Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-05-19
Eastern DISPATCHES.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE House
Committee on Banking considered the
Senate finance bill without reaching a
decision on any Of its features.
This afternoon Prescott, Sanborn's |
lawyer, refused to tell anything about
the disbursements OF the $685. unless
Sanborn authorized him to do SO, and
the Committee adjourned till Monday,
advising Prescott to See Sanborn in the
meantime.
CINCINNATI, o., May 1G. Yesterday
band of sixteen women went into the
German neighborhood on temperance
crusade. A crowd gathered and hooted
and yelled at the women, who d first re-
fused to act on the suggestion of the
Mayor, who was present, to leave the
vicinity and return to church, were fin
ally forced to take this step. The Mayor
ordered the police to permit no Imore
street praying. To-day forty-three wo-
men, including the wives OF six minis
| seis, inniCueu w tue oulne IOCalliy
and began to pray and sing, when
they were arrested and taken
to the station-house. but were
released on parole to appear on Monday
for trial.
WASHINGTON, May lS.-Hoar moved to
suspend the rules, and make an order or
amendment to the Postoffice Appropria-
ton Bill, under which the postage on
agricultural reports shall not exceed ten
cents, Carried by 15l to 46.
A Scranton dispatch says that the
Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company
suspended work on Saturday, throwing
3 out of employment over seven hundred
men.
E A North Hampton dispatch says in re-
4 lation to the Goshen reservoir, which il
1 half as large as and considered inferior
: in strength to the Haydenville reservoir
t which bursted on Saturday. that the PEG
pie compelled the gate keeper to oper
l the gateway of the reservoir on Saturday
7 till the dams could be examined ant
+. strengthened. they being determined no
j to suffer disaster again through care
t lessness. The owners OF the reservoir
= are the largest losers.
!, General Webb's son calls for suspen
r sion of public judgment regarding thu
II | iii ccapla1 in ha Gok, L.
Il till his father returns from Europe +
u make his defense.
i SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May II. Tn
b latest figures give the loss of life iron
n the breaking of the reservoir at 144, dis
\. tributed as follows: Williamsburg, &C
s Leeks, 40; Haydenville, 80. These fig
!. ures only represent those known to b
l. lost. Bodies are constantly arriving an
d very many more doubtless persisted. ]
o is impossible to be accurate as to tn
IS amount of losses. Besides the house
II damaged and destroyed, bridges
= meadow land and roads suffered in
d mensely, and the amount must exceed
d million dollars, and probably it wont b
less than two million dollars. The TO
lowing is the general estimate in Wi
. liamsburg: Avery's flour mill wa
. carried away, loss 500, 900; James mi
damaged, 100000; buildings damage
5 and gone $4,000 At skinnersville, sikr
ner's silk factory, and twelve tenement
Q were destroyed; loss $4,000: othe
Q houses $4,000. At Haydenville, Hay
I den, Gere & Co.'S brass works. Saving
!. Bank and other buildings and tenement
were swept away; loss $4,000; othe
buildings $23, 900. At Leeds the None
tuck Silk Company. $4,000; Warren
button factory and tenements, 800, 0O(
other buildings $4,000. At NorthamI
is ton the damage amounted to $40, 900. A
Florence the mills and factories wei