The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-08-10
NEWS SUMMARY.

luo totaA output lor tue seaSou IN
Klondike is estimated at SEQ, 900, 900.
The lack of the usual fall of rain in
Cuba is delaying the maturing of the
sugar crop.
The war department has chartered
the steamer Siam to carry 300 cavalry
horses to Manila.
There Is no confirmation OF the re-
port that Chief Justice Chambers Of
Samoa will resign.
The volksraad at Pretoria, in secret
session, has adopted the seven years
franchise proposition.
Christian A. Geoffrion, member OF
the Canadian cabinet and distin'
gulshed lawyer, is dead.
News Of the Arctic whaling feet is
that so far it has been bad year, as
very few whales have been seen.
The Federal government has sent
agents to several points in Texas to
secure horses for service In Cuba.
Tremendous storms have destroyed
bridges and Frustrated telegraph wires
In Chile, interrupting communication.
The new tug Fearless, recently
built for the Speckels brothers, San
Francisco, has been chartered by the
government.
Abe Rothschild, notorious diamond
thief and crook, has been sentenced TO
erve three years in the Texas penten-
tiary for forgery.
United States Consul Jenkins has
cabled the state department that Sap
Salvador is in state of siege as re-
suit of revolutionary plotting.
The past week closed the period OF
two years prescribed by the Ding
ley tariff law within which recipros-
ity treaties may be negotiated
An English syndicate has paid S9i5,-
BOO for the Iowa and Yellow Jacket
groups in Boise Basin, Idaho. They
Join the famous Gold Hill group.
Governor Bradley OF Kentucky has
declined to call a special session of the
legislature or send troops to Clay
county where feudal war is in pro-
gress.
The Mark Lane Express says that
the British wheat promises full aver
xvtnlA nd ho,.
that the oat crop is distinctly de.
Hcient.
A reciprocity treaty, under the pro.
visions of the Dingley law, has been
negotiated between Portugal and the
United States, and went into effec,
the Goth inst.
Americans built the first street rail.
way constructed In Korea 1t is an
overhead electric trolley road, six
miles In length, and runs through
Seoul, the capital.
The Argentine minister of finance
proposes to reduce the taxes on for
eign insurance companies from 10 to
per cent, raising those on Argentin,
corporations from 2 to per cent
From John Shermans closest frien,
and former law partner, Henry C
Hedges, 1t Is learned that the venera
BILE statesman ia improving slowly from
his recent illness and hopes to be abou
again socn.
The triple murder of an American
named Ward and two Japanese womel
at Yokohama, the supposed cause be
ing jealousy, brings an American sailo
named Miller under the Japanese Law
a. the suspected murderer.
The agricultural departments fol
sign crop report for July states tina
commercial authorities estimate tn
shortage In the Russian wheat crop a
from IS, 100000 to l2o,oOO,OOO bushels
- compared with last year.
The United States district attorne
at Jacksonville, Fla, has been warne
from Washington TO beware OF fill
clustering expeditions from the Flor
de coast to Honduras, Nicaragua ar
other Central American countries.
The removal OF tresspassers-whi
settlers-from the Leech Lake India
reservation, has been postponed un,
August 20, by order of Assistant Sc
Rotary of the Interior Hitchcoc
The settlers are vigorously opposii
removal.
st. Vincent, Cape Verde islands, l
ports the Italian steamer Cent
America from Monteyideo June 80, I
Genoa with $40 passengers, has be
towed there for distance OF 800 mil,
having been disabled by the loss Of h
propeller.
Work has begun on the Construct
of passage from the cell of Ca
Dreyfus to the hall In which the cou
martial before which he Is to be tri
will sit. This will enable the prison
to escape the annoyance of observati
by the curious.
General Shafser will be retired
october 10, when he will reach the I
limit. Friends are endeavoring
have him retained in the service, |
the law Is mandatory and the only
lief possible would be by a special
Of congress
The war department is in corr
sronaenea With ca,a.al D,