The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-08-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

According 10 Gil accOuhbS INC SAPSif
ment of using native troops in Porto
Rico has been successful.
Severe storms ragged off the Austria
Ian coast during June aud the early
days ofthe present month.
No more cases Of rellow fever are
reported among the troops or govern
ment employees at Santiago.
Upon one scaffold and simultaneous
ly, four negroes were hanged in the
Baltimore, Md, city Jail yard.
There were 253 cases and 12i deaths
from the plague at Poona, India on
the 2eth ult. The cases include four
Europeans.
Officials of organized labor in Chi
eAgo state that the brickmakers' strike
b likely to precipitate a general walk
sut In the city.
The secretary of agriculture has de-
cded to change regulations recently
issued for the free admission Of cattle
into Cuba next year.
At Bramwell, W. Va, Howard r.
Samson, an emissary seeking miners
for Missouri and Indian Territory coal
fields, was fatally stabbed in the coal
fields.
r. L. Stocking, assistant postmaster
ct Tacoma, Wash, has been appointed
assistant director-general of posts at
Mania. He will be next in rank to
Director-General Vaille.
A mortgage for s17, 900, 900 given by
the writing paper trust required inter
nal revenue stamps to the amount OF
$500, which were placed upon it and
cancelled.
Jeffords, the San Francisco heavy
weight pugilist, who is now in Port
land, Ore, has practically concluded
negotiations for fight with Peter jack
con, who is now In Victoria, b. q.
The anthracite companies announce
shat all orders for coal at prices prior
to July /, not filed on July 81, will
be filed at an advance of 25 cents per
ton which viii then go into effect.
Twelve Spanish gunboats recently
put on blockade duty have done re-
markably good service in cutting of
supplies for insurgents between the
different islands of the Philippine
group.
1t is the intention of the war depart
ment to send all cavalry horses to the
Philippines by way of Unalaska and
Nagasaki SO that they may be taker
of the ships at both these places ant
given rest.
James NJ. Garlinton, alias Darling
ton, was hanged at Fort Worth. Tex
Darlington was the leader Of ban'
who on the night of July 81, 1898, rob
bed Santa Fe railroad train nea
Sawinaw.
By the assassination of Presiden
Heaureux OF San Domingo, Cuba ma
lose one Of its central figures, as it
well known that General Maxine 60
mez aspires to the presidency of tn
black republic.
Albert Ballinger, who is in the re
ceiving hospital, San Francisco, avail
ing examination as to his sanity, is ur
der confinement because of his viii
wooing of Blanche Bates, the Sa
Francisco actress.
At Westchester, Pa, q revolving mu
der has come to light. 1t is allege
Mrs. Fannie Stevenson, dolores
crushed her infants head with an a
and then threw the body to some hog
which devoured it.
Charles Walfangle, of Brazil, Ind
became suddenly violently insane al
with a Ratchet chopped his two daugh
ers and wife to death while they we
sleeping. He then took knife al
cut his own throat.
General Roy Stone, director of 70
inquiry Of the department of Agric'
ture at Washington, who is in Nj
York, says that more activity is bel
displayed in road improvement tn
has been shown for years
The Privy council of England b
decided in the case of Briden VS..
Union Colliery company that the pr'
ince of British Columbia has not
power to prohibit Chinese work.
underground in coal mines.
A good deal of surprise has be
caused in official circles in Washingi
by the unexpected opposition devel'
ing in France to the ratification of
reciprocity treaty just negotiated
Mr. Kasson and NJ. Cambon.
Notice has been given in the st
department at Harrisburg, Pa, that
application for charter for the An
lean Iron and Steel Manufacture
company will be made on August
The capital will be $40, 100000.
The Hfth biennial convention of
Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn
ance union, it is announced, win n
In Edinburg, Scotland, Monday,
25. 1000. The executive commi
meeting will be held on Friday, ]
az.
Major Maxfeld has laid C
across Laguna de Bay from Tagui