The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-09-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

SAScAAS prague tccSubAy ~ oACAAhO
and Naples, three or four ending
fatally.
The total number of buildings de.
stroyed by the Victor, Colo, fire is 800.
Total loss about sl,75O,OoO; insurance
$500, 900.
The number killed by the hurricane
In Porto Rico is 1878, missing 1000,
houses destroyed, 6,421, persons home
less 22,046.
st. Paul, Mimi, Globe advocates the
nomination of Admiral Dewey for
president by the next Democratic ma
tional convention.
Fourteen fishermen camping on Wan
island, near the mouth of the Neuse
river, N. c., during a recent storm
were drowned.
John and Jay Saunders, colored,
were killed ana four other negroes
wounded at Parsons camp ground,
Kentucky, in fight.
The London Church Missionary So
ciety has received a report stating that
10000 persons have died of famine on
the east coast of Africa.
From most parts of England reports
state that the wheat crops are being
gathered In fine condition. 1t is con-
sidered the best crop for years past.
The steamship City of Columbia has
been abandoned at sea in water
logged condition and her crew of
thirty-eight men are now in Honolulu.
Until quite recently a man to hold
Office in the Transvaal must have re-
aided there fourteen years and be at
the same time member Of the
Dutch church.
At the Berkeley Oval, New York
City, George Scheiber and Frank Kra-
mer lowered the quarter-mile tandem
bike record. They covered the dis
lance In 80 2-5 seconds.
In Havana the Masons have been
asking for an increase of wages.
About 1000 workers held conference
~ which strike was agreed upon.
Nine thousand are idle.
The Echo Agricolo, Paris, states that
several estimates Of the wheat crop
have already been given, varying from
ITO, 900 to 10000, 900 hectols-3s,-
oOo, 900 to A, 7oO,OOO quarters.
tits the quartermaster departments
intention to have not only the Hrst ten
regiments afioat for the Philippines
by the last Of October, but also those
to be raised under the last order.
A mission of Russian engineers and
their escorts was recently attacked by
Chinese brigsnds at Kirin, on the
China-Russian frontier, on the main
Manchuria railway. All were massa-
cred.
A shooting ARRAY growing out of the
old row between cattlemen and sheep
men occurred on the range southwest
OF Chadron, Neb.. when George Coil,
q sheepherder, instantly killed Thomas
Ryan, cattleman.
Miss Viola Horlocker, who Is under
$4,000 bonds to appear in Hastings,
Neb., next month to answer to the
charge of poisoning, is patient at
Oak Lawn sanitarium, Jacksonville,
Ill, under the name of Miss Allen.
A cable dispatch has been received
at the war department from General
Davis, giving additional details of the
conditions in Porto Rico. He places
the number Of killed at 1000, and reit,
crates his estimate of 100, 600 destitute.
James Birch was shot and killed by
Patrolman G. M. Warren at Birch.
home, Indianapolis, Ind. Before hi
was killed Birch shot the policeman
twice, making serious but not neces
sarily fatal wounds. He resisted ar
rest.
The bonds of Daniel Coughlin
charged with jury-bribing in Chicago
and at present fugitive, and those O
his co-conspirator, William Armstrong
have been declared forfeited. Cough
Inns bonds were SIS, 900; Armstrong;
$4,000.
Baron Won Heyking, the late Ger
man minister at Picking, who hal
arrived at Berlin on leave of absenc,
for year, has declared in an inter
view recently that Russia does no
intend to extend her possessions IL
China.
In consequence Of the putrefcation O.
bodies, typhus fever has developed a
Arroyo, Porto Rico. The captains o.
coastwise vessels complain that the
bad odors at the various ports have
caused them more suffering than the
hurricane.
Commissioner Of Immigration Pow
derby, has ordered that Mrs. Todd, VIII,
Is widow and British subject, nov
In San Francisco pest house sufferin,
from leprosy, be sent back to the Ha,
waiian islands and confined in tn
ieper colony there.
London Times in an editorial on tn
Venezuela boundary arbitration, com
plains that the proceedings are unnec
esssrily protracted and expresses q fea
that the example thus ret will soper
ste to prejudice the arbitral mode o
settling differences"