The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-08-31
NEWS SUMMARY.

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ment of using native troops in Porto
Rico has been successful.
Severe storms ragged off the Austria
Ian coast during June aud the early
days Of the present month.
No more cases of rellow fever are
reported among the troops or govern
ment employees at Santiago.
Upon one scaffold and simultaneous
ly, four negroes were banged in the
Baltimore, Md, city Jail yard.
There were 253 cases and 121 deaths
from the plague at Poona, India, on
the 2oth ult. The cases include four
Europeans.
Officials Of organized labor in Chi
cago state that the brickmakers' strike
b likely to precipitate general walk
eut In the city.
The secretary of agriculture has de-
cided to change regulations recently
issued for the free admission of cattle
into Cuba next year.
At Bramwell, w. Va, Howard r.
Samson, an emissary seeking miners
for Missouri and Indian Territory coal
fields, was fatally stabbed in the coal
fields.
II. L. Stocking, assistant postmaster
ut Tacoma, Wash, has been appointed
assistant director-general of posts at
Manila. He will be next in rank to
Director-General Vaille.
A mortgage for SIT, 900, 900 given by
the writing paper trust required inter-
nal revenue stamps to the amount of
$500, which were placed upon it and
cancelled.
Jeffords, the San Francisco heavy
weight pugilist, who is now in Port
land, Ore, has practically concluded
negotiations for fight with Peter jack
con, who is now In Victoria, b. Q.
The anthracite companies announce
chat all orders for coal at prices prior
TO July /, not filed on July 81, will
be filed at an advance of 25 cents per
ton which will then go into effect
Twelve Spanish gunboats recently
put on blockade duty have done re-
markably good service in cutting off
supplies for insurgents between the
different islands of the Philippine
group.
1t Is the intention OF the war depart
ment to send all cavalry horses to the
Philippines by way of Unalaska and
Nagasaki SO that they may be taken
off the ships at both these places and
given rest
James NJ. Garlinton, alias Darling
ton, was hanged at Fort Worth. Tex.
Darlington was the leader of band
who on the night of July 81, 1898, rob-
bed a Santa Fe railroad train near
Sawinaw.
DJ INC dsodSsiudtioh VI IfSsiucut
Heaureux OF San Domingo, Cuba may
lose one of its central figures. as it is
well known that General Maxine Co
mez aspires TO the presidency of the
black republic.
Albert Ballinger, who is in the re-
ceiving hospital, San Francisco, await
ing examination as to his sanity, is I'M
der confinement because of his wild
wooing of Blanche Bates, the San
Francisco actress.
At Westminster, Pa, a revolving muir,
der has come to light. 1t is alleged
Mrs Fannie Stevenson, colored,
crushed her infants head with an AK
and then threw the body to some hogs
which devoured it.
Charles Walfangle, of Brazil, Ind,
became suddenly violently insane and
with Ratchet chopped his two daught
era and wife to death while they wer,
sleeping. He then took knife ant
cut his own throat.
General Roy Stone, director of road
inquiry of the department of Agricul
ture at Washington, who is in New
York, says that more activity is bein.
displayed in road improvement thar
has been shown for years.
The Privy council of England ha
decided in the case of Briden VS.. tn
Union Colliery company that the prov
ince of British Columbia has not tn
power to prohibit Chinese workin,
underground in coal mines.
A good deal of surprise has beef
caused in official circles in Washington
by the unexpected opposition develop
ing in France to the ratification of tn
reciprocity treaty just negotiated b
Mr.. Kasson and Nj. Cambon.
Notice has been given in the stat
department at Harrisburg, Pa, that a
application for charter for the Anne
lean Iron and Steel Manufacture
company will be made on August /,
The capital will be $50, 900, 900.
The ifth biennial convention of Il
Worlds Womans Christian Tempe
ance union, it is announced, will me,
In Edinburg, Scotland, Monday, Jul
Is, 1900. The executive committe
meeting will be held on Friday, Jur
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Major Maxfeld has laid a cab
across Laguna de Bay from Taguig
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