The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-11-23
NEWS SUMMARY.


night 1t threw the inhabitants into a
panic.
Troop @, Sixth cavalry, which has
been in the Occur d'Alene district for
several months, left Wallace for San
Francisco Sunday.
The transports Senator and Ben
Mohr sailed from San Francisco for
Manila last week with the Forty-hfth
infantry on board.
Harry s Ettinger, an honorable dis
charged member OF company II. Kansas
volunteers, was struck and killed by u
train near Santa Paula, Cal.
The task OF supplying the navy with
Krag-Jorgensen rifles in place OF the
Lee rifles that have been in use in the
navy for some time has begun.
over i,7O0,O0O stamps In all have
been supplied To the Philippines,
1880 900 to Porto Rico, 1920, 900 to
Cuba, and $4,000 to Guam during the
fiscal year.
At lebanon, Pa, the American
Iron and Steel Manufacturing compa
ny has suspended operations in all its
pudding and rolling mills on account
of no fuel.
Active negotiations are proceeding TO
secure from Brazil such tariff conces-
sions as will extend the market for
American wheat and American -four In
that country
A pension of sih per month has been
granted by Commissioners Evans to
Adelaide Il, Bagley, mother OF Lieut.,
Worth Begloy, who was killed In the
war with Spain,
On behalf OF Admiral Dewey and his
officers and men, Washington attorneys
have asked the Court OF Claims to find
that the amount of bounty money due
them is S3ss, 800
The Baptist church Of Tcxus is badly
split as result Of the factional differ
ences which resulted In large number
OF delegates being refused seats in the
State convention at Dallas
Fears are entertained for the safety
OF the British steamer Saltrama,
which left Philadelphia for Havana
October eSth The vessel should have
arrived there thirteen days ago,
The Secretary of the Navy, in his re-
ports is expected tn renew his recon-
mendation for three new cruisers of the
improroved Olympia type, such as
Congress failed to appropriate for last
year,
William HUH was taken from the
county jail at Bloomfield Mo, and
hanged by mob OF 100 men, Hun
was charged with the murder OF An
drew Melton, lie showed remarkable
nerve,
President Mckinley has promised to
make an address at Mount Vernon ON
December l4th, when the Masonic OBJ
seryanee of the one hundredth ami.
versary of Washing,ion's death will
occur
Havana newspapers object TO the
criticisms made by some American
journals upon sunday racing in Havana,
They point out that after mass on
Sunday, all Latin countries take a
holiday,
Or. Il, Prewitt, populist candidate
for governor Of Mississippi, in the ne
cent election, threatens to make y con-
test of Judge Long in his election, on
the ground that the la,ter's nomination
was illegal,
The United States army transport
Columbia has arrived AT SAN Francisco
from Manila via NagaSaki, Eight
government employees constituted tbs
entire passenger list no sick or dis
charged soldiers being aboard. Tn,
voyage was 0neventtal
The transport Meade, with the Forty
third Unitea States volunteer infantry
On hoard, sailed from New York 70
Manila Friday, The Meade At,empteN
10 ge, away ON Tuesday, but stuck Ii
the mud AZ her doek
The Statehood convention, whiel
closed q, Guthrie, u T., saturday, AZ
pointed a committee TO draw up me-
mortal IL congress asking that oklahS
ma be granted statehood with he
present boundaries
The London Times correspondent
gives stirring description by mail /
the stormingof Talmana hill, and mel
tions that General Symons fell, morta
" wounded, when galloping along Il
line TO tell the troops that the Hill mu
be taken, lie describes the stormiI
nj the hin as one of the greatest aeiev
ments Of the British infantry,
Pearl Hart the woman bandit, WI
together with Joe Root, held upA sta
near Florence last June, has be
acquitted In a trial before Judge no.
81 Florence, Arisona, in the face
overwhelming evidence of her guilt,
The steamer J. w, Taylor. which
rived at New York Saturday fr>
Santos, Brasil, with the captain a
cook III with suspected buhonic plag'
has been disinfeeted AS far as passil
without discharge Of Cargo The
tients are At Swinhurn island, a
there Is no change in their condition
The mining engineers employed
the RraSil, Ind, district went out |,