The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-05-07
TELECRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed TeIegraphic Reports OF
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget OF News for Easy DIgestion-All
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

The Texas Epworth League has
passed resoluti ons eondemDing Sunday
baseball.
The colored emigrants who left Sa-
vannsb. Ga. last month, have safely
reached Morovia.
A hot wave has passed over New
York. the thermometer running as
high as 30 degrees
Arson, the baseball player, says
that be is getting too old and will re-
tire to make room for a younger player.
August Abbott LII. D.. of the
faculty of the University of the City
of New York, is dead. He had been
i'll about ten weeks.
Vasssr College is much stirred up
over the operations Of a sneak thief,
who tskes dresses, money and jewelry
from the girls rooms.
The formation of trust. taking in
the fourteen shovel factories in the
United States, was completed at An
derson, Ind, few days ago.
The East Maine Methodist Confer.
encs. by vote Of 90 to 10, declared in
favor of admitting either male or
female delegates to the General Con-
ference.
A dispatch from Philadelphia states
that General Master Workman Sow.
ereign and General Secretary Treasurer
Hayes of the knights of Labor are
about to resign from the order.
Many of the volumes are very rare.
Cornell's general library how contains
over 200,000 volumes. This latest
acquisition was purchased from the
Henry w. Sage endowment fund.
J. Edward Simmons of the Chicago
and North Pacific reorganization com.
mittee has authorized the statement
that compromise had been effected
with the Northern Pacific committee.
The river front Evansville, Ind. i,
was swept by fire recently. Two
steamers. the Alexander Perry and A.
L. Norton, were burned to the water 9
edge and sank. The loss will reach
100000.
The first cyclone of the season has
passed through Kansas shaking up
houses, smashing barns and outbuild.
ings, twisting off trees and generally
giving people severe scare. AS far
as learned no one was hurt.
Hon. Willard Ives, a member
Congress in 1859, the founder of Ives
Seminary, a Methodist institution at
Antwerp, we'll known banker and
pbilanthropist, died at his home in
New York. aged 80 years.
Fifteens years ago A. B. Conway,
while insane, left Jersey City and
wandered to Florida. When he recov-
cred his mind, a year later, be was
ashamed to return. His wife searched
for him all the time and found him a
few days ago.
The transmissouri committee of the
Western Passenger Association has de-
cided to place joint agent at the var.
ious tourist terminal points. with
whom passengers must deposit the
return portion of their tickets until
ready to start for home.
The Municipal Assembly of st.
Louis has passed a bill to bury the
overhead wires. The bill requires all
wires to be underground by July /.
$4,000. except the messenger call.
clock, burglar alarm and wires of that
character. which are not strung on
poles and are insulated.
Arthur ]. Foreman. first Governor
Of West Virginia. afterward United
States Senator and for eight years
Judge of the Fourth Judicial Court.
died after two weeks illness. He took
an active part in the formation of the
State Of West Virginia, and has been
one of its leading citizens ever since.
The fishing schooner j. w. Camp.
bell of Gloucester, Captain Robert
Smith. went down in a squat off Long
Island and Captain Smith and eight
men were drowned. The seven surviv.
ors were landed by the tug Gladiator.
which was bound to port with coal
barges. The men who lost their lives
were residents of Gloucester.
The factory of the Dauntless Bicycle
Company, four.story brick structure
located in Toledo, in the heart of the
factory district. was Quilted by fire a
few days ago. The loss on the build.
ing is estimated at S25, 1000, and or
stock and machinery about $3.50, 900.
Five hundred hands are thrown out OF
work.
The old Pennsylvania railroad depot
in Philadelphia. and the train shed
together with eight Pullman cars and
about thirty passenger coaches. were
totally destroyed by fire recently. Two
iremen were killed by falling walls,
and over dozen others were injured.
The loss is estimated at $3.50, 900. The
Pennsylvania Railroad Company car.
ried its own insurance.
Cornell University library has just
secured another extensive collection
of books. this time on South America.
1t was gathered mainly during an eight
years residence in Brazil by former
Cornell student, Herbert b. Smith,
well known in the scientific world as
an explorer and an entomologist. and
the author Of one Of the best modern
works on the natural and sociological
features Of Brazil. The collection
numbers about 700 volumes and 500
pamphlets. Although most of the
books deal more especially with Brazil
there are not a few relating to Guiana
and Venezeuela.
The Agricultural Bill Law.
Washington. ten days al.
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