The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-23
FOREIGN NEWS.

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The new president Of the Cuban re-
public is said to be General Bartolome
Massc.
The rise in the price of grain has
wrought disaster in Odessa, Russia,
where houses are unable to complete
their contracts.
Sir Julian Pauncefote has been re-
appointed British ambassador to the
United States for q year after his term
expires in 1898, an unusual honor.
The revolutionists have captured
Ocas, on tine west coast of Guatemala,
and the United States ship Alert has
been ordered there TO watch American
interests.
1t is an open secret that France and
Russia have combined TO prevent the
Sultan from entering into a military
alliance with Germany to the exclu-
sion of the other powers.
1t is understood that a syndicate has
cornered all of James Mcneil Whist
ler's future work in London, securing
exclusive control, and that an art gal
lery exclusively Whistlerian will be
opened shortly.
Labor unions Of Great Britain are
now arranging for a federation ct
all labor organizations, in order that
the cooperation Of all laborers in the
United Kingdom may be enlisted in
the fight against corporate capital.
The Mark Lane Express of London,
reviewing the crop situation. says:
Though the Russian wheat crop is
under the average, the best judges
credit Russia with being able to export
"a surplus of eight million quarters"
A poor woman named Stanbury, who
is ~housekeeper at an inn at Meltbam
Moor, Yorkshire, England, has just
learned that she has succeeded to a for
tune of e72 600, left by her uncle,
Charles Thompson, late of New York.
A cyclone has swept over S~avorvario
and Latouno, III the Province of Lecce,
Italy. Forty persons were killed,
seventy people were wounded, twenty
houses were destroyed, and Geographic
. comm unication with the scene of the
disturbance was cut off.
Miss Flora Macdonald Shearer, a
poetess of national reputation, has been
declared insane at San Francisco, and
will be taken to a private asylum at
Livermore, near San Francisco. All
! of her living relatives reside either in
Scotland or on the Isle of Skye.
The ministerial organs at Madrid
D assert that the Spanish Foreign Minis
. ter, the Duke of Tetuan, will be soor
: gazetted as Spanish Ambassador to
France. The Duke of Teutan had q
long interview with the Queen and
United States Minister Woodford.
From reports received from London,
it seems that the Bank of England has
D decided to hold one-fifth of its reserve
in silver. This is considered a con
q cession to bimetallism, and is arousinl
t considerable opposition on the part o.
, many eminent English Journalists.
y Figures furnished in the report o.
i the Inspector of Inebriate Retreats il
London show that the effect of legisla
t tive int ervention to reform drunkard.
d 10 still experimental and wholly made
d quate. About ope-third of those ZEN
g tering these retreats are entirely
, cured,
: A dispatch from Tasbkend, Asiati'
Russia ninety miles northwest of Kho
kan, announces that an earthquake
shock caused q panic among the inhab
itants of the place, The dispatch also
y says the shock was felt at SamaYcand
capital of the Province of Zerafshan
thirty miles from Bokhara.
u A royal residence in Ireland now
x appears to be within reach. since the
queen seems to support the PROPOSE
J. tion. On the other hand, Michael
Il Davitt declares the Irish do not want
: royalty in Ireland, and he asserts that
u the Duke and Duchess OF York mis-
took Irish hospitality for loyalty.
Word has been received at Lyons
that the Catholic missionaries are
again suffering severe oppression from
s the Chinese near Yao.Ping, in the
!, district of Kwang-Tung. The natives
i have been prosecuting the Christians,
l burning their houses, destroying tneil
0 crops and putting converts to torture.
: A dispatch to the London Standard
: from Rome says the Italian Cabinet
= crisis has ended. Senior Gianturco,
Minister of Education, has been APP
pointed Minister of Justice in success.
Q sion to the late Senior Costa, while
3 Count Codronchi, now Minister with
. out portfolio, has been appointed Min
7 lister of Education to succeed Senoa
Gianturco.
A Presbyterian missionary in China
' states that ''thers is a movement toward
Christianity throughout Manchuria.
: The people in large numbers are cast
] ing out their idols. and taxing the pow
: ers of missionaries to provide native
teachers. who. in their turn, are over
!, whelmed with the great numbers with
whom they have to DEAL"
A st. Johns, New F%oundland, dis
patch says the Norwegian steamer
Eugene, which went ashore ON Grut
Island, has been broken into pieces
and will be a total loss. The crew
ESCAPED, but nothing was saved. They
were almost washed off the decks by
the heavy seas. The British warship
Cordelis sailed to inspect the wreck
and report as to the practical opera
tioDs of the life-saving station.
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