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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
Kruger's Dynamite Monopoly.

Pretori, March 20-President Kru-
ger, in an important speech at Heildel~
berg recently, emphasized the necessity
of the state retaining the dynamite
monopoly, because, as he argued, the
South African republic being an inland
state, in event of trouble with any of
the powers, its supplies of explosives
might otherwise be suddenly cut off,
The president expressed his intention
to take over the dynamite factory at
the earliest day possible and to work
1t for the benefit of the country.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
win Net Modest Assembly.

Washington, March l7.-In consider
ing what policy should be adopted to-
wards the Cuban military assembly,
the authorities have consulted Senor
Gonzales Quesada, the Cuban represen'
tative, who has advised that the assem-
bly, be allowed TO run its course with.
out molestation, as he holds that il
has no strength outside of its own
membership and that any move to dis
band it would give the members 80
opportunity to appear as martyrs. This
view has been accepted thus far.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
A TRAITORS FATE.
Deserter Who Joined the Insurgents Now
sleeps In an Unmarked Grave.

Deserter Who Joined the Insurgents Now
sleeps In an Unmarked Grave.
Manila, March 19.-The American, a
daily paper published here, says: "Ex-
Corporal John w. Hays of company d,
First California volunteers, traitor
and deserter, has found his just end.
His body now lies in trench dug to
bury the enemies of his country who
fell in battle, with no slab, his name
forever hated by his own regiment.
Hays came with his regiment to
Manila. Last October he married a
Filipino and two days later deserted to
the insurgent line. This was the last
his regiment heard or cared to hear
about him until yesterday, when bury
ing the dead insurgents they came
across his dead body, riddled with bull
let's, with the clothes of first lieu
tenant of the insurgents.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
He Betrayed Military secrets.

Paris, March 19.-ExL Lieutenant Bois.s
son, alias Durand, formerly of French
military infantry regiment, who was
arrested in this city on February on
the charge of carrying on an illicit cor
respondence with foreign govern
ment involving military secrets, has
been sentenced to five years imprison-
ment, to pay fine of 1000 francs and
to be placed under police supervision
for ten years. The court, in pronoune-
ing sentence, said it regretted the law
did not allow more severe punishment
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
HAWAIIAN PRINCESS DEAD.
The Heir Apparent to the Former hron'
Succumbs to Rheumatism.

The Heir Apparent to the Former hrone
Suocumbs to Rheumatism.
San Francisco, March 19.-The latest
Honolulu advices announce the death
of Princess Kailuani. She passed away
at 2 o'clock on the morning of the 9th
inst. Her father and number of in
innate friends were by her bedside
when death occurred. The cause of
death is attributed to infiammatory
rheumatism, contracted some weeks
ago, while the princess was on a visit
to the island of Hawaii.
Princess Kaiulani was the daughter
of Princess Miriam Kekauluohi Like
like and Governor A. S. Cleghorn. She
was born October IS, 1875 On March
o, 1891, Liliuokalani proclaimed Kaiu-
lani heir apparent to the throne of
Hawaii and the United States warship
Mohican, then in port, fred twenty
one guns in honor thereof
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23

San Francisco, March IS Chron.
icle special from Vancouver, d. c.,
says: According to the latest mail adj
vices from Dawson, a marvellous dis
covery has been made on Dominion
creek, in the Klondike. A prehistoric
mammoth, weighing thirty tons, with
flesh still sweet enough to eat, was
found on Feb. 5 by August Trulson. a
Swede, and his partner, while working
their claim on Dominion creek. They
came across the remains forty feet from
the surface.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
SNUBBED THE PRINCE
Norwegian Assembly Openly Insults Its
Swedish Ruler

Swedish Ruler.
Christiana, March 1S.-Sixty Leftists,
members of the storthing, the legisla-
tive assembly of Norway, have declined
an invitation to dine with the Swedish
Crown Prince Gustaf, who is acting as
regent of Sweden and Norway during
the absence of King Oscar II, who is in
southern France, seeking to recuper.
ate his health.
The refusal of the Norwegian legis-
lators to accept the hospitality of the
regent is doubly significant, as empha-
sizing the resentment provoked in
Norway by a recent saying of the
crown prince in a public meeting at
Stockholm, that he would not object
to lead the Swedes against the head
strong Norwegians in resort to arms
to settle the quarrel between the two
countries, and as the most striking in
dication of open enmity to Sweden
which has been shown in Christiana
of late.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
MURDERED HIS CHILDREN.
A Kansas Man Kills His Five Children and
Then Sets Ills House on Fire.

A Kansas Man Kills His Five Children and
Then Sets His House ON Fire.
Hutchinson, KAN, March 22.-An
atrocious crime was revealed here when
the coroner and his assistants removed
the dead bodies of five little children
from the house occupied by John
Moore, which burned Monday night.
A coroner's jury investigated the case,
and In accordance with the iury's rec
concentration, Moore, the father of the
dead children, was arrested ON charge
of murder.
When the tiremen entered the house.
after having partly quenched the
flames, they found the five children
lying side by side in bed on the floor,
all dead, but not badly burned.
The coroner's autopsy developed CON
vincing evidence of an awful crime
The skull of each child was deeply in
denied, and from the dents long frac-
lures extended. All but one of the
children had been stabbed in the neck
The throat of the little 3-year-old, a
pretty boy, had been slashed so deep
that the spinal column had been sew
cred
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
BEHEADING INSURGENTS.
Flllpinos Who Talk Peace Are Promptly
Decapitated by AguinaIdo.

Flllplnos Who Talk Peace Are Promptly
Decapitated by AguinaIdo.
Manila, March 22.--It is reported on
hitherto reliable authority that Agui.
naldo is taking extreme measures to
suppress efforts calculated to cause a
cessation of hostilites Twelve adher-
ents OF the plan of independence, resi-
dents of Manila, have been condemned
to death because they wrote, advising
surrender, and all loyal Filipinos have
been called upon to perform the ma
tional service of dispatching them.
On Friday last General La Garda Wis
tied Las Gordas for the purpose of ad.
vising Aguinaldo to cease hostilities.
lie argued with the insurgent leader
and attempted to convince him of the
folly of his persistence, in the face of
overwhelming odds, Aguinaldo was
furious at the advice and ordered Cen
eral La Gorda to be executed immedi-
ately. The unfortunate general was
promptly decapitated
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
The California senatorshlp.

San Francisco, March 22.-Owing to
the inability of the California legisla.
ture, which has just adjourned, to elect
United States senator to succeed
Stephen NJ. White, there is much talk
of an extra session of the legislature
being called by Governor Gage. The
Republican party leaders look upon
the situation with alarm, and argue
that the failure to elect senator will
result in the election of a Democratic
legislature two years hence, and they
desire an extra session.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
Deadlock in China,

London, March 1S.-The Shanghai
correspondent of the Daily Mail says:
The preposterous demands of the Chi
ncse have brought the negotiations for
the extension of the cosmopolitan set
Element to deadlock, and the British
and American associations, which met
jointly today Thursday to advocate
united action by the two governments,
adopted resolutions of the most vigor.
GUS character, which will be trans.
mitted to London and Washington i'm.
mediately,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
Thinks Americans Made a Mistake.

London, March 10. = The Daily
Chronicle has the following in regard
to the situation in Manila: There is
no doubt the situation is an ugly one.
but there is nothing to be alarmed at.
Omelettes are not made without break
ing eggs. The Americans made mis-
take in wasting time and cool weather
in vain hope that the Filipinos would
grow to see the beauty of sweet rea-
sonableness, but the job must be
tackled and no doubt America realizes
It as we'll as we dc"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
spanlards Want to Leave.

Madrid, March 20.--A cable message
received from General Rios, the former
commander of the Spanish troops in
the Philippines, says the situation of
the Spaniards at Manila is so critical
that they all desire to return home.
The Americans, the general adds, rem
der their sojourn in the Philippines
impossible. The Spanish steamer Luz
zon left Manila on Friday, March II,
for Carthagena, taking number of
Spanish soldiers and over 1870 Spanish
officials
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
UTAH BATTERY AFLOAT.
Captain Grants Gunboat Holds Possession
of Lake.


Washington, March 20.-The war de-
partment has received the following
dispatch from Major-General Otis re-
garding operations against the insur-
gents:
'our improvised gunboats, under
Captain Grant, Utah artillery, have
full possession of Laguna de Bay The
troops, inhabitants and property on
the shore of the lake are at our mercy.
Wheaton's bigade, on the Pasig river
line, drove the enemy northeast into
the province of Morong, Last evening
the enemy attacked a portion of his
force south of Pasig, killing two men
and wounding twenty of the Twenty
second infantry Wheaton immedi-
ately moved against this insurgent
force, driving it TO the south fifteen
miles, experiencing very slight loss
Enemy left 200 dead on the field"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
NO SENATOR ELECTED.
California Legislature Unable to Reach an
Agreement.

Sacramento, Gala, March 2O.-The
l04th ballot for United States senator
was taken Saturday without choice and
the joint convention adjourned, after
being in session six consecutive hours,
during which time nineteen ballots
were taken. The proceedings were
marked with much confusion, the lobby
invading the floor of the assembly
chamber. The sergeant-at-arms was
apparently unable to control the crowd.
The 10th ballot was as follows: Total
number of votes cast, 1870; necessary
for choice, 81. Barnes (Rep.), IS;
Estee, (Rep), /; Burns(Rep.), 80; Grant
(Rep.), 80; Scott (Rep.), A; Patterson
(Rep.), 4; Devries (Dem.), /; Phelar
(Dem.), 6; White Dem.), "a; Rosenfeldt
| (Dem), 2.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
MRS. PLACE EXECUTED.
The First Woman to Die In the EIsstRfs
Chair In the State OF New York.


The First Woman to Die In the EIsstz4s
Chair In the State OF New York.
New York, March 29.-Mrs. Martha
Place was executed at Sing Sing prison
Monday. She was the first woman 20
die IN the electric chair in the state of
New York. and she went TO her death
quietly. But two shocks were given
and death was instantaneous The
voltage Of the current was 1850, and it
was continued for four seconds. 1t was
then gradually diminished TO 200 volt
age, which was continued for SO sec
onds. The prison physician then ex-
amined the woman and ordered sec
ond shock, the same as the first in
power and cntinuingthe same length OF
time. The second shock has always
been administered at Sing Sing.
Mrs. Place murdered her step-daugh-
ter, Ida NJ. Place, mere girl, on Feb
ruary 7, 1898. She first threw vitrol in
the girls eyes and then smothered her
This was early in the morning in their
home in Brooklyn. She waited all day
for her husband to return and then at
tackled him with an AK, fracturing his
skull and otherwise seriously injuring
him. Place, however, recovered.
Mrs. Place was convicted and SEN
fenced to death, but she never for
moment believed that she would be
electrocuted. She at first claimed she
could remem Der nothing OF the murder,
and later the plea OF insanity was sub
mitted in her behalf, and as last re-
sort Governor Roosevelt was petitioned
to exercise clemency, but the governor
refused to interfere.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
Carter Harrison WIN Win.

Chicago, March 17.-The result Of
Che Democratic primaries, insures the
denomination of Carter II. Harrison
for mayor. No opposition was made
to the Harrison ticket at the polls BY
supporters of Ex-Governor Altgeld, who
win run as an independent candidate
and in consequence light vote was
polled. No trouble was reported except
in the stockyards district, where there
were the usual number of broken
heads. The rest of the city ticket has
been practically agreed upon,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
Aiger Loses n Case.

Chattanooga, Tenn, March 1s.-
Judge Clark, in the United States Cir
cult court, has filed decision dismiss
ing bill of Secretary of War R. A..
Alger against the heirs of John F. An.
derson. General Alger sued for the
return OF Sl5o,Ooo which he had paid
the Anderson heirs for tract of land
In Franklin county, Tennessee. He
claimed that he had been imposed ON
by false representations. At pre-
vlous trial General Alger was given
Judgment for the amount asked,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
Cup Defenders Crew.

Deer Isle, Me-, March 20.-The crew
of the new defender OF the Americas
cup were selected last week by Captain
+. p Weed The task was a difficult
one, as e51 of the best seamen of the
island made applications for place
among the crew. The restriction that
those selected for place be under 80
years of age assisted Captain Weed to
some extent, hut at the same time it
excluded several of those who were
on the old Defender during the ye&r
1895
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23

Tacoma, Wash, March 22.-When
Joseph Leveque buries his wife tomor.
row he will have attended the twelfth
funeral in his own family since he
married. Before coming to Tacoma he
had lost six children by death, all of
whom are buried in Canada. Since
coming here five other children have
died. Most of the children died com.
paratively young. There are two
others still living. Leveque is la
borer and still on the sunny side Of
life.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
NEGRO BOYS BRUTAL DEED.
Beat to Death Two Aged and Defenseless
Women.

Upper Marlboro, Md, March Ell
Mary A, Clark, aged SO, was beaten to
death, and her sister, Annie Clark, aged
As, was fatally beaten last night at
Bowie, Md, village near this place,
by John Berry, l5-year-old negro boy.
The deed was u ferocious one, the aged
and defenseless woman being surprised
by the boy and literally beaten to a
jelly with club. Miss Annie Clark
saved herself from instant death by
promising to give the boy 500 and
pledging herself not to betray him if
he would spare her life, Berry was
arrested and confessed his guilt. For
fear that he would be lynched he was
taken to Baltimore tonight for safe
keeping,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
TExANl WAS ACCOMMODATING
Gave an Opponent Gun and Then Fought
Duel.

Columbus, Tex, March 1s.-A dep,
uty sheriff engaged in an alteration
with man named Scott, when Scott re.
marked that if he had gun he would
fight. Ex-Sherif Reese offered him a
revolver and the shooting began.
Reese was killed at the first fire.
Charles Boehme, bystander was also
killed and small boy named Williams,
is badly injured. The trouble had
been expected for some time.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
DEADLY CYCLONE.
Many People Killed and Much Property De-
stroyed In Alabama and Mississippi

stroyed In Alabama and Mississippi
Memphis, Tenn, March 2O.-A series
of windstorms swept through portions
of Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas
yesterday, doing an immense amount
OF property damage and killing num-
Der of people. The storms covered a
radius of several hundred miles, de-
stroying telegraph wires and cutting
off com munication with large section
of country Cleburn county, Alabama,
seems to have suffered the most severe
ly, the storm assuming the proportions
of tornado. The reports of fatalities
in the county vary from six to twenty
and many more are said to be injured.
At Sellers and Luverne, Ala, much
damage is reported, and at Rob Roy,
Ark, one man was killed and several
were badly injured. Dumas, Ark was
nearly wiped out Of existence and sew
eral other towns in the vicinity suf-
fered severely. One person is reported
killed at Hickory Flat, Miss, and as the
farmhouses in the vicinity suffered
heavily, it is not unlikely many fatal
tiles occurred which have not yet been
reported.
Reports from different points in Ar
kansas, Mississippi and Alabama indi-
cate that in the storms which swept
over those states eighteen persons were
killed outright and twenty-one injured,
as follows:
Alabama, sixteen killed, four injured;
Arkansas, one killed, seven injured;
Mississippi, one killed, ten injured
The property loss will run into the
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
SPANISH ADMIRAL's SKELETON.
General Wood Satisfies Himself as to Its
Identity.

Santiago de Cuba, March 20.-After
a careful investigation, Major-General
Leonard Wood, the military governor
is convinced that the skeleton found a
few days ago, tied in an armchair on
the shore, about four miles west of Ell
MORO, is the remains of the Spanish
Admiral Villamil, who commanded the
torpedo boat destroyers Furor and Plu-
ton in the battle which resulted In the
destruction of Cerveras squadron.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
NAVY'S NEW POWDER.
Is Regarded as Superior to Any Used by
Foreign Powers.

Is Regarded as Superior to Any Used by
Foreign Powers.
Washington, March 20.-The navy
department is ready to take the neces.
sary steps in carrying out the provision
of the naval bill for the purchase OF
smokeless powder during the coming
year. The navy has now a powder
known to the profession as pyrocellu.
lose, which is equal to, if not better
than any smokeless powder used by
foreign powers. Contrary to reports,
the new powder, which has been test
ed by the navy under service con-
ditions, is not only not injurious
to the guns now in use, but has been
SO nicely adjusted to their requirement
that it has increased their efficiency or
an average of 500 second feet.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
NO TROUBLE IN PORTO RICO.
General Hcnry's Denial of Recent scnsa-
tlonal Reports.

Washington March 22.-The follow.
ing dispatch was made public by the
war department today;
San Juan de Porto Rico, March 92.-
Adjutant General, Washington: News.
paper reports of conditions here and
reported interviews with me, stating
chances of uprising, are absolutely
false. There is great deal of child.
ish talk on the part of the ignorant,
but as to any resistance against law
and order Of any kind by the masses ii
Is absurd, There has always been pc.
litical agitation here, less now than
ever before. The truth should be
known and the island not be injured
by false statements. HENRY.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
SPANiARDS SALUTE.
American and spanish Ships Exchange
CourtesIes at Gibraltar.

Courtesies at Gibraltar.
Gibraltar, March 2l.-As the United
States cruiser Raleigh sailed from here
this afternoon homeward bound from
Manila, in order to be put out of com
mission, she hoisted the Spanish en-
sign and fired salute while passing
the Spanish squadron, commanded by
Admiral Camara, off Algiels. The
Spanish flagship Carlos Quinta, there
upon hoisted the American sign and
returned the salute,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
SPAIN WILL SETTLE.
Intends as Far as Possible TO Pay the Cuban
Debt.

London, March 21.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard says: l
am able to state that the government
intends, as far as possible, to execute
the national guarantee of the Cuban
debt 1t is proposed that the settle
ment should include sea, 900, 600 of the
Cuban per cent bonds issued in 1885,
and SIS, 900 of the per cent bonds
issued in 1890. These do not include
the war debts contracted since.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-03-23
CHARRED REMAINS FOUND.


where he Hurried His Wife.
Chicago, March 17.-August Becker,
The sausage-maker, who confessed to
having killed his wife and boiled and
burned her body, yesterday took police
officers to the spot in his yard where
he had buried the charred remains
Two baskets of burned bones were
found, and DR.. Dorsey has identified a
portion of them as human shoulder
blade. A small piece of the woman's
dress was also found.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-02

.o,,..s 4, hr, ,Als IN one of my aunts reguiAA
functions. She dies like thh at least tSn
dozen times q year. I'm sorTy you snooio na''
given yourself so much trouble
"YouJI catch your death Of cold, miss hi''
ouielv said tartly Mrs. Hannibal gave 'ei
rible gaming cry and writhed incredibly ih'n
7 realized that I was standing the sole eAci'ea
nerxon tu q group thAt was certainly oee's' ~
tired than myself I must have looked fnSh''
with nv hair Tying loose. 1t Is ten days aso'
h,, o..ure Won 7 daren't look Mr.. Hannibal IN
tho ,ace even vet Mrs Fl. has just sent Tor mo
IN nour out her medicine I will write h''io
moro In day or two
Tuesday.
Mr. Hannibal has proposed to me! Kho"
Won hnev as much from the beginning OF the let
ter. I haven't refused him, but explained mat
tors 70 him. 7 said he was engaged to MISS
Tottenham He assured me that he was rnucn
mora epeaeed to her engaging married sister,
and that ne would have married the one TO nlrt
more conveniently with the other called MN
a person of no principles. He said must re-
form him. tod him that all the world would
say that I hid angled for him. He agreed
quite calmly. I said that l nobody and
penniless He declared himself to be not any
hodv and that l. having cut him off with
shilling was in duty bound TO keep him on my
savings. l sent him away to think 1t over lie
returned in twenty minutes, and declared mat
he had been thinking hard. Nor could he Tor the
life Of him imagine how so hurried toilet as
must have made on the occasion or ms aunt
death could have been so abominably becoming
I don't know what Will come OF IT, lie says
he shall tell his aunt tomorrow. You know, It's
very tempting Bob. OIL wish | could tax II
over with you you poor old Bob, | VIII write
some more tomorrow He made me promise
not to wear that cord tonight, and snapped a
bracelet on my wrist to take its place lie says
it viii keep from catching cold.
Wednesday,
A dreadful thing has happened Mrs. Han
nbal Is dead. That silk cord was dragged right
up to the keyhoe. She was lying just as If she
were drawing at it when she died. Meet me at
Charing Cross to-mOrrOw.-(Sketch