The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-10-28
GEM ERAL NEW :.
A turnip weighing 23 pounds is on
exhibition at Blaine, Wash.

exhibition at Blaine, Wash.
Arizona is holding meetings to urge
action upon her claims Of Statehood.
Santa Cruz, Cal, reports shock of
earthquake Sunday morning.
DR.. Vincent, the Fresno, CAL, wife
murderer, is to hang on the 9th of
October.
Fitzsimmons wants go at Corbett
and will challenge him in case the
latter whips Mitchell.
People in the south of England
have been enjoying the second crop
of strawberries this year.
A writer in the London News says
that American tools are far better than
those of European make.
The strikes of miners in England
and Belgium are nearing an end
Riots are still frequent in France.
The rapid adoption of machinery for
setting type is daily throwing hun
dreds of printers out of employment
An English advertiser offers $500 to
any person killed in railway acci-
dent wearing his particular brand of
suspenders.
The women of Iceland, who have
had municipal suffrage ever since 1882
have now been made eligible to muni-
cipal offices.
A faro bank at Occur dAlene,
Idaho, was held up night befor last by
three masked robbers who got away
with 5000 in coin.
King Behanzin of Dahomey recent
ly sent to England, by way of Lagos,
cable message on which tolls were
nearly 81, 800.
An Ohio family at the Worlds Fair
blew out the gas and were found dead
III their bed at the hotel.
Some one estimates that getting
born costs the people of the Uuited
States $3.50, 900, 900 annually, getting
married, $500, 600, 900 and getting
buried, $75, 200, ,000
1t is an old story that the SLOW mo-
dies of travel of, say 20 years since,
gave perhaps only two favorable OPP
portunities for studying the natural
features of a country.
China is about to establish postal
system, beginning with the seaports.
1t is hoped that Within ten years it
will be extended throughout the en-
pire.
The legislature of Bolivia has pass
ed a bill abolishing slavery. 1t is,
however, mere form, as the poems
have been practically free for some
time.
M. de Lesseps is cheered by the as
surance of his physicians that he is in
no immediate danger of death. The
distinguished invalid is in his eighty
eighth year.
A girl named Hulda Anderson, at
Benicia, CAL, is supposed to have
walked off the wharf and was drowned.
She was affected with occasional diz-
ziness, when apparently she lost her
mind.
Webster Flanagan, customs collec-
tor at Ell Paso, Texas, has been in
dicted by the United States Grand
Jury on a charge of conspiracy to de-
fraud the government by passing a
quantity of sheep over the border free
of duty.
A procession of very hungry idle men
marched up to the chief police Office
at Los Angeles, CAL, and stated their
condition. Two restaurant keepers
Mr.. Aull and Mr. Melstead-gave
them food, which they ravenously
consumed.
There are in New York ffty-f
survivors of the war of 1872, all of
whom are over ninety-two years of
age, and eight more than one hun
dred years.
Two small boys of The Dalles (Or. J,
engaged in fight in the streets re-
Gently to settle the championship of
the town 'among the kids. 1t is
said to have been very game affair,
lasting over an hour, and the event
was watched by fifty or more men.
Every little While the contestants
( would ston to take a drink of water