The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-13
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country.
SPOKEN OF IN his COLUMN.
SeIc etlons That VIII. Greatly Interest our
Readers Both Old
and Young.

Robert Garrett, ex-president Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
and head of the widely known bank
ing-house of Robert Garrett q Sons,
recently died at Deer Park, Md.
On a saucer-shaped track, i'll Minnea-
polls, starting from opposite sides,
Tile Anderson, the Chicago cyclist,
rode Dottie Farnsworth, the North
western champion. off her wheel and
broke the worlds record for one mile
by one and one-fifth seconds.
Having reached the age limit, Gen
eral Richard n Batchelder, Quarter
MASTER General Of the regular army,
has been retired. Among the more
prominent officers who are spoken of as
his successor are Colonies q. II. Weeks,
James NJ. Moore, Charles q. Sawtelle
and Marshall r. Ludington.
The Great Northern railroad has
issued new tariff on grain, flour, feed
stuff, hay, potatoes, livestock. - IN
the tariff on grain in carlosG III the
Eastern terminals and stations i'll south
Dakota and Montana, taking effect
August 3D.. The reductions make the
lowest rates ever supplied on grain in
that territory.
The jenkins Cycle Company, of
Chicago, manufacturers of the Napo-
leon wheel, has made an assignment.
The American Trust and Savings Bank
is said to be the chief creditors, its
claim amounting to $25 900. Accord
ing to the statement filed with the as
signment, thu assets are $109, 900 and
the liabilities $77, 1853.
A locomotive went through the Van
dalia railroad bridge over Walnut
Fork, Indiana. Five men were aboard
Engineer Frank Bowman of Terre
Haute escaped with a few bruises, but
Road Supervisor Brother was severely
injured. The dead are Fireman Hib-
Der, Brakeman Charles Mckenzie and
Conductor N. b. Fowler.
The presidents of the Eastern rail-
roads out of st. Louis met at the Trunk
line offices in New York for the purpose
of readjusting the percentages on east
bound traffic. There was an unusual
display of harmony, and the opinion
was expressed that the Board of Arbi-
tration, after hearing the claims of
each company, would promptly agree
upon division of the business that
would be satisfactory to all.
Judge Dillon, attorney for the Cali.
fornia Eastern Railway Company, has
placed on record in San Bernardinc
county, quit-claim deed from the old
Nevada Southern Company to it's sue.
cessor in interest, the California East
ern. The deed conveys thirty miles Of
standard-gauge railroad, formerly the
property of the Nevada Southern
now in operation between Blake ant
MARVEL in San Bernardino county
This appears to wind up the affairs o.
that much litigated railroad.
John McLuckie, ex-Burgess of Home
stead, Pa, spoke before the Contra
Labor Union i'll Haverhill, Mass, re
Gently, his effort being to agitate tn,
bringing of an indictment against tn,
Carnegie Company of Homestead To-
9 furnishing the United States Govern
ment w it'll defective armor plates fo
i warships. He was very bitter in hi
6 utterances. He stated that he was no
doing his work for the love of tn,
, country, but for revenge. He said il
1892 the men Mt Homestead had 30t
Winchester rifles; now they have 300t
l and they are ready to use them i
: necessary.
Honors were even between the sex
|, tuplet and the Empire State express il
! two races recently run along the New
! York Central tracks, where a cours,
had been specially prepared by tn
New York Central Railroad Company
On the outgoing trip the sextuplet lie,
. the express i'll half-mile dash b,
! three lengths. The engineer had beef
|, warned to run his engine at its best
but he could not defeat the bicycle
The Empire State express, whicl
arrived in Syracuse at $3.50, fairly de
feated the sextuplet for half mile
though the wheel was only left behin
; several lengths.
One of the greatest sensations in tn
history of alleged philanthropic move
, ments in Pittsburg was unearthed re
! Gently. Some weeks ago number o
prominent men and women who pos
as philanthropists organized the Civil
Club to help the poor on the "Pingre
I potato patch plan" Owners of vacan
q land gave the use of it. Men wer
. hired to do the blowing and consider
{ able money was spent for seeds, etc
The Civic Club presented the bills TO
Q the work to City Comptroller Gurne
| and asked that the city pay them. TIL
! Comptroller refused. He said the Who'll
movement was passed along as philan
thropic and the attempt to make tn
city pay the bill is preposterous.
! The two daring navigators who lief
= New York June 2Sth in a sailboa
! eighteen feet long to cross the Atlanti
were sighted July 10th in latitude
: deg. min. north longitude 81 deg
! 80 min. west by the American line
Indiana and asked to be reported
I Iney appeared 10 Do IN the best Q
, spirits and required no assistance what
ever from the Indiana, although pre-
visions and water were offered them
Captain Thompson said the position i
which he passed them was about "a
miles from Fastnet. They expected t
reach channel port some time earl
in August, should the weather remai
favorable. They had sixty days pro
visions when leaving New York.
Myriads of grasshoppers, in clouds s
, dense as to almost obscure the sun
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