The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-16
FOREIGN NEWS.


lucifer match. died at Keighley, Eng.
recently, aged 30 years.
Electric cabs have now made their
first appearance on the streets Of Lon
don competing for business.
Advioes from Bombay. India, state
that the ravages of cholera are again
on the increase in that vicinity.
In anarchistic circles in London is
stated that a number Of exiled snarch-
lists who recently arrived in England
started for America.
There has been further fighting in
the Shat Valley. India. between the
British and rebel tribesmen. The
latter were forced to retreat.
Fire did considerable damage to the
Ching ChoDg match factory at Shang-
hal. China. Besides the factory forty
five native houses were destroyed.
The japanese press is now moderat-
ing its position regarding the Ha-
waiian question. The papers gener-
ally favor arbitration of the question.
The national legislature of Norway
has abrogated the law excluding from
the country Roman Catholic religious
orders-with one exception, the
Jesuits.
According TO statistics. the trade
between Japan and Formosa has
largely increased since the island be-
came japanese possession. Since
that date imports and exports have
about trebled.
Ruth, aged 3, and Randolph, aged s.,
the children of Station Agent King, of
Mount Forest. Ontario, are dead from
eating canned salmon. Arthur, aged
IA. is not expected to live. The other
three children are ill.
1t is mi-officially announced that
the Italian government has decided to
abandon the entire Italian colony of
Erythrea, ON the Red sea, except
Massopa, and is negotiating for a
transfer to Belgium.
An impartial Havana special to Ma
drid. states the Spanish forces after
four days fighting, during which they
lost ninety killed and wounded, have
driven the rebels from their mountain
strongholds in the province of Havana.
Signs of trouble in Chile are again
being manifest. The president is re.
ported to have declared that it is i'm
possible to govern the nation under ex.
listing conditions; and it is expected
that the coalition scheme will cease tC
be.
Big finds of gold have been made in
Nicaragua, and steamers arriving al
New Orleans from that country have
brought in gold dust in proof of it,
Gold is found there in large quantities
say those who have Investigated the
matter.
Lady Henry Somerset of Londol
! has engaged passage ON the steam
, ship st. Louis of the American lin
for October 2. She goes to attend tn
worlds and National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union conventions a
, Toronto, Ontario, and Buffalo, NY.
The German Government has en-
tered formal protest against the dut
: imposed by the new Dingley Tart
: Bill upon sugar upon which expor
bounty has been paid, as is the cas-
with certain grades of sugar comm
from Germany.
A dispatch from Ottawa, Ontario
states that the Dominion Government
has decided to rescind the royalty ia
of ten ard twenty per cent on all gol
taken from mines in the Klondyke re
5 gion. This action is due to the protes
tations of Canadian miners and busi
ness men in the northwest.
Officers of the Navy Department
were much interested in the report G
the trial trip of the Yashima. the ne,
Japanese battleship built in England
D She is the fastest battleship afoat, an
it is claimed from the showing mad
on her trial trip that she is one of tn
greatest of fighting machines eve
: built.
/, The official returns, Just publishe
in Paris, show that the imports int
France for the past seven months wer
: 20,217 900 francs below those of 1896
On the other hand, the exports foot u
III 1887 900 francs more than durin
J. the same period Of 1896. A decree hs
been gazetted to temporarily adm
:, hard and soft wheat for milling pul
poses.
A cablegram from Rustchuk, Blu
garia, says it is asserted there on goo
authority that the Austro- Bulgaria
4 dispute which arose over certain r,
; marks made by the Bulgarian Premiel
. M. Sterloff, with reference tosAustria
authorities in recent interview wit
7, a representative Of the Lokal Anzeige
! is on the eve of satisfactory settl,
ment.
. A dispatch from Congressman Jam,
Hamilton Lewis to E. Q. Graves, Pre-,
ident of the Chamber of Commerce
;. Seattle, Wash, says that through tn
joint efforts of Seattle citizens and til
Washington delegation in Congress
" the Canadian Government has il
: ], formed the Treasury Department 6
y Washington City that all miners on
;. fits and supplies for each man amour
!, ing to 800 will be exempt frol
= further duty.
t There is great excitement over Il
most extraordinary state Of affairs @
!. board the British battleship Roys
= Sovereign, whicn is about to sail frol
q Portsmouth, England. for three year
!. service with the Mediterranean squad
ron. The relations between the of
, GERS and seamen are acutely straine,
. Fifty men have deserted, all the Gel
= on board ship are full and the supp
. OF irons is not sufficient fox the lars