The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-09
ToReIen NEWS.

ldiarte Bords, President of Uruguay
was shot and killed by an assassin.
Officials Of the Agricultural Depart.
ment OF Russia are now visiting the
United States with a view to ordering
American implements for their coun.
try.
The New York Sun says that Cuban
prisoners are tied to posts with basins
OF water set before them for torture.
by the Spaniards at Magruda, Cuba.
} Old men are macheted.
Beerbohm, the noted English statis-
tician, estimates that Europe will need
1874 200, 900 bushels of wheat, of which
1856, 200, 900 bushels will have to be
purchased in America.
Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii. who
has just attained her majority, will.
1t Is said, return to the Islands from
England in expectation of being made
Queen, if annexation fails.
A Spanish medical official states
that If the present rate of sickness
among the soldiers continues. it is
probable that by next winter there will
not be over 10000 effective soldiers in
the Spanish army in Cuba.
A Constantinople cablegram says
that persistent rumor, though uncon-
nrmed, was i'll circulation recently to
the effect that five Of the Ambassadors
were ON the point Of signing the peace
preliminaries with Great Britain.
The Chinese officials in the United
States have issued orders to correct
the Chinese calendar, which is kept
from Hong-Kong. and is one day ahead
OF actual time, no allowance being
made for the difference of longitude.
The Canadian government and the
United States have agreed on cooper
alton in mail service for the Klon.
dixie region. This will give the Klon-
dikers a semi-monthly mail, when now
they have only mail once month.
1t is reported that in Russia the
Gear has Joined forces with the Sun
day-rest agitators by promulgating o
decree prohibiting, under severe penal
ty, any form of labor on Sunday, or
on the fourteen principal Russian feast
days.
Among the various demands for
concessions at the Paris Exposition
Is one for tremendous glass barrel.
% feet in length and 81 feet high.
Inside this two-story glass house it is
proposed to erect an American bar
restaurant.
M. Viger, the former Minister of
Agriculture, of France. has written a
letter to the Matin of Paris, opposing
any reduction in the duties Oh wheat
and flour, taking the ground that such
steps would only benefit those who
speculate in those products.
The inhabitants of Esperanza, Cuba.
are reported to be starving, hundreds
having already died of hunger. This
is caused by Weyler, in order to punish
them for not defending the town from
insurgent raids, having decreed the
closing of stores and markets.
Ebbsfieet is to be the scene of an
other pilgrimage in honor of the land
ing OF st. Augustine in England. This
time it is the Roman Catholics who
have determined to celebrate the land
ing OF Pope Gregory's Legate on the
shores of Kent thirteen centuries ago.
General Azcarraga of Spain, the
Premier and Minister for War. has
decided to convene the Cortes in No
vember. The Premier announces that
he is in accord with General Weyler,
the Captain General of Cuba, but re-
serves the right to make further OK.
of the Cuban question.
The Turkish government now pro-
pose that the Sultan's troops shall
occupy Volo and Larissa and the coun-
try in the rear of these places until the
Greek war indemnity is paid, only
withdrawing the troops south of this
line on the signing of the treaty of ,
peace. The Marquis Of Salisbury, how
ever. maintains his opposition to the
Turkish occupation of these, and espe-
,ially of Larissa.
The telegraphio advices from the ,
New York Herald's correspondent in !
Rio 'laneiro, Brazil, state that the off,
,ial report of the operations against
he fanatics around Canudos during I
The last few weeks show that 24O0 Bra !
lillian troops have been wounded. The /
fanatics near Canudos are now we'll +
ntrenched in fortified positions, await. ;
ng an attack, but for several DAYS no 8
operations of Importance have been f
'eported. The fanatic forcesin the i
'icinity of Canudos is now 500 strong. @
Commercial war waged against |
'anada. or the possibility of such an i
vent, was the threat used at a meet s
nR of Canadian lumbermen held in {
'oronto, Canada. to consider what P
ction the Dominion Government 0
hould take 20 TEEN the Dingley tariff $,
gainst Canadian lumber. James O
colt came forward with a motion. )
which was carried, reciting the action a
I the American Government in i'm ID
osing duty on lumber coming from n
'anada and ending with the resolu- 4
ion that the expectation Of saw logs L
restricted, and with that object in n
lew, I'VE request the Ontario Gov n
rnment to amend the pine timber reg n
iations SO that all pine timber cut ON 81
censed land in Canada must be man. N
ia ctured in Canada" Il
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