The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-31
FOREIGN NEWS

The Bombay strikers have resumed
work and the stores have been reopened
DR.. Patton, editor of the Daily Ex
press and Dublin correspondent Of thu
London Times, is dead.
1t is stated that Russian spy in the
guise Of footman has been discovered
: at Hatfield. the Marquis of Salisbury
residence.
Count de Cststellane has challenged
for the French cup. and will tuild q
yacht for the purpose of contesting
for that trophy.
Senior Domingo Cana. the Chilean
Minister at Washington, has been ap.
pointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the
court Of st. James.
By vote of 1874 to 116 the House
OF Commons has rejected bill provid-
ing for the establishment of court OF
criminal appeal.
Rumors are in circulation at Salon.
lea, Turkey, Of encounters at various
points on the frontier between Bulga-
rian bands and Ottoman troops.
A dynamite explosion took place the
other morning in the governments tore
house of Motega bay. Jamaica. Eight
men were killed and many injured.
a Russian volunteer steamer has
arrived at Chemuipo from Port Arthur
and has landed quantity Of stores and
fifty seven sailors, who proceeded to
Seoul.
The bill prohibiting the entry into
Canada of nursery stock from the
United States has been signed by the
Governor-General. 1t goes intoi effect
at once.
The French Minister for the Colon.
les, L. Lebon. has refused the petition
of Mime. Dreyfus, wife of the former
Captain Dreyfus. to share the latter
imprisonment.
An official dispatch from Manila saws
that 500 insurgents were killed during
the siege of Balinao. Troops sent to
the relief of the garrison met with re.
sistance by the isurgents.
Lord Charles Lenox Kerr, formerly
Major of the Third Battalion of the
Black Watch (Royal Highlanders),
and SOL of the sixth Marquis of Lo-
THAN. died the other day IN his eighty
fourth year.
1t is learned that Spain has not Sc.
cured the O'Higgins, and that Chile
will not sell her TO Spain. 1t is said.
Furthermore, that Spain cannot pur.
chase ships from either Chile or the
Argentine Republic.
According to dispatch to the Lon
don Times from Singapore, rebellion
has broken out at Battang, where the
people have refused to pay taxes. A
Siamese expedition has defeated tie
rebels, but fighting continues.
The Provincial Legislature at Vic.
toria, b. c., passed resolution re.
questing the Dominion Government to
place duty on American lumber
and shingles equal to the duty imposed
by the Dingley tariff.
At Friedrichsrhue the other day
Prince Bismarck prophesied that CUBA
would become an Independent republic
by diplomatic means. Spain, he said,
could not rely upon any support except
possibly from France or Italy.
Advices from Rio Janeiro state that
the Brazilian Government has refused
to grant DIR. Sanareli the exclusive
privilege to use his newly discovered
yellow fever cure in Brazil. DR.. Sana-
reli is backed by many physicians and
insists upon the privilege being
granted.
The annual report of the Department
of Mines of Canada shows that the
total output of minerals, including
coal, in 1897, was valued at $1O,435,-
1888, an increase of 40 per cent over the
previous year. The gold value was
$4,000. 900. silver $9,972,OO lead
$l395. 1877, coal $2,642.261. West
Kootenal produced minerals to the
value of So. 10000.
The Canadian Minister of .Agricul-
ture introduced in the House of Com.
mons bill to protect Canada from the |
ravages of the San Jose scale. The bill
absolutely prohibits the importation of
all kinds of nursery stock from coun-
tries where the insect prevails and
will apply at once to the United
States. Japan and Hawaii. BY general
consent the bill was put through all its
stages at one sitting and will become
law at once.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Standard declares that Austria
and Germany sympathize with Spain,
the former being actuated by family |
ties between the two reigning houses,
and the latter by a grudge against the |
United States. The correspondent
adds: THE Chinese question is much
more practical for the United States
that Cuban, but America has no naval
base in Chinese waters. Why should |
not Spain make peace by Offering the
United States a naval station in the |
Philippines Spain would lose nothing
thereby. On tho contrary the Phili-
pines would be more assured to her
than before, and the Americans would
be enabled to act from that base in
conjunction with England and Japan"
The Budget Committee of the Reich
stag has inserted in the naval bill a
clause which has been approved by the
Federated Government. to the effect
that in the event of permanent expeD-
dlture exceeding in any year III. $780,
494 marks the excess should not be met
by an increase in the existing indirect
imperial taxation or by the creation Of |
fresh imposts upon articles Of large
popular consumption. The Social
Democrats voted against the clause.
Thomas W. Cridler, the Special Com
missioner of the United States to the
Paris Exposition of 1900. and his COL