The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-14
FoREleh NEWS.


says the Government is taking steps to /
introduce a bill to increase this beer
tax three-fold.
England has ordered the flagship of |
her Pacific Coast squadron to proceed
to Guatemala, in view of the troubled
situation there.
The Ban of England has raised its
rate Of discount 10 two and a half
cents, with view Of keeping gold
from leaving England.
1t is stated that the ameer Of At
gbanistan in Asia, has issued orders to
the faithful" to hold themselves in
readiness for holy war.
A plague search party has been
mobbed at Ignatpuri, in India. Four
members of the party, including a
surgeon, were severely wounded.
A dispatch from Rome says that
about forty persons were killed and
many others injured by an earthquake
at the sulphur mines near Girgenti.
The British banks have refused to
subscribe to the loan Of the govern
ment of Uruguay ,samounting to $780,
900, to defray the expenses of the civil
war.
Inhabitants of the town of Antzi.
firowskoje, northeastern Siberia, report
having seen a large balloon on Septem.
Der IA, believed to be that of Professor
Andree.
An organization composed of French
Canadians has been formed in Boston,
Mass. for the purpose of making
Canada nation independent of foreign
domination.
California fruit is bringing good
prices in the London market. A few
days since twenty pound boxes of pears
was sold at Covent Garden at from
81. so to $3.50.
Horatio Davies. Conservative men,
Der of Parliament for Chatham, has
been chosen Lord Mayor of London
with the usual ceremonial, succeeding
Sir George Faudel- Phillips.
1t is now believed that Arroyo, the
Mexican who attempted to assassinate
President Disz, was killed by the
police instead of mob Villa-Ven.
censia, inspector, is under arrest.
An extensive oil region has been dis
covered in Japan, and arrangements
are to be made at once for developing
the discovery, which it is claimed
will rival the oil fields of Russia.
!
/ compelled to resort to the use of arm
in depressing "a recent riot of Japanes,
laborers at Idamachi, Japan, and il
the melee many of the coolies los
their lives.
{ Paris has, apart from two place
, where paupers can spend the night
fourteen asylums for the homeless
which last year lodged IA ,037 per
sons, of whom 1857 were wome
{ and 1905 children.
The board appointed under the Fac
{ tories and Shops Act of Victoria, j
Australia, has decided that thos
employed in the making of women
s and girls clothing shall not be pal
: less than a minimum wage of So. )
Q per week.
The Hon. Barry Somerset Maxwell
the eldest son and heir of Baron FarI
helm, died at Castle Saunderson, i
8 London, as the result of bicycling az
n cident, when the young man collide
s with wall. The deceased was Dor
o in 1876.
t The steamship Moana, from Sydne,
e has arrived at San Francisco with 81
100000 English sovereigns, in pa!
n ment for wheat shipped from there
9 England. This is the second paymei
! from the same source for this season
wheat crop.
t A disptach to the Daily Chronicle
d London, from Christiania, says thu
DR.. Nansen, the explorer, will lea,
ON October 21st for the United State
u where he expects to deliver sixty le
!. lures for $65, 900, in addition to pc
: centage of the receipts.
The steamship Kagoshima of IL
; Nippon Yusen Kaisha line sailed fro
Seattle, Wash. for the Orient with
cargo of 1000 tons, valued at $222
9 700, the largest single consignmel
i being 1000 steel rails and equipmen
Q going to Chemulpo, Corea,
u The Cuban .1unta at New York
having 3,000,0 900 silver dollars coint
} at cost of 60 cents each, the prof
. from the sale of which will go towal
q aiding the cause of the insurgent
' The coins are said to be beautif,
specimens of numismstic art.
II The government of South Wales h
/ devised scheme to solve the profile
Il of the rabbit pest in that countr
!, The government is aiding the esta
IS lishment of canneries to put |
70 "potted hare" The canneries pay
b remunerative price for the bunni
Is and it looks as if the rabbit fami
!. will soon be exterminated.
Drunami, thu King of Benin, wi
: has been on trial at Benin city sin
II August last, with a number of h
II leading chiefs, charged with being co
IS cerned with the massacre of the u
); armed expedition under British Cons
d Phillips, has been condemned to
d transported to Calabar, a slave settl
: ment of British West A frica.
J, The Southern Pacific Railroad Cor
q pany thinks it will soon develop gre
coal mines in the State of Sonor
i Mexico. Five prominent officials of Il
!. company, with H. e. Huntington
a their head, have just:returned from
;. hasty visit to that region. The cor
pany has secured an option on what
n believes to be rich anthracite co
A fields of wide area. Mr.. Huntin
q ton says that the coal producing teri