The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-05-28
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget Of News for Easy Digestion-AH
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

A committee of 10 citizens has been
appointed in New Orleans to try to
arrange a settlement of the Guberna-
orial troubles.
A gigantic traffic association is being
organized in Chicago to control all
railway matters between the Atlantic
and the Rocky mountains.
The gross receipts for April of the
largest thirty Postoffices in the United
States were 81. 1886, 030-an increase of
$173.116 over last years receipts.
William Simpson Sloan, vice-presi-
dent of the Delaware. Lackawanna q
Western Railroad died in New York
recently, after a protracted illness
He was a son of Saumel Sloan.
The United States District Court
of Georgia has rendered decision up
holding the Mcguire Act, which makes
it misdemeanor for hotel keeper
to hold a sailors clothing for board.
The five.story brick building on
Evans street, near Eighth, occupied by
the United States Bung Manufacturing
Company, of Cincinnati, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000 partly
insured.
While workmen were replacing an
oil tank in the rear of the Imbecile
Asylum, of Columbus, o., an explosion
! occurred, in which six men were horri-
bly, burned, two perhaps fatally. The
oil Ignited from lanterns carried by
the men.
The armor for the battlesbips Kear-
sarge and Kentucky will cost So, 1884,
no. It is recommended that the
Carnegie Company be awarded the
contract for $1.660,518.20 and the
Bethlehem Steel Company for 81 ,462,-
1870.
The District Court Judges of Den
vel, decided that women cannot legally
serve on juries in that court. So far
only one woman has served as juror
in a court trial in Denver, and this has
been in Judge Johnson's division dur
ing the present term.
, At the annual meeting Of the Amer
lean Tract Society in New York a
motion was adopted reconsidering the
, action of the special committee in
, June. 1887, in combining the business
, and benevolent departments Of the
society. The union of the two depart.
ments was dissolved by an almost
, unanimous vote.
3 Toledo has been decided upon as the
place where tn, great international
, fresh water yacht race will be sailed
: this summer between the Vincedor Of
Chicago, an entirely American BULL
boat, and a new Toronto yacht. the
frame of which was built ON the Clyde
: Tho date Of the races have been tixeC
. for August gath, 25th and Goth.
3 The Washington Association O
g California Forty miners held their an
| nual meeting at Marshall Hall at Poto
!. mac river resort. recently. There wa
a large attendance. Among thos
g present was Senator Stewart of Ne
@ vada. They recounted stories of til
early days in California in the mids
). of planked shad dinner. Besides th
q Forty. niners there were number Q
g guests.
= During the big Chicago fire twenty
d five years ago notes to the approximat
IS value of $1,090,000 were destroyed
:. An Act of Congress is necessary
It have this loss recognized and tn
l. amount deducted from the currency i
d circulation. This Act has never bee
D. passed, and, as result, the item c
d the missing $1,000, 1000 has appeare
1t in every statement from Chicago issue
since the fire.
Captain j. d. Johnston died
!. Savannah, Ga, in the 9Sth year of b
age. Captain Johnston was the suryi'
ing ranking officer of the Confederat
le Navy and senior ranking officer. b
E. date of commission, of the old Unite
l. States Navy. He was an executi,
re officer of Commodore Tattnall Of Il
1t flagship Powhatan. on duty in the Oh
1t nese waters at the time of the Pei 3
es rebellion.
he With q wind which attained a velo
re ity of eighty miles an hour, continuir
is for fully five minutes. Lincoln. Neb
l. was on the 12th inst. given the wor
he shaking up experienced for maj
u years. The force of the gale was tie
H. rife, and all that was needed to NAL
lie genuine cyclone was the rotal
10 motion. AS it was. the damage
le the city was considerable and there w
&c q number of casualties.
u, United States Judge Grosscup al
the present Federal Grand Jury
Il Chicago. view "postal card dur
II cases alike. Recently two cases we
ID brought before the Grand Jury, al
K that body was prompt in THROWN
III them ont. Judge Grosscup says tn
o if man simply asks for what is d
TO him he commits no offense. 1t
o. further alleged that the statute
OF question is invoked chiefly by debtc
IN who are DESTROYS of swindling or 81
u ting revenge upon those they owe.
- At Benton Harbor. Mich. hundre
20 Of tons of water were carried skywaI
10 from the lake by the wind. which, I
" time, assumed proportions of
cyclone. A water spout became visit
on the northern horizo The il
20 mense column of water was clear
us defined. It stood at an angle of abo
At forty five degrees. When it burst {
ne roar of the falling water could be hea
lie as 1t fell. Five minutes afterward {
5, storm cleared and the sky became cles
as Important advices from Matanz
report that Maxmo Gomez. with il
portant rebel endorsements fro