The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-30
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.

Robbers blew open the safe in the
bank at Vermillion, Kan, getting 3D.
400.
The bank Of Cannelton, KY, which
was reported as closed is open and do
ing business.
A steel tubing trust, embracing 80
per cent of the output, has been formed
at Toledo, Ohio.
At Gladwyn, Mich, Ben Num- and
his son were sentenced to life impris-
onment for murder.
The anthracite barons have closed
every colliery in the Schuylkill region
in order to bolster up prices.
Labor organizations of Chicago de-
mand that all stone cutting for the
Chicago postoffice be done in that city.
The S. P. R. r. has secured con-
tract for hauling overland to New
York 80, 900 tons of sugar cane from
Hawaii.
Three men blew open the safe in
Heine's bank, Silver Creek, N. Y,
securing $40 900 in money and $4,000
in jewlery.
Hon. James Wilson, secretary OF
agriculture. has been rendered the
degree of agriculture by the Iowa
agricultural college.
J.F. Hermann, for year a prominent
attorney of Olathe, Kas., in Jail fol
obstainiDg money under false pretenses,
killed himself by taking carbolic acid.
! Cecil Robinson, Il years old, of In.
diana polis, shot and killed his seven
teen-year-old sister, Matte, while play
ing with pistol which he thought
unloaded.
\ Whaling bark Horatio, twenty
seven days from the Okhotsk sea, hal
arrived in San Francisco with 65(
pounds Of whslebone and 500 baIrell
of whale oil.
At Brownsville, Tex, Barnardo Sal
azar. Mexican boy, aged is, shot
and probably fatally wounded two OLE
women and two girls aged and I
years. No cause is known.
Edward Shannon, who killed hi
wife at Belvidere, Ill. just as she wa
boarding a train, has been found guilt,
of murder in the first degree, the jur,
fixing the penalty at hanging.
1t is definitely settled that there viii
be no Southwestern Traffic Association
The executive officers of the Chicag,
roads interested in the business hav
refused to sign the agreement.
The Grand Jury at Jefferson City
Mo-, has been ordered to investigat,
the charges of corruption and briber,
made against lobbyists who were Their
during tn legislative session last win
Ter.
The government has debarred iron
the mails John Wedderburn, Johl
Wedderburn & Co., the National Re
corder and the National Recorde
Publishing Company, of Washington
City.
Alfred E. Ficklin, prominent ma
of Charleston. H., who had thirteel
indictments found against him for for
gerry, which were about to be brough
to trial, has been sent to the Kackake
insane asylum.
Annual meetings of all the cattl
men in the country are being arranged
the first to be held in January, 1898
at Denver. The objects are discussio
and to take steps to protect the inter
ests Of stockmen.
The national corps of the Regula
Army and Navy Union has been in
corporated under an act of congress
with headquarters III Washington, a
result of the split which recent
occurred at Kansas City.
The experts report on the shortag
Of ex-State Treasurer Bentley of Sout
Dakota, shows it to be 1870, 0OC
Bentley is in Jail, under a twenty yea
sentence, but has an appeal to the ST.
preme Court pending.
Alice Peck, aged 73 years, the SC
called queen of confidence women, hs
been sentenced in New York to fiy
years imprisonment for swindling
jeweler. She at one time swindle
Babbitt, the soap man out of nearl
81 900, 900.
The Upsala college, Lutheran il
stitution supported by the State churc
of Sweden, now located in Brooklyn
N. Y, is to be removed to the city I
New Orange, N. j., where rea
estate company has made the oolleg
an endowment Il 100000.
A strike of the Brotherhood of Elet
trical Workers is threatened in Me-
York city. The electrical workers d,
manded an increase of wages from
a day to 81, effective January /, an
their demand having been positivel
refused by the association, the worl
men decided to strike.
The presence of mind of motorma
at Indianapolis averted fatal disaster
Withina few feet of railorad crosl
ing he observed an engine close on hin
backing down thirty miles an houl
He turned on the full current. TIL
car'proper leaped across, but the res
platform was cut off as IL by chise
The ordinance tureau has made
test at Indian Head firing ten-inc
armor piercing capped she'll at IA
inch plate. The latter was nick,
steel Harveyized. The shell WEI
through the plate and exploded o
the other side. The test was consit
cred most satisfactory.
General Blanco has issued an edis
of amnesty, in which he pardons al