The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-07-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

Japan is said to be preparing for wal
with Russia.
Yellow fever has made its appear,
anee ia New Orleans.
Queen victoria has declined to undor.
60 an operation for cataract.
General Joe Wheeler is being urged
TO make the race for governor of Ala
bama.
Major Marchand has arrived at
Toulon and was greeted with immense
enthusiasm.
A company of 100 Macabees has been
organized in Luzon. They will be
used as scouts.
The winter wheat crop OF southern
! Russia has been completely destroyed
by protracted drouth.
Elisha Dryer was inaugurated gov
ernor of Rhode Island for his third
term on Decoration day.
President Zelaya has issued decree
AGAACNAhk CacbNiA AIOAn LnC
operation of martial law.
Marshal Marines Campos has been
appointed by the queen regent as
president of the Spanish senate.
The report of the Nicaragusn canal
commission has been made public. 1t
estimates the cost of the canal at S11s,-
1l3, 700.
In large fire at Yamigata, Japan,
600 houses and eleven shrines and
temples were destroyed. A number Of
lives we're lost
A political upheaval has taken place
In Chile. The Liberals have united
and will bring on the fall of the con-
sentative government.
Governor ID. W. Jones of Arkansas
has announced himself candidate for
the seat in the United States senate
now held by senator Berry
The Lincoln Park board, Chicago,
has decided to erect 100000 monu-
snent to Admiral Dewey, the amount
to be raised by subscription.
The Yukon transportation companies
are engaged in a rate war, and the fare
from Lake Bennett to Dawson has
been cut from 500 to $3.50.
General Otis has informed the war
department that he will be satisfied If
the army under his command is kept
at the maximum Of 80, 900 men.
Captain John M. Neall, Of the Fourth
cavalry, has been found guilty of mis-
appreciation of funds of his command
and will be dismissed from the army,
William Skinner and Arthur Pratt,
young business men of Fon Du Lac,
Wis, were drowned In Lake Winnie
bago the other night by the capsizing
of boat
Adrian Braun was put to death by
electricity in Sing Sing prison for the
murder of his wife. He murdered her
in prison when she brought him some
delicacies.
Five thousand men are said to be in
waiting at Dawson to take the first
boats up the river. Half of them are
miners who have from 81, 900 to $50, OOC
each in dust.
1t will cost IS, 900 and require twenty
days TO repair the injuries sustained by
the Brooklyn in touching the bottom
of New York harbor off the battery on
Decoration day.
The London Daily Chronicle an
nounces that Mrs. Florence Maybrich
Is likely to be liberated shortly, as the
result of the pressure brought to bear
by ambassador Choate.
A negro murderer confined in tn,
McMillanville, Kas., Jail fatally in
jured two white prisoners, John ant
William Brown. He attacked then
while they were asleep.
Studebaker Bros. Manufacturing
company of South Bend, Ind, hav,
closed contracts for the construction
OF automobiles aggregating in tn,
neighborhood of 81, 900, 600
A fatal duel with pistols was Tough
at Klausenberg, Hungary, betwee,
Professor 0berschall of the Prossburs
law academy and Herr Patucky. Th
latter was shot in the head.
All buildings on the farm of Johl
Rohrburg, two miles north Of Mineola
Ia, were destroyed by storm. His lit
tie girl aged eleven years, was killed
one of his boys had leg broken an,
other members of the family quit
seriously hurt.
Judge Francis Corbin Randolph. for
merly an Alabama jurist, is now sery
ing out fourteen years sentence ii
Columbia =. In letter he de
nounced the American consular o..;t
Tor not exerting themselves in his be
half.
AS the result of a family quarrel
Charles Herzog, st. Louis teamster
aged 80, shot his young wife an,
mother, Mrs. Mary sopp, and the,
killed himself. Mrs. sopp is dead an,
her daughter cannot live. The coupl
had separated.
Requests have come to the war de
partmeut that No ro.s-,.