The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-17
ecaEi.iN NEWS


Pensions Bill has been passed in the
popular Chamber of New Zealand.
Advices received in Msnagus, Nicar-
aqua, from San Salvador state that re-
volution in Salvador is imminent.
At Clinton, Ontario, Canada, the
Doherty organ factory, with all its
contents, has been burned. Loss, $780,
600.
The London and Brazilian Bank at
/ Rio Janeiro Brazil, has realized a
loan of e100,0 900 in London for the
Msyana Railroad.
A Rome csblegram says that King
Humbert has signed decree reducing
the customs tariff on cereals from 7 4
to 5 lire until April 80.
Charles Fitzpatrick, the noted Amer
lean Splinter. has been defeated in
I London Dy George T. Inckler, repre-
sentative of the emerald isle.
The Chinese residents of Sydney, N.
S. W., have petitioned the Legislative
Council against the Aliens Restriction
Act passed in the Assembly.
] the Berlin Post says a conspiracy
has been discovered at Teheran, Persia,
to murder the Shah and install one of
his six brothers OH the throne.
1t is reported in Paris that King
Leopold of Belgium has purchased for
$40. 900 the yacht Mayfiower, built
for the late Ogden Goelet Of New
York.
The British Atlas Company has
offered to purchase all railroads and
steamers owned by the Nicsraguan Gov
eminent for 81, 800 900 silver. The
Government demands 81, 800, 900.
In consequence of the disorganized
state of trade large number of min.
ers in New South Wales, who are on
( the verge of starvation, have appealed
I to the Government to establish relief
works.
DR., Schenck, the discoverer Of sex
selection, has sold the German rights
TO his system for $4,000. The plan
will be made public as soon as the
British and American rights are dis
posed Of.
( According to dispatch from La
/ Paz, the nominal capital of Bolivia,
that city has been declared in state
of siege. Zoila, Florez and other per-
sonage belonging to the opposition
have been banished.
( Premier Rudini, of Italy, has ex.
I planned in the Chamber of Deputie s
that the recent disorders in tee pro-
vinces were due to the dearness Of
food and lack of employment owing to
the retrenchment in public expendi.
ture
( The Russian fleet at Port Arthur,
China, it is reported, is helpless for
! want of coal, being unable to steam
even to Vladivostock The Japanese
coal firms which had the contract to
supply the Russian fleet, having de-
4 faulted.
4 Serious riots have occurred at Sin.
mar, India, in the Nasick district,
Bomboy presidency, against the plague
measures. The police were obliged to
fire upon the mob in order to quell the
disturbance, and many of the rioters
were wounded.
IL is reported from Seoul that the
King of Korea has asked the United
States Minister there for protection
against possible revolution. Captain
Wildes of the United States cruiser
Boston refuses to land naval force,
though strongly urged to do SO by the
X ing.
A Constantinople cablegram SAYS
Russia is about to present note to
Turkey demanding payment of the
whole balance of the indemnity of the
Russo-Turkish war, amounting to e2S,-
1000, with view of making the
Sultan more dncile in the settlement of
the Cretan question,
Mrs. Caravan of the parish of Kent.
Woodstock, New Brunswick, becom-
ing jealous of her sister. Minnie Tuck.
er. purchased stryohnine. stepped it in
"A decoction of tea and gave it to her
sister, who drank it and died. A Coro-
ners' jury accused Mrs Caravan of
murder and she has been arrested.
4 Minister Woodford has cabled the
State department that the government
of Spain has consented to negotiate a
commercial treaty with the United
States on the basis of reciprocity, with
schedules for Cuba and the peninsula.
The negotiations will be conducted in
Washington at time yet to be agreed
upon.
The Sultan is much exercised in re-
gard to the governorship OF the Island
of Crete, and has repeatedly tele.
/ graphed to the Car on the subject,
to which the Car replied through the
Russian Embassy, adhering positively
TO the nomination of Prince George of
f Greece, which, it is said, is owing to
promise His Majesty made to the
Dowager Czarina.
1t is discovered that the Canadian
\ government by les contract with Mac
kenzie Il Mann TO build railroad $50
miles long from Stickeen river to Lake
Teslin has agreed to give the company
1897 900 in cash and 5000 square miles
IN the klondike gold fields. No other
railroad is to be built for five years
through Canadian territory to the
Yukon.
1 The island Of Providence, the largest
of the Bahamas, is likely TO fall under
American control. Henry NJ. Flagler,
the Standard Oil magnste. has pur.
chased from the British Government
for $4,000, an immense building at
Nassau, ON Providence. known as the
Royal Victoria Hotel. He intends to
demolish the building at onoe and upon
its site to build what he declares will
be the finest hotel in the world The
new hokal Is 10 ho aal1aI &ha Colou,.t