The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-06-25
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1t is reported that President Hippolyte |
of the Haytian republic has been shot
and killed by an insurgent I
At Brest, in France, the yield OF milk
has been increased by giving the cows
hot water instead of cold. The increase
is said to be one third.
News has reached San Francisco from
Alaska OF the death from starvation OF
james Ingram and f. c. Young, men,
bers of prospecting party in the Yukon
valley. ....--
A Gonzales, Texas thief reached the
limit last week. He broke open the
Southern Pacific railroad office there,
stole the money and carried oil the
vault.
Sam Jones, the great evangelical, sent
his wife this laconic telegram the other
day: "Dear wife. Licked the Mayor
of Bonham to-day. VIII preach at Tay-
lorville tonight"
A special dispatch from Guatemala
says plan has been discovered to annex
Guatemala to the United States. Some
of the most prominent officials and coffee
planters were interviewed.
A proposition is on foot to build a
gigantic monument jointly to the mem
DRY of the Federal and Confederate sol
diers of the late war. If this is done it
will put the bloody shirt in the shade.
The great engineer DeLesseps, the
originator of the Panama canal scheme,
is to be prosecuted for fraud He is
charged with misleading investors who
subscribed money for carrying on the
work Of the Panama canal.
Nina Van Zant, of Anarchist fame, is
soon to be married to Salvador Stefano
Malato, young Sicilian, who was sent
to Chicago by the Italian papers to look
after the Italian department of the
Worlds Fair.
The San Francisco Report, speaking Of
the contemplated new coin designs, sug
gested that the head Of Blaine SHOULD
adorn the dollar, while Harrison's an(
Wanamaker's would look well on dime
and nickels, respectively.
A large number of Indians at the diff
ferent Indian agencies in Arizona hav
! applied to the Commissioner of the Col
umbian Exposition at Chicago for spac
, in which to exhibit their curios and art
Giles Of their own manufacture.
Secretary Proctor has prepared state
/ ment showing that assertions from tn
9 army are less now than at any time sine
Y the war closed The assertions for tn
e month of May were less than half who
$ they were for several years past, an
n the rate of decrease is constantly ii
!, creasing.
Parnelrs marrying Mrs. 0 Shea wi
not probably restore him to the leade
IS ship of the Irish party, but it will gi'
'e him control of her large fortune, whit
d will doubtless go long way towards r
d conciling him, at least that is the elfe
u which money has on most people.
8, Mr.. Crisp of Georgia, it appears,
n likely to be chosen speaker of the ne
Congress. He seems to possess all &
qualifications and the cool AMI admiral
~ temper required in that officer. I
III latest praise bestowed upon him com
ar from ex.Senato. EdmGnds of Vernon
oil who thinks he will be the SUGGEST
~ man.
: Secretary Foster, in his speech writ
a. for delivery at the Ohio Republican &c
vention. paid particular attention to t
silver question, and made special poi
Is in regard to coinage calling, attention
r. the fact that after July LIST it will be d
ca cretionary with the Secretary of
90 Treasury whether silver coinage CT
y; tinues or not. A great many suggestiC
n, have been offered the Secretary on tn
r. indicating that the sentiment is agail
IT, the suspending of silver coinage, and
ls- is within the range of probability Il
coinage will continue after July LIST TO
while at least.