The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-06-14

fifteen thousand people are homeless and the
Fraser river is still slowly rising. Burglars
and thieves have hegan to rsvsgs the food
ed districts and yesterday safe was stolen
from the Moodyvills Mill Company, bu. the
burglars had bad luck, they intended to
carry the safe to the woods and blow it open
but their boat capszed and the safe and
boat were found in the flooded fats.
DUBUQUE, Ia, June 9-An engine spark
in the Lesur lumber yards was the cause of
the most destructive fire that ever visited
Dubuque. 1t burned for a width of three
square miles. Mills, factories, warehouses
and immense piles of lumber were reduced
to ashes, leaving twelve acres of ruins.
Fully 10, 900, 900 feet of lumber was burned
besides the buildings, causing total loss of
$500, ,OOC, and the insurance aggregates
35O,OOO.
WHEELING, W. Va, June S.-Five hun
dred miners from Moundsville and Glenvile
are marching 70 the assistance of the rioters
Bogg's run, where the Baltimore & Ohio
trains are blocked If the Ohio militia
starts trains on the Ohio side. the miners
will transfer operations to the West Virginia
side.
DENVER, Colo, June John Shorten,
editor of the Cripple Creek Herald, publish
ed in the interest of the miners, was arrest
ed several days ago and arrived here to-day.
He tells sensational stories of the treatment
| that he and others received from the brutal
deputies. The hardest case of all was that
of man named Sullivan, who got telegram
from Cripple Creek telling him that his wife
was dying and asking him to go to Leadville
Immediately. This telegram was seen by
the editor of the Herald, and when they
were captured Sullivan showed the deputies
the sudden summons, but they refused to
liberate him and would not even allow him
to communicate with his dying wife or
family.
TACOMA, Wash, June T. The damage
done by foods throughout the northwest is
being estimated by railroad men and Others
who have placed the loss in the neighbor-
hood of $1,000, 900. The great volume of
water is yet to be felt 10 the lower Fraser
valley, which it will not reach for another
day. As further details of the cloudburst
are received, the earlier reports OF receding
waters at Lytton and other points of the
river are discredited However it is not be-
| <la ,.,in r,o ,h nbar
A young crank called at the White House
to-day and announced that his purpose was
to convert President Cleveland to the ways
of riteousness. This was the third time he
had been at the White House, and the
watchman became alarmed and called for
the police patrol. He was then transferred
to the Third precinct station, where he " i'll
bs held for examination. He is a converted
Jew, and has been delivering sermons on
the street corners.
WASHINGTON, June The attention oi
the Senate was occupied until the tariff bill
WINS taken up to-day, by the action of the
Attorney General in claiming SIS, 200, 00(
from the estate of the late Leland Stanford
Sc uator Hoar said that the question of ex
tinguishing and putting this claim to rest
should be at once decided. He stated tina
'sIf the Government had a claim of SIS,
GOO, 900, that was ouly twenty cents apiec
for the inhabitants of the United States, t.
whom Mr.. Stanford had consecrsted hi
, la rye estate, and it ought not to embarras
the remaining years Of his widow and crippl
and perhaps destroy the great gift he ha
made for the benefit of the poor by seekin
to press it,