The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-11-09
NEWS SUMMARY.

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building has been transformed into a
hospital for the Boerand British wound
ed who will be treated alike.
Gov. Scofeld OF Wisconsin has written
letter on the Philippine question, in
which he said it would be dangerous to
the Republic to keep the Philippines
Imports of wheat into Liverpool dur
ing past week. From Atlantic ports,
$4,000 quarters; from Pacific ports,
none; from other ports 900 quarters.
Census officials have been appointed
for all the districts of Porto Rico, and
the first enumeration will be taken
between the 10th inst and December
Goth.
Telegraphic communication by Sig
nor Marconis wireless system is to be
established between five of the Ha-
waiian islands by company Of Ameri
cans.
William o. Smith, formerly Attor-
ney-Generalof Hawaii has been selected
TO represent the Hawaiian islands at
Washington, while Congress is in
session.
Honolulu is on the eve of coal
famine, caused by the large number OF
transports calling there, which have
made serious inroads on the supply
of army coal
So far as can be learned, nothing is
known in Washington OF the reported
offer by Great Britain to cede the Gil.
bert islands and the Solomon islands in
the Pacific to Germany.
Orders heve been sent to the Forty
ninth volunteers, colored organization
to start from jefferson Barracks, Mo-,
on the nth for San Francisco where
they will take ship for Manila.
A party of students from the Univer-
sity of Chicago will go to Kentucky
mountains where the recent feuds have
occurred to study simple frontier life
as retained by the mountaineers.
One million eggs OF the Chinook sal
mon are to be sent by the United States
fish commission to New Zealand on the
steamer Moana from San Francisco.
They are from hatchery in Oregon.
Transport Glanegle, 295 officers 71e
men Of Thirty-second volunteers, have
arrived in good condition at Manila.
There was one casualty. Private Ed
ward R. McCandless, company X, died
at sea.
Owning to the present low price of
sugar and the poor prospects many
Cuban planters have decided not to
grind their present crop, but to use 1t
in replanting and in increasing their
acreage.
The Berlin Tageblatt says Count
Bothmer president of the German Peace
society, has telegraphed to Queen
Victoria praying her to accept the med
iation of the United States in the war
with the Transvaal'
Dwight L. Townsend died suddenly
Sunday night at his home in New York
city, age 10 years He was the asso-
cate of John Mackay and Robert G.
Ingersoll in the formation Of the Postal
Telegraph company
Mrs. Ernestina Schaedlich, who was
tried for being an accessory to the
murder of Senator Hampton Wall at
Staunton, III during the summer OF
1898, has been acquitted in the Macon.
pin county circuit court
President Mckinley is expected to
renew in his Forthcoming message his
recommendation that an appropriation
be made for commission to investigate
the commercial and industrial condi.
ton of the Chinese empire
George Bartle, the Oldest clerk of tn.
State department, Keeper of the Great
Seal and close friend of Daniel
Webster. died at his residence in Wash.
ington last week. He was appointed
by Secretary Buchanan in ls45.
An eleven-year old school girl named
Owens, returning from school at Morton
o., had some trouble with playma ties and
ran to her home, secured a mustet and
fred into a group of children and fatally
wounded boy named Bewbow.
The army is now recruited to within
1000 of its authorized strength of 100, 00C
men. 1t is estimated that vacancies
will occur in the Philippines by reason
of casualties and expiration of terms OF
service at the rate of 500 month.
Enactment of the gold standard into
T law and reform of the banking cur.
rency laws, so as to give the country
more elastic banknote currency will it
is said, be the leading recommendation
of Secretary Cages annual report.
Commissioner Will of the internal
revenue bureau has held that an express
company which buys and sells foreign
exchange is subject to the special
foreign tax of $50 year, as basis on
which it transacts such business.
Berlin Neuste Nachrichten in the
course of an article evidently inspired
says; Germany has no intention Of
playing into the hands of France BY
intervening in the Transvaal. She in.
tens to pursue course OF absolute
neutrality"
The islands in the Philippine group
referred TO in the Madrid disnatch as