The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-15
FOREIGN NEWS

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The American British and French
Ministers have arrived in Guayaqull,
Ecuador, 70 be present at the meeting
of the national convention, which will
assemble early next month.
The steamer blown ashore on Ter
schiling Island, North Sea, reported to
be North German Lloyd liner. proves
to be the Spanish steamer Hugo. The
crew has been landed on Ameland
Island.
A project is on foot in London for |
grand national demonstration of patri-
otism on October 2lst, which is the
anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar, |
when Nelson defeated the combined /
fleets of France and Spain.
Thorough the efforts of Consul-Gen-
eral Lee an order has been issued by !
Captain g eneral Weyler directing the
release of Tolsen, the American citizen
who was arrested recently on board
the Ward line steamship Seneca.
Troop-ships from Spain continue to
enter the port of Havana daily, bring
ing new re-enforcements. About 3D.
600 men have been disembarked.
Many of these are veterans of former
campaigns in Cuba and elsewhere.
General Weyler, commander of the
Spanish forces in Cuba, will, accord
ing TO latest advices, be relieved of his
command. and will be succeeded by
his predecessor, General Martinez
Campos, who was practically removed
| in disgrace, because of his humane
treatment of rebels.
Baron Ger AT Finspang, formerly
president of the council of ministers
and minister of justice of Sweden, is
dead at the age of 10 years. While
minister of justice, the Baron brought
about reform in the national represen-
tation, substituting two chambers in
stead of one that had previously ex-
listed.
The elections for members CT the
Diet of Gotha, of which the second son
of Queen Victoria (the Duke of Edin-
burgh) is the reigning Duke, which
were held in Berlin, and resulted in a
great victory for the Socialists, who
won nine out of nineeen seats. Elec-
lions are yet to be held in some dis
tricts and there is a possibility that
the Socialists will obtain an absolute
majority in the Diet.
A dispatch to the Central News, Lon
don, from Athens, reports mutiny
among the Turkish and Greek prison
: ers who are confined ON the Island Of
Rhodes. Troops were called upon to
restore order, but the prisoners, in
5 stead of obeying the orders to disperse,
5 attacked the soldiers and a desperate
S fight occurred. Before the Sprisoners
! were subdued twenty men were killed
and forty wounded.
g The London Times has published a
: dispatch from Cairo saying it is cur
4 rently stated in native circles that the
: Khedive, who recently started on 8
K tour of Europe, where he travelled in
cog, took with him a draft of scheme
: for the independence of Egypt. The
draft was drawn at the Khedive's owl
k direction by native officials. 1t il
l. added that the Khedive while in Parl
v had an interview with M. Hanotaux
d the French Minister of Foreigl
Affairs.
S A special to the New York Sun from
IS Ottawa, Ont, says: The Minister o
l. Trade and Commerce, Sir Richar
V Cartwright, has started for Boston t
IS have a conference with the Britis
j. Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamber
p lain, as to the opening of negotiation
D. for reciprocity treaty between Canad
ID and the United States. The questio
of a joint British and Canadian subsid
m for Pacific cable and fast Atlanti
! steamship service is also to be dis
az cussed.
as Thomas S. Kidd, aged IA, the son {
o w. K. Kidd, of Cleveland, Ohio, ws
u, murdered at Dalton, by Carl Mel
~ haney, aged z. The Kidd boy, who is
~ cripple, was visiting the McIlhane
VI home. The boys were left at home t.
:, gether and quarreled. Young Kid
~ struck Carl with his crutch. The la
az ter went into an adjoining room, pr
" cured his fathers gun and blew off Il
OF top of Kidd's head. The young mu
derer admitted the killing and is und
'st arrest.
% Seven lives were lost at Shields, {
% the River Tyne, by the laundering
~ a boat that was overloaded. The par
ne entered the boat and sank her almo
,ie to her gunwales, but as there was pc
ne fectly smooth water there was no vel
nu great danger. When, however,
20 some distance out they encountered
nc rough sea which broke over the boa
nu it soon filled and caused her to sin
70 Other boats went to the rescue, but b
" fore they could reach the people stru
% Cling in the water seven of the par
us had been drowned.
al w. G. Wallace, a young man
many aliases and graduate of Val
is in the city prison, San Francisc
no awaiting extradition to Fort Wort
- : Texas, wher9 he is wanted for utter
- a forged draft for $40, 900 on the Fir
,l,o National Bank of that place. T.
~ ~ prisoner was captured two weeks a
ny by detectives as he was coming fro
~ breakfast at the Palace Hotel. Chi
~ of Police j. II. Maddox of Fort Wor
~ is here waiting to take Wallace ba
as for trial, bat there is some hitch
- the extradition papers. Wallace
Ia. .'s wanted in many other places for Ii
'nu offenses.
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W. The announcement of the failu
zen of the big wholesle dry goods firm
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