The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1877-05-19

this feeling take strong enough hold on Con-
gress 1t might seriously embarrass the opera
lions of the Admin istration. He saw no other
reason to expect difficulty or delay. Sherman
declined to gay whether Hayes would or would
not veto any act extending the time for resump-
ton. All the signs were good, and he proposed
to go forward steadily. He spoke with great
hopefulness.
sALr LAKE May Is.
The arming and drilling of Mormons contin-
ues throughout Utah. Gentiles. and especially
those In the northern and southern settlements
are alarmed ut the few United States troops in
Utah. Fourteen companies inhabit Camp Doug
las, which overlooks Salt Lake, and a fragment
Of regiment occupies Camp Cameron, near
Beaver. The ghost of q company haunts Fort
Hall, in Idaho. Governor Emery has written
letter to the Secretary of War which will reach
Washington Thursday or Friday, requesting
that Camp Douglas be provided with five COM
panies of infantry and two of cavalry; that Camp
Cameron shall have two full companies Of In
fantry; that one infantry company shall be
quartered at st. George; that another shall be
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company at Fort Hall be retained and reinforced.
1t is to be hoped McCrary will furnish these
blue coats at once, whose presence here would
do much to ailay appreheusions of capitalists
and families, who are alarmed, ut once, by the
diligence and vigor Of the prosecution against
prominent Mormons, and their determ nation
to resist the United States authorities.
CHICAGO, May IA.
A Tribunes special from streater. Illinois
says the local miners of that place, who struck
some time ago and whose places were supplied
with new men, and who subsequently We're for
the most part taken back so that only about
loo of the new men were retained, have for a
long time been kept separate from the black
legs, as the novices were called, least trouble
should occur from their jealousy. OF late, how
ever, the two gangs have been allowed to
mingle, and to-day the ranking hate found ex-
preston by some of the old miners poisoning
the food in the dinner buckets OF the new ones,
and tonight some sixty OF these unfortunates
are in the throes of agony, any many of them
will undoubtedly die from the effects OF the
poison, and the lives of all hang upon thread
Arsenic was the drug used, but in some cases
it was so plentifully administered as to coun
| teract its own action. The whole matter is 9
mystery, and it is not even known when or how
| or in what article OF food the dose was placed
LONDON, May 10.
| An Increase Of only 12,OO0 men has been dis
| tributed among the garrisons Of Alsace ant
Lorraine. The Turkish gunboat which passed
Kalafat under cover of the Turkish fire from
| Widen was captured by Roumanian battery
lower down the river. The gunboat built al
Pesth was armed and was en- route for Rust.
chuck for armament.
| Yesterday steam tug from lbrail took owe
some lighters and two hundred laborers and re
| moved several hundred tons of coal, unopposed
which the Turks had accumulated at Getsche
for the use of the fotilla. The Russian from
will be covered by ten regiments Of Cossacks
| PARIS May 10.
A dispatch from Pesth says Roumania. .ha
declared war against Turkey.
| CoNsrANTrNoPLE, May Is,
News Is received that the Russian corps hav
| crossed the Danube near Hotback and entere'
Dobriudschua, and an engagement is proceeding
| ArHENL, May Is.
The first collision between the Greek insure
ents and Turkish troops occurred near Armiros
Thessaly. The press Of Athens unanimousl
demand war.