The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
NEWS SUMMARY.


Secretary Alger will probably start
on his tour Of inspection of Cuba and
Porto Rico during the week.
The imports of dry goods and general
merchandise at the port of New York
for the past week were valued at So
9e5, 2o7.
Baron Russell, chief justice Of Eng
land, has been appointed successor of
Baron Herschell on the Venezuelan
arbitration commission.
The exports of specie at New York
the past week were s1,O53,455 silver,
and s5,46o gold. Imports were $780,
l79 silver and s33,s5 gold.
Since his deposition from the Porto
Rican cabinet by General Henry, Ri
vera's party has been the object of a
vigorous attack by the radicals.
Not single newspaper in Havana,
Cuban or Spanish, has yet had word
to say in defense of the assembly's
attempt to depose General Gomez.
w. j. Bryan, will on March 25, de-
liver lecture in Hot Springs, Ark,
for the benefit Of the proposed Nation
al Pythian sanitarium to be located
there.
Three of the four newspapers OF
Ponce begun campaign of abuse
against Diaz and the military govern
ment. They were closed by order Of
military authorities.
The question of succession to the
throne of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha has
been decided in favor of the Duke OF
Connaught's son, Prince Arthur, who
was born January 10, 1888.
1t is now practically certain that ten
freight steamers have been lost on the
Atlantic in recent storms. This in.
wolves the sacrifice of more than 800
lives and s., 500, 900 capital.
The Cuban assembly from now on
will be dealt with as any other organi-
cation. If its sessions provoke riots
and disturbances it will be dispersed
like any other disorderly body,
G. A. Brit, the missing chairman and
managing director of the Millwall
Dock company, London, who is de-
fauter of 81 ro0o,Oo0 in the accounts of
the concern, has been arrested.
A floating island, between one and
two acres in extent and from four to
FIVE feet thick, has come down the Illi-
nois river and stranded at Havana, III.
Dynamite will be used to move it.
General Gomez has decided to pro
coed with the plans agreed upon for
distributing the 80, 900, 900 to the Gu
ban troops on disbanding, as though
the military assembly did not exist.
An element of mystery still sur
rounds the case of the st. Louis widow,
Mrs. McVean, whose face and body
were badly burned Tuesday night by
acids thrown by some unknown per-
son.
Thirteen Spanish friars from Manila
and Macao arrived in San Francisco on
the steamship China. Several of the
friars were taken prisoners by Agui-
naldo's forces and were only recently
released.
The murderer of Mrs. Anthony
Steigler of Mount Lookout, O., whose
dead body was found in her home by
her son, has been found in Albert
Luken, boy of 10, living with his
widowed mother in Clifton.
The Texas legislature passed bill
making an appropriation of So, 900 to
be, used by the state health officials in
suppressing the prevalence of small
pox at Laredo There are now 500
cases of smallpox at Laredo.
Hazing as practiced at the Chicago
College of Dental Surgery may make
James ]. Mount of the class of 1903 a,
invalid for life, If it does not cause
results even more serious. He is now
in the Presbyterian hospital.
Jacob M. Woodring, Blacksmith OF
Mount Vernon, is in Jail in Seattle,
charged with running an Illicit distil.
lery. This is the first case of moon.
shining" that has ever been brought
before the federal court in Seattle.
Comptroller Fred White of the Ca,
madam northwest mounted police has
received from Vancouver, b. c., a
denial of the story of battle between
Canadian and American miners at
Porcupine creek on the Dalton trail
Six thousand Cretan Mussulman
refugees, who were in desperate lack
of work and food, invaded and pillaged
the Greek and Turkish quarters OF
Smyrna, conflict resulting, in which
many persons were killed and wounded.
At Viborg, S. D., liver Paulson has
been arrested charged with numbering
Christopher Nelson, his hired man,
seven years ago. The murdered man
was known to have had 5000 in cash on
his person the last time he was seen
alive.
There are great many idle men all
over the island of Cuba and the great
army of attaches and hangers-on that
were part of the Spanish systems
and which occasioned an enormous
burden for the taxpayers are being
discharged.
Baron Won Murenheim, former Rus
sian ambassador to France, who now
resides at Pau, denounces as CLUMSY