The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-16
7ELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget of News o Easy Digestisn-All
Parts of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

There are now IA, $50 boxes of
lemons on the way to New York from
Mediterranean points.
The first cargo of corn to be shipped
to France for years was taken out
from Philadelphia recently.
A fire originating in a lumber mill
nearly destroyed the town of Cairo,
in West Virginia. The loss is $780,.
900.
The Falls Company, manufacturers
of cotton goods, at Norwich, Conn.,,
have started up on full time, giving
employment to 500 hands.
The Washington wooden mills at
Fredericksburg, Va, will voluntarily
advance the wages of a large number
of operatives ten per cent.
Dennie, Deegan and Cowden have
sold their gold mine in Humboldt
county, Nevada, to J. W. Brim Of
Williams, Cal, for $40, 900. 5
Fire has destroyed ten business
houses and n residence in Hillsboro,
10 va, leaving only two business houses
standing. Loss, $50, 900; insurance,
$40, 900.
The government has cut off all
~ratiops to the Apache Indians. except
flour, and now there is danger of an
Indian uprising in Arizona aud New
Mexico.
| Secretary Alger has ordered three
corps of cavalry from Fort Apache to
the Zuni Indian country in New Mex.
leo. A religious outbreak there
threatens lawlessness.
A great deal of damage was caused
at Middleton, N. Y, by a cloudburst.
The rain came down in torrents. Gel
lars were filled, and sewers are beyond
their capacity.
The burning of a furniture ware
house in Pittsburg, Penn, caused a
damage to the building and adjoining
property estimated at $165, 000. Two
fiermen were killed by falling walls.
Mrs. Frances Key Howard, the
daughter of Francis Scott Key, author
of the "Star Spangled Banner" died
recently in Wheeling, West Virginia,
at the age of 70 years. Mrs. Howard
was the last survivor of the family Of
Francis Scott Key.
During the past week sixteen iron
works and fifteen wooden mills have
started up, and the prices in steel are
said to be growing stronger. The bank
clearings during the week show an in.
crease of forty per cent over the cores
ponding week of last year.
The suspension of Parker, Sampson,
Adams & Co., a boot and shoe whole
sale house of Boston, is announced.
The company organized in January.
1896, with 500, 900 capital, but
suffered heavily from over buying and
losses through unwise credits.
The Bureau of American Republics
at Washington will issue a bulletin on
the NicaraguaD Canal in a few days.
Directors Smith, the author of the
bulletin, states that he believes the
present administration will prosecute
the Nicaraugan Canal enterprise.
Wild horses have become a nuisance
in Northern Arizona, and Attorney
General Fraser has been asked if they
may not be legally slaughtered. They
have rapidly increased in number, and
have become wilder than deer and
vicious as we'll. The matter has been
referred to the Livestock Board.
Up to the first of August, 1866 car.
loads of California fruit had been
shipped this season to eastern points,
as against 1405 carloads last year. The
following cities took 80 carloads or
over: New York, 900; Chicago, 1856;
Philadelphia, "a; Omaha, So; Mime
apolis, Al; Denver, 80; Montreal, 80.
Unless the Colorado Midland and
Denver and Rio Grande railroads agree
to reduce the freight rates Oh silver
ore from Aspen to Denver it is prob.
able that all of the big silver-produc.
ing properties of the rich Aspen dis
trict will be closed down. The NINE
owners feel confident that their request
for lower rates will be favorably acted
upon.
The great Yerkes telescope at Chi.
cago has unmarked sideral objects
hitherto unseen. The great lens has
been focused into space and the light
gathering power of the glass has been
proved perfect. 1t far surpasses the
thirty-six-inch lens of the Lick Obser-
vatory, and Professor Burnham says ii
is the most powerful telescope in the
world.
From present indications trouble
will follow an attempt to eject the in
truders from the Cherokee Nation in
Arkansas. When the Cherokee strip
was sold the Government promised to
put out all the intruders, but upon one
technicality or another, 5000 have
managed to remain. The Government
has decided to take a firm stand, how.
ever, and has ordered their removal
forthwith. Agent Wisdom will un
dertake the task at once.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court of Idaho multiplying a majority
of Idaho's laws may result in liberat-
ing a large number of convicts now in
the ~penitentiary. Most of the crimi-
mails sent up since 1893 were convicted
on information of the attorney with.
out indictment. The act providing for
information passed in 1891 is said to
be unconstitutional under the Supreme
Court decision, and habeas corpus pro-
ceedings will secure freedom for a