The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-10
.TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS.
ssieottOns That win Greatly Interest
Our Readers Both Old
and Young.

OOhsHcss Was pIONl0l0R Tor gliding the
statue of liberty
John W. Mackay is building q
mausoleum in Greenwood Cemetery,
New York, to cost $500, 900.
The wholesale grocery house Of
Belts, Fletcher q Co., at Marshall
town. Iowa. has been burned; loss,
$4,000
Louis Altman has been arrested, at
Louisville, KY, on a charge of embez-
cling $50, 900 from Charles Rosenhe elm
q Co.
j. ii. Martindale, prominent hard
ware dealer of Scranton, Kansas, was
found in pasture near that town
frozen to death.
A Pennsylvania man is dying from
anthrax contracted from handling Chi
nese hides, and the tanneries about AL
toona are closed as result.
Henry Nesbit, oolored, has been
hanged at lrwinville, Ga, for the
murder of Jim Harrington. Nesbit
was charged with nine homicides.
Judge Sanborn in the Court of An
peals at st. Louis has granted post.
ponement of the proposed sale of the
Kansas Pacific road for sixty days.
Walter S. Walsh, a wholesale shoe
dealer, of Philadelphia, committed
suicide recently by cutting his throat
Business trouble is assigned as the
cause.
The battle for the recognition of
Cuban independence or belligerency
has begun in the Senate by bill in
troduced by Senator Allen, of Ne
braska
According to the New York Herald
the trunk line railroads have sue
ceeded in obtaining control of nearly
the entire water front of Greater New
York.
The Idaho medical law has been de-
clared invalid by the supreme court
OF account of the failure of the state
senate to follow the constitutional
form in attempting to pass the meas
ure.
1t is learned that the committee of
manufacturers at Fall River, Mass.
will recommend that the salaries of
treasurers be reduced in the same
proportion as the wages of the EN-
ployes.
Rev. John Atkinson, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Haver.
straw, New York, and author of the
well-known hymn, 1--WE Shall Meet
Beyond the River" died at his home
recently at the age of SO.
A company has been Incorporated in
st. Louis to make enamel signs, the
first institution of the kind in the
United States. All enamel street
sings now in use in the country are
made in Germany or England.
The last payment of $60,O0O has
been made at Tucson, Ariz., ON the
Grand Reef mines by John w. Mao.
kay, the purchaser. The mines are
located fifty miles north of Wilcox.
Work is to be pushed on large scale.
A dispatch received at Natchez,
Miss, from Bayou Sara, La, states
that che steamboat Paragould sank in
the Mississippi River, just above the
mouth of the river The boat an6
cargo are in bad shape, and the loss
will be heavy.
A New York dispatch says Charles
Butler, philanthropist and lawyer,
died ut his home in that city few
days ago. Butler was born at Kinder.
hook Landing, N. Y, in February,
1902. His mother was q descendant
of Oliver Cromwell.
The Santa Fe Railroad company il
said to have been swindled out of sew.
eral thousand dollars by means OF
forged mileage books which have beer
sold by scalpers in Kasnsas City, Mo.
and Chicago. John PEBBLES, an em.
ploye Of local scalper, has beer
arrested.
The Chicago Produce Exchange
after an existence of about quarter
OF century, is about to be dissolved
owing to discussions among its mem
bers. This came about over resolu
ton to appropriate 5000 to enforce ths
law which regulates the sale of but
/ terine.
st. Louis wholesale clothiers havs
refused to join the National Clothiers
Association, and the efforts of thai
body to unite the merchants in thii
I line have failed so far as that city i,
concerned. Many eastern wholesaler
joined, and several st. Louis houses
promised to come in, but have finally
stay ed out.
There is no little doubt that vigor
Gus fight to repeal the charter of the
Southern Pacific railroad will be re
newed in the present session of ths
Kentucky Legislature, and the fight
made last year will be strengthened by
the fact that the present session will
be dominated by an overwhelming ma
jority of free silver Democrats and {
strong anti-corporstion element.
Jimmie Consign. who one day las
May snatched tray of diamond
valued at So. 900 from a Grand avenu,
jeweler, in Kansas City. Mo-, anc
darted down the street, has been sen
fenced TO three years in the peniten
tiary. Consign is known Throughout
the United States as the most oleve
and dangerous Of thieves, and is wante,
by half dozen Sheriffs.
Attorney General Joseph E. Nc
Kenna Of California has been nomi
mated to be Associate Justice Of tn
Supreme Court, to succeed Stephen j
Field. This appointment, the mos
Important which will come before thi