The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-20
.TELECRAPHIC RESUME
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country.
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
S ,Is etIons That VIII Greatly Interest our
Readers Beth Old
and Young.

1
mond Match Company and the New
York Biscuit Company, have failed.
The failure of the Columbus Buggy
company throws 600 men out of work.
Its Kansas City branch is also closed.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Howe Pump Works of indianapolis
Liabilities, $50, 900; assets, $4,000
to $3.50, 900.
Ida Fuller, the dancer, was seized
by an octopus while swimming at
Manhattan Beach, and narrowly
escaped death.
A meeting was held at Jefferson
City, NO., the 9th, of all persons in
terested in the effort to perfect mon
ument to the late Eugene Field, poet
and journalist.
The rolling mills at Niles, o., will
resume work at once, giving employ
ment to over 1000 men. The Allen
print works at Providence, R. l., will
also resume.
The johnson Steel Works at Lorraine,
Ohio, have closed down and 800 men
are thrown out of employment. The
suspension, which, it is believed, is
only for short time, is owing to
lack of orders.
The special train over the southern
route carrying 100 men from the
Charleston crew from Mare Island to
San Francisco to Norfolk, Va, made
the trip in four days and twenty. three
hours, breaking all previous records.
A Block Island, R. l., dispatch says
Nicholas Bell, proprietor of the Ocean
View Hotel, is dead at the age of IS.
He went to California in 1849, acquired
considerable wealth, travelled extern
sively and was the author of several
books.
The Staver & Abbott Manufacturing
Company of Chicago has assigned to
Henry c. Stever for the benefit of their
creditors. The assets are scheduled at
$500, 900 and the liabilities at $780,
900. General depression in business is
given as the cause of the failure.
A meeting of prominent financiers
and Chicago bankers was held at the
residence of one of them ON the South
Side, and it was agreed by them to
close the Chicago Stock Exchange in
definitely. These gentlemen said it
was the only course for them to pursue,
and that as far as they were concerned
their stock was margined at figure
which would protect them. The spec
ulative value of the failure will be
about $50, 100000.
Word has been received at the office
of the Gulf road at Denver, that the
North German Lloyd Steamship Com
pany would establish line of freight
and passenger ships between Calves
ton, Texas, and Bremen, Germany.
The first two ships of the line will be
of 1000 and 1870 tons register and
equal to all but the first class Atlantic
liners. The rates, both for freight and
passengers, will be lower than from
North Atlantic ports.
/ Chamberlain writes to the New
! York Sun fromo London as follow:
'The adaptation of Prof. Roentgen' 4
discovery as an aid in the practice OF
surgery has made wonderful progress
in the past few weeks in Berlin, Paris
and London. Specialists in each OF
these cities now devote themselves
almost exclusively to the use of this
new method for diagnosis, and many
are the marvellous reports of their re-
vealing to the eye of science what was
before visible only to the eye of faith.
A Saulte Sainte Marie dispatch say,
the new S00-foot lock has been officially
opened. The revenue-cutter Andrew
johnson and river-and-harbor-im improve
ment-steamer Hancock were locked
through. No official programme marked
the opening of the largest lock in the
world, and the completion of one Of
the greatest engineering feats in the
history of the country. The lock wa.
commenced in 1889. 1t is 500 feet il
length. between gates, 100 feet il
length over all, 43 feet high, 100 fee
wide and will accommodate boat
drawing twenty-one feet of water.
Much damage has been done by for
est fires in the vicinity of Sault Saint,
Marie. Mich. Gladis, station eigh
miles from there on the South Shor,
road, was wiped out and its RESIDENT
had to flee for their lives. Scores O
farmers have lost their homes ant
many of them barely escaped with thei
lives. The regular South Shore pas
senger train out was compelled to re
turn owing to the intense heat an,
smoke. Several of the passenger
tainted before the train got out of tn,
fire belt. No rain has fallen for week
and everything on the ground is dry a
finder
The Cincinnati Railroad, runnin,
from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, a dis
lance of 1913 miles. is owned by tn
city. 1t is part of the Queen an,
Crescent system and has been leased h
the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texa
Pacific Railway, the latter compan,
being in the hands Of q receiver. 4
proposition from Andrews g. Taylor
representing the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railway Company. wa
recently made to buy the road, witt
its terminals, etc.. for $40, 900, 900
The proposition had been favorabl,
passed upon by the Board of Admins
tration and the Sinking Fund Commits
sion. and was submitted to the peopl
for final action. The vote resulted
Eyes, 1892; noes, 1870. Tn
proposition to sell the road was lost b.
1888, just one vote for each mile of tn
road.
] Il. d. holland. Of the Riversid
Dairy, says that he finds sugar-bee