The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-07-06
NEWS SUMMARY.


ufacturing company have struck.
Madame Dreyfus has obtained per-
mission to visit her husband in prison
at any time between sunrise and sun
set.
Acting Secretary Allen has perfected
his plans for the drills of the naval
militia organization on the Pacific
coast
Governor Gomez has discharged the
mayor of Santo Domingo for compile
ity In the Justification OF the Cuban
army lists.
The Darcy island leper station has
been destroyed by fire. One leper is
dead and another 1t is feared will die
from injuries received.
The Toledo Press club has issued a
letter TO the newspapers Of Ohio ask
ing them to assist in determining the
most beautiful woman in Ohio.
Nearly 1900 pants makers are on
strike in Manhattan, Brooklyn and
Brownsville, throwing 5000 women
aud girl fnishers out of work.
All the racing stock of the Palo Alto
stock farm has been ordered sold by
Mrs. Stanford, who has decided to
abandon the breeding of runners.
The Chinese government, it is said,
contemplates the destruction Of the
ancient Chinese wall that separates
China proper from Chinese Tartary.
Captain Mercer, Indian agent, has
received peremptory orders to remove
all white persons of the Chippewa
Indian reservation within thirty days.
Germsn-Americans of Detroit, in
mass meeting assembled, In most radi-
cal terms declared hostility to any sort
Of American-English political alli-
ance.
The steamer Apache, plying between
Columbus and Apalachicola, Fla, was
sunk in the Chipola river near We
wathitcka, Fla, and four persons were
drowned.
In the course of recent reciprocity
negotiations an arrangement was made
between the United States and Portu-
gal for mutual reduction Of duty on
certain articles
The board Of regents Of Heidelberg
university, Tiffin, o., conferred the de-
gree of doctor of laws upon Andrew
Carnegie, the iron and steel magnate
Of Pittsburg.
An English syndicate with a capital
Of 500, 0oo, 900, 1t is said, has started
in TO purchase all the cattle in Texas,
with view OF cornering the cattle
market In this country.
The government Of the South African
republic, according to dispatch TO
the Daily Mail from Rome, is ordering
large quantities of rifles from Italian
firms for immediate shipment
A tremendous waterspout is reported
in the Pine Ridge, s. D., district, ex-
tending thirty miles in length, causing
destruction to crops and inundating
all the low lands No lives were lost.
New York District Assembly No. 4,
Knights of Labor, unanimously adopt
ed resolutions demanding General Mer-
Rams recall and court martial on &C.
count of his action In the Couer d'Alene
labor troubles.
Governor Pingree announces that
Secretary Alger will not leave the cab
met to accept foreign appointment.
Said the governor. "He knows better
than to 60 to Europe when he has a
senatorial fight on in Michigan"
There has been call made by Gen
eral Otis upon the war department fol-
four expert Spanish court stenogra
piers for service in the Philippin,
islands. They must be familiar will
the Spanish and English languages.
The British armed sloop Buzzard
while trying to reach the French
treaty shore, Newfoundland, collide,
with an iceberg, which stove in he
bows. By means of collision mats AM
moving the heavy guns and gear to tn
stern, she made her way back to s,
Johns safely.
The remains of Ensign Robert Mon
Afghan of the cruiser Philadelphia wer
given every honor while in Portland
where he was we'll remembered b
many old classmates. After lying a
the armory over night the casket wa
carried out at noon to the waitiu
hearse and taken to the cathedral
where services for the dead were col
Quoted.
Aheavy explosion OF gas occurred Il
one of the lower lifts of the Maxwell
colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarr
(Pa.l Coal company. Three hundre
men were at work in the mine at til
time, and had narrow escapes for the
lives. .s
While Miss Nellie Kendall and C.
Batting were walking on Jackso
street, Seattle, they were held mp
two men. Without warning one
the two men fred at Batting. The bu
let passed through his coat lapel, 4
powder burning his face.
A sneak thief entered the Metropo
tan National bank, Boston, and ST.
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