The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-18
TELECRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget OF News for Easy DIgestion-AII
Parts OF the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

rhFIs OF the Country hepTesenb0u-
Interesting Items.
The steamboat Ironsides ! struck a
large stone in the Ohio river and sank
in five feet of water at what is known
as the Lee creek rifle.
The big Edison building in Mime
apolis caught fire and was nearly de-
stroyed, Notwithstanding the fact that
it was supposed to be fireprOof.
The Western Union Company says
that its telegraphic facilities during
the Republican Convention in st.
Louis will not be crippled by the re-
cent tornado.
The Chicago Board of Trade has ex-
onerated p. ID. Armour and his two
sons of blame for the fact that their
elevators were irregular. Manager
Valentine of the elevators was sus-
pended.
The silver party has issued its call
for national convention to be held at
st. Louis July %. The call urges the
friends of the white metal to stay to-
gether and declares the secret of success
to be in early lining up for battle.
Estimates by Reuben H. Donnelley,
who each year superintends the making
of Chicago's directory, show the popu-
lation of that to be approximately
1850, 900, with steady increase of
between $4,000 and 10000 annually
since 1894.
The great storm at st. Louis will
make no difference in the arrangements
for the meeting of the Republican Ma
tional Convention on Tuesday, June
10th. 1t is said that the building has
been damaged, but this will do no
more than destroy its beauty.
The Prohibition National Conven-
ton nominated the following ticket:
For President, Joshua H. lowering of
Maryland; for President, Hale
johnson, of Illinois The free silver
plank was rejected and the candidates
were placed upon the thinnest kind of
narrow gauge platform, embodying
merely the principle of prohibition
and even emitting the woman suffrage
plank which has been feature of its
platfrom for years past.
The leading attorney for the first
mortgage bondholders of the Atlantic
and Pacific says: 81 am not advised
as to the source of the information of
the people who assert that the Santa Fe
will eventually control the Atlantic
and Pacific property. | can only say
that the probability of any such control
by the Santa Fe in my Judgment no
longer exists. | believe that the At
lantic and Pacific property will be
bought by the bondholders' committee
for the benefit of the first mortgage
bondholders, and will always in future
be operated as an independent property.
That it will be operated in harmony
with the Santa Fe system l have no
doubt, but not as a part of that system
The police authorities of st. Louis,
after careful investigation, report that
the victims of the late tornado in that
city, including the dead, missing and
injured, number 81. Following is a
summary of their report: Burial per-
mits issued to date, 1928; killed bodies
not recovered, 10; wounded in hospi.
tails, 90; missing people, 80. Total,
81. The losses caused indirectly by
the tornado are just beginning to reveal
themselves, and will be nearly as cruel
as the immediate effects. Because the
tornado ruined many mills and factor,
les large number of men will be out
of employment for weeks and months
How many men have been deprived Of
the opportunity to earn livelihood
cannot be stated with accuracy, but il
certainly runs into the hundreds il
excess of the number employed to re
pair the damage. The revised list o.
tornado victims in East st. Louis is al
follows: Identified dead, 99 uniden
titled dead, 2; missing. 20; fatally in
jured, q total, 1874. A movement ha.
been inaugurated to raise So, 500, 900
to aid those who lost their homes Il
rebuild. At an impromptu meeting a
the MONDAY Club $685. was con
tributed by prominent business men
1t is proposed to loan tornado sufferer
money on second mortgages. Tn,
storm district, on its outside lines, ex
tended from the river on the east t,
Tower Grove avenue on the west, an,
from Oliver street ON the north t,
Lynch street on the south. This com
prises an area of six square miles. Tn
extreme limits were three miles cas-
and west and two miles north an
south. An adequate idea of the dam
age can be formed when it is state,
that if all the houses damaged an,
blown down were on both sides o
one street, that would be Just eighty
five miles long. The figure is given b,
the Street Commissioner who has bee
through the entire district, and iron
the reports of his general superintend
ent, who has cut roadway through
the eighty-five miles of streets. i
addition to this there were many NOR
streets INSTRUCTED by wires and the Xix
which are not counted in the total.
Austin Corbin, the New York CAPT
talist and railroad magnate, and hi