The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-04
FOREIGN NEWS.

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Senefer.
United States ambassador Bayard
has had an important interview at the
Foreign Office with Lord Salisbury.
The conference lasted an hour, and at
its close Mr.. Bayard left the Foreign
Office apparently greatly delighted.
An Amazon steamer plying between
Brazilian ports and towns on the
upper part of the great stream in Peru
has brought news that on May 9TH a
Popular movement was proclaimed in
the Department. of Loretta, Peru, near
the boundary of Ecuador, where rich |
gold veins had been found.
The mining and industrial outlook
in johannesburg is very bad, owing to
the decision of the Government in /
fixing the penalties of the Reform
Committee prisoners. Barney Barnato
has postponed the threatened sale of
mining and other property pending
political developments.
The sentences of the leaders of the
Johannesburg Reformers, as announced,
will stand over for the present, and
meanwhile sentences of fifteen years
imprisonment have been substituted
for the sentences of death imposed on
Colonel Rhodes, John Hays Hammond,
Lionel Phillips and George Farrar.
Nine other prisoners are discharged.
The Queens birthday was officially
celebrated in London. The Prince of
Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and
General Lord Wolseley attended a
military parade at Whitehall in the
afternoon, and number of official
dinners in honor of the occasion were
given in tie evening. Lord Salisbury
gave dinner to the diplomatic corps.
In respones to protest by Havana
cigar makers and factory owners,
approved by the officers of finance and
customs, decree has been issued by
Captain-General Weyler forbidding the
further expectation of Cuban tobacco
leaf save to Spain. Ten days only is
given to foreign buyers having leaf
under contract to embark the same
from the island.
Baron Won Kotze, formerly court
chamberlain, was sentenced to two
years Imprisonment in a fortress for
the killing of Baron Schraeder, master
of ceremonies of the Prussian court.
The duel, which grew out of an anony-
nous letter scandal, which some years
ago conyulsed Berlin's highest society,
took place near Potsdam on the morn
ing of April 10. Baron Schraeder was
fatally shot in the abdomen.
There were twenty -four deaths from
cholera in Cairo May 10, twenty eight
at Alexandria and one at Turah. A
Cairo dispatch says death from
cholera S reported among the Egyp
? tian troops at Turah. A regular
cholera miasma is brooding over Cairo
with the heavy air and the hot winds
9 The virulence of the disease is almos
unparalleled at such an early stage o
the visitation. The percentage of tn,
deaths is 80.
All boats and craft of every kin,
!. approaching after dark the Spanisl
: : warship Nautilus, now in Halifax, ar
: challenged and armed guards, ar
:, posted at the gangway and on tn
:, lookout at various points about til
: deck. These precautions are necessar
: in port where there are many Cuban
= passing through in different vessel
:, and going and coming from the Yves
!, Indies.
A Berlin special to the Herald says
THE Munich Nueste Nachrichte
IS accuses the Prince Regent of Bavari
/ of encouraging the Ultramontane part
n to attack the unity of the empire
l. The writer declares such policy to /
le deplorable and disapproved by Baval
II ians, and says that the project of crea
n ing great Catholic kingdom out {
is Bavaria is mere fanatical Utopia
a idea
- The delay in the Competitor case hi
? caused intense disgust among SPANS
- residents and in army and navy circle
: in Havana. 1t was the general eXpe,
70 tation that the men captured on I'll
schooner would be tried by cour
lie martial Immediately on their arrivi
ID here and promptly shot, thus setting q
ne example for all filibusters. The alta
re has placed General Weyler, in an awl
Sc ward position. He boosted that
"a would carry out the sentence of Il
n court but was thwarted of his purpos
e. One of the officers of the Britt,
= warship Intrepid, now in Halifax, h
II, , stated that it was the intention of Il
40 Imperial Government to replace a
y such vessels as the Tourmaline al
~ Buzzard ON this station with model
vessels, and that it is intended also
lis increase the strength of the squadron
he numbers as well as i'll armament.
of was currently reported in Portsmout
is he said, that the Dreadnaught would
at Stationed at Halifax. The Drea
be naught carries over 500 men.
re A collision attended with terrih
ey loss of life was reported by the Can
H. dian Pacific liner Empress of India
nd her arrival from the Orient, the scel
n. of the disaster being the harbor
as Woosung, China, and the date May Is
lis The steamer Onwo, 197 tons, belon
mt ing to the Indo-Chinese Steamsh
re Company, and commanded by CAPITA
Edwin Jolens, was LEAVING Wosul
nd for Hankow, and as she approached t
on entrance to the harbor proper, W
et struck by the incoming coasting pa
re senger steamer Newchang, sos tor
rs of the China Steam Navigation Coz
et pany. OF the seven British officers
of the Onwo the second mate and t
in third engineer alone We're saved, t
re captain and his wife going down
u. gether in heroic effort to save the
no two-year-old boy. OF the 1926 Chine
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