The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-05-04
NEWS SUMMARY.


The exports of specie from New York
for the past week aggregate 1890, I44
of which sss2, O4s was silver an d s54 900
gold.
The Duke de ARGOS, the newly ap.
pointed Spanish minister to the United
States, will leave for the United States
next week
A family OF four, living on the Dodge
ranch near Mount Vernon, s. D., were
frightfully burned, one fatally, by
prairie FIRE.
Three thousand recruits and twenty
officers will be concentrated at the
Preside Immediately One thousand
are there now.
In Dayton, Ohio, Murderer Kirves
has been declared sane and will now
be sent to the electrict chair for kill.
ing his own child.
Secretary Alger will be a candidate
before the next Michigan legislature
for United States senator to succeed
Senator Mcmillan.
The British government will not
take any share in the Pacific cable, but
will contribute a sum not less than
100000 sterling annually.
A fire at Sebastapol, CAL, destroyed
Chinatown, consuming fifty houses
and causing loss OF $50, 600. One Chi
nese was burned to death.
Treasury receipts for April fell s15,-
100000 below those for March, while
the expenditures were SEE, 800, 900 more
than those Of the previous month.
The following customs and taxes
were collected at the ports mentioned
during April: Manila, S457, 0O2; Ilollo.
1883 Cebu, s0,577; total, S533, 1893.
1t is stated that eighteen of the
judges of the French court Of cas-
sation are in favor of, and fifteen op'
posed to revision of the Dreyfus case.
One thousand OF the small army OF
Manila recruits assembled at the Pre-
sidio will leave this month en- the three
transports, the Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan.
At Fresno, CAL, Internal Revenue
Collector Griffin, has seized about
5000 contraband cigars that have been
sent there by Jacobs & Kendig of Lam
caster, Pa.
Advices from Bluefelds, Nicaragua,
indicate that the situation there, sc
far as American interests are con.
cerned, is extremely discouraging and
unsatisfactory.
The conductors, engineers and fire
men Of the Santa Fe Pacific threaten
to go out on a strike because of the
new schedule of wages, which cuts
them 20 per cent.
In Dallas, Tex, Tom Robertson was
hanged at Hillsborro, for assault. He
claimed TO be innocent. The mother
OF his victim was present and wanted
to pull the rope.
AS result of an expedition OF the
Dominion police against the obstrep-
erous Indians at st. Regis, one Indian
was killed, two were seriously wound
ed and four arrested.
For April the government receipts
were S4i ,6l1,5s7 and the expenditures,
including the payment to Spain, were
sos, 1884, 900, showing deficit for the
month Of $24, 942, 421.
News has been received of the assas
sination in Van Buren, county, Ark,
of the son of Hugh Patterson, who
was murdered in December, 1897, by
Lee Mills and Hugh Hardin.
The American interests in Bluefields.
3 Nicarauga, alone now aggregate fully
S2,00o,Ooo in gold, and the state de.
partment is demanding that they shall
be protected against extortiou.
Charles McCulloch, farm laborer,
was shot and killed by Mrs. Eunice
Brown at her farm, south of Canton,
o. The woman claims McCulloch as.
saulted her and she shot him in self.
defense.
The Baptist Church in Atlanta, the
largest church of that denomination
in the South, but recently constructed,
was entered Sunday night and consid.
erably damaged by vaudals. The pas.
tor had denounced the recent lynch.
ings.
Boston celebrated Dewey day by a
display of flags over the national, state
y and city buildings and prominent bust
ness houses and also by receptions held
by patriotic societies. In many of the
public schools there were appropriate
exercises.
An application of the Edison EIec.
trio Light company for an injunction
against the Imperial Electric Light,
Heat and Power company of st. Louis.
to compel it to desist from using the
three-wire system of the Edison com.
pany has been denied,
DIR. Eleanor Lawney, prominent
lady physician of Denver, was fatally
hurt on Fifteenth street through the
reckless driving of an unknown man
Bis vehicle coliided with her buggy
throwing her violently TO the ground
fracturing her skull.
Berlin newspapers, commenting OF
the latest news from Somoa, expires,