The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-08-26
GEMER AL NEW 8.

At Lancaster, Penn. last week, hum
dreds of acres of tobacco were ruined
by hail.
The late Thomas J. Morse of St.
Louis carried $11O, 900 insurance on
his life.
Representatives of Egypt are studying
Southern methods of cotton raising
near Atlanta.
Yellowstone region in Montana has
produced prize yield of potatoes,
510 bushels to the acre.
Mining experts are actively at work
inspecting the gold region of the Rocky
Mountain States.
VandaliaS, Mo-, maintains an an
nual picnic. The last one on the 3rd
was attended by 5000 persons.
Canada's Government has given
West Point cadets permission to pass
through to Chicago under arms.
A movement is in progress to in
troduce improved machinery in the
gold districts of Alabama and Geor-
gia.
A Judge in Louisville, KY, had
three girls before him Sunday week
charged with smoking cigarettes in a
public place.
In the recent statehood convention
at Eel Eeno it was resolved to appeal
to Congress to make Oklahoma and
Indian territory one State.
In Middlesex county, N. j., five
persons were killed by four separate
trains in one and the same day last
week.
The depositors in the Los Angeles
City Bank, it is said, will not get 20
cents on the dollar, owing to the loose
methods of business employed.
Diamonds to the value of over &c.
100000 were sold in one lot recently
by the De Beers company of South
Africa to syndicate.
The women of Hiawatha, Kan. are
raising funds to send all of the drunk
ards of that to town to the Kelley cure,
and they expect to make money by
the operation.
India has boarded $135, 900, 900
worth of silver and half as much gold,
mostly in the shape of idols and orna-
ments hidden out of sight, in thirty
years.
Joseph Hessel, the Austrian who is
said to have invented the marine screw
propeller, died in abject poverty.
But a monument was erected to his
memory the other day in Vienna.
The city trustees of Sacramento
have awarded to R. L. Fish of San
Francisco a contract to furnish Sacra-
mento city with water to be pumped
from Wells which will be dug in the
suburbs.
The opposition freight and passen-
ger steamer, Protection, owned by j..
S. Kimball of San Francisco, made
it's first landing at Monterey last week,
and unloaded eight tons of mixed
freight.
Idle men are pouring into Chicago
from the West, swelling that city,
army of unemployed. One thousand
arrived there last week on freight
trains, and thousands more are said
to be on the way.
Thirty five Chinaman on the Hay
tian Republic of Portland, Or, are to
be deported. The rule of forcing the
burden of proof of the right to enter
on the Chinese has created consterna-
ton among them.
The rawhide with which Rev. O.. D.
Taylor was whipped at The Dallas,
Or, by young woman was raffled
and the proceeds donated to Miss Hol-
comb, who did the whipping, and hel
friend Miss Edulia.
A creditor seldom goes so far as tc
seize coffin about to be carried to
the grave. But this happened a few
days ago in Berlin in the open street
and created considerable excitement
and great Indignation.
The Connecticut tobacco crop has
been well nigh ruined by a disastrous
storm. But smokers can take com
fort in the announcement that "the
cabbage crop out West was never