The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-23
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.


"a lengths. The time was 7:43.
The Red Star packet boat Ralma.
mich, bound from Suakim for Suez,
broke her shaft, drifted upon the reef,
and foundered. Sixty persons were
drowned. The majority of them were
Greeks.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer and member of Parliament for
North Lambeth, who has been i'll sew
eral weeks with gastritis, suffered a
relapse, and is now lying in critical
condition.
A dispatch from Canea says that a
body of Christian insurgents have had
an engagement with and defeated a
body of Turkish regular troops near
Bouklies. Seventeen of the troops
were killed and many were wounded.
The Christians captured several guns.
The explosion of ammunition during
the fire in the arsenal near Fort Mo-
selle, in the province of Lorraine,
proves to have been more disastrous
than first reported. 1t is now learned
that forty-two men were killed instead
of seven, and that 100 others were
badly injured
An official investigation has been
begun at Berlin to determine the extent
TO which the importation of American
chilled or frozen meat has met the re-
quirements of hygiene and cheapness.
1t includes the years since 1898 to date,
and upon the result depends whether
these importers WILDE allowed to con-
tinue.
British troops recently made an at
tack upon the Matabele position at
Thebiamma, and were repulsed. They
made another attack upon the position
later, and fired on the natives strong
hold driving the defenders away. The
Matabele loss was 100 killed and the
British loss twenty-three killed or
wounded.
Dispatches received from La Paz,
the capital Of Bolivia, announce that a
revolution has broken out at Sucre,
an important city which was the capt.
tai of Bolivia until 1869. Sucre is the
capital of the Department of Chuquis-
AGA, has population of about 10000,
great body of which are Indians
The Department of Chuquisaca has a
population of over $50, 900.
| The British steamer Santarenese
FROM Penarth June I'd for Para, sunk
by collision with the British bark
Dundonald from San Francisco, March
| 10th, for Hull. The Duldonald pro-
ceeded in a leaky and otherwise dam
1 gerous condition with the crew of the
/ Santarenese on board. The passengers
on board of the Santarenese landed at
Para by the Norwegian bark Hiawatha.
| Rumors have been current through
out the week of another Cabinet crisis,
\ but inquiries show that with the ex-
ception of the resignation of Baron Won
der Lipsch, the Minister of Commerce,
already recorded, there will be no fur
ther changes until the return of the
Emperor. Before the Reichstag reas.
sembles, however, there will be some
other ministerial changes.
/ Baron Won Berlepsch, whose resigna.
ton as Prussian Minister of Commerce
reported one day last week, was ap.
pointed in 1890 to execute the Emper.
or's idealistic social reforms Thi.
penalty having failed to prevent the
spread of Socialism, Baron Won Ber
lepsch was instructed to moderate his
reforming zeal. This he seemed unable
to do and his lack of suppleness led tc
his retirement.
In the great boat race in England
Yalewas defeated by boats length
by the Leander crew in the first heat
Universal good feeling prevailed, ant
the Yale boys have been the recipient
of many attentions since the races. Ii
the final heat for the Grand Challenge
cup the Thames Rowing Club had the
favorable side of the river, but there
was no question what the result would
be. The Leanders were clear at the
quarter, and won as they liked by
two and three.quarter lengths in TAO
The Hongkong Press says that severa,
hundred dockhands of Kowloon, 8
suburb of Hongkong, have fled because
of the spread of the plague. 1t il
feared that the disease will increase as
many people have after being stricken
with the plague left their homes il
order to die in their native provinces
and it is further remarked that not &
few dead bodies of persons who have
been on their way have been picked
up on the hillsides. Even intelligent
Chinese workmen have been heard tC
remark that English doctors poison
the patients.
By the steamer Empress of China
which arrived recently, more details
were received of the obstruction
wrought by three great earthquake ant
tidal wave which overlook the people
on the coasts of Rikuzen and Rikuchu
provinces of Japan, on June 10Th. II
will be some time before full reports
of the disaster reach Toxic, but &C.
counts received to June 18th indicate
that many thousands of lives were lost,
scores of villages totally or partially
destroyed and rice plantations laid
waste. The dead already reported
number nearly 5000.
The Emperor and Empress have
made their entry into Petersburg. The
buildings along Newski Prospect were
gayly decorated with flags, flowers,
etc, but the crowd in the streets was
not large and there was very little
suggestion of holiday. The Mayor
presented a resolution passed by the
corporation founding children's hos.
pital and renting the arrears of IA.
4 900 rate-payers in commemoration OF