The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-03
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS
selections That VIII Greatly Interest
Our Readers Both old
and Young.

4 nm uukuOWD man 1911 rum tub udI
: lem bridge at New York. The fall
proved fatal.
The Conway Cabinet Company OF
Milwaukee, Wis, has made volun-
tary assignment.
William J. Mills has been named
: as the Chief Justice of the Supreme
, Court of New Mexico.
5 Gray Gables, the Summer home Of
! ex-President Cleveland, was ransacked
) by burglars recently.
A new hand stamp to be used for
the cancellation Of mail matter, will
soon be adopted at Washington, ID G.
Judge Scott of Omaha decided that
, the law under which the police COM
+ misionners of that city were appointed
is unconstitu tional.
The establishment of the Wasburn.
Halligan Coffee Company, at Daven-
port. Iowa, has been burned. Loss,
$50, 900; insurance, 500, 900.
The Yester block, a large office
building, at Meesport. Pa, has been
destroyed by fire. The block was
erected two years ago at cost of
$780, 900.
John Matthews, a grocer, shot and
killed his wife and two children, and
himself, at his home in New York
City. He was respondent over his
business.
Several secret organizations in Dem
yer are demanding the passage by the
City Council Of the ordinance de-
signed to prevent the encroachment of
department stores.
James J. Hill, of the Great North
ern Railroad. is to give Hamline Uni
versity at st. Paul, Mimi, 81, 900, and
friends of the institution will raise
$40, 900 to lift the debt.
The controversy over the use Of fire.
proofed wood in the Navy has been
settled by Secretary Long ordering the /
use of the wood in all interior parts of |
vessel under construction.
A mining strike has been ordered in
Lafayette district Colorado. They de.
maud As cents per ton after machines
and 90 cents per ton in pillars, the old
rates. about 800 men are out.
Adam Earle. rs years old, died re.
Gently in Lafayette. Ind. He was the
first president of the Lake Erie and
Western Railroad Company and also
what is now the Big Four Railroad.
The Metropolitan Iron and Land
Company of lronwood, Mich, operat-
ing the Norris group of mines and en-
ploying 1000 men has announced rise
in wages to go into effect February LIST. ,
1t is rumored that syndicate of
New York has secured an option on
about 60 per cent of the general ware !
potteries in Trenton, N. j., and East !.
Liverpool, o.. the principal pottery CEN :
ters of the country.
Wertheimer & Co. of New York city
and the Wertheimer Glove Manufac-
trlng Company at Johnstown, N. Y,
have assigned, Liabilities are re.
ported to be $4,000 and the assets .
about the same amount. !.
The two penitentiaries of the State
of Iowa and the Asylum for Deaf and !,
Dumb at Council Bluffs receive severe /,
III the report of the legislative
investigating committee submitted to
the General Assembly. The institu- :
tions are taken to task for lax book
keeping and unbusinessliks methods.
Edward A. Knight, confidential !
clerk to DR.. J. +. Canning. banker and :
broker, of Boston, is reported to the /
police as missing, and with him are
supposed to have gone diamonds,
jewelry and $1,000 in cash. the total E
value of the property being somewhat !.
between $50, 900 and $40,O :
The Bakers Union, of Chica 70, has !
begun war against the American S
Biscuit Company and incidentally
against all employers of non-union
bakers. The officers of the union saw q
they will carry the war into every !,
state where the American Biscuit +
Company does business. .
Authorities in the Department of I
Agriculture have made report upon v
in the treatment of hog a
cholera, an antitoxine serum. The
serum is made on the same principle }
rs the anti-toxine of diphtheIia and
he results of its use in many cases I
n Iowa have been found very salts.
factory. )
DR.. Charles F. Simmons, a reputed t
and president of the Sim t
mons Patent Medicine Company, fatal
y shot Emil Davidson, bookkeeper for /
he st. Louis Trust Company. on the !
treet in st. Louis. Simmons said !
hat the man had attacked his daugh- =
er, and that he had avenged the /
wrong done her. .
The city of Philadelphia has muir p
Ter sensation, the parties to which are C
Dung boys. Percy Lockyar, 5 years c
Id, is supposed to have been murdered
y lo-year-old boy named Samuel n
henderson. 1t is supposed that the n
Dung murderer had been reading n
rashy novels until he became excited r
nth desire to become hero. h
j. Lamartine Hudspath, recently II
Indicted for the killing of Telegraph b
operator j. W. Kesner at Lake CITY ii
asst summer, has been admitted to p
all of $4,000, at Kansas City, O
lev. Hudspath is an influential d
armer. He accused the dead man ii
4 writing an indecent letter to rela. p
We, and in a quarreI he killed Kesner. 81
Tho was unarmed.
Kate Forsyth, the Actress, Not Dead.
A cablegram has been received in II
lis city from Kate Enrsvfh tho 40. q