The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-26
LATE NEWS NOTES.

1nc NEW OOutn wales Government
objects to paying the bill of $50, 200
costs for the extradition of Butler, the
blue Mountain" murderer on the
ground that it is excessive.
According to st. Petersburg paper
DR.. Nansen has just organized in Rus
STA company for exploring the iron
and nickel deposits which he discoy
cred on his latest expedition.
The Minister of the Interior there
has sent note to the authorities de.
claring that peace with Bolivia is
assured, as the questions in dispute
arising out of the boundary trouble
have been settled.
DIR. Zertucha, Maceo's betrayer, has
been released by General Weyler. The
authorities have been notified by the
Cubans to withdraw non-com tants
from the suburb of Mariana, as it will
be destroyed in fifteen days.
The French Government has decided
not to take part in the unwilling of
the monument at Sedan to the memory
of the soldiers who fell in the Franco
Prussian war. This is said to be due
to the recently awakened i'll feeling
toward Germany.
Another Andree carrier pigeon is
reported to have been caught at Gran
disca, near Goritz, Austria. Explorer
Nordenskjold is reported as saying that
Andree has already landed on the
North Asiatio or North American
coast
The Finance Committee of the Lon
don, England. County Council esti.
mates the cost Of the public schools of
that city for the year ending August
/, 1898, at $4,000, 900. This is an
increase of $4,000, 900 over the figures
OF two years ago.
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies
has passed bill compelling all for
eigners who have had a years resi-
dence to enroll themselves in the Civic
Guard. The measure is the result of
the very great increase of late in the
foreign colonies at Antwerp and Brus-
sells.
1t is reported that one of the essen.
tial conditions upon which Japan will
insist In the event of the arbitration
OF her claims against Hawaii is that
the United States shall assume a con.
tingent responsibility in carrying out
the decisions of the arbitration tribu.
nal.
On the 29th of July the insurgents
near Santa Clara, Cuba, dynamited a
culvert, thus blocking railway traffic.
They also destroyed the city's tele-
graphic communications with the sur.
rounding country, and in the suburbs
OF the city fought battle with the
local volunteers.
The government of Hawaii has
passed law denying the residence
permits in the islands to Chinese.
This virtually shuts out Chinese immi.
grafton, and 1t is believed that the
move was made by the advice of the
United States Government in contem.
plation Of the annexation of the islands.
Disastrous floods are reported along
the Danube River in Austria. Eighty.
five persons have been drowned at
Silesia, sixty between Irschel and
Laussen, and many at other places.
while over one hundred are missing,
and supposed to be drowned. I'm.
mense damage has also been done to
the crops along the river.
A dispatch from Panama says the
anniversary Of the battle of Boyaca.
at which the Spanish yoke was practi-
cally thrown off by Colombia, vene.
suela and Ecuador, is now being cele.
brated. During the recent exercises
several persons were injured by stand.
ing too close to the rifles of the troops
and being hit by the wadding in th 9
blank cartridges.
The New York Tribune saws that
the freight-rate war from New York
to Galveston by which the Morgan.
Emory steamship lines are trying to
defeat the recently established rival. |
The Lone Star line, has reached an
stage. Rates to Galveston
have been cut to cents a hundred.
weight. AS result, the town is full
II Texas buyers and goods are being
'hipped to the Lone Star State in large
Quantities.
The extensive mica beds near Tres
Pedras, Taos county. New Mexico, will
Dc worked by Chicago stove CON-
oany. The mica district covers about
1000 acres and was disco yered six
'ears ago by Colonel ]. Fl. Cribben of
.hicago. Mica in commercial guam
tiles is a scarce article, the whole
United States product in 1895 being
worth but $57, In 1887 10000
'ounds were produced in this country
vorth si4s. 500.
A Houston, Tex, dispatch says the
cean rate war between New York and I
galveston has brought reduction of
ates from California to Houston. The
Pacific announces effective I
'ugust IS the tariff on canned goods. 1
cans and peas, straight or mixed car. 7
'ads minimum weight 80, 600 pounds, \
.om California territory and interme- b
rate points to Houston, will be a
'wered to 5S cents hunderd pounds. 0
The government of New South a
tales has received bill calling for b
70 payment Of $50, 900, costs incurred "
securing the extradition from Cali. D
rnia of Frank Butler, executed there b
ny 10 for the murder of Captain Lee al
'eller. 4,