The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-06-04
GENER ~. NEWS .

'cdeid al supreme court.
Inisei States troops have be- n sent to
the Chickasaw natl ID. l. T., and ejec-
tions of intruders will he began at once.
New placer digging have been found
in Cuchuta, State OF Sonora, Mexico,
that are attracting great many miners
The thirty ninth annual convention Ct
the International Typographical Union
will be held in Boston, Mass, from June
Sth to l4th next.
The widow of ex.President Polk is IS |
years old. She was at the Wedding OF
her grandniece, Miss Sadie Polk Fall, at
Nashville, Tenn, May 18th.
Two men entered the American Ex-
press Office at Carroll, Iowa, bound and
gagged an employe named Matthews,
robbed the money box Of $1,000 and es.
capped.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
ordered all postmssters to place notice
over each drop,letter box warning all
persons not to mail lottery matter Of any
kind, since to do so is illegal.
The directors of the California athe.
letic club have decided to give Jim Cor.
bett 81, 500 apiece for their draw fight
and to offer the men a purse of 81, 500 to
fight before the club again.
Kansas has Just had thorough wet.
ting down, to the great benefit of her
wheat fields. With no drawbacks it is
estimated that the wheat yield of the
State this year will be between forty and
fifty million bushels.
Ten years ago Tennessee potatoes were
scarcely known 10 the northern markets
Now the crop annually brings into Mid.
die Tennessee from 81, 500, 900 to s., 000,-
600. This should set the Nevada farm.
ers to thinking.
The Customs department Of Canada
has received report showing that the
number Of sealing schooners which
cleared from British Columbia ports for
3ehring Sea this spring is forty nine-an
increase Of twenty over last year.
Inspector General George H. Burton
Of the Division of the Pacific, has been
ordered by Brigad,er, General Ruser to
proceed to Reno to inspect the Nevada
State University at that place and re-
port his observations and the military
facilities of the university to the Secre.
tary of War.
Mr.. Edison, in a speech to the EN-.
ployes of the Ogden iron works at Dover,
N. j., said; Boys, wait until next
winter and we shall have no snow to
bother us npon this hill. During the
coming yeal shall invent electric and
sunlight reA otors that will melt the
snow as fast a. it falls.
According t. comparisons made At the
Paris Miners ongress. Belgian miners
at p, ., ..f +. the poorest pay. their
average e avg but 80 cents daily,
while Fssili 80 iers receive about IS
! cents, and the Germans from rs cents to
/ 81. This has been the case with the
case with the Germans, however, only
since their strike in 1883.
The Secretary of War has made allot.
ments of money to the various States
: and Territories for arming and equipping
militia ON basis of representation in
, Congress. California gets 1851, Idaho
f $2754, Montana $l764, Nevada $2764,
( Washington S27G4, Arizona $1,000. The
0 funds will be available on the lst of July
next.
8 1t is stated that another expedition
=. is about to brave the perils of the can
r yon Of the Colorado to investigate the
i RICH mineral deposits said to exist in
= thir almost impenetrable locality. The
y party will 60 well equipped and with Its
9 work mapped out before the start. The
# party will be composed Of .eight men
II each with his own line Of work to per
form.
p The strikers in the Pennsylvania COX,
n region have been overcome by the i'm
IS mense importation Of foreign laborers
< A melancholy feature Of the affair is tn,
e eviction Of the strikers from tho com
!. pany houses and the moving in Of th,
# new men. The strikers are now home
10 less and starving. 1t is mercy tina
n they do not have cold weather to con
tend with, and they may be Thankful
!. that they are not freezing.
M Two demands have been made BY tn
iy labor unions of Chicago on the World
IL Fair directors-one that all contractor
!. who are to put up the buildings are t
La observe the eight,hour day, and secondly
* that the minimum scale Of wages pre-
I" scribed-by the labor unions shall be &C
10 cepted. The directors have agreed
err the first proposition but stick at til
second, regarding it as too important
departure from established usage fo
," them to make
10 1t is clearly evidenced that Italy 10 bs
=. ginning to regret her hasty action. SET
n Rotary Blaine assured the Italian govern
~ ment that the United States would nc
!, hesitate to indemnify Italy il it shout
i. prove that any of her subjects had bee
!, injured through the violation Of treat
=. rights, but it was subsequently learne
!. that the lynchel members Of the Maj
a. were all criminals before they came
this country. What then! 1t 10 .plai