The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-11
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed TeIegraphic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget OF News for Easy Digestion-All
Parts of the Country Represe nted-
Interesting Items.

All the window glass factories il
the country but one will shut down TO
three months, perhaps longer.
At meeting of the New Englan'
Woman's Suffrage Association at Bos
ton Julia Ward Howe was elected presi
dent.
Charles Goodyear, the eldest son o
Charles Goodyear, the inventor ant
philanthropist, died in New York re
Gently.
A cablegram from Picking says tina
the Dungans are again in rebellion
They have captured Maayuk Wan ant
are advancing westward.
James Cregan and Charles Becker
the bank forgers, were formally sur,
rendered to San Francisco detectives in
Newark, N. j., lately.
Joseph c. Hartzell of Louisiana was
elected Bishop to Africa by the Metho.
dist General Conference in place OF
Bishop Taylor, retired on account OF
non-effectiveness.
All the rye whisky distilleries in the
Eastern States will suspend operations
September next This action was de-
cided upon at meeting at the Wal
dorf, in New York recently.
The largest shaft ever carried in
Rhode Island has been removed from a
quarry at Westerly. 1t measures 46
feet in length, and is 4x5 feet at the
base. Its weight is estimated at seventy
tons.
American workmen employed in
Windsor, Ontario, have signed a
petition requesting Senator Mcmillan
OF Detroit to work against the bill ex-
Guiding Canadians who work in the
United States.
John Rutherford and his son, Brody
Rutherford, and Joe Goodser were ex-
ecuted in the presence of 10000 per-
sons half a mile east of Brennan,
Texas, for the murder of Thomas
Dwyer on January goth.
: The sale of the Northern Pacific
Railroad has been arranged to take
place at West Superior, Wis, ON July
Goth. From that point Master Carey
will proceed along the line to sell the
lands in each State.
Lieutenant Luther B. Baker, who as
an officer in the Government Detective
Service had charge of the party which
capturet& Wilkes Booth, the assassin
OF President Lincoln, died recently in
Lansing, Mich, aged SO years.
At meeting of the business men of
Baltimore recently S13s, $50 was sub
scribed to aid in freeing Johns Hopkins
University from the burden which the
failure of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
way to pay dividends has imposed
upon it.
A storm of incredible severity, COM
bining cyclone, hurricane, rain, hail
and flood, swept over Kansas, Iowa
and Illinois, on the 25th inst, destroy
ing many human lives, and completely
and railroads in its path.
William Stamps Cherry, of Chicago,
who spent three years in Central Equa.
torial Africa, left for New York, ON
another expedition into that country.
He expects to sail from New York for
London, and thence to the western
coast OF Africa, where the expedition
will be organized.
The Cree Indians, natives of British |
Columbia, have crossed the border into
Montana and North Dakota ON their
hunting trips and are running off cattle
aud destroying farm houses. No cases
Of bloodshed have occurred, but the
settlers are greatly stirred up and have
called on the Government for protec-
ton.
The cyclone which devastated the
portion of Oakland county,
Michigan, swept path half mile
wide and sixteen miles long from west
to east, clearing the earth os nearly
everything movable. About forty
persons were killed outright and fully
that number were injured, some of
whom will die.
Recently there has been consummated
inc biggest oil lease made in recent years.
After negotiations extending through
,wo years, the Phoenix Oil Company of
West Virginia has secured long lease
N land in the Usage Indian reserya.
ion, comprising over 800, 900 acres.
Arra ngements have been made to begin
mixing wells at once.
Thomas A. Edison has succeeded in
eveloping new kind of electric
amp or vacuum tube, by means of
hitch the Roentgen X rays are turned
ito pure white light. Very little
eat is generated, and nearly the whole
the electrical energy expended is I
'ansformed into light. The new
mp is used in place of Crookes tube.
18th the ordinary x ray apparatus.
General Lucius Fairchild died of ,,
cart failure in Madison, Wis. lately.
9 was native of Ohio, So years of ,
re, lawyer, but who never practiced. Il.
Q lost an arm in the war. He was |,
'cretary of State; then three times
1vernor, afterward Consul General
Liverpool and Minister to Spain.
ter he was Commoder- in Chief of >,
3 @. A. R. and Loyal Legion. A n
dow and three daughters survive 4
n. N
At the annual meeting of the Bur- n
gton, Cedar Rapids and Northern a
ckholders held in Cedar Rapids, q
the following directors were y
sen: R. r. Cable, G. p. Squires, q
nan Cook, +. H. Griggs and A. y
aball. At the directors meeting ~
R. Cable was elected chairman of
board; @. J. Ives, president; Robert =,