annual CHAMPIONSHIP
6 meeting of the National Inter-Scholas
tic Amateur Athletic Association o
the United States, held at Columbu
l Oval. the New England Association
t won the championship banner, scorin
Q 46 points; New York and Connection
: came next with "a each, Long Islam
n I and Iowa State High School points
News has been received from PAR
]. of the wedding of Miss Elizabeth Care
ner of the United States and the world
{ famous painter Bougureau's for tt
last twenty-five years, and is now Oh
of the most celebrated women artists
/ the age. She received gold med,
from the Paris Salon in 1887, tt
II only American woman who ever T.
II ceived such an honor.
!. A dispatch to the Impartial" fro
!. Havana says an expedition consistiI
IS of 200 Americans, having a quantit
N of dynamite and number of Maus
70 rifles, landed few days ago near Ca
Il denas. They were attacked by Spa
ish force and compelled to retrea
The Spaniards captured the munitiol
X of war, and are in pursuit of the fiji
" busters.
= 1t is stated that III the Cabinet Cou
~ Gil the Spanish Government has decid,
- to propose to the Cortes the purchase
two ironclads-one from the Argentil
= Republics; the other from the Itali,
!" Government. Both ships are at pre-
- ent in the shipyard at Certeri Ponent
70 at Genoa. The former is finished al
y can be ready for sea in fifteen day
the latter requires three or 70
months more work. The consent
in the Cortes is said to be certain.
te Advices from Georgetown, Britt
VS. Guiana, are to the effect that the D
IL marraah Official Gazette publishes
:" ordinance appointing certain India
Al in the interior captains and constable
% with uniform, commission al
o; salary. The object is to check t
o. encroachments of neighbors. T
w new artillery that was mounted I
Ia the defense of Georgetown has be
tried in the presence of the GoyernC
!, Sir Augustus Hemming.
st Despite the recent announceme
in that no active operations would
nd carried on against the rebels duri
he the rainy season, Generals MunC
y Melguizo and Valcacel have receiv
d, orders to inaugurate in the province
u Pinar del Rio important operate
lie against Maceo. The military offici;
sh here think that important results W
of be obtained from this move against {
at insurgents. General Monoz comman
six battalions with four cannon, Ge
eral Melguizo four battalions with t.
al cannon, and General Valco reel t,
gu battalions with two cannon.
ed Credit men to the number of oy
n. 1000, representing the leading ind,
n. tires of every State in the countl
ed assembled at Toledo, Ohio, in nation
be convention for the purpose of oragn
he ing national creditman's associate
in The objects of the organization are
al better protect the credits of the mo,