The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-27
FoREIoN NEWS

ship Of the French Pacific squadron
has been ordered to Chinese waters.
SIR Robert Henry Meade, Of London
permanent Under Secretary of Stat,
for the Colonies since 1891, is dead
aged So years.
News comes from Victoria, q. C.
that the japanese vessel Nara, ha
foudered of the Pescadores and sunI
with eighty souls on board.
The Russian government has giveI
the Winchester Arms company al
order for 10, 900 Of the test militar,
rifles and SOC, 900 rounds Of ammuni
ton.
The court martial in Paris which
tried County Esterhazy, on the charg,
OF betraying military secrets, after /
two-days' session, has acquitted the
prisoner Of the charge.
Martial law, which was proclaimed
at Prague, Bohemia, in December a.
result Of the riotous demonstration
which followed the disturbances in
the Reichsrath, is abrogated, the Bo.
hernia Diet having assembled.
According to special dispatch to
London from Constantinople, the Rus
sian Embassy there has been threatened
with bomb outrages, unless Russia
withdraws her opposition to the ameli-
Grafton of the condition Of the AImen.
ians.
An official dispatch received at The
Hague, Holland, from Batavia an.
nounoes that the Capital of Amboyna,
one of the Molucicas Islands, has been
completely demolished by an earth
quake. Fifty persons were killed and
200 injured.
A contract for long term of years
has been just executed and confirmed
by the Mexican Government and the
Western Union Telegraph Company
and the Mexican Telegraph Company
for the exclusive interchange of tele-
graphic business with Mexico.
1t is reported at Barcelona that Gen
eral Weyler has been summoned to
Madrid. In the course of an interview
with a newspaper representative, Gen.
eral Weyler has expressed his belief in
inc possibility of a conflict between
spain and the United States.
The Queen of England has decided to
convert tn old palace at Kew, near the
Botanical Gardens, into a public mu-
cum. The state rooms at Kensipptop
'alace, all of which have been closed
md unoccupied since 1850, are to be
estored and thrown open to the public.
A special dispatch from Shanghai
nina, to London says the treaty pro.
lding for lease of Kiaochau to Ger
many is not yet signed. Japan is
trenuously opposing the final sigma
ure. The British gunbuat Swift has
one to Hsinan to ascertain the French
lovements.
1t is understood that Consul g enerai
zee, IN his consular reports, has de-
Jared that autonomy will not succeed
Cuba. he expects the collapse of
So'ofuhneub sOOD. Il6Se
eports are not given out lest thew
nould force crisis between Spain and |
he United States.
The Madgeburg Zeitung of Berlin
sserts that the changes in the Gus.
,ms regulations as to the petroleum
hitch Count Posadowski, Minister of
le Interior, foreshadowed in the
have already been made,
nd heneeforth the duty, even upon
fixtures of Caucasian and American
etroieums, will be fxable by weight.
According to special dispatch from
nanghai to London the agreement be.
veen England, Japan and Russia with
speot to Corea involves restoration
the status quo and the reinstatement
McLeavy Brown as Chief Commits
oner OF Customs. Sir Robert Hart
lreotor of the Chinese Marine Chs.
ms, is negotiating with the Chinese
overnment for loan.
A meeting of the Anti. British
Iliance Association was held recently
New York. The association will
age war against any treaty ON arbi.
alton that may be proposed between
Is country and the British Empire.
will endeavor to combine
influence of all organizations op.
sed to an Anglo-Americsn Alliance
any form.
Lyman f. Cooley, a well.known en-. ,,
neer of Chicago, drainage canal .
me, and other engineers bound tor
caragua, have carefully examined :
Celebra cut extending from Pedro
guel to Bias Obispo. They are un.
lmous in admitting the feasibility of
ranama Canal along that route. il
egihg that the obstacles to be over n
ne elsewhere would be greater. o
A girl in Paris, France, waylaid a G
rk and threw vitIiol in his face. a
shot her as she was running away Y
then running to her PROSTATE ?
", knelt ON her head and shot her r.
ee more timss, killing her. he 9
arrested and, take to hospital. II
ere he was found to be terribly II
med. He said the woman had fol. n
red him for year trying to kill him. q
At the Maidenhead county Court in %
1don cases against Spencer Eddy. ii
Rotary of United States ambassador o
onel John c. Hay, and ]. E. White. ',
OF henry White, secretary of the D,
tied States Embassy, for bicycling 3,
sidewalks were adjourned in conse. re
nee OF the Home Office telegraphine Q,
ne magistrates that Henry White OF
med diplomatic privileges for his II
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hyperion Island, guano island off az
coast of Mexico upon which the la
erican flag had been raised BY the sa
eriean Guano Company, was al