The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-02
FOREIGN NEWS.

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FOREIGN NEWS.
The Hawaiian government has dis
eliminated against Asiatic labor.
OF the 81 900 breweries estimated
to be in the world $4,000 are in Ger
many.
The Spanish Government is trying
to negotiate loan of $40, 900, 600 at
per cent in London.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
passed bill imposing tax of l franc
25 confines per meteric ton ON freight /
or cattle carried on foreign vessels
entering French ports.
. The Honduras syndicate, composed
of Americans, has been granted extern
isve concessions by the Honduras gov
eminent. 1t is proposed to build at
inter-oceanic railroad.
A society has been formed in London
under the name of the British Anti
German League, the purpose of which
is to boycott articles made in Ger
many" and to resist the further Ger
marizing of the country.
The drift in England toward war
with the Transvaal is heartily well
coined by most classes. and even the
Liberals and the West and East End
ers alike are anxious for an outbreak of
hostilities in South Africa.
The Mexican Government is consid.
ering plans for the establishment of an
immense Federal prison on the Island
of Socorru just off the coast of the
State of Colima. 1t is proposed to
make the prison sufficiently large for
the accommodation not only of Federal
prisoners but also for those from all the
Western States of Mexico.
A Honduras syndicate, composed of
prominent Americans, has received
from the Government valuable conces.
sions of a most extensive nature. The
American projectors are empowered to
undertake the building of an inter-
oceanic railway and to establish a
steamship line on the Atlantic coast
to connect with New York. The syn.
dictate may also organize banks in the
republic, collect customs, administer
general finances, control the mining
interests of the country and arrange
all immigration privileges. Henry
Sprague, Cahuncey Depew, the Astors
and Vanderbllts are interested in the
syndicate.
An event of unusual Importance to
Central Kansas is the shipment from
Sterling, Rice County. of an entire
trainload Of dwarf broom corn, consist
ing of twenty heavily laden freight
cars to the Onondaga Whisk- broom
Works of Syracuse, N. Y. 1t is the
largest single shipment of broom corn
ever made from any point in the world
and was shipped by Robert Findlay &
Co., broomcorn commission merchants
of Sterling. The route of the train
will be over the Missouri Pacific to
st. Louis and thence by Red Line fast
freight to Syracuse. The brush was
grown around Sterling in 1896, and is
part of crop of 1900 tons which was
raised within a radius of twenty miles
of that point. Nowhere in this coun-
try, except in the three Kansas counties
for which the city of Sterling is the
central market, has the dwarf variety
of broom-cor been grown success.
fully on large scale, and it is there
that manufacturers come annually to
buy their years stock. The standard
broom-corn grows very tall, frequently
reaching a height of ten or twelve
feet, and bears brush twelve to
twenty-four inches long. The dwarf
variety only grows as high as a man s
shoulder. 1t has brush much shorter
and of very fine, silky fibre, and is in
greatest demand by factories making
whisk or clothes brushes. During
1895 there were $50 cars of dwarf
broom-corn shipped from Sterling to
various parts of the world, some OF
them even going to foreign ports.
The Senate subcommittee engaged
on the Dingley bill has decided to
adopt substantially the schedule on
silk goods as passed by the House.
This will strike heavy blow at the
commercial interests of New York and
San Francisco. 1t will practically
destroy our trade with Japan and
throw out of business large number
of firms in both cities engaged in this
trade. since it will exclude the silks
of both China and Japan from our
markets. But this is small matter
compared with the further enrichment
of the great silk -manufacturing firms
of Cheney Brothers Of Connecticut and
one or two large manufacturers in
Patterson, who make or wish to make,
silk goods similar to the silks of the
Orient. 1t is said that a self -consti-
tuted committee, consisting of w. F.
Cheney; Mr.. Huber, Patterson man
ufacturer; Honeyhaus q Curtis and
Passevant & Co., importers; A. Fleight.
man. importer and also manufacturer
Of silks, in company with Vioe-Presi.
dent Hobart, were mainly instrumental
in securing the approval of the meas
ure by both the House and Senate com.
nitsee. 1t is also said that the specific
rates adopted are equal to from 100
per cent to 100 per cent on Chinese
and Japanese goods and on goods made
Of silk and cotton, as well as those
made Of spun silk, which include all
the cheap qualities worn by the COM
mon people. At the same time the
costly dress goods of Lyons, such as
are imported by those importers who
are members OF the promotion com.
mittee, are allowed to enter at rates
not exceeding so per cent. 1t is
easily seen how acceptable such a
schedule must be to manufacturers,