The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-15
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Things That Have Happened all
over the Country.
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
Selections That VIII Greatly Interest our
Readers Beth Old
and Young.

North German Lloyds steamer Saale
grounded at Sandy Hook recently.
That leading bicycle manufacturers
have nearly decided to advance prices
next year.
The, Cleveland Rolling Mills have
closed down and 1900 men are idle in
consequence.
The British steamer Galileo has
been seized in Brooklyn for violating
the customs laws.
Yale has answered Pennsylvania
challenge for football, but the answer
has not been made public.
All the American records for twenty
eight miles and over were broken in
the Chicago bicycle tournament.
A dry dock that cost $500, 900 and
that never could be used is to be sold
by the Navy department for nomi-
nal sum.
Over 100000 worth of property
has been destroyed and mum Der of
lives lost by the hurriane in Saw annah
county.
The Navy Department has Just let
contracts for 100000 for supplies
for sailors, the largest purcase ever
made at one time.
A thousand dollars was taken from
a hotel safe in Falls, Pa, by robbers,
who had previously chloroformed TWEEN
ty people in the building.
1 The Polish Roman Catholic Con-
gresss, which has been in session at
Buffalo, has adjourned. The next
one will be held at Chiago in 1898.
An ancillaIy receiver has been APP
pointed for the Richards Company,
cloak dealers, fof New York. Liabili-
ties, $4,000; actual assets, $75, 900.
A determined effort is being made
by citizens of Tangipalioa Parish, La.
to lynch the negro who murdered
the four members of the Cotton
family.
Work will begin in few days OF
the construction of the big dam across
the Rio Grande, above Ell Paso. Al
immense irrigating reservoir will bt
constructed.
DIR. Hamilton of the Marine Hospita
service has been ordered from
Chicago to San Francisco, Secretar,
, Carlisle having decided to pay no at
tention to his protest.
, Previous to his departure for China
! Ii Hung Chang sent his thanks to thi
government for its courtesy toward
| him and said that the United State
! is the model government of western
9 Civilization.
President Nichols and Cashier l.
Blan of the suspended Bank of Com
mere of New Orleans have bee
!, arrested on charge of receiving de
: posts when they knew that the ban
' was insolyent.
i. A dispatch received at the Mel
a chants Exchange, San Francisco, tol
of the wreck of the steamer Frederic
+. de Barry, from New York to jackson
i vile, at Kitty Hawk, N. G. The Gre
F was saved, but the vessel is suppose
a to be total wreck.
Q Sir Richard Cartwright, Cana da
e Minister of Trade and Commerce, h,
e gone to Boston to meet Joseph Chan
9 berlain, the British Colonial Secretal
(. now visiting America, and to discu
1t with him the subject of q Pacific tel
IS graph cable, an Atlantic steamsh,
p service and proposition for recipI
Ie city between Canada and the Unite
n States.
A special received in st. Louis fro
. the city of Mexico says stir w
u created in official circles when it W
announced that General Saturni
Islas, the head of the Federal tel
If graph lines, had been removed fro
o. Office. General Islas has arriv,
,e home from Buda Pesth. whittier
p had been commissioned by the Mexici
"a Government as delegate to the tel
40 graph congress, and has been succeed
IN by Augustin Chavez as chief of tn
M department. Everything pertaining
the Federal telegraph was turned ov
n to him.
in A severe gale from the northwt
ID prevailed along the British coast !
lg Gently, causing much damage. TIE,
to graphic communication as serious
lis interfered with over the whole of t
ak British isles. The wires of the cal
e. companies were also affected. I
y hurricane swept the coast all night a
h the sea was terrific. Great DANA
n was done to the buildings about I
ID harbors, wharves, piers, etc., a
ITS vessels We're stranded at many poin
ry Their crews, however, were saved
ry the life lines. Much wreckage
ok strewn ON the shore in all directiC
and the channel service has be
suspended. So far there are few fat
tiles reported.
no Judge Torrance has denied
he motion of plaintiffs for new trial
ng the case of John Kelly ct al. VS..
ne Downey Harvey, administrator of
mt estate of the late Ex-Governor John
ers Downey. The action was origina
'or brought to secure possession of the w
OPP ner ranch in San Diego county, CO
MS prising several thousand acres of L.
are and valued at 1000. 900. 1t '
lot alleged by plaintiffs, who are heirs
me Governor Downey's second wife, t
,p- he decided the ranch to that wife, 4
ity an old patched-up deed was offered
uc- evidence in court to substantiate
icy claim. Judge Torrance decided, h,
ne over, that the deed had never b
IN. delivered. The plaintiffs moved fc
ied new trial, and this has just been
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