The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-24
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed TeIegraphic Reports of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget Of News For Easy DigestiOn-AII
Parts OF the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

Interesting Items.
A $4,000 fire is reported from
Minneapolis.
The steamer Dauntless has been
seized at Jacksonville, Florida as a
|, filibuster.
The water at Chippewa Falls is re-
ceding. and the city is now believed to
be out of danger.
A steamer has been detained at
! Cairo, ILL.,, on the suspicion that she
may be Cuban filibuster.
A terrible fire has occurred at Ches-
ter, Ark. Nearly the entire business
part of the town is destroyed.
The schooner Willie M. Stevens has
been wrecked off the Massachusetts
coast, and five lives are supposed to be
lost.
The Andrews racKlng Company,
Colorado, the largest packing house in
Pueblo, has failed. 1t is thought that
the failure will be $500, 900 one.
The tobacco manufacturing plant of
Brown Brothers Tobacco Company in
Western, North Carolina, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $3.50, 900; in
surance, $50 900.
Bluford Bethel, of New York, has
received notice from London, England,
that he is the heir to large estate
in England. His share of the fortune
is said to be about 81 900, 900.
Colonel w. B. McCreary is dead
He was born in New York in 1887.
He was Collector of Internal Revenue
under President Grant. He was Con-
sui to Valparaiso, Chile, for two years.
The accomplished daughter of a
Scotch clergyman is suffering from
delirium tremens in New York hospi-
tai. Her people are wealthy, but her
father believes she should be shut up
in madhouse.
Colonel John R. Fellows, District
Attorney and former member of Con-
gress, is dead. He has been confined
to his bed from about the time of his
return from an electioneering tour of
the Middle Western States.
Weston, the celebrated pedestl ian,
though go years old, thinks he can
walk 1l2 miles in twenty four hours.
lie must have heard of William Greer
Harrison, who recently undertook a
! walk from Sor E,.a, -. c.
Sarah Ulrich Kelly. known as the
Bard of Shanty Hill" and an aspirant
before Congress for the place of poet
,ureate of America, was instantly
killed in Cherry Ridge Township,
Pennsylvania, by being thrown from
her carriage.
Rev. t. De Witt Talmage, the noted
minister, has formally denied the re.
port that he is to marry Miss Susie
Mangam of Sing Sing. At the Man.
gam residence in Sing Sing emphatic
denial was made to the statement that
Miss Susie Mangam is engaged to DR..
Talmage.
A collision is reported in Ohio, ON
the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern,
at Sedamsville, between an Aurora
accommodation train and an officers
special inspection train Three persons
were killed and several injured. The
killed are John Price, Horner Dixon.
the fireman, and f. l.. Seipppernick. a
civil engineer.
Thomas Canary of Canary & Lederer,
the New York theatrical firm, and the
present managers of Lillian Russell
and the American Beauty Opera Com
pany, is critically i'll at his apartments
at the Great Northern Hotel, Chicago.
His recovery is doubtful. Mr..
Canary is 60 years old. He is well
known in politics in New York.
Harr Payne Whitney, who married
Gertrude Vanderbilt. has bought
house in Newport R. The house is
known as the Knower place, ON Belle
we avenue, adjoining Beechwood, Mrs.
William Astors' place, and Just south
of the passageway leading into Rose
cliff. the former residence of Historian
Bancroft, now owned by Herman Oel-
richs.
General Thomas Estrada Palma.
head of the Cuban Junta, in New
York, said to representative of the
Associated Presses that he did not be-
lieve the report from Hasans stating
that General Maceo had been killed. |
He declared it was sensational piece
OF news sent out by the Spaniards to
counterfeit the effect of Mr.. Cleveland's
message.
A double murder occurred about |
twelve miles southeast of Pine Bluff.
Ark, few nights ago, a negro named
Davis killing the two sons aged Is and
10 years respectively, of his employer.
The murderer and the boys went fish
ing, and he attacked them with a
knife, cutting the Threats of both and
the skull of the elder. The
older boy is dead and the younger boy
cannot live. The negro escaped, but
will doubtless be captured soon.
Several hundred striking Italian
miners have been causing trouble at
he Forest Coal Company's mine at
Archibald, a few miles north of Scran-
on, Pa, and excitement there is in
ense. Bloodshed was narrowly averted
" the employment of armed detectives
o preserve order. The Italians OBJ .
ected to the deduction from their pay
4 the cost of the employment of expert !;
yerseers, who were keeping watch
ver the miners to prevent the robbing
pillars in the mines. They also OPP !,
osed the removal of coal stored in
Orty cars in the drift of tho nina