The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-09-10
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country.
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
Selections That VIII GreAtly.Interest our
Readers Beth Old
and Young.

1t is announced that arrangements
have been perfected for William J.
Bryan to address the labor, assemblies
of Chicago on Labor day, September
9TH.
The Canadian yacht Canada defeated
the challenge Venedor and won the In
ternational race at Toledo recently.
The defender won by % seconds, time
allowance.
The body of Bill Doolin, outlaw and
highwayman. ON whose head were Gov
eminent rewards aggregatlng 1000,
lies in a rough casket at Rhodes estab-
lishment in Guthrie, o. 7.
The Linthicum Carriage Company,
of Defiance, o., incorporated with a
capital stock of 100000, and one of
the largest carriage manufactures in
Northwestern Ohio, has failed.
The President has appointed Levi T.
Griffin of Detroit pension agent at
Detroit, vice Harrison II. Wheeler,
deceased. Mr.. Griffin was member
of the Fifty-third Congress and was at
one time partner Of Don M. Dickin-
son.
Affairs Smith has awarded the con-
tracts for erecting school buildings at
the Rosebud and Pine Ridge agencies
to Owen g. Hill of Minneapolis, Mimi !,
at SAG, 525 for Rosebud and $44, 1855
for Pine Ridge.
The Civil Service Commission has
issued an order to Federal office-h hold
ers warning all employees against seek
ing or making contributions for cam
paign purposes. The order embraces
all branches of the government service.
The violators will be prosecuted.
The Western roads are falling out
over the Grand Army business to st.
Paul. There is not much cutting of
the rate proper, but many of the roads
are carrying department commanders
and their stats for nothing and issuing
free transportation in other cases.
1t is reported that the town of On.
tonagon, Mich, has been totally de-
stroyed by the advancing forest fires
which have surrounded the village
The loss amounts to 81, 500, 900 and il
is feared that several lives have beer
sacrificed. The town had population
4 of 1000.
Near Guthrie, Okl.. stage robbers
shot woman because she would moi
give up her jewels when so ordered
-Four masked men held up the stag
and secured $500. The woman whC
was shot was known to her fellow pas
sengers as Mrs. Raymond Reemes o
Philadelphia.
The stage-coacb between Grande AM
Araphoe, in Day county, was held u
by four highwaymen recently and tn
four occupants ordered to stand an,
deliver. Mrs. Amy Childs of Phila
delphia refused to alight and was sho
dead. The robbers secured over 800
in booty from the three other passen
gers and escaped.
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, daughte
of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Harr
Payne Whitney, son of William c
Whitney, were married August 25th a
Newport, R. 1. The father of tn
groom presented the couple with sew
eral hundred acres of land, at one O
the principal summer resorts of Massa
chusetts, on which he will erect
handsome summer residence.
The Bank of Weymore, Beatrice
Neb., has closed its doors. No state
ment of assets or liabilities is obtain
able. 1t was one of the repositories fo
Gage county. Six thousand dollar
are on deposit, amply protected b
$50, 900 in bonds. No run was mad
on the bank. the Directors deeming
advisable to close ON account of tn
slow collections and inability to rene,
loans.
The old house at West Brownsville
Pa, in which James G. Blaine wa
] born and spent his boyhood, has bee
torn down. 1t was destroyed becaus
for many years it had been going I
, ruin. While the old building was i
} course of destruction the villagers 20,
sessed themselves of mementoes in til
shape of wood, nails and pieces {
stone. Many of the old nails wen
converted into rings, which adorn tn
fingers Of the residents.
: Captain Burnside and twenty-five
the crew of the British tramp steamt
Moldava were picked up at sea in thrt
: open boats by the Anchor Line steamt
Cicrassia, which arrived at New Yol
from Glasgow recently. The Molday
struck an iceberg in a fog, and sanl
. giving the crew barely time to pr,
vision the lifeboats and lower then
All hands were saved. The Moldav;
: which had cargo of coal, was owne
by the Mercantile Shipping Compar
3 of London.
A Cleveland dispatch says Jude
Stone has denied the petition of IL
striking Brown Hosting Company
employees for an injunction to comp
, the company to reinstate the old me
: as agreed. The court decides IL
strikers have an adequate remedy
law i'll the action for damages f,
breach of contract. The court al.
refuses mandatory order to comp
the Brown Company to take its me
back on the ground that the contract
too indefinite.
: News Of the great success of the I'm
versity of Pennsylvania expedition
Babalon has been received. The mo-
notable result of the excavation
is that the history of Babylon
las people as recorded in Gun,
form writing ON tables is carried bac
at least 1880 years further than y,
} known. There is now abundant write