Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-18
Eastern Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Reported Revolt In Havana Not
Confirmed--The Army Reduction.

hsrbor.
The House Military Committee expect
to reduce the military establishment SO
as to save about "a 900, 900 annually.j
The Naval Appropriation.
The Secretary of the Navy, in response
to the House resolution asking how
much of the appropriation for the pres
ent fiscal year was expended prior to !
January last, and how much of the |
$4,000, 1000 appropriated by the present
Congress had been spent, has prepared
reply, stating that the naval appropria.
ton for the present fiscal year, exclusive
OF nearly $4,000 appropriated in the
Legislative, Executive and Judicial bills,
amounts to little over S24 100000 |
From this was drawn prior to January l,
SIS, 1874 600, Of which there was expend-
ed prior to that date 81, 1922, 725.
Death Of Ex-senator Mason--Illness
Of Alex. II. stephens
Mason, ex, United States Senator and
Confederate minister, died near AleIan-
dria on Saturday.
Alexander II. Stephens is seriously i'll
with neuralgia OF the kidneys.
A Chief Conyicted--Honors to the Po-
laris Crew.
New YORK, Feb. l6.-William Conk-
ling, Deputy Sheriff. was to-day convict
ell on a charge ofstealing SIS, 900 in gold
certificates from Burr 5. Craft. Sentence
was deferred.
Tonight reception was given by the
Geographical Society in the large hall OF
Cooper Union to the officers and crew OF
the Polaris. A resolution was adopted
recommending additional compensation,
besides their pay as sailors, to the sur
vivors of the Polaris expedition. Dr..
Hayes expressed the belief that there is
al open sea at the north which can yet
be trayersed by the Robinson channel.
Destructive Fire.
The fye-story building. Nos. 525 to
53l West Twenty.fourth street, was
burned tonight. The lower floors were
occupied by the Combination Rubber
Company, and the upper stories by C. Z.
Becker's window shade factory. Total
loss, $4,000; insurance not ascer-
tanned.
Festivities at Memphis and New
Orleans.
MEMPHIS, Feb. licking Menus en-
tered the city in royal state at p. m.
to-day. The keys of the city were pre-.
scented TO him, with the usual speech and
Ceremonies, The city is full Of strangers,
and every train aud boat arriving is
crowded.
New ORLEANS, Feb. licking Car.
nival arrived in the city at noon on the
steamer Dix. He was received at the
landing by the Mayor and city officers
and escorted to the St. Charles Hotel,
where ladies' presented the King with a
beautiful banner.
OMAHA, Feb. 10 On Saturday last
Mrs. James Gray LETT her three children
IN the house, seven miles from Lincoln,
/ Neb., and nearing her house on her re-
turn, discovered tie building to be Oh
fire, bat before she could get there the
roof fell in, and all three of the children
were burned to death.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. l6.--Phillip d.
Corrie, cashier of the Atlantic Branch of
the Freedman's Savings Institution, is
arrested, charged with the embazzlement
of $4,000.
BosToN, Mass, Feb l6.-Thomas and
Simeon Sturtevant and maiden lady,
Mary Buckley, were found murdered at
their residence in Halifax, Mass, this
morning. No clue has been obtained to
the murderers.
The Indians Of Wyoming.
OMAHA, Feb 16.-General Ord received
the following dispatch to-day from Com
missioner Smith: Fort Laramie, w. T.,
Feb. lG. A messenger has just returned
from the agency. DR.. Saville, the agent,
writes that the Northern Indians have oil
gone to Tongue river, and that they alone
have committed the recent depredations,
and that the Ogallalas have faithfully
guarded the agency since Frank Apple
ton was killed. and that they will pre-
vent the Northern Indians from coming
to the agency and passing through this
country. He also says that the Indians
who shot Appleton were killed by the
Brules, who also recaptured the mules
stolen by the Minniconjo joins from Charles
Govern, agent. Howard writes through
Seville that Spotted Tail has a guard
over his agency. The party who killed
Lieut.. Robinson and his corporal consist
ed Of Minniconjons, 'Uncapapos and Saw.
sacoes. Seven Indians were seen few
miles from Camp Hambaugh on Satur-
day, which is thought to indicate that
DR.. Seville's judgment is correct. Two
Lances and his band are supposed to be
south Of the South Platte. Nothing is
heard OF them. Captain Mills COM
msnd, who started after the Indians,
and reported near Big Springs, Neb..
has not been heard Of. Lieutenant
Robinson's wife and his remains left
Cheyenne to-day, bound East.
Fire mt Sing Sing-Chief Justice
Waite.
PouGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, Feb. II. "A
large fire is raging at Sing Sing. Two
blocks, including Olive Hall, are burned,
and another block is now in flames.
Engines have been sent for to neighbor-
ing villages.