The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-10-19
NEWS SUMMARY.


Less than dozen delegates from the
United States were present at the geo
graphical congress at Berlin.
Native riots have occurred at Brae-
side. West Australia, and it is believed
that Mr.. Hodgson has been killed.
The trustees of the University of
Vermont have voted to confer the de-
gree of Doctor of Laws upon Admiral
Dewey.
The auxiliary cruiser Badger has
been ordered to hurry with what re-
pairs are needed to her machinery and
proceed to Manila
A Paris dispatch says General Rojet,
NJ. De Cavaignac and M. De Beaure-
paire are to be arrested for conspiracy
against the government
Two masked men held up the Palace
saloon at Phoenix, Ariz., and secured
S245. They have not yet been captured.
They left 1000 in sight.
Several parts of dismembered body
of a woman are at the New York
morgue, and the police are investigat-
ing another river mystery.
Advices from eastern Oregon and
eastern Washington show that practi-
cally the entire grain crop south OF the
Snake river has been threshed.
France sympathizes with the Trans
vaRl republic on the same grounds,
with the same motives, and in the same
language as she did with Spain.
The Haitien government steamer De-
Tense, used as an army transport, has
gone ashore near Fortune island, in
the Bahamas, and will prove total
loss.
II is announced that the Filipino gov
eminent has given full powers TO Agon-
clio to treat for the release of the
Spanish prisoners now held by the
insurgents.
The Paris L'Eclair states that the
delegates from the striking iron work.
ers OF La Cressote insist on recognition
of the union and unemployment of all
the strikers
The steamship Piqua, Captain Brown,
from Mediterranean ports, with mis-
cellaneous cargo, arrived at New York
quarantine Saturday morning with her
cargo on fire.
The mayor of Havana, Senior La
Costo, has issued an order declaring
that no Spanish flag shall be displayed
in the city of Havana except at the
Spanish consulate.
The name of John N Stewart of Hi
nois has been presented to President
Mckinley for appointment as successor
to Commissioner Calhoun ON the Inter-
state Commerce commission.
A commemorative tablet in honor of
Signor Crispi, in the facade of the
Palermo, Italy, town hall, was un-
yelled with elaborate ceremonies and in
the presence of large crowd.
In FL Paso, Texas, Edward O'Connor
is dead from the effects of u bullet
wound received at the hands of an
Amcricanized Mexican. The murderer
is in Jail and lynching is feared
Burglars entered the Commercial
bank at Rippey, Iowa, and blew oper
the safe with nitro-g lycerine. The
bank cashier declares the robbers got
only ST. 500, but others claim they got
$1,000.
An advertisement appeared in Lon
don paper last week announcing thu
formation of corps OF gentlemen
rough riders, patterned after Roose
velt's rough riders, for service in Soutl
Africa
The movement to replace Command
ant Joubert of the Boer forces by Vol
ioen, who is rabid hater of England
is taken as an indication of Boer i'm
patience at the conduct of militar
affairs.
NJ. Berenger, president of the exam
lining committee of the French hig
court, has ordered the arrest of N
Grosjean, Judge of the Versailles cour
in connection with the De Rouled
conspiracy.
Governor E. Stanley of Kansas and
representative delegation of citizens {
his state, have arrived in San FraI
cisco to meet the returning Kanss
volunteers, who are coming on tn
transport Tartar,
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson say
that this years corn crop will be or
of the largest in our history. The tot
yield, it is estimated, will be betwet
twenty-three and twenty-five hundrt
millions of bushels.
The London Daily Chronicles Ron
correspondent says that the Britt
government has applied to Signor Ma
conf with view of employing his sy
tenn of wireless telegraphy in II
Transvaal campaign.
The Mallory steamer Lenora burn
and sank at her wharf in East riv
New York. The cargo, consisting
tobacco and 5000 bales of cotton, a
valued at $3.50, 600 TO $500. 900, i, to
loss, and the boat was damaged IS
900.
President Mckinley, according
Colonel Elliott Durand of Chicago, W
went to Washington as the represen