The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-03
FOREIGN NEWS.

earthquake were felt in South Aus
tralia.
The sugar crop Of Cuba for the pres
ent year is estimated at 200, 900 tons,
or about.one-fifth of an average crop.
In railway accident in Russia six
teen cars were smashed. nearly 100
soldiers were killed, and many are
hurt.
The powers which constitute the
triple alliance have renewed their
agreement for another period of six
years.
The condition in the Argentine re-
public is very bad. Business failures
occur daily. The locusts are ravaging
the interior provinces.
The Brazilian government has been
compelled to increase customs duties
ten per cent and to levy higher tax
ON real and personal property.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Rio .Ianeiro, Brazil, telegraphs
that the new extradition treaty with
the United States has been signed.
The John Eaton Company's depart.
ment store in Toronto, Canada, and
stock, proximating in value about
$3.50, 900, has been destroyed by fire.
A semi-official declaration is issued
that Spain will never agree to foreign
mediation in the Cuban question which
she regards as exclusively concerning
herself.
Frosts in the department of Yonne.
France, centre of the wines growing
district, have severely injured the
vines and fruits. The damage is esti-
mated at 20, 900. 900 francs.
1t is expected that the delegates from
China will announce their inability to
join the Postal Union. This means
that the conservative influences of the
empire are still opposed to the modern
postal system.
The extensive San Marcial coal fields
in the State of Hermoseleo, Mexico.
have been purchased by the Southern
Pacific Railway. The coal is to be
used on their western lines and on Pa
cific Mail steamships.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Bombay says that the bubonic
plague is making fearful ravages in
the Cutchmandy district, where there
have been 1000 deaths in fortnight.
Half the population has fled.
A railway train conveying 100 re-
serve troops to Metz, from Cologne,
Germany, was thrown from the track
and twenty-eighth persons killed.
The accident was caused by the train
breaking in two. the rear portion sub.
sequently overtaking and crashing into
the front part.
The Government, with the view of
stopping what it regards as an evasion
of the Bourse law of 1896, has in
formed the Berlin corn and produce
merchants that their meetings will
hereafter be regarded as constituting
them produce exchange within the
meaning of the law.
The Reichstag has adopted the first
and second readi ngs of the bill intro
duced on May 18th last by the Radi-
calls. Socialists, Anti.Semites and
Poles, which reads as follows: Ger
man associations of any kind may COM
bine with each other, and any laws
to the contrary are hereby repealed. e"
American exhibitors have won signal
honors at the fourth international shoe
and leather fair in progress at Agricul-
tural Hall, London. There are over
200 exhibitors, representing the United
States. South America, Australasia,
Africa, India, Continental countries
and Great Britain. 1t has been the
general ooncensus of opinion that the
Americans hold first place in the de-
partments of machinery and meohani.
cal appliances, which are the most i'm.
portant features of the show.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Pekin says that the loan of A.,
900, 900 taels, which Shelly Ia Jen,
the Chinese Director of Rail-
ways, has obtained from Belgian syn.
dictate on the security of RAILWAYS
already built in the empire and on the
contract for the Belgian construction
of the proposed trunk line from Pekin
to Hankow, is in suspense owing to
protests made by England and Ger
many against the stipulation as a
breach of the "most favored nation
agreement.
1t is reported that the British cruiser
Powerful, said to be the largest cruiser
in the world, will soon be sent on
emulation of the recent trip of the
United States crusier Columbia. The
Powerful is first.class cruiser of a.
200 tons and $1,000 indicated horse.
power. She is 500 feet long, II feet
beam and draws 81 feet. She is
credited with speed of 90 knots. She
is sister ship of the Terrible. She
can discharge nearly $1,000 pounds, or
eight tons of metal minute. She
carries crew of $40 men.
The dispute over the alleged illegal
occupancy of lands in Lower Califor-
mia, within the Mexican domain by the
Yuma Indians has broken out afresb
and Minister Romero of Mexico has
made formal complaint and called
for their transfer across the line TO this
side. Romero's complaint has been
and a report has just been
made to him by the Secretary Of the
Interior through the State Department.
The Indians are opposed to any change
claiming that they have lived upon the
lands for many years without knowing
or recognizing any difference of gov
eminent either Mexican ur United
States. They have commissions for
the land signed by Governor Sanguinez