The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-16
FOREIGN NEWS.
General Azcarraga is to retire from
the Spanish Premiership.

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current year was 5S4, 800. 900 pounds.
A New York insurance company is
getting.a.:good deal of lucrative bust
ness in China.
The Spanish Government is tormu-
Iating .a..plsn to bring about the ban
ishment of all anarchists from Spain.
It is reported that the Spanish Gov
eminent is making an inspection OF
the coast defenses of the United States.
A rebellion is now in progress in the
district of Yang.C Chan, China. The
~malcontents are said to number 10, 900.
The bubonio plague has broken out
in the sscity of Foo-chow, China, and
the people are said to be dying very
rapidly.
Several villages were destroyed and
500 people killed by a volcanic erup-
ton of Mount Magyar, in the Philippine
Islands.
Baril, the Anarchist, who attempted
to assassinate the Chief of Police at
Barcelona, Spain, has been sentenced
to 40 years imprisonment.
The petition, which has nearly 500
signatures, was circulated by the
American Purity Alliance, Of which
Rev. DR.. Aaron Powell is president.
The porter of the Paris bourse re-
GENTLY died, leaving a fortune of $780,
900. He had been employed thirty
years at a salary of $24O a year. He
got rich on tips"
The death is announced in London
of Charles George Percival, seventh
Earl of Egmont. The deceased was
born June Is, 1916. and succeeded his
uncle the sixth Earl in 1874.
The schooner Sophia Sutherland, in
charge of the South Sea Commercial
company, has left San Francisco for
the South Sea Islands, where it is said
rich mines of gold quartz are.
A company has been formed in
Sedalia, Missouri, to operate alleged
f%abulously rich placer and gold bear
ing quartz mines in the inland noun.
tain ranges on the Mexican west coast.
It is announced in Madrid that anar
ohists will no longer be allowed to
land in Spain, and that the Govern
ment will deport some to the Ameri-
can Republic, OF to a distant Spanish
possession.
The oldest London theaters are:
Drury Lane theater opened 1868; Sad
ler's Wells, started as an orchestral as
sembly-room i'll 1888; Haymarket,
1870; Covent Garden, 1889; and Ly-
ceum, 1895.
Severe fighting continues between
the Kurds and Armenians, on the Per-
sian frontier. 1t is stated that the
Kurds were defeated in a recent en-
gagement, with the loss of their leader
and 300. men.
The peace negotiations between the
powers and Turkey have now been
taken out of the hands of the ambassa-
doris, and the cabinets of the various
countries interested will deal with the
difficulty direct.
A steamship line from the Gulf to
the principal points of Central America
and the West Indies is to be put into
operation by the Kansas City, Pitts
burg and Gulf Railroad. The line
will be in operation within thirty or
sixty days.
The revolution in Uruguay seems to
be in no way affected by the assassina-
ton of President Borda. Fighting
continues, and the rebels claim that if
the presidents probable successor is
elected, the END of the revolution will
be farther off than before.
The Indian rebels that are causing
SO much trouble for the English in
India are said to be wellRarmed with
Lee-Metford and Martini rifles. The
Sultan is manifesting great interest in
the spread of the rebellion, and is kept
informed by telegraph of every develop
ment in the situation.
Ships of the English navy are max.
ing trial of the coal lately discovered
in Newfoundland. and the people of
the province are earnestly hoping it
viii meet the requirements, believing
that the outcome would be the estab-
lishment of a British dockyard and
naval station at st. John.
A Japanese newspaper. published in
Yokohama states that the Japanese
commissioner to the conference to be
held in Washington, on the sealing
question, will be instructed to side
with the representatives of the United
States in plans for the projection of the
seal herds of Alaskan waters.
Mohammed Nouri Bey. ssof the Turk
ish foreign office in Constantinople,
states that the Armenian revolution.
lists are all pupils and proteges of the
American mission schools at Marsvan,
Bitlis, Erzeroum and Van, and that
the activity of these schools is a curse
to both Armenia and Turkey.
The State Department is informed
that the Dominion Government of
Canada has reduced the fees of the
dry dock at Kensington so per cent. a
matter OF interest to the United States
shipping on the Great Lakes. A pro-
test against the proposed State regula-
ton of vice in India. in the form of a
petition bearing the names of promi-
nont men and women in many parts of
the United States, has been sent from
New York to Queen Victoria.
The Customs Department If Canada
has been advised that a firm in Jack
son. Mich, has been shipping forks,
rakes. etc., made by prison labor into
Canada. These classes of goods are
prohibited under the new law. Col