The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-21
FOREIGN NEWS.

Beiros Effini, the Armenian recently
appointed Sub-Kaikaima Of Schsrssn-
ijak, Turkey, was assassinated two days
after his arrival there.
The correspondent of the London
Chronicle at Berlin AYERS that the re-
port that Germany is treating for the
purchase Of the Danish West Indies is
unfounded.
The Berlin, Germany. Tageblatt
asserts that France and Russia have
agreed to intervene at Washington to
prevent a breach between the United
States and Spain.
The Westminster Gazette of London
gives prominence TO a report that
Queen Victoria has decided to COM
memorate the longest reign in English
history by abdicating in favor of the
Prince of Wales.
The Donaldson steamer Warwick,
Captain Kemp, from Glasgow, has been
lost on the Smurr lodges, New Bruins
wick, which she struck at full speed.
The passengers and crew escaped to sea
IN life boats and were picked up by a
fishing schooner.
Utopia was the name given by Sir
Thomas Moore, the English writer. to
an imaginary isle, representing the
best state of public veal, :" described
in a book written in Latin in 1913.
The meaning of the word Utopia is
IN where"
The new treaty between the United
States and Great Britain by which all
differences between the two countries
for the next five years are to be re-
ferred to arbitration, will not be signed
at present and probably not before the
end of next month.
The American steamship Laurada,
the reported intention of which to call
at Valencia, Spain, caused such COM
motion in that city on account of her
having been engaged in filibustering to
Cuba, has sailed for the United States
without having touched at a Spanish
port.
The Allan Line steamship Carthe-
gian, Captain French, from Philadel-
phia, which ran agrounu in the Clyde,
was compelled to discharge part of her
cargo in order TO get afioat. She sus-
tanned considerable damage. She will
discharge the cargo yet on board of
her, and will then go in dock TO repair.
In response to letter signed by
over eighty noblemen and gentlemen
eminent in literature, science and art,
in England, including Mr.. Gladstone,
Herbert Spencer has consented that
fund shall be opened to paint his
portrait for the English nation. Hubert
Herkimer, R. A, has been chosen as
the artist.
The confidently circulated news that
a site had been granted to Germany
for an independent settlement in
Shanghai, China, turns out to be incor-
rect. Germany has not sought any
such concession. The rumor is sup
posed to have owed its origin to the
fact that negotiations for an extension
of the general Settlement have been
passing through the hands of the Ger
man Consul-General, DIR. Stuebel. who
happens TO be the senior foreign Consul
in Shanghai at present.
E. T. Hooley, the English million
aire, who has attracted so much atten-
ton by his recent purchases of country
seats, has appeared in a new character,
that of the propounder of great
scheme for old age pensions. He sug-
gests that fixed duty of 8 shillings
($l.25) per quarter be levied on i'm
ported wheat, and per cent of this be
invested in a pension fund to provide
all INDECENT persons above 90 years of
age with pension of 10 shlllings
($S. 75) weekly.
+. Marion Crawford, the novelist.
has written his first play. 1t is a
dramatization of his novel. "Dr. Clau-
dius. 1t will be produced within the
next three months. Mr.. Crawford has
very frequently been asked for permits
sion to dramatize his books, but he has
always declined, with the statement
that he himself would prepare stage
versions when he felt he could do it in
the right way. With this end in view
he has made a special study of play
constructing, it is said, and the new
play is the result.
The Pacific Cable Conference will
meet shortly to sign report already
agreed upon. 1t is semi officially
stated that the report unanimously re-
commends that the cable be built MS it
is practically feasible and commercial
ly and politically necessary. There Is
some difference of opinion regarding
the relative share of expenses to be
borne by Great Britain and the colo.
MES concerned, but the delegates
agreed finally to recommend that less
be paid by Great Britain and more by
the colonies than was originally con.
sidered necessary. The sum asked
from Great Britain is understood to be
considered financially feasible hy Sec.
Rotary Chamberlain.
Honolulu has been visited by one of
the most destructive rain storms of re.
cent years. Seven inches of water fell
within the period of twenty -four hours.
Plants, flowers, etc.. were beaten to
fragments, waterpir>s burst and num-
erous warehouses were flooded. There
were several washouts ON the Oahu
railway and the city car tracks were
buried under several inches of sand
and debris. The ship Northbrook, in
port. broke loose from her mornings
and drifted across the harbor. Her
anchors held when she was dangerous
ly near the bark C. d. Bryant. The
sea rose as it has not before in years
and waves dashed high ON the shore.
the coral reef being only partial
barrier to the force of the storm. Trees
in Kapiolani PARK and Waiki prox,;sas