The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-09-24
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country.
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
Selections Tina twfn Greatly.Interest our
Readers Beth Ola
and Young.


lockjaw by the use Of anti-toxine.
The Cabinet has decided TO send
two battalions Of marines to the Philip
pine Islands.
Heron, Taylor & Co., wholesale
grocers of Memphis, assigned; assets,
$124 900; liabilities, $50, 900.
1t is expected that the Orange and
Santa Ana motor line will be extended
to the railroad depots at Santa Ana.
The Candee Company, one of the
largest members of the United States
Rubber Company, resumed operations
the other day.
A New York dispatch says W. L.
Poll & Co., diamond dealers, have
failed. The liabilities are $12o, 200,
assets known.
The Mutual National Bank of New
Orleans has closed its doors. Henry
Maspero is its president and James j.
Tarleton cashier.
The President has pardoned Oscar
+. Hill, Utah man sentenced to ten
years for making false entries in the
books of national bank.
Charles Bryan, cashier Of the Detroit
Custom-house, was arrested last week
for embezzlement. His shortage, to
which he has confessed. is about $4,000.
Maj. Thaddeus S. Clarkson, of
Omaha, was elected Commander-in-
chief of the g. A. r. at the thirtieth
annual encampment held in st. Paul.
About $25, 900 worth of express mat
ter and the United States mail, bound
for Chicago via the Lake Shore road,
from New York, has been destroyed by
fire.
General Miles has written book
entitled Personal Recollections and
Observations Of General Nelson A.
Miles, Embracing Brief Review of
the Civil War"
Senator Tillman is accused of having
appropriated to his own use, while
Governor of South Carolina, the rebate
allowed by liquor dealers ON liquor fur
nished the State dispensary.
Five hundred mechanics of various
trades have gone on a strike at the large
store building of Siegel, Cooper & Co. a,
of New York, on account of the en-
ployment of non-union marble-work-
ers.
North American Review, published
in New York, has been changed.
David Monroe, who has been connected
with the publication for the past seven
years, is the president and treasurer
of the new company.
Chauncey NJ. Depew has denied a
report that there was friction between
himself and w. K. Vanderbilt, and
that in the event of Mr.. Mckinley
election he would resign the presidency
of the New York Central to accept a
Cabinet or diplomatic position.
A Columbus (O.) dispatch says the
Columbus Central Street Railroad
Company was thrown into the hands
of receiver, George H. Worthington
being appointed. The trouble was
precipitated by Michael Degnot. who
built the road. Business was light.
The road is new and occupies new ter
ritory, the old line having the best
streets.
A Kingston, NY, dispatch says the
conservation of the new affairs of st.
Mary's Church in that city recently
was notable event in the history of
that important Roman Catholic parish.
Archbishop Corrigan celebrated high
mass at the early service, and officiated
at the conservation ceremony later.
The sermon was by Bishop John
Stanley of North Dakota. Hundreds
were unable to get into the building.
A dispatch from Helena, Mont.
says the failure Of the First National
Bank was announced the other morn
ing by posting notice in the window
that the bank is unable to meet with
drawal demands made on it. The
notice was signed by E. D. Edgerton.
vice-president and manager, who says
the creditors will be paid in full. The
directors refuse to talk and no state
ment of assets and liabilities was made
1t is said the failure was due to the
banks inability to realize ON the
assets to cover the demands of eastern
creditors. Heavy demands have been
made ON the bank in the past week,
and all coming so close together caused
the trouble.
The Smithsonian Institute has just
celebrated fifty years of existence.
While there will be no public demon
stration, the regents have ordered an
issue of valuable work containing
the achievements end history of the
great seat of science. They will also
erect tablets in honor of its founder,
who was an Englishman, who be-
queathed his property to the United
States to found at Washington, under
the name of the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, an establishment for the increase
and diffusion of knowledge among men.
James Lewis, who afterward assumed
the name of Smithson, son of the first
Duke of Northumberland, was the
founder of the institution. and by his
beneficonce total of 100000 was
realized. For eight years this legacy
lay in the treasury before it was de-
cided what to do with it. 1t was
finally determined to found the pres
ent institution. It's objects are to
assist science in making original re-
searches, to publish them in series of
volumes and to give copy of them to
every first-class library ON the face of
the earth.
Much has been said about large and
small hives, but seasons like the pres