The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-10
TELECRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget OF News For Easy DIgestiOn-AIl
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

Col. Franklin Tenny. for nearly thirty
years proprietor Of the National Hotel
in New York City, is dead. He was
80 years of age
Maxine Elliott, the actress, otherwise
known as Jessie @. McDermott, has
been granted divorce from George A.
McDermott, lawyer of New York
City, for cruelty and failure to provide.
George II. Lothrop. eldest son of
Hon. George V. Lothrops, ex-Minister
to Russia, died at his reidence in De-
troit. Michigan, few day ago. from
complication of heart and asthnatic
troubles.
Horace Yose, ~ ,us-'sterly, N. Y,
who has's'al--.a yi'lt' The Presidents
Thanksgiving turkeys since Grants
time, shipped bronze turkey weigh
ing thiIty.two pounds to President
Cleveland.
George w. Ferris of Pittsburg, who
achieved fame through the invention
of the Ferris wheel, is lying at the
Mercy Hospital in very serious con-
dition. The physicians in charge say
that his death is hourly expected.
A Pensacola, Fla. dispatch says the
schooner Red Wing. of Philadelphia,
was lost sixty miles south of Pensacola,
few nights ago. She sprung leak
and sank in an hour. Captain Carl,
the crew, and one passenger. arrived
safely.
The Salvation Army has begun pre-
partitions for vigorous crusade against
evil in st. Louis. Brigadier Richard
Evans said: 1--WE are looking about
for a site to establish rescue home.
The city is sadly in need of such an in
stitution. +"
Robert H. Whitehead, the proprietor
of the old-curiosity shop store ON d
street, Washington. committed suicide
recently by blowing out his brains.
His place Of business is veritable
treasure-house of relics. some of which
were from Revolutionary times.
Charles Elliott, now in the Douglass
County Jail, at Omaha. has confessed
to the murder of Gay Hutsonpillar, his
friend, in the Windsor Hotel lat Omaha,
few days ago. He says Hutsonpillar
was about to leave for Montana, and
the fatal quarrel was over money.
Miss Cora l.. Turner of Cincinnati,
has invented and patented boiler
especially adapted for securing great
economy in storage for fuel, and for this
reason likely to be of great service in
longer voyages without renewal of
fuel. Miss Turner's father had at
tempted vainly in his life to make the
idea practical. After his death the
daughter took it up and carried it out
successfully.
Rev. James Miller, pastor of Grace
Methodist Church of Bloomington, Ill. 4,
was murdered few mornings ago.
was lying by his side. Three men
were seen lettering in the neighbor
hood. Mr.. Miller was sixty years of
age. He leaves widow and three
children. He was Grand Chaplain of
the Knights Templar of Illinois Fl
twenty years.
By the overturning of gasoline
lamp terrible explosion occurred re-
Gently at the residence of +. A. Walker
in Minneapolis, and as u result Mrs.
Walker and her daughter Mabel. 10
years old, and the domestic, Mary
Overland, are in Asbury Hospital.
The latter cannot survive, her clothing
having been burned entirely off her
body and leaving her in terrible con.
dition. The girl Mabel is not expected
to live, but some hope is held out for
the mother.
A Cleveland (Ohio) dispatch says the
news from Chicago of the collapse OF
the wire-nail trust, was not surprising
to some of the manufacturers in Cleve-
land. One concern which has beer
controlled by the trust received notice
q month ago that the payment of sub
sides would stop on the Gath of this
month. In consequence, the company
had arranged to start twenty -four ma
chimes manufacturing nails the latter
part of the month. The buying up Of
competitors had become too expensive
and the trust was forced to quit.
A Washington special to the New,
says: A crusade has been started among
some church-going people about the
quadrennial inaugural ball. The new
President and new official dignitarie
always attend the function, which
has resolved itself into a money max
ing institution pure and simple.
has been suggested that the new Con
gressional Library be used for the bal
this year, but Librarian Spofford ha
entered protest. His protest is beinl
seconded by a number of pastors o
Washington congregations, who 6o
sire free public reception instead.
All of Indian Territory, comprising
some of the choicest lands in the Unite
, States, will probably be opened t
| white settlers as result of the bi
, convention Of Indians that has jus
, come to an end. The five civilize
tribes sent their best and most note
inen as delegates. Their final deoisio
was great victory for the Dawes
commission, that had been workin
for months to effect reconciliatio
: SO the rich lands might be opened. a
, were those of Oklahoma district. TIL
, five civilized tribes arc the Chickasaws
Oh ,ctaws. Creeks, Cherokees and Semi
noles. They number over $4,000 In
, dams. They own the entire soil Q
Indian Territory. 1t includes 1855,
| 600 acres.
The leading gas companies of tn
city of New York, including the Con
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