The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-23
EoREIeN NEWS.

A New York insurance company Is
getting, good deal Of lucrative bust
ness in China.
skThe Spanish Government is tormu-
lating a..plan TO bring about the ban
ishment Of all anarchists from Spain.
1t is reported that the Spanish Gov
eminent is making an inspection Of
the coast defenses of the United States.
IA rebellion is now in progress in the
district Of Yang. Chan, China. The
malcontents are said to number 10, 900.
The bubonic plague has broken out
in the city of Foo-chow. China, and
the people are said to be dying very
rapidly.
Several villages were destroyed and
500 people killed by volcanic erup-
ton Of Mount Magyar, in the Philippine
Islands.
Baril, the Anarchist, who attempted
to assassinate the Chief of Police at
Barcelona, Spain. has been sentenced
to 40 years Imprisonment.
The petition, which has nearly 500
signatures, was circulated by the
American Purity Alliance, of which
Rev. DR.. Aaron Powell is president.
The porter of the Paris bourse re-
GENTLY died, leaving fortune of $780,
600. He had been employed thirty
years at salary of $240 year. He
got rich on tips. :"
The death is announced in London
of Charles George Percival, seventh
Earl of Egmont. The deceased was
born June IS, 1S45. and succeeded his
uncle the sixth Earl in 1874.
The schooner Sophia Sutherland, in
charge of the South Sea Commercial
company, has left San Francisco for
the South Sea Islands, where it is said
rich mines of gold quartz are
A company has been formed in
Sedalia. Missouri, to operate alleged
fabulously rich placer and gold bear
ing quartz mines in the inland noun.
tain ranges on the Mexican west coast.
1t is announce in Madrid that anar.
chists will no longer be allowed to
land in Spain, and that the Govern.
ment will deport some to the Ameri-
can Republic, OF TO distant Spanish
possession.
The Oldest London theaters are:
Drury Lane theater opened 1868; Sad
ler's Wells, started as an orchestral as.
sembly-roo i'll 1888; Haymarket,
1870; Covent Garden, 1879; and Ly-
ceum. 1895.
Severe fighting continues between
the Kurds and Armenians, on the Per-
sian frontier. 1t is stated that the
Kurds were defeated in a recent en-
gagement, with the loss of their leader
and 800 men.
The peace negotiations between the
powers and Turkey have now been
taken out of the hands of the ambassa-
doris, and the cabinets of the various
countries interested will deal with the
difficulty direct.
A steamship line from the Gulf tc
the principal points of Central America
and the West Indies is to be put into
operation by the Kansas City, Pitts.
burg and Gulf Railroad. The line
will be in operation within thirty OF
sixty days.
The revolution in Uruguay seems tC
be in no way affected by the assassina.
ton of President Borda. Fighting
continues. and the rebels claim that il
the presidents probable successor i,
elected, the END of the revolution will
be farther off than before.
The Indian rebels that are causing
so much trouble for the English il
India are said to be we'll EARNED will
Lee-Metford and Martini rifles. The
Sultan is manifesting great interest il
the spread of the rebellion, and is KEEP
informed by telegraph of every develop
ment in the situation.
Ships of the English navy are max
ing trial of the coal lately discovered
in Newfoundland. and the people O.
the province are earnestly hoping i
viii meet the requirements, believing
that the outcome would be the estab
lishment Of British dockyard ant
naval station at st. John.
A Japanese newspaper. published il
Yokohama states that the Japanes,
commissioner to the conference to b,
held in Washington, on the sealin,
question, will be instructed to sid,
with the representatives of the Unite,
States in plans for the protection of til,
seal herds of Alaskan waters.
Mohammed Nouri Bey. s.of the Turk
ish foreign office in Constantinople
states that the Armenian revolution
lists are all pupils and proteges of tn,
American mission schools at Marsvan
Bitlis. Erzeroum and Van, and tina
the activity of these schools is a ours,
to both Armenia and Turkey.
The State Department is informed
that the Dominion Government O.
Canada has reduced the fees of tn,
dry dock at Kensington 80 per cent,
matter of interest to the United State
shipping on the Great Lakes. A pro
test against the proposed State regula
ton of vice in India. in the form of
petition bearing the names Of promi
nent men and women in many parts o
the United States, has been sent fron
New York t o Queen Victoria.
The Customs Department Of Canad,
has been advised that firm in Jack
son. Mich, has been shipping forks
rskes. etc.. made by prison labor int,
Canada. These classes of goods ar
prohibited under the new law. Col
lectors of Customs have been advise,
to permit all goods from countries en-