The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-29
FOREIGN NEWS.

minister W CHlna, Dig. a. barul, Is
dead.
Sir William Harcourt has resigned
the leadership of the Liberal party in
England.
Archbishop Irelands recent letter is
causing a great deal of talk in politi-
cal circles.
Guayaquil. Ecuador, was damaged
$50 900, 900 by the recent fire. Help
is needed.
Sir William Harcourt denies that he
has resigned the leadership of the
Liberal party.
British coal operators have formed
combination with the object of limit
ing the output.
The French Council of State has re-
fused extradiUion for p. J. lyman,
alleged dynamiter.
The rifles used by the rebellion
natives of the Philippine islands We're
bought from the Spanish troops.
Another filibustering party has
eluded the revenue cutters and de-
parted for Cuba from Florida.
The British man-of-war ST. George,
flagship of the South African. squad
ron, has been ordered back to Zanzibar.
The United States war ship Bancroft
is to force her way into the Dardan-
Giles with Minister Terrell on board.
One of the men suspected of having
started the great fire in Guayaquil was
shot by virtue of Governmental de-
cree.
A treaty with Germany has been
ratified by the Nicaraguan Congress.
The treaty includes the most favored
nation clause.
In recent collision ON the Humber,
England, between the steamers Alex
ander and Emden, the former sank,
drowning ten of the crew.
A sudden subterranean convulsion
raised the bottom of the harbor at
Dumbarton, Scotland, recently, and
damaged number of ships.
General Sir Herbert Kitchener,
commander of the British Egyptian ex-
petition, Slatin Pasha and other lead
ing officers have returned to Cairo.
A Lima cablegram says that at a
recent secret session the Peruvian Con-
gress approved the treaty of friendship
and commerce between Peru and
Japan.
The body of George Du Maurier, the
artist and novelist, and author of
Trilby," who died on the morning of
October s, was cremated at Working.
The ashes will be inferred in the
Hampstead churchyard October 31st
Gus Strand, the swordsman, is out
with challenge to the world for a
mounted broadsword contest for $500
or more side. Upon an acceptance
of the same a substantial forfeit must
be placed in the hands of Young
Mitchell.
The Norwegian bark Ariadine, Cap
tain Paulsen, from Greenock in ballast
ran ashore fivs miles east of Ingomish
Nova Scotia, few days ago, during
a gale and went to pieces. The cap
tain and nine of the crew were
drowned
A cablegram from Paris says Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs Hanotaux, in the
Cabinet Council, announced that China
had signed contract with France tC
rebuild the naval dockyard at Fuchar
under charge of the chief engineer Of
the French navy.
The Russian newspapers of St
Petersburg are unanimous in express
ing the opinion that the review o.
French troops by the Gar at Chalon:
signifies that if the two powers, Rus
STA and France, are sincerely pacific
they also, by acting in unison, possess
the force necessary to secure respect.
A st. Johns IN. F. dispatch says
the steamer Hope, which conveyed the
Peary expedition to Greenland, ha'
returned there after meeting with DIES
perate weather in the gulf. The vesse
was nearly driven ashore on Miquelor
Island, owing to the compass being
injured, throwing her seventy -eigh
miles out of her course.
The London Times expresses the be
lief that the rival claims of Sir Will
lam Vernon Harcourt and Asquith fol
the succession to the leadership of tn,
Liberal party will compel the recall
of Gladstone to try to unite the party
Lord Rosebery has cancelled all of hi
political engagements, but he does no
intend TO withdraw permanently from
public life.
Advices from China received a
Tacoma state that Chinese firm in
tends to open in Northern China
large establishment for the production
of ne. The vine has long beer
grown in China, but only for the table
Attempts were made in 1898 to pro
duce wine. The prospectors were S
successful that they applied to tn
Chinese Government for monopol,
of the production of wine from grapes
Baron Max Won Babe, son of the lat
Director of the Austrian Pomologica
Institute, has been appointed Directo
of the new establishment in China
and is on his way to the Orient.
The death is announced of George A
Sheridan, for many years celebrated a
among the most brilliant campaign