The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-23
TELECRAPHIC RESUME
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country.
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
Selections That VIII Greatly Interest our
Readers Both Old
and Young.

The national census of educational
institutions show nearly 100000
/ enrolled.
The National Democratic Convention
in session at Chicago nominated VIM.
j. Bryan for President.
/ Another death from heat in the
streets of Chicago is that of Prof.
James Foye of Armour Institute.
The bicycle record from Chicago to
New York, 142 hours and 10 minutes,
has been lowerd by four hours and 8
minutes.
/ Gen. A. r. Lawton, of Savannah,
/ Ga, died at Clifton Springs Sanitar-
ium. He had stroke of paralysis,
from which he died.
Cloudbursts in Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia, Columbus, Ohio, and Blaire,
Ohio, recently caused much damage in
the vicinity of these places.
Bill Doolin and Dynamite Dick, the
surviving members of the Dalton gang
together with fourteen other desperate
prisoners, overpowered the guards in
the United States Jail at Guthrie,
I Oklahoma, and escaped.
/ w. d. Mcdowell of Chicago has re-
signed as president of the Columbian
/ Liberty Bell association because of dis
crepancies in his accounts. 1t is
claimed that he has been acting with
out authority in many ways.
j The following appointments of cadets
to the West Point Military Academy
have been made, among others: Paul
A. Densmore of San Jose, Cal. with
Harold p Gray of San Jose, alternate;
w. d. Flynn of San Francisco with E.
L. Zane of San Francisco as alternate.
The steamer Three Friends passed
Key West, recently pursued by the
| Spanish warship Alfonso XIII. Both
vessels We're under full steam. The
Three Friends was between eigh6 and
ten miles ahead of the warship. Oh.
servers say the warship fired upon the
4 Three Friends.
/ A Fall River dispatch says the Amer.
lean Linen Company's mills have an.
nounced shutdown for an indefinite
period. The warper- tenders were
notified of reduction of wages, and OIL
the refusal of the management to re.
consider, the tenders struck. The
management Immediately announced
an indefinite shutdown.
d. S. French has been appointed
receiver of the st. Johns Manufactur.
ing Company, of st. Johns Mich.
which operates the largest table factory
in the world. The assets are $780,.
600. The company suffered loss OF
Sl60, 900 by fire and had no insurance.
1t will probably survive the embar.
rassment.
The Italian bark Diadem, the Swed.
ish bark Svea, and the Norwegian BARI
Johan Ludwig, were blown ashore il
Pensacola Bay, Alabama, during a
severe storm. The Merchants Hotel
the Methodist Church and nearly every
business house of Mobile was unroofed
The streets were made impossible by
tne Iallen trees.
A New Orleans dispatch says the
steamboat E. l.. Peten, Captain Charlie.
F. Hardie, which sailed from New
Orleans, July 4, for Guatemala via
Laguna in tow of the Norwegian
steamer Franklin, has capsized about
thirty-tive miles west of South Pass
The crew were rescued by the boats OF
the Franklin. The E. L. Peten was
recently built for the Guatemala trade
and registered $50 tons net. 1t wa.
valued at 100000.
A remarkable invoice of books was
recently received through the New
York custom house for ]. Pierpont
Morgan, the banker. There were only
twelve volumes, but the value put upor
them by Morgan was $4,000. There
were four volumes of Shakespeare il
the original folio, dated 1923, 1882
/ 1864 and 1885; six volumes of the
Polyglot Bible dated 1514-1517, anC
/ two volumes of the Nazarine Bible
printed from type ON vellum in 1850
/ 1856.
Louis P. Sheldon, captain of Yale.
track team, won the all around
championship of the Amateur Athletic
Union which was decided on the
grounds of the New Jersey Athletic
Club at Bergen Point John A. Lar
kin of the Xavier Athletic Association
pressed the Yale captain very closely
Total scores: Sheldon $3.50, Larkir
5ll5. The other competitor, H. Ober
tubessing of the New West Side Ath
letic Gu twas completely outclassed.
The quarterly report of new indus
tries erected in the Southern Safes
during the three months ending July
/, 1896, as compiled by the Tradesman
shows total Of $50. The erection OF
cotton and WOODEN mills in the South
continues with undated zeal. Fifty
five cotton and wooden mills were re-
ported during the last three months.
South Carolina leading with twenty
Georgia having eleven, North Carolina
eight, Alabama four, Texas four apG
tennessee four.
More than ten thousand Elks partici.
pated in the tenth annual reunion q
what is practically reunited order,
and the actual thirty second grand
lodge session of the benevolent and
protective order in Cincinnati The
city is profusely decorated, and so is
the Kentucky side of the river. while
the electric light and other street dis.
plays are elaborate. The sessions were
held at the Grand Opera House, with
William G. Myers of Philadelphia,
grand exalted ruler, presiding.
The visiting members of the Ancient
and Honorable Artillery Company of
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