The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-18
FoRElek NEWS.

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Severe earthquake shocks are reported
in Saxony, Germany.
Municipal Corporation Of Bristol
Eng. will build large dock at a cost
81 81 500. 600.
The Government of Brazil, il is said
IN official circles, intends 10 increase
the export bounty on sugar.
Trouble is threatened between CIR eat
Britain and Franoe over the possession
Of territory in West Africa.
A rumor Of Cecil Rhodes death
caused South African securities to
fail fiat. The rumor is unconfrmed.
Popular and political demonstrations
are being arranged TO do honor to
General WeyleI when be lands, in
Madrid.
Marshal Blanco, the successor Of
General Weyler, has arrived at Ha-
vans, Cuba, and has assumed charge Of
affairs.
Vacher, the French Jack the
Ripper. has been captured, and has
confessed to twelve murders. He has
been accused OF nineteen.
A report from Mazatlan, Mexico,
states that an epidmic of yellow fever
has broken out at that place, and a
number Of deaths are reported.
A fierce cyclone ragged along the cas-
tern coast of Bengal, causing a number
of deaths damaging large amount of
property, and driving seven vessels
ashore.
There is an instruction in the States
of Lara and Bolivar, Venezuela, South
America. Hundreds of prominent
citizens in all parts of the country
have been arrested by government
order.
A destructive cyclone, followed by
tidal wave, visited Leyte, one of the
Philippine Islands, recently, doing in.
calculable damage to property, and it
is stated that thousands of persons lost
their lives.
Thirty-six horses purchased for the
stable of the King of Wortemburg,
have been shipped from New York.
The horses are for the Kings private
driving, and will be used on occasions
of display.
Sir Rutherford Alcock, who in 1876
was President of the Royal Geograph-
ical Society, and who in 1882 presided
over the Health Department of the
Social Science Congress, of London, is
dead at the age of 80.
A Berlin cable to the Stats Zeitung,
published in New York, says ALL
wardt, the noted anti-Semite, in a
speech, declared that Bryan was one of
the bitterest enemies of the Jews in
America, for which reason he will be
elected president in 1900.
Five whaling vessels are reported
frozen IN the ice foes of the Arctic
Ocean, without hope of extricating
themselves before spring, by which
time many Of them may have been
crushed in the ice. Being near shore,
it is thought tine whalers will find
shelter among the Eskimos.
Inhabitants of Porto Rico are said to
b? planning an instruction by which
they hope to sweep into the sea" all
the Spanish forces in the island. They
are waiting for an expedition from the
United States consisting of arms and
ammunition, and claim that hostilities
will be inaugurated soon after its Al :
rival.
1t is said that his first step after
arriving in Cuba will be to reverse the
DEGREES against paoificos, issued by
Weyler. A. column of british troops
has visited the mos lue and grove at
Bagb, India, where the Afridi rising
originated. The mosque was left un-
touched and was not entered, but the
trees in the grove were hewed down
and burned, as a mark of punishment
and a sign of victory.
The American ship Ell Captain, Cap
tain Humphreys, from Baltimore April
LIST for San Franciso, which put into
Montevideo Africa, last July, leaking
badly and otherwise damaged, pro-
ceeded on her voyage and returned to
that port again, having lost three OF
her crew and sustained sundry losses
and vari Jus damages during heavy
weather encountered by her.
A dispatch to the New York Hearld
from Lima, Peru, says: 1.-THE resigna-
] ton of Peru's Cabinet is officially an.
nouned, and new ministry is being
formed. 1t will probably be as fol-
lows: Premier and Minister of Home
Affairs, Senior Althaz; Minister OF
War, Senior Eceniu; Minister of JUS
tice, Senior Pardo; Minister o. Foreign
Affairs. Senior Riva Guerra; Minister
of Public Works, Senior Rancbis.
A special to the San Diego Sun from
Hermosillo, Mexico, says: Captain
Porter and sailor named johnson
were murdered on the Tiburon island
by the Seris cannibals. They were
out for shells and rare birds for curio
company and penetrated short dis.
lance into the interior of the island.
When they returned to their boat they
met party of Indians. They fred
twelve shots before they were killed.
1t is not known what became of the
remains.
General Otis telegraphs to the War
Department that he is informed by
Captain Wright of Flat Ranch, Utah,