The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-04-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

adopted the new extraditlon treaty
with the United States
Ii Hung Chang is said to be confer
ring with Marquis Ito of japan regard
ing the trouble with Italy.
Numerous requests are received from
various districts in the island of Cuba
for implements and seed, not rations.
The session OF the Pennsylvania gen.
eral assembly of 1899 has adjourned
after being in session little over three
months.
The governor of Alabama has issued
q call for an extra session OF the legis-
lature to repeal the constitutional
convention act.
Herr Polack, well-known engineer
and electrician, has discovered a means
of telegraphing 10000 words per hour
over single wire.
General Henry, commanding the
department OF Porto Rico, has asked
to be relived of his present duty on ac-
count Of i'll health.
The Minnesota legislature tabled the
governors message urging the recall
from the Philippines of the Thirteenth
Minnesota volunteers.
The stone reefs of Brazil are to be
mapped out and their relations to the
geological history of the South Ameri-
can continent will be studied,
Orders have been issued for the Ninth
immunes to return to the United States
by the steamer Meade via New York
for muster out at Camp Meade.
The Third Nebraska will be mus
tered out May IL at Augusta, Ga.
Colonel Bryan will be invited to review
the regiment before it is disbanded.
According to statistics gathered re-
garding the bubonic plague 1t is esti-
mated there has been 100000 deaths
recorded in India since its beginning.
The Tenth United States cavalry.
the colored regiment which did such
oCtNiOC III bilC 0ahOiuBO Som
paign, is to have another tour of duty
In Cuba.
Miss Dell Clevenger, who was shot
by her cousin, Ernest Clevenger, on
the night of December s, last, is dead
at Missouri City, Mo-, of her wounds
Clevenger is in jail.
The Naval Reserve association OF
Illinois, veterans of the Spanish Ameri.
can war, have resolved to offer the
government $50 men for the service in
the Philippine islands.
After several conferences with the
minister from Venezuela, the United
States postoffice officials have entered
into an agreement for a parcel postal
treaty with Venezuela.
The farm ON which Abraham Lin
coin was born, two miles south OF
Hodgenville, KY, has been sold to
David Grear of New York and will
probably be converted into park.
Simon Hotema, the full blooded Choc
tow Indian who was arrested on the
charge Of numbering a man and two
women last week near Cold Springs, |.
T., has written confession of his guilt.
The municipal revenues of Santiago
have been reduced from 5000 to
1900 per month, and there have been
similar reductions in other towns
Public works and schools must be stop.
ped.
Governor-General Brooke, in the dis
tribution of the 50 1000, 900 to the Cuban
soldiers, has determined to treat the
Cuban officers as soldiers and gentle
men and not endeavor to go behind the
rolls.
At Carthage, Mo-, the jury in the sui
of Mrs. Gilfllon against j. d. McCrills
for IS, 900 damages for the murder o
her husband, rendered verdict fol
$4,000 damages in favor of Mrs. Gil
Allan.
Adolph Rehfold, the saloonkeepe
whose place of business near tn
Preside was burned by mob of So
diers belonging to the Fourteent
United States infantry, has identitie
four of the culprits.
A party of young men at Dalton
Mimi, put lemon extract into the gin
ger ale they were drinking and as re
suit Duffy Riorson and Martin Dab
are dead, while several others wer
made seriously sick.
The Kentucky law under which man
negroes in the past two years ha,
been sold on the block for a term /,
years as punishment for vagrancy, hi
been declared unconstitutional |
Judge Scott at Richmond.
A drink generally known as win
which is exceedingly palat able ar
inexpensive, is playing havoc with Il
soldiers in Manila. A single drink Vi
fits man for active duty for twent
four hours. Efforts are being made
suppress its sale.
Authority has been given the Britt:
representative at Apia to join. if |
deems 1t advisable in a joint proclaim
ton with the other consuls, calm
upon the inhabitants to abstain fro
hostilities pending the arrival Of IL
Samoan commissioners.
Advices from Manzanillo say that
American shell Ared last summer du
ing the bombardment of the town
the United States warships, explod