The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-28
FOREIGN MEwS.

wrecked in the Straits If Magellan.
II. L. Chang, Chih-Lung, Yiceroy Of
Liang Hu, intends to issue Chinese
paper money.
The Turkish reform league has APP
pealed to the people OF Europe to de-
pose the Sultan.
Lord Wolsley, ommander-in-ohief
of the British army, has ordered that
all officers wear mustaches.
Preparations will soon commence for
the diamond jubilee to celebrate the
longest reign of Great Britain.
A London Chronicle dispatch from
Rome says that Greece has ordered
100, 900 rifles from an Austrian firm.
The Lord Mayors (of London) Indian
famine fund has now reached over
$175, 900, of which amount William
Waldorf Aston gave $4,000.
A Bombay, India, dispatch to the
Daily Mail of London says the plague
has appeared in Poonah and is bad in
several of the other towns in the North
west.
The weather at Hamburg, Ger
many, is very rough, the mercury reg
istering over 60 degrees of frost. So
much ice has formed in the harbor
that navigation is impeded.
The number of steerage passengers
landed at Ellis island, off the coast of
New York, during the year of 1896,
was 952, $50. There were 80, 1913 cabin
passengers landed at the port of New
York during the same period.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Standard of London says Germany had
declined to accede to Russias' desire
that she should persuade Austria to
agree to partition of the Balkans, in
surfing Russian performance in the
western half of the peninsula.
The heavy Montreal hardware house
of Burne & Caverhill, extending from
Colborne to Ann streets, ON the canal
banks, will probably be total loss
from fire. The firm has $500, 900
worth of goods stored in the buildings,
insured for two-t thirds of the value.
The Berlin Germany, budget COM
mittee of the Reichstag has voted the
initial grant of $4,000 marks to pro.
vide for Germany's participation in
the Paris Exposition in 1900. DIR.
Won Boetticher, the Minister of the
Interior, declared that the total asked
for this purpose will not exceed ., 0o0,.
900 marks.
A short branch of railway is to be
constructed at once from Woosung to
Shanghai, China, and the route from
Shanghai to 500 Chow and Chinkiane
has just been surveyed. The roat
from Chinkiang to Marking was sur
veyed last year, and the plans for these
lines are in the hands Of Viveroy Liu
but the money question forms barrier
in the way of commencing work.
The Turkish Reform League ha,
issued from Brussels an appeal to tn,
people of Europe declaring that tn,
Sultan has placed massacre to tax,
place during the approaching Ramazal
fasts, and imploring the powers to in
terfere, depose the Sultan and proclaim
Reichad Effendi, younger brother Q
the Sultan, and heir presumptive, hi
successor, with council of state mad
4 up of equal numbers of Moslems
{ Christians and Europeans.
3 The Rev. William ]. Brown, paste
; of Wesley Chapel, in London, has jus
arrived in this country. He come
: here to collect money to restore Yves
ley's tomb and to complete the restora
tion of the chapel, which is the shrin
of Methodists. England has contribu
ted $4,000 Only $4,000 more i
needed, and DIR. Brown will make
tour of the United States and Canad
\ to raise this sum. Mr.. Brown
/. preached one Sunday evening at til
/. Metropolitan Temple, Grants oil
4 church.
: A correspondent of the North Chin
d Daily News says. Russia is gradual
: securing firm foothold in the PENN
/. sula of Corea. A few weeks ago
number of Russian military officer
arrived to drill the Corean army
:, Among these were ten non-commis
:, stoned officers (the number to be il
creased in the near future), who occu
q py quarters within the Enclosure of til
:, new palace. These we believe are [
!, act as sort of body guard to the king
'essSho will deoubtless soon leave til
;Russian Legation and occupy the new
: ly built palace in the foreign settl,
:. ment of the capital. Russians hay
!, also received several concessions, one
! which is the cutting of timber in I'll
north and Dagelet island, off the ca
coast of Corea.
l. Persistent rumors have been in oil
u culation for some time that it is Il
> intention of Don Carlos, the pretend,
> to the throne of Spain, to abdicate h
j. claim in favor of his son, Don jain
This action is said to be due to Il
l. scandal arising from the recent elopt
q ment of Princess Elvira, Don Carlo
l' daughter. 1t is now said he will gi,
u up his claim as soon as certain matte
a can be arranged. 1t may not be gel
y orally known that Don Carlos, Duke
u Madrid, is also one of the five preten
't ers to the thorne of France. His pr,
70 tension to the French throne is bas,
on the claim that he is the head of I'll
l. house of Bourbon-Anjou he havil
l. succeeded his father, Don Juan, VIII
10 upon the death of the Comte de Chan
is bourd was the nearest male agnate
10 the deceased Count and hence accor
). ing to the Salic law, his heir.
Il The Otay dam is now finished to
n height of 100 feet from the datu
plane of the reservoir or 1876 from lie