The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-06-29
NEWS SUMMARY.

the year to March 81, amount to R2l7,-
ESQ.
The trial of the proprietors Of the
KlondiSe Nugget for libeling United
States Consul McCook resulted in their
acquittal.
AT North Yakima, Wash, the trial OF
ex-City Treasurer Pressy on the charge
of emble1zing $4,000 resulted in his
acquittal.
In Fiji, coolies are maintaining their
unpleasant record of crime. Several
murders have recently occurred on
sugar plantations.
A workman named Montag, living in
Manneheim, Baden, has succeeded in
manufacturing artificial coal from
earth and mineral substances.
A company has been formed in Bel
GUM for the purpose of developing the
Philippine islands, the capital stock
being fixed at 10000 francs.
A continuous series of earthquakes
extending from Colon through the
Carribeas to Curacao and Marocaibo
have been reported since the middle of
May.
The reply OF the secretary of state
for the colonies, Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain, to the petition of the Uitlanders,
has been officially communicated to the
South African league
According to a general order issued
by the war department, sales may be
made on credit to officers and enlisted
men who have not been regularly paid,
or who are in the field
The navy department, it is stated,
has no intention of relieving Admiral
Sampson of the command of the North
Atlantic station until ne has completed
the usual tour of service.
Deplorable accounts of the drought
comes from central Rivera. There is
no water and no grass and absolute
misery prevails everywhere. Sheep
are dying by the thousands
A masked man held up two bank
clerks near Kalgoorlie in west Austria
liza recently and robbed them of S25, 900
which they were taking from a bank
TO the mines to pay off miners.
No official confirmation of the reach
ing OF an agreement in London provid-
ing for the temporary delimitation Of
the Alaskan boundary has been re-
ceived at the state department.
The Servian post at Papachtitda has
been plundered and burned, and several
strategic positions are occupied by the
Turkish troops and Albanians Great
excitement prevails at Belgrade.
Bella Anderson, alias Carrie Jones,
pleaded guilty in the criminal branch
OF the New York supreme court to the
Indictment for kidnapping Marian Clark.
She was remanded to the tombs.
Democrats who desire to nominate
General Joe Wheeler for governor of
Alabama, profess to find in the gen.
erals non committal attitude, hope
that he will accept the nomination.
Famine is more prevalent in the Ger.
man possessions, East Africa, owing
to the drought which also prevails
alarmingly in the British protectorate.
Hundreds of women and children are
dying.
1t is announced semi-officially in /
Berlin that any increase in the tax on
American bicycles is impossible, be-
cause the commercial treaties with
Austria, Russia and Italy exclude such
. thing.
From New Hebrides comes the re-
port that hostilities have broken out
at Tanna. At Port Resolution there
bad been tribal war, during which
two women were reported to have been
murdered.
A corrected edition Of the May state
ment of imports and exports of the
United States show that during the /
last eleven months the exports of
merchandise exceeded the i'm ports by
Sc. ASP, l31.
Johnson's island, Lake Erie, which
was famous as prison for rebel
soldiers during the civil war, has Just
been sold at auction for S45, 900. The
island lies in Sandusky bay, few
miles from the city of that name.
"Jue" Mullett, the Irish political
prisoner, sentenced to Imprisonment
for life for attempting to murder a
juror who convicted Michael Walsh,
has been taken to Dublin and liber.
ated. He is in dying condition.
The new Japanese torpedo-boat de-
stroyer Akibo, claimed to be the fast
est ever built, was tested by three
hours run to Tie More and return.
The new boat attained a speed of thir.
ty-one knots, which is knot ahead of
the fastest destroyer in the British
navy.
The Berks county PA grand jury
ignored the bills of indictment charg-
ing certain Reading railway en-
ployees with being responsible for the
recent wreck at Exeter, where twenty
nine persons were killed and MANY
more injured.
! The navy department has received
the ] ZOO bronze medals authorized bv
congress for the officers and men who
in the battle NJ Mantle