The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-20
FOREIGN NEWS.

Green ourrants imported from Can
ada now come in free Of duty.
Negotiations for an Anglo Chinese
loan are in progress in London. d
]. H. Blumenthal & Co.. clothiers
of Montreal, Canada, have assigned. /
Liabilities, $3.50. 900.
The British government has ordered
three Canadian Pacific teaamships into
commission, to transport troops.
The Spaniards believe that the fact
that American correspondents are leaV-
ing Cuba indicates that the war is
nearly over.
Advices from Persia to Berlin say
that that country is ON the brink OF a
revolution. The new Shsh's rule has
reduced the country to poverty.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Daily Chronicle of London denies that
Germany has any idea Of purchasing
the Danish West Indies.
A bellicose spirit has been revived
in Norway By the establishment of great
Swedish depot for war munitions at
Ostund On the Norwegian frontier.
The representatives of the powers
have refused to permit the Turkish
Government to replace 1900 time ex-
pired troops on the island of Crete.
Violent weather has been prevailing
in the south of France and Spain. A
oloudburst near Toulon has done much
damage. A number of vessels have
gone ashore.
The Empress of Germany, who has
been suffering from influenza, has
suffered a relapse. DR.. Zuncker, her
physician, is staying at the new palace
in Berlin,
Herr Trojan, the editor of the Klad
derdatsch, of Berlin, the humorous
weekly, will be prosecuted for lese
majestic for ridiculing one of the Kais-
ers addresses to the recruits.
| Representative of a Canadian and
American company who visited Labra-
dor, report that they have discovered
rich deposits of gold ore which may
equal the finds in the Klondlke.
A fire recently destroyed the Queen S
wharf and large freight shed in
Auckland, New Zealand The loss,
including large quantity of goods on
storage, is placed at million dollars
Gen. Blanco will take the field
within the next fortnight, and proceed
to eastern Cuba. During his absence
from Havana, Senior Galvez, premier
of the new colonial cabinet, will as
sumo control.
The government OF China has yielded
to the demand of the German Embas.
sador at Pekin and has dismissed the
commandment of the garrison at Tsao
Chau because of insulting language ad.
dressed by him to German mission.
aries.
The British Government is pushing
the work of undermining the great for.
tifications at the Rock of Gibral al
with all speed, and not less than 1000
Spanish workmen pass daily over the
lines to and from their work on the
Notifications.
1t is said that the experts will testify
that the City Hall in the town of Lon
don, Ontario, Canada, which fell apt
killed twenty people, was 80 con
struoted as to be unsafe, and there is {
prospect of large number of damage
suits against the town.
Another rebellion has broken out il
Guatemala, led by Jose Leon Castillo
former president of the GuatemalaI
Congress, and fighting is now goine
on i'll the eastern part of the State. A
number of congressional leaders are
said to have joined the rebellion.
A dispatch from Guanajata, Mexico
at San Antonio, Tex, says the Sar
Puerto coal mine, near there, was sud
denly flooded with water from an un
derground river, and that thirty. five
miners were drowned. An expedition
will be sent into the mine as soon Al
possible to recover the bodies.
An imperial Turkish trade says tn,
projected contracts for guns intended
fol the Turkish navy shall be given tt
the Krupps, and that the contracts fo
the four proposed new Turkish iron
olads be given to the Armstrong;.
appears doubtful. however, whethe
either guns or ships will be ordered il
the near future.
There has been a fresh outbreak o
plague, especially in the Mandvie DIS
trict, India, where the inhabitants ar,
seeking safety in flight. There wer,
fifty-four new cases of plague ant
thirty deaths from that diseas
in one day. The total plague returns
from Bombay up to date are IA, 90
cases and IL $3.50 deaths.
Count Won Goetzen. military attach,
of the German Embassy, was Marie,
TO Mrs. Mary Stanley Lay at tn,
Washington residence of the bride
The ceremony that made anothe
American countess was first performed
, by justice of the peace, in accordanc,
with the official custom of Germany
, and later by Rev. DIR. Mcneil of til,
German Lutheran Church.
! The Novosti of st. Petersburg, Rus
, STA, publishes an article strongly urg
ing Russo-Japanese alliance as tn,
: best means of guaranteeing the mutua
interests of the country and the main
tenance of the political equilibrium
1t is reported that this view is favored
, in Russian official circles, where it il
felt that such an alliance would con
tribute to avert complications in tn,
Far East.
In view of the Sultan of Turkey
/ evident intention to refuse payment O
; the indemnity for the destruction O
, American missionary property in Tur
key, pressure will be brought to hav,