The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
FOREIGN asws.

"A strong legal nght Is Delng mAue
.gainst the American Tobacco Com
amy in Canada.
NJ. Halanzier du Fresnoy, formerly
director of the Paris Opera. is dead.
de was born in 1919.
1t is generally believed that the peo-
pie of Venezuela are satisfied with the
arbitration treaty.
Floods have occurred in the Liviada /
districts in Greece They have been
by some loss of life.
The Spanish steamer CarTanza Mar
tinez sank recently in the bay of Bis
cay. Her crew, consisting Of twenty
men was drowned.
Famine is prevailing i'll the province
of Kherson. 1t is estimated $50, 900
roubles will be required for the relief
Of the sufferers.
The Turkish troubles have quieted
down so much that Admiral Selfridge's
flagship, the San Francisco, is to be
taken to Genoa to be locked.
Sir John Brown, one of the first in
Great Britain to advocate the plating
of warships with armor, died at Brigh-
ton, England, few days ago.
Harry Mansur, an American, has
been released from Ensenada Jail. be
took American goods into Mexico with
out fling the necessary bond.
Sir Arthur Sullivan. the composer,
can now command $4,000 down for one
song, while from THE Lost Chord"
alone it is said, that he has realized
over $50, 900.
The people of st. Michaels. in the
Azores islands, have asked for help for
the many people impoverished when
the island was swept by a great water
spout last November.
M. Antoine Theodore Joseph Thery,
life Senator of France, is dead. He was
born at Lille, March 4, 1907, and was
elected life Senator by the National
Assembly in 1875.
The bubonic plague is increasing in
India, there having been 1904 cases
up to date The exodus from Bombay
continues, and the newspapers threaten
the natives with martial law unless
they conform with the sanitary regu-
lations.
The Wilson line steamship Volo is a
total loss at Wingu, off the coast OF
Sweden. The crew and passengers
were saved. The Volo was screw
steamship, built at Hull in 1890 and
registering S41 tons net.
American Consul Monaghan at Chen.
itz, Germany, reports great increase
in the beet sugar industry in that
country. He thinl s, particularly in
Ohio and Nebraska, beet planting should
take the place in part of the raising Of
meat and grain.
The armored cruiser Rossia, of H..
1870 tons displacement, the largest YES
sci in the Russian navy. which ran or
a sandbank near Cronstadt, Russia, il
the beginning of November, and haI
been frozen in ever since, has been re
fioated after fifty zone days of incessan
labor with steam and icebreakers.
A family of ten persons and mum
Der of cattle have been engulfed by th,
subsiding Of a bog of 100 acres, neal
Castle island, County Kerry, Ireland
1t is stated that other persons were
drowned. The subsistence of the boe
seems to have been an extraoIdinar,
affair. There were terrible storms
through the night and about 3 O. clocl
in the morning the people of the dis
triot were alarmed by a unusual rum
bling, which they feared was caused
by an earthquake. The bog, which
was believed to be thirty feet deeI
and which had long supplied the
whole neighborhood with peat, wa.
moved for several miles along an ole
water course, filling quarry twent,
feet deep ON the way, flooding tn,
rivers of the country with peat waite
and doing deal of damage. At tn
Donnelly homestead ten persons hav,
completely disappeared, leaving N
trace
, The New York Commercial Adver
; Users Washington correspondent says
The coming of ex.Queen Liliuokalan
to this country promises interesting de
velopment as regards the annexation @
, the Hawaiian islands. According +
the interviews she gives out the OK
, Queen favors the plan of uniting tn
{ two republics. But this statemen
must be taken with grain of salt
The truth is she anticipates some dc
velopments soon of more or less impor
to Hawaii and wants to be on hand {
take advantage of them. 1t has bee
, an open secret for some months pas
that the Mikado Ministers have bee
| very busy in 'colonizing" Japanese i
the young republic of the Pacific. TIL
meaning Of this. in 50 many words,
that Japan herself wants some say i
the matter, when it comes to votin
: for annexation. The fact is, his Mir
listers are very anxious to extend tn
,, Mikado's empire.
} The State Department. at wasnln,
ton has been asked to interest itself
. the case Of Enrique Delgado, an Amer
5 can reporter who has been captured b
the Spaniards while lying wounded i
a Cuban hospital and believed to /
) in danger Of summary execution.
| representative of the New York Ma
. and Express waited upon Secretar
: Olney and claimed the protection {
) our Government for Delgado. whom b
, described as legitimate correspondent
of that newspaper and in no sense
, combatant. A telegram has also bee
received by the secretary from some Q
Delgado's relatives in New York. nots
, bly, W. L. Stokes, begging him to rel
, cue him from the peril in which
stands. Instructions have been cable
Acting Consul General Springer at HIS