The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
EoREIen NEWS.

largest in the world and amounts to
about 5000, 900.
The Empress of Germany recently
opened bazaar for the benefit of the
Silesian flood sufferers.
The City Hall at stratford, Ont,
Canada, was completely Quilted by fire
recently. Loss, $3.50, 900.
The British steamer Baron Ardres-
san, from Bombay to Antwerp, col
lided with the Australian steamer
Toxic off Dungeness. The Toxic sank
with four Of her crew
The Board of Health reports that
there is no longer any yellow fever at
MazatlaD, Mexico. Vera Cruz is
healthy, and has been able to show a
clean bill of health.
Consul Boyle, at Liverpool, has sent
to the State Department a report on
the subject of the extension of docks at
Liverpool. The system under way will
cost over 81 800, 900.
The recent gales were very severe
along the Belgian coast. The dykes
are broken and the streets of Blanken-
burg are flooded. Troops are assisting
in the work of rescue.
The recent rulings of government
officials with reference to the New
England Fish Co., will probably force
that corporation to abandon its head.
quarters at Vancouver, b. g.
The general synod of Russia, in ses-
sion, will discuss the question of the
employment i'll universities of liberal
thololgans, protests against duelling
and urge stricter observance of the
Sabbath.
An official estimate at Sydney places
the wheat yield of New South Wales
at 100000 bushels, and it is antici-
pated that thu exportable surplus of
wheat from Australasia will be 1000, :.
900 bushels.
Msllo, who attempted to assassinate
President Moraes, of Brazil, says flve
previous attempts were made, which
passed unnoticed. Vics-President
Pereira signed and gave Mello COM
mission OF ensign.
A steamship service has been estab-
lished between New York and India.
The first steamer, the Sahara, has
arrived. Heretofore American trade
with the far East has been usually
done by transfer in English or Medi.
terranean ports.
Eight barges loaded with cases of
gunpowder, falsely labeled ARMS, +"
were seized by London customs officers
in the Thames. They were consigned
from st. Petersburg to Jibutil, through
Paris agent, and were probably in
tended for Abyssinia.
A cable dispatch from England in
dicates that the sale of the large Will
limantio Thread Works at Whitman
tic, Conn.,, probably to foreign parties.
will soon be consummated. The thread
company has $4,000, 900 capital and
employs several thousand hands.
The Austrian Lloyd steamship Diana
has been in collision off Galatea with
the British steamer Atomic. The
Diana sank. One hundred and fifty
Passengers and forty members of the
crew of the Diana were saved. She
was built in Humbart in 1856.
The explosion of boiler at the Gold
Lake mines, East Halifax, N. s.,
caused the instant death of the man
ager of the mines, Daniel P. Hall, and
two other men, James Hennessey and
John Mclsaac, their bodies being terri
bly, torn by flying wreckage of the
boiler.
The British ship Natuna is now
sixty days overdue from London to San
Francisco. Reinsurance OIL the vessel
and cargo is quoted at Is guineas. Re.
insurance on the over due British bark
plymouth has been quoted at 80
guineas. The plymouth is now out
209 days from Liverpool.
The conference between the en-.
ployers and striking engineers in Eng
land has taken decided step toward q
settlement of the points in dispute by
an acceptance on both sides of the gen.
eral principle of non-interference in
the management of either the trades
unions or the employers workshops
The steamer Labarrouere of Cardiff
Wales, has grounded off Trevose Head
as the result of collision with an un.
known vessel. Thirteen of her crew
were landed at Cardiff. after having
been in an open boat for twenty -four
hours. One of the boats, containing
the captain and part of the oyew, ID
missing
A dispatch received at Vienna, from
Belgrade, Servia, announces that 5000
Albanians belonging to the district
of Ipek and Diakova are in open revolt
against Turkey. A fight occurred be.
tween the Ottoman troops dispatched
to Uskub from Salonics and Monastir
and the Albanians. The engagement
took place near Diakova, and both
sides lost heavily.
A reply has been prepared by the
Dominion Government of Canada and
forwarded to Washington in respect
TO the negotiations which are going ON
between both countries. The Govern
ment will not say what the reply is nm
til it reaches Mr.. Foster at Washing
ton, bat it is understood that it is a
refusal to stop pelagic sealing for a
year, as the United States requested. |.
The Nord Deutche Allegemeine
Zeitung Of Berlin announces that the
Governments naval bill to be intro
duced at the forthcoming session of the
Reichstsg will not demand round
sum to cover expenditures during a
series of years. The only difference
between the proposal of the bill and
the ordinary naval estimates will be
in the fact that the Reichstag will be
asked to determine what shall be the
future strength of the navy.