The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-07
FOREIGN NEWS


public Is said to be General Bartolome
Massc.
The rise in the price of grain has
wrought disaster in Odessa. Russia,
where houses are unable TO complete
their contracts.
Sir Julian Pauncefote has been re-
appointed British ambassador to the
United States for year after his term
expires in 1898, an unusual honor
The revolutionists have captured
Ocas, on the west coast Of Guatemala,
and the United States ship Alert has
been ordered there to watch American
interests.
1t is an open secret that France and
Russia have combined to prevent the
Sultan from entering into a military
alliance with Germany to the exclu-
sion Of the other powers.
1t il understood that a syndicate has
cornered all of James Mcneil Whist
ler's future work in London, securing
exclusive control, and that an art gall
lery exclusively Wbistlerian will be
opened shortly.
Labor unions Of Great Britain are
now arranging for federation of
all labor organizations, in order that
the cooperation of all laborers in the
United Kingdom may be enlisted in
the fight against corporate capital.
The Mark Lane Express of London,
reviewing the crop situation, says:
Though the Russian wheat crop is
under the average. the best judges
credit Russia with being able to export
a surplus of eight million quarters. .
A poor woman named Stanbury who
is housekeepor at an inn at Meltham
Moor, Yorkshire, England. has just
learned that she has succeeded to for
tune of f72, 900, left by her uncle,
Charles Thompson, late of New York.
A cyclone has swept over Savorvario
and Latouno, in the Province of Lecce,
Italy. Forty persons were killed,
seventy people were wounded, twenty
houses were destroyed, and telegraphic
communication with the scene of the
disturbance was cut off.
Miss Flora Macdonald Shearer, a
poetess OF national reputation, has been
declared insane at San Francisco, and
will be taken to a private asylum at
Livermore, near San Francisco. All
of her living relatives reside either in
Scotland or on the Isle of Skye.
The ministerial organs at Madrid
assert that the Spanish Foreign Minis
ter, the Duke of Tetuan, will be soon
gazetted as Spanish Ambassador to
France. The Duke of Tertan had a
long interview with the Queen and
United States Minister Woodford.
From reports received from London,
it seems that the Bank of England has
decided to hold one.fifth of its reserve
in silver. This is considered a con-
cession to bimetallism, and Is arousing
considerable opposition on the part OF
many eminent English journalists.
Figures furnished in the report OF
the Inspector Of Inebriate Retreats in
London show that the effect of legisla.
tive int ervention to reform drunkards
is still experimental and wholly made.
quate. About one-third of those zen.
tering these retreats are entirely
cured,
A dispatch from Tashkend, AsiatiC
Russia, ninety miles northwest of Kho.
kan, announces that an earthquake
shock caused panic among the inhab.
itants Of the place. The dispatch also
says the shock was felt at Samarcand
capital of the Province of Zerafshan,
thirty miles from Bokhara.
A royal residence in Ireland now
appears to be within reach, since the
Queen seems to support the PROPOSE
ton. On the other hand, Michael
Davitt declares the Irish do not want
royalty in Ireland, and he asserts that
the Duke and Duchess of York mis-.
took Irish hospitality for loyalty.
Word has been received at Lyons
that the Catholic missionaries are
again suffering severe oppression from
the Chinese near Yao.Ping, in the
district of Kwang-Tung, The natives
have been prosecuting the Christians
burning their houses, destroying theii
crops and putting converts to torture.
A dispatch to the London STANDARD
from Rome says the Italian Cabinet
crisis has ended. Senior Gianturco
Minister of Education, has been ap
pointed Minister of Justice in success.
sion to the late Senior Costa, while
Count Codronchi, now Minister with.
out portfolio, has been appointed Min,
lister of Education to succeed Senos
Gianturco
A Presbyterian missionary in China
states that "thers is a movement toward
Christianity throughout Manchuria
The people in large numbers are cast
ing out their idols, and taxing the pow
ers of missionaries to provide native
teachers, who, in their turn, are over,
whelmed with the great numbers with
whom they have TO deal"
A st. Johns, New Foundland, dis.
patch says the Norwegian steamer
Eugenie, which went ashore ON Grut
Island, has been broken into pieces
and will be total loss The crew
ESCAPED, but nothing was saved. They
were almost washed off the decks by
the heavy seas The British warshir
Cordeiia sailed to inspect the wreck
and report as to the practical opera.
tions of the life-saving station.
g. F. Won der Bosch, who is con-
nected with the experimental station
of the Holland Agricultural College
at Wageningen, Holland, and J. J.
Bredins, leading beet-sugar manu-
facturer of the same place, have been
in California for three weeks past, ac-
quiring information Of the beet-sugar