The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-01
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Things That. Have Happened all
Over the Country.
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
Selections TharwHI Greatly Interest our
Readers Beth Old
and Young.

]. w. Northham & Co., wholesale
liquor dealers Of Chicago, have failed.
The South Carolina State Dispensary
investigation has now begun. Gov
ernor Evans was the first witness.
G. R. Bryan, aged 20, has been
arrested in Little Rock, Ark, ON a
charge of forgery. He is cousin OF
William J. Bryan.
News has been received at the State
Department of the death at his post IN
Mexico of United States Consul John
B. German of Georgia.
An examination of the papers left by
Henry Dixon, an Enlgishman, who re-
Gently died in Wichita, Kas., reveals
the fact that Dixon was of noble birth. |
The Commission firm of Greer,
Mills 81 Co. has decided to appeal its
injunction case against the Kansas
City Live Stock Exchange to the Fed
eral courts.
Virginia land that came into pos
session of E. Brainerd of Chicago,
through a bad debt, develops deposit
of manganese that will make him a
plutocrat
William Porter, Jr., formerly
cashier of the Bank of Kansas City,
Kas., has been arrested for receiving
deposits when the bank was in a failing
condition.
The British steamship Brookline
arrived at Boston and reported that
when about sixty miles south of Nam
tucket shoals she passed vessels bow
and other wreckage.
Coffin, Altemus q Co. the oldest and
one of the largest wholesale dry goods
houses in Philadelphia, has made an
assignment to John l.. Wells for the
benefit of their creditors.
1t now appears that the robbing of
the Union National Bank of New
Orleans was done by syndicate of
seven persons. 1t is reported that q
confession has been made.
By a decision of Judge Brentano
militia armories must be removed
from the Chicago lake front. This
is the first definite result reached in
the suit to keep the lake front free
from buildings.
Among the passengers who arrived
in New York on the steamer Umbria
was Miss Clara Barton, representative
of the Red Cross Society, just returned
from the scene of the Armenian
troubles. She is intensely enthusiastic
about her work.
A Philadelphia dispatch says the
Lockwood Manufacturing Company,
manufacturers of patent feeding-boxes,
made an assignment to James S. Free
land, secretary. The company has
500, 900 capital, and has been doing
business for forty years. OF late col
lections have been dull and business
poor.
j. V. Northam & Co., wholesale anG
retail liquor dealers, have confessed
judgment in favor of the Atlas Ma
) tional Bank for $40, 800. No state
/. ment has yet been made, but the liza
bilities are supposed to be about $125,
900 to $3.50, 900, with assets at least q
per cent more. The failure was grea
surprise.
:. The report of the Government direc
!, tors of the Union Pacific Railroad TO
the fiscal year ended June 30th shows
Gross earnings, 4,008. 348; decrease
: $515, 1889; operating expenses, $8,7e5,
500; decrease, $3.50, 100; surplus, 81,
: 1856, rs; increase, $77,046. The direc
u tors report the physical condition o
;, the property as excellent.
y The Marion Cycle Company, manu-
q facturers of bicycles, have assigned
!. Liabilities, $40, 900, assets, $3.50, 200
4 J. G. Tibbits was appointed receiver
The cause of the assignment is tn
failure of Porter & Gilmore of Ne,
q York, who, it is said, owed the com
;, pany $40, 900. Three hundred and fit
q men are thrown out OF employment.
2 The State Department at Washingto
= has been informed by Consul Weise
4 at Managua that the Nicaraguan Gov
eminent, finding that the effect Of tn
- law of December last, fixing duties o
- imported wines and spirits, formerl
e largely used, adopted new Law
which went into effect on Angus
10th, readjusting the duties so tina
! importation to Nicaragua is now pos
Is sible.
"A The first school Of undert taking eve
! held in this country has been inaugur
"a ated in Kansas City, Missouri. 1t
a under the auspices of the Missouri Fun
! eral Directors Association and is de
). nominated the college of Undertake
70 ing" IT is intended to enable thos
" in the business to educate themselve
! in the technical branches of their wor
through series of lectures and demon
STATIONS by experienced undertaken
$ and embalmcrs.
il The literary circles of the countr
a are all agog over the expected arrivs
> in New York of Ian Maclaren, tn
rs distinguished author of the "Bonni
o Brier Bush" series of stories whic
Of have attained to wonderful popular
10 ity recently. In private life the authc
"a is the Rev. DR.. Watson, pastor of tn
NJ Seton Park Presbyterian Church i
,e Liverpool, one of the most aristocrati
8 and wealthy churches in the north {
m England. DIR. Watson has been spoke
of as the probable pastor of the Broat
way Congregational Tabernacle of Ne
York.
RS -
~ Gallagher and Whitehead.