The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-09
FOREIGN NEWS.

I lulu TO try several natives who killed
John Milton in August after drink
ing bout.
A woman. Miss Emma Hart, will
act as United States Consular agent at
] Edmundson, n. B., during the absence
1 of Agent Guy.
A new placer gold field has been
found about thirty EIGHT miles from
Kurnelpi, West Australia. Pay is
half an ounce to the man.
Earl Cadogan, lord lieutenant of Ire
land, has been. elected president of the
Union of Conservatives Association, IN
succession to the Earl of Derby.
Irishmen throughout the United
States are preparing TO send large dele
cations to Ireland next year TO cele-
brate the centennial of the rebellion of
II79S.
The attempt to overthrow the gov
eminent at Montevideo, Uruguay, S.
A., seems to have ended with the
arrest of Or. Aerrera 0bes. Every
thing is now qtiiet.
The town of Loretto, Ecuador, has
been destroyed by hurricane. Only
few scattered buildings are left
standing, and it is reported that. the
loss of life is very great.
The British steamer Maritime, Cap
tain Hughes. from Galveston for Bre-
men, Germany, is ashore at Egmond-
Aan-Zee, ON the North sea- Assist
ance has been sent to her.
The Gar of Russia has approved the
appointment of Counselor Martens,
professor of international law in the
University of st. Petersburg, as UNI
pire in the Anglo-Venezuelan arbitra-
! ton.
Birmingham, Eng, turns out every
week 800, 900, 900 cut nails, 100, 900,
600 buttons, 1000 miles of wire of
different sizes, five tons of hairpins,
800 tons of nuts, and 10000 pairs of
spectacles.
The report that the Spanish Govern
ment intends, in return for his service
/ as Governor General of Cuba, to APP
point Lieutenant General Weyler Gov
eror.General of the PHILIPPINE Islands,
is officially denied.
The allowance of the Lord Mayor of
London, up to the Mayoralty of Sir
Sidney Waterlow in 1879, was $40, 900
annually; but it was increased in that
year to 500, 1000, at which sum it has
| ever since remained.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, says that
\ President Monae has issued a decree
establishing martial law for 80 days.
The evidence Of political conspiracy
in connection with the recent attempt
to assasinate the president is increas-
ing.
In the course of speech in the
Chamber of Deputies Paris, during
the debate on the subject of agricul-
ture, NJ. Melines, the Premier, ex-
pressed the hope that the day would
come when bimetallism would triumph
as solution OF the agricultural de-
preston.
La PreusI, in commenting on the
increase in duties on petroleum and
pine timber, in the Argentine Re-
public, S. A.. which were made as an
act of retaliation against the Dingley
law of the United States, predicts that
the increase will not have the expected
effect.
The first class German cruiser
Kaiserin Augusta, having on board the
German contingent of the international
army of occupation in Crete, has gone
to Port Said, probably en- route to the
far East. 1t is intimated that the
cruiser is to reinforce the German fleet
now at Kiao Chan, China.
A Buenos Ayres, South America,
dispatch to the London Times says that
frost has damaged the harvest in the
Argentine Republic at least 10 per
cent The Times correspondent at
Valparaiso, Chill, says the harvest
of cereals will be / g greater than it
was last year. while all crops promise
above the average.
There is no immediate prospect of
the conclusion of the reciprocity nego-
tiations between the United States and
France. Both Governments have pre-.
scented elaborate statistics to show their
respective positions in any reel procity
arrangement, but the matter has not
progl essed to the point where an agree
ment can be foreseen
A dust cyclone swept over the north
west portion of the colony at Mel
bourne, Australia. 1t was especially
severe in the Wimmera district, where
several towns were wrecked, many
churches and prominent buildings be-
ing ruined. One town alone suffered
damage to the amount of $250,0O0. |
Several persons were seriously injured.
Sir Henry Doultop, head of the firm
of Doulton & Company, Lambeth pot
teries, London. is dead. Sir Henry
was born in Cauxhall in 1920, and be- |
gan training for potter at the age of /
H. He commenced art pottery and |
The manufacture of Doulton ware in
1870, Sir Henry was Clearwater of |
the Legion of Honor, and received the
Albert medal of the Society of Arts
j, Kramer of Vladivostock, Russia, !
left Tacoma, Wash, for San Francis
90, where he will place with the
Union Iron Works orders for several
steamboats, for use ON the Annoy rlver
in Russia. He endeavored to have the
steamers built here and at Seattle, but
could get no firm to take the orders,
As all Sound boat-builders were
crowded with orders for the klondyke
trade
Il. Cornell, who, it is said, was for