The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-22
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget Of News For Easy Dig sstion-AII
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

erlnB an antl-COnVlct labor bill.
The navy department is going to ask
bids for three SO-knot torpedo boats.
G. p. Huntington and others are to
establish armor plate works at New
port.
Tornado signals have been ordered
in all towns in Mississippi valley west
of st. Louis.
The agent of Peoria and st. Louis
railroad has ioated $4,000, 900 OF
bonds in Europe.
Billiard, Crawford & Co. coffee
and spice mills. Columbus, Ohio,
have failed for 500, 900.
Over 1000 people are shelterless in
the town of Chandler, Oklahoma, which
was destroyed by cyclone.
The New York legislature has ap.
proved the charter for the consclida-
ton of New York and Brooklyn.
Secretary Wilson proposes to rein.
state old soldiers in his department and
thus test the. civil service act.
About 100000 persons are now in
the federal service, of whom some 90, :
600 are under civil service rule.
Eleven hundred steam filters are
locked out in New York. A strike
of 60, 900 affiliated trades may result.
A new independent sugar refining
company has been incorporated in New
York in opposition to the sugar trust.
Only eight widows of the soldiers of
the revolution are living. One of
them, aged 81, resides at San Diego,
Cal.
A trust. with English capital, is
forming in New York to control the
fresh-water fisheries of the United
States.
A Kansas City man has cornered the
onion stock of the country. and onions
have jumped from 60 and 80 cents to
$3.50 and $1.75.
After July l the affixing of a 1c.
stamp to any card of proper size will
admit of its passing through the mails
rs postal card.
The Southern Pacific railroad has
offered to compromise its contention
with Kentucky on the taxation imposed
on 1T by that State.
Rr. Samuel H. Walker of Brooklyn,
New York. is dead of the jungle fever.
de has been in Africa attempting tc
break up the Congo state slave traffic.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
will be sold at auction on May 8, al
Gallup, N. M, to the highest bidder
No bid of less than $1,000, 900 will BIZ
entertained.
The treasury department is alarmed
over the invention by Frenchmal
which makes photographing in color.
possible. If counterfeiters succeed II
securing such camera the bank note
of no nation Will be safe.
A very wealthy inhabitant of Chi.
cago is Mrs. M. s. Wade, who mann.
features the peculiar yellow paper EN-
ployed by the telegraph companies and
press associations. The process of man
ufacture is secret that she will moi
disclose.
General John G. Gown, special
counsel for the United States in the
foreclosure suits of the Government
against the Union Pacific Railway, has
returned to Omaha from Washington.
de had been in conference with the
Attorney. General and other Govern
ment officials regarding the foreclosure.
General Gown said that he saw no OBJ.
stacle in the way of foreclosure. and
thought that that event would come
along as quickly as the necessary legal
papers could be issued by the courts.
when will the foreclosure take
placer! 1T is difficult to tell the ex.
act date, but the papers will be filed
IN May. Then it should not be more
than matter of sixty or ninety DAYS
after that until the foreclosure is com.
plete."
The willy Japanese. who have been
copying So many articles Of American
manufacture, have commenced ship.
ping III pictures, books and other arti.
cles falsely stamped as copyrighted OF
patented in the United States. Now.
tins is to be stopped by Uncle Sam,
for customs officials at Tacoma Wash.
have received Treasury Department
circular calling their attention to the
act OF Congress approved on March 3.
prohibiting such importations and
sales, which are made to save the
trouble and expense of obtaining COW
rights. AT present there are no laws
IN Japan governing trademarks and
copyrights Recently circular was
sent from Washington warning paten.
tees OF the danger of allowing their
machines and attachments to be sent
to Japan until such international laws
had been adopted as would effectually
prevent the hand mechanics of the
Orient from duplicating articles with
IMMUNITY. The new law provides that
no book. map, chart, musical or
dramatic composition, print-cut, en-.
craving, or photo which shall have
unlawful notice of copyright attached,
shall be admitted. and that any one
who shall knowingly sell such work
shall be liable to a fine of 500, one.half
going to the informant and one.balf
to the Government. The Federal Cir.
emit Courts are empowered to enioin
sale of such articles.
Tie Senate has confirmed The fol.