The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-11-02
NEWSSUMNIARY.

Samoa.
Gen. Miles and party are making an
extended tour of inspection ofthe army
posts of the West
The firm of Mitsui & Co. of Japan is
considering plan 10 establish a new
trans-Pacific steamship line.
Count Torranaz, governor of the Bank
of spain, has been appointed minister
of justice in succession of Senior Duran
The Rio Grand river is on a boom,
and is threatening the buildings at
Fort Brown, Tex.
Colonel Pondo has been elected
President of Bolivia, in succession to
Senior Severe Fernandez Alonzo.
The President has appointed Edward
p. Kingsbury of Centralia, Wash, to
be surveyor-genera at Olympia vice
MacMicken, dead.
Secretary Long will it is said make
recommendation for but a limited i'm
crease of the new navy in his forthcom-
ing annual report.
Buckner Mckee, prominent farmer,
and Mrs. John Wilson, widow, were
found dead by the roadside near Law
renceburg, Ky, Saturday.
The engineers reports confirmed the
previously reported discovery of extern
sive and commercially available coal
beds in the State of Puebla, Mexico
Gen. Otis has notified the War de-
partment of the arrival at Manila of
the transports Sheridan aud Elder The
former carried the Thirtieth volunteers
At Tucson, Ariz, AL Ezeltiels shot and
killed c, c. Rasmussen, well known
contractor because the latter had
Ezekiels elected from a house rented
from Rasmussen
Brigadier-General Frederick Funston
is to be breveted major-general and
Colonel Wilder b H. Metcalf of the
Twentieth Kansas is to be breveted
brigadier-general by the President
Maj. Gen. Miles, commanding the
army, has submitted to the secretary
of war his annual report on the con.
dition and needs of the army. The re-
port is very brief and rather formal.
The French Cabinet has approved the
text of a bill granting trades unions the
same status as an individual citizen and
enacting privileges and penalties to
secure the free working of such bodies.
The Alaska Territorial convention
adopted memorial to Congress, and Sc
lected John q. Price of Skaguay as
representative to go to Washington, d.
G., in the intrest of the people of Alaska.
The hospital at Sagua la Grande,
Cuba, collapsed Saturday, having been
undermined by floods from the recent
heavy rains. of the fourty-two inmates
four were killed and twenty seven in
jured.
In Peoria, H., Saturday, Fred Patee,
presideptof the Patee Bicycle company
and ex-chief consul of the Illinois di.
vision of the l., A. W, was sentenced
to FIVE yeaaJ in the penitentiary for
forgery.
Paris, Mo-, grand jury has returned
an indictment for murder. in the first
degree against Alexander Jester, on the
charge of numbering Gilbert Gates, son
of Chicago millionaire, twenty. eight
years ago,
1t is learned that owing to the tenn
porary character of the settlement of
the Alaskan boundary question there
will be no meeting of the Canadian
Joint High commission in the immedi-
ate future
1t is positively slated at the war de-
partment that 90 decision has been
reached in reference to the vacant
brigadier -generalship in the regular
establishment resulting from General
Skaters retirement.
Mrs. Mary Ruby, sister of Kit Carson,
the famous scout, is dead at Warrens-
burg, Mo, of apoplexy She was born
in an Indian fort near Boonebore.
Howard county, and during the eighty.
seven years of her life was never out
of the State of Missouri Mrs RUBY
was the last member of the Kit.Carson
family.
Colonel John b. Yates. who died at
Amesburg, Ont, last week was GO years
old He had fine record as colonel
OF the First Michigan engineers The
regiment was the main reliance of
General Sherman for bridge building
during his march from Atlanta to the
sea
Inc annual report of the chief of en-
gineers of the army, Brig. Gen. John
Nj. Wilson, just made public, submits
estimates for rivers and harbor works
already authorized by Congress but
not provided by continuing contracts
amounting to $50, 900, sell In addition
ne asks for 5,5s2, 626 to carry on work
already contracted.
Twenty-four million dollars is to he
demanded through the courts from
corporations in Cook county for violat-
ing the Illinois statutes. State Attorney
Deenen will make the demand in few
days by filing 5000 suits
Inc secretary of war has received a
telegram from Governor Murphy of
ARIZONA, saying that considerable trou-
BILE has occurred at Naco, on the border
between Arizona and Mexico, between
American COW hnrs and Ma-s.. "a,