The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-11-25
GENERAL NEW s.

Over 800 lynchings have taken place
in the South during the present year.
Terrible drought has dried up wells
and springs in Georgia's mountain dis
tricts
Big chunks of quartz full of gold
have been struck on claim at Grip
pie creek, Col.
The president has appointed all post
masters who failed of confirmation by
the senate.
Failure to answer New York jury
notice or explain his delinquencies
may cost Carl Schurz $1O0.
1t is estimated that not less than
1000 people attended the Worlds fair
from Allegany county, N. Y.
The first application of a woman to
be a notary public in New Hampshire
has been refused by the governor.
In single season the locusts or
grasshoppers have cost the western
farmers two hundred million dollars.
For 200 years the paper from which
bank of England notes are made has
been manufactured at Laverstoke in
Hampshire.
It is said that the attorneys for
Prendergast, assassin of Mayor Harri-
son, will try for a change of venue
from Chicago,
A Baltimore and Ohio train recently
made the run from Akron to Chicago,
a distance of 352 miles, in 8 hours
and 20 minutes.
It is learned on good authority that
the cabinet is unit in the indorse-
ment Of Cleveland's plan for the res
toration of Liliuokalani.
There is salt mine at Wieliza,
an Austro- Galician town, that has
been worked for 600 years and is still
yielding fresh supplies.
M. J. Jones owner of the Alix, has
accepted a proposition to trot his mare
against Directum at Mystic Park,
Boston, within 10 days.
Light gloves can be cleaned with
corn meal, black kids with a teaspoon
ful of oil to which few dropfnls of
ink can have been added.
The oldest newspaper in the United
States is the Hartford Courant, which
celebrated it's one hundred and twenty
ninth anniversary week before last.
Six counties in California-Nevada,
Amador, Placer, Tuolumne, Trinity
and Siskiyou = produced from the
mines in 1892 the sum of 81, ,873, ,342
in gold.
There are now 25, 900 more or less
experienced cooks, laundresses and
second girls in Chicago who are out of
work. By November 10Th the num-
Der will be doubled.
The slaughter of cattle in Kansas
City for the ten months ending Octo-
Der 31st amounted to more than 75O,-
900 head, exceeding the killing for
the corresponding period of 1892 by
almost 25O, 600.
When a parsonage of high rank
dies in Siam, the king helps bathe
the body and prepare it for crema-
ton and finally lights the funeral
pryre.
Mrs. Annie E. Brown of Quincy,
ILL.,, recently left by will $1,000 each
to her father and three other rela-
tives, and $33O,O0O to public chari-
ties.
The president has appointed Will
liam D. English as surveyor of GUS
toms and j. D. Stevens as assistant
appraiser of merchandise at San
Francisco.
The first secession flag raised in the
South was in South Carolina. The
flagstaff is still standing fastened to
the gable end of q storehouse at Skull
Shoals.
At the children's building in the
Worlds fair, where babies were cared
for and checks given to their parents
to insure safe redelivery, only one baby
out of 1000 remained uncalled for.
The oil dealers have just had map
showing the oil bearing district of the
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