The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-27
FOREIGN NEWS.


the rate of discount to 2 per cent.
The President of Nicaragua has
signed the decree abolishing capital
punishment.
Diphtheria has appeared in the
Haw allan islands for the first time,
thanks to the Japanese.
William T. Best, the organist and
composer, is dead at London. He was
born at Carlisle in 1926.
lie Journal Oficiel, organ of the
French government, is printed by
cooperative society of compositors.
Nicaraguan and Costa Rican commits
sioners are trying to determine the
boundary between their respective
countries.
The Spanish Government will Dor
row $50, 900, 900 from the Bank of
Spain in order to continue the pay
ment of troops in Cuba.
The California navel oranges have
caused real sensation in the English
fruitmarket this year, retailing high
as four shillings dozen.
The preliminary contract fer the
Chinese loan of sixteen million pounds
has been signed in Pekin in behalf of
the British syndicate capitalists.
Col. Spalding has withdrawn from
his contract with the Hawaiian govern
ment for the construction of cable
between California and Hawaii.
A special dispatch from Naples to
London says that two large streams of
lava that have been flowing down
Mount Vesuvius for the last few days
have united at the deposit from the
eruption of 1895. The activity CT the
principal crater is normal.
/ Newspapers may now be sold in the
streets in all parts of Hungary except
Pennsylvania, the prohibition. which
dates from l84S, having been repealed.
Papers, however, must not be sold by
cripples or persons likely to offend the
sight of the public, nor by children
under ii years of age.
The State Department has received
a dispatch from United States Consul
Little at Tegucigalpa, the capital Of
Honduras, stating that the revolution
has come to an end. He furnishes ne
details. The last heard officially al
the department from Honduras was
that the revolutionists were in force a
Puerto Cortez.
A special to the New York Herald
from Buenos Ayres, Argentina, says
The committee of the National party
DIR. Pellegrini, chairman, appointed t,
J investigate the extent of the decease,
expectation of cereals, reports that tn
! expectation decreased $1,000, 900. TIL
J decrease in the expectation of wool i
found to be about So, 1000, 900.
The terms of peace which Turke,
has offered Greece are: The ressora
ton of the boundary as fixed by tn
treaty of 1881, which gives to Turke.
all of Thessaly; TIE evacuation b,
Greece of all points which she nov
holds in Epirus; the withdrawal of tn
Greeks from Crete; the acceptance o
: the Porte's plan of autonomy for Crete
} and the payment of war indemnit,
} large enough to cover the expense o
) mobilizing the Turkish forces.
A concession has been granted by tn
Mexican Government for the construc
ton of railway from the eli y of Chi
huahua to some point on the Pacif
Coast to be determined by the civi
engineers. The road is known as tn
Chihuahua, Sonora and Pacific, am
by the location of its determined term
mus ON the Mexican Central will opel
great mining region, rich agricul
tural country and belt of timber an
coal lands to the railroad systems con
: verging at Ell Paso, Enrique G. Creel
: banker of chihuahua, and A. A
' Spendlove, superintendent of the Chi
t huahua Mining Company, are tn
concessionaries. The last named ger
9 tleman is credited with representing
D New York syndicate capable and will
, ing to construct the road.