The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-21
FOREIGN NEWS

The Bank Of England has increased
its rate Of discount from to 4 pei
cent.
Privy Coucilor Bensch. engineer OF
the Emperor William canal Baltic and
North sea canal is dead.
IL is said that the Dreyfus trial will
shortly be annulled by the French
Court Of Appeals on the same grounds
IS the lola trial.
dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Odessa says that owing to the
American war scare the price Of wheat
Is rapidly rising there, the stocks be-
ing small.
The Sunday Specials Berlin CORES.
pondent asserts that news has reached
Berlin that Great Britain has rescued
Chusan island. of the east coast Of
China, opposite the Tien Tang kiang.
The London Chronicle, commenting
on the decision of the Portuguese gov.
erhment to import foreign wheat, sug-
gests that Portugal intends to create a
corner, with view of selling to Spain
in the event Of war.
The Berlin correspondent of the LON
don Standard says that the Duke Of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha has assented to
a divorce Of Prince Philip from his
wife. the Princess Louise of Belgium,
eldest daughter of King Leopold.
An official bulletin issued recently
with reference to the condition Of the
demented King Otto of Bavaria. who
was reported to be dying, says: The
condition Of the King is not serious,
but he is suffering from slight hemor-
rhage of the bladder.
A dispatch TO the London Times from
Undabia, Nubis, says that during the
lighting between the Anglo. Egyptian
forces in reconnaissance and the Der.
wishes under Mahmoud Pasha, one of
the generals of the Khajifa, Nah.
moud's son. was killed.
AT Picking the British minister. Sir
Claude Mcdonald, had an important
conference with the tsung -li.yamen
Chinese foreign office. He demanded
important compensatory concessions for
the purpose of maintaining the balance
of power in the far East.
According to a special dispatch
from Shanghai advices have been re-
ceived there from Shrinking, province
OF Se-Chuen, thst the region around
the city is in state of open rebellion.
The local authorities are powerless to
arrest the men who recently murdered
the American missionary, and q mob
is sacking French mission In the
neighborhood.
The rebellion in the Philippine
islands has again broken out as serious
as ever. War is again in the island of
Luzon, and is rapidly assuming rs seri-
BUS proportions as the rebellion of
1869. Attacks were made upon the
spanish quarters at Subig and Aalt,
md the rebels succeeded in capturing
md carrying off large quantities of
rms and ammunition.
The Peking correspondent of the
london Times SAYS China has agreed
o the French demands, comprising the
lon'alienating of any portion of the
PROVINCES of Kwang Tung. Kwang 81
II Yum Nan. the construction of a
ailway to Yum Nan Flu, and the lease
Il coaling station, which is not
famed, but will probably be Kwang
jhau Wah, together with the appoint.
nent of Frenchman as Director of the
imperial Ports.
The officers composing the:court- mar.
ial which acquitted Count Estrehazy
net the other day and decided to begin
lvil actions for libel against Emile
.ola and M. Perreux, publisher of the
Aurore, who were recently sentenced To
Imprisonment and who were also fined
or making charges which were not sus-
aimed, against the conduct of the
ourt-martial. The officers also ak.
ressed the wish that the Minister for
Var, General Billot, would ask that
d, Emile lola be expelled from the
.egion of Honor,
The joint stock Oriental Steamship
company have ordered three vessels in
England for the new line between
Japan. and San Francisco.
inc Of these ships, to be called the
america Maru, has a gross tonnage
I 5000 and was LAUGHED at Newcastle
n the 9th nit. She will shortly he
nished and sent to Japan. The other
wo vessels, the Nippon Maru and
Maru, now building at
smes Laing's dockyards, are also ex.
ected, says the Mainichi, to be com.
leted immediately after the America
iaru
The Yokohama correspondent of the
Iondon Times says: For the first time
ublic opinion in Japan is vehementlv
xoited, There is no general opposi.
lon to a british occupation of Wei,
ai'wei, but there 10 feeling that
span must assert herself and secure
ome other foothold on the Asistio con-
Inent The Government is hammered
y financial considerations, but will
robably be obliged to yield to public
ressure, Sober people and the officials
eneraily favor British occupation of /
and an Ank 10 Japanese {
ntente, pourpsrlers for which are pro.
eediDg favorably.
The naval appropriation bill, which
as been completed by the Senate sub.