The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
FOREIGN NEWS.

hAS HAS bNtuIItu III CSutus uDAA1B
$50, 600 damage.
A. H. Hughett, an American in Gus
tody Of Weyler, has been released.
Two satchels and a trunk, contain
ing dynamite, have been found in Chi
cago
There are over 1000 patients con-
fined in the Oregon State Insane Asylum
at Salem.
English newspaper comment on the
American political situation is not
very complimentary.
Indiana politicians deny that there
has been any bribery in the fusion of
Democrats and Populists.
John Boyd Thatcher. recently nomi-
mated by the New York Democrats for
Governor declines to endorse the free
coinage plan.
The private banking house of A. Ball
& Co., at West Liberty, in Iowa, has
closed its doors. Its assets will exceed
the liabilities by 100000.
Thomas Z. Beebe, of Boston, A. A.,
broke the worlds record for 600 yards
dash at Columbia, Oval, New York,
making it in Ill fiat.
The delegates TO the convention of
negro Baptists of America, at st. Louis,
numbered over 1000 souls, and repre-
scented 600, 900 colored people. The
convention was in session a week.
A Washington dispatch SAYS that
among the cadets appointed to the
United States Military Academy is
Ray G. Kerr of Pueblo, Colo, with
Lawrence S. Hyde of Pueblo as alter
nate.
The Midland State Bank, North
Side institution of Chicago, has been
placed i'll the hands of the Banking
Board as result of long and steady
Withdrawals. Its deposits were about
$50, 900.
A large nugget of gold, weighing
4737 ounces, worth $50, 900, has been
shipped to New York from the Bank of
Montreal, Canada, for the assay office.
The nugget is the property of the Carl
boo Mining Company of British Column
bia.
The Hodgman Rubber Company, at
Broadway and Grand streets, New
York. has passed into the hands of R.
W. Todd as receiver. Stringency of
the money market is the cause as
signed. The assets are about $3.50 900,
liabilities unknown.
A Hollidaysburg, Pa, dispatch says
the private banking house of Gardiner
Morrow & Co., the oldest bank in
Central Pennsylvania, has closed its
doors, owing to the general depression
in business. The firm says it expects
to pay every dollar of indebtedness.
Miss Annie Carlisle, cousin of Secre-
tray Carlisle, has been married at Lex
ington, KY, to George Chinn, son of
Col. Jack Chinn, the race horse starter
and politician. They left for Wash
ington, where the bride is we'll known,
having assisted Mrs. Carlisle frequent
ly in receiving.
A special dispatch from Shanghai to
the London Globe says Russian engi-
neers are supervising the work of re-
pairing the docks and workshops at
Port Arthur and storing at that place
vast coal supplies. Russian warships
are great deal more numerous than
British war vessels in the Pacific. 1t
is believed the results of Lii Hung
Changes entente with Russia ON behalf
Of China will shortly be displayed.
George Carlos Roloff, Cuban, has
been arrested, ON a charge of aiding
and abetting the sending of filibuster-
ing expeditions to Cuba. He was
formally held in 50, 500 bail by United
States Commissioner Alexander. He
is said to be Major General in the
army of General Gomez. He came to
this country about two months ago for
the purpose of fitting out filibustering
expeditions to aid Cuba. He is charged
with being connected with the Laurada
expedition and others.
With the dawn of September 20,
1896, Queen Victoria's reign exceeded
that of her grandfather, George III,
and she has, therefore, ruled longer
than any other British monarch.
George III ruled fifty mine years, three
months and two days. Her Majesty
has sat on the throne fifty-nine years,
three months and three days. All pub
lie rejoicings, however, have been, de-
ferred until July of next year, when
the Queen will have actually COM
pleted reign of sixty years.
The London Daily News has pub
lished letter from Lady Somerset,
who, with Miss Frances f. Willard,
went to Marseilles to aid the Armenian
refugees in that city. She says that
the great desire of the refugees is to
go to America. from which country
came the educational impulse that
opened largereworld to them. She
asks the Daily News to collect SUBJ
scriptions to pay their passage to the
United States, the sum necessary being
e5 each. She adds that Miss Willard
has plan to find them work upon
their arrival, which will render them
self-supporting.
A telegram from Constantinople to
the ''Vossiche Zeitung, in Berlin, says;
The Sultan vows that no Christian
shall live in his empire if an English
Or any other fleet of warships attempts
to force its way through the OAR
danelles. Everything is in readiness.
the telegram says, to start general
massacre the moment the lombard
mont of the Turkish forts ON the Dar-