The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-03-19
G NERAL NEWS.

/ AN "SA l'ANS ~ A'iN = NJ " A1Ees-N1 NsNo5-
ury has been reduced to 1900, 600
Secretary Proctor has Issued an order
for the enlistment Of 1900 Indians into
the regular army.
Ex Senator George NJ Chilcott, OF
Colorado, died last week in st. Louis of
Brights disease.
Six thousand miners in Monopgahela
Valley have resumed work. An increased
rate Of wages was accorded to them.
The ashes of Professor Wilhelm
Stefien. Of Louisville, Ky, according to
the provisions Of his will, have been con.
tidei to the keeping q the Ohio river.
The coinage by the United States mints
Of money of all denominations for the
month Of February amounted to So, &c.
300.
The government purchased 100000
ounces OF silver on the 2nd inst, and on
the 18th $4,000 ounces, the average price
paid being 1884.
Mrs. Sarah Belknap, of Darden, Tenn,
went into thu 'leep'nE room Of her two
daughters aud cut their throa.s, ard then
cut her own throat. All three are dead.
John Drishere, prominent hotel pro.
pretor Of Batesvile, Ind, while drunk
and mad with jealousy. shot his wife, a
3.year-old daughter and Mary Jones, his
cook. and then committed suicide.
The recent treaties with Indians will
result in the opening up Of about S,000,-
600 acres Of new land, 5000, COO acres of
which is in The vicinity of Oklahoma,
and the rest in Idaho. Montana and
Dakota
The National Stock & Mining company
has been organized in Chicago. The OBJ
ject, as stated in the charter, is the de.
yelopment Of mining property and to deal
in the product Of the same.
The Bowie county, Texas, District
court has awarded William Rictor, a
colored bootblaGk, $4,000 damages
against the Texas & Pacific Railway COM
pany. The plaintiff was thrown from a
train, and falling under the wheels had
both legs cut off
Young men, 10 to Ohio and get your.
selves wives. There is woman in that
State who has been married ffty-eight
years, and who has never missed kindling
the fires. An exchange remarks that her
husband is the oldest fire escape on
record
On his way to France, Eyraud, the
French stranger, asked for knife to
cnt his finger nails. The officers in
charge feared that he contemplated sui.
eide and refused to give him one, where
upon he said; 'If wished to commit
suicide l could readily force my hands
between my ribs and make way with
myself" He was soon after manacled to
prevent him from doing this.
One of the latest proposed applications
of electricity is policeman's club that
contains galvanic battery. When the
rowdy seizes the club, thinking to wrest
it from the policeman, the rowdy re-
ceives an electric shock, which astonishes
and paralyzes him, rendering his capture
easy.
The Kilrain Godfrey fight at San
Francisco last week was one OF the
hardest battles ever fought on the Coast.
Kilrain knocked Godfrey out in the
forty. fourth round. Tie fight lasted an
hour an fifty eight minutes
The wedding OF Miss Mamie Bayard
the youngest daughter Of ex Secretary Of
State Bayard. to Count Lewonhaupt Of
Sweden is announced 10 take place early
in April In Wilmington, Del.
The forfeited Northern Pacific Rail.
road lands we're open fur entry at the
United States Land Office at Vancouver,
Wash, on the 18Th A large crowd of
settlers have been laying seige to the
office since yesterday, camping over
night 10 the street in front of the Land
Office to gaia priority OF entry.
The great labor strike 10 Australia is
said to be practically over Free labor
is Icing employ ell in all the colo
les. Vessels cargoes sre loaded
and discharged in sydney, Melbourne,
Adelaide and Brisbane without difficulty.
The chief trouble experienced is an in.
sufficient supply of coal.
1t has been calculated that the electro
motive force OF bolt Of iightrng is about
3, 500, 900 volts, the carer about A..
900, 900 amperes, and the time to be
|. 1000 part of second In such bolt
there is an energy Of ., 450, 900, 900 watts,
or 3, 22S, lS2 horse power
The last census shows that ON June 4,
1890, there were As, 533 convicts in State
prisons in the United States, against
30, $50 in 1880. The census also shows
that one third Of the who'll. are foreign,
one.third negroes, and the other third
white Americans. OF the 1928 peni-
Tertiary convicts, 43, 40 are of the male
sex and only l,7Sl Of the female sex, the
per centage of women being less now