The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-30
NEWS SUMMARY.

trict, Porto Rico, is quite without sig
nificance.
In Cincinnati the Morris Foundry
company has advanced the wages Of its
employees 10 per cent
The strike on the White Pass railroad
Is ended, and nearly all of the strikers
have returned to work.
The United States is slowly but surely
obtaining a commercial footing in Tur-
key and the east generally.
DON Carlos, the Spanish pretender,
4 expected to issue manifesto at an
early date regarding the plans for the
future.
The Cuban army has 1920 men all
told. This number includes corporals
and sergeants, but excludes command
officers.
Nantuck, one of the four Stick In
dians under sentence to be hanged for
the murder OF William Mean one year
ago, died in Jail at Dawson.
Missionary Parsons of the China Mis-
sion society was attacked by imperial
soldiers, while en- route from Chung
King to Paoning last month.
During the absence of John Dian and
wife from their farm near Winnipeg.
Man, their residence caught fire and
their five children were cremated.
The riots which occurred between the
reform and conservative elements of
Korea have subsidized The reformists
were victorious in large measure.
Arrangements are being made for q
reunion to be held at Guthrie, o. T., in
June next, of the rough riders who
fought in the battles about Santiago.
The emperor OF Korea has caused a
sensation by appearing in full uni
form cut in American fashion. His
attendants have also been attired In
American style.
Preparations are being made by Chief
Wilkie of the secret service to destroy
S1,22l 1905, 29s worth of counterfeit coin
and bogus notes, which have been &C
cumulated by his bureau.
For the eight months of the present
fiscal year the total receipts from in
ternal revenue sources were S17s,7s3,-
6S4; increase as compared with the
same period of 1898, sos, 300, 05s.
At McKeesport, Pa, Frederick T.
Clark shot and fatally wounded his
wife at the home of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Richard Moyle, and then killed
himself Mrs. Clark recently applied
for divorce.
The English merchants have been
startled by the heavy inroads being
made by the Americans into their trade
with the British colony of Capetown,
and there is much talk of a combination
to repress this.
Near Oregon, Mo-, Samuel Grow,
aged 70 years, an eccentric character,
was murdered while asleep by robbers,
who beat his head to pulp with an
AK handle. Robbery is said to have
been the motive.
1t is said that about twenty tons Of
mail matter bearing American stamp.
is piled up in heaps at Skaguay, the
Canadian contractors refusing to handl,
mail matter that does not bear tn,
Canadian postage.
Sung Kuang, controller of the house
hold, has been restored to favor by tn,
empress dowager of China, and all hi
honors and titles handed back to him
and Wal Ten, the censor, is now per
mite 7 to wear. his peacock feather.
A dispatch to the Paris Eclair from
Toulon says that the experiments mad
there with armor-piercing shells hav
conclusively demonstrated the posi-
bility of shell piercing a warship
armor aud exploding inside the ship.
The agreement reached between MI
q Rhodes aud the German government
lnClu0Co OnC ClCCbiOh ny
African Telegraph company of a secon
wire through German territory for tn
exclusive use of the German govern
ment.
Frank Kinahan, an electrician, w,
killed in a. street duel with two III
known men. Over twenty shots wei
exchanged. Kinahan before dyin
acknowledged that he knew his assai
ants but refused to divulge the
names.
Information has been received fro
Sierra Leone, on the west coast of A
RIGA, that two daughters of an Amer
can missionary are held in captivit
by the natives of the Mendi distric
their parents having been tortured ar
killed.
Regarding a'Teport of serious CO.
gestion of the mails at Skaguay, it
stated at the postoffice department TIL
the contractor failed to make the Jan
airy and December trips overland al
consequently $500 pounds of mail acc
INFLATED.
The enrolling clerk of the senate h
prepared a statement giving in fgur
the results Of the work of the last co
gress. The statement shows that /, A
bills and joint resolutions became Law
out of a total of ls,463 introduced
both houses.
At Clay Center, Kan, John Gilber
charged with the murder of his wi