The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
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Chicago men have bought the Red
Dog and Golden Star group of mines
in the Winnifred district, near Php-
nix, for SIS. 900.
E. s. Beghley a. Go. are suing the
Pasadena school district for $500. AZ,
which they claim for material furnished
to A. r. Klock, the contractor on the
school building, who used the material
in the construction.
A Toledo dispatch says the white
caps have created another sensation in
that county by whipping man named
Huntsman, who lives at Holland
Station, ten miles from there, and
burying him live.
The outstanding crops around Will
domar are about all cared for. The
machine men say barley and wheat are
of better grade and show larger
yield there than in any other place
they have visited.
Mrs. Eliza Griffin Johnston, widow
of the famous Confederate General
Albert Sidney Johnston, died in Los
Angeles September %, at the residence
of her son -in-law, United States District
Attorney George Denis.
The Pasadena Opera House Company
has filed articles of incorporation.
Capital, 100000, with 5000 sub
scribed. Directors, I. S. G. Lowe, L.
P. Lowe, and H. G. Brown, of Pasa-
dena, and Thaddeus Lowe of Altadena.
A Hollidaysburg, Pa, dispatch says
Thomas e. Sucking, clothier; Henry
|. Bunker, meat market; Charles E.
Reed, grocery, all prominent mer-
chants, failed on account of the closing
of Gardiner Morrow & Co. s bank.
Their stores were closed ON executions
for $25 900.
By a collision between the Union
Pacific express train from Salt Lake
and the West, due at Butte, Mont, at
1895 a. m, and mixed train ON the
Montana Union bound for Anaconda,
the engines of both trains and express
and smoker of the Union Pacific were
wrecked and several persons more or
less injured.
The party of Union Generals, accom-
panied by Major Schoenfield, the Re-
publican candidate for Governor of
Wisconsin, and Secretary Ewing of
the Republican State Central Com
mittee, have arrived at West;Superior,
Wis, after trip enlivened by forest
fires, which threatened the bridge and
delayed their progress
The Southern California orange crop
will. according to present appearances,
be an unusually early one, and a great
portion of the fruit will mature in
time for the holiday markets. This is
caused by the dry weather which at
this season of the year is conducive to
early ripening. The citrus crop will
not be excessively large, but what there
is OF 1t promises to be of unusual ex-
cellence.
Two satchels and large trunk filled
with dynamite bombs were discovered
in Chicago by the police in the rooms
OF an anarchist named Bestman, in a
four-story brick building at the corner
OF Oak and Sedgewick streets. The
anarchist has not been seen in Chicago
for two years, but he left his baggage
behind him. 1t was never opened
until recently. In the satchels were
found several letters written by Par
sons and one or two of the other anar-
chlsts who were executed. The where
abouts of the owner of the trunk is not
now known.
Receiving Clerk Cochran of the Re-
cordor's office, at Chicago, took in one
OF the largest trust deeds ever recorded
IN that county. The deed was by the
Chicago Edison Company to the Mer-
chants Loan and Turst Company, and
was for 50, 500, 900. 1t is to secure an
issue of bonds of that amount. The
mortgage is on all the property, real
and personal, of the company. The
document is dated July /, 1896. The
object OF the present issue is, first, to
refund the present indebtedness of
the company.
A cloudburst up in the canyon
couple of miles southeast of Pods
Springs, Wyo., flooded the town
threa or four feet and run over the
floors in the First National Bank and
seven OF eight of the leading business
houses, filling all cellars and complete.
~ covering the Union Pacific tracks. (
Inc rush of the water down through
town was so sudden that no time was
lett Tor getting merchandise out of the
cellars. TIM Kenney & Co.'s large
storehouse was undermined by water
and is in danger of collapsing at any
time. The damage it is thought will
be $50, No lives were lost.
The Board of Supervisors of Ventura
nave fixed the city and county tax lew
1t 1880, reduction over last wear If
20 cents, and the special high school
AK and bond levy at 70 cents over
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