The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-13
NO.
The anti-Hanna candidates in the
Ohio assembly were elected. Three
majority in each case.


Ohio assembly were elected. Three
majority in each case.
Great Britain demands the same
rights at Port Arthur and Kaio Chou
as Russia and Germany.
China, when opened, should be
large field for American locomotives
and other railroad appliances. The
total railway mileage Of the empire is
less than 800.
1t turns out that the coliseum fire
at Chicago come from cigarettes and
a pet dog. These things come high,
but some people must have EN-.
A New Jersey man, according to
a dispatch. fell into a den of five
hundred snakes and then drank
whiskey to- cure the bites. II is very
evident that this story was told
backward
A Baltimore woman. we are told
is going to marry the lawyer who
successfully defended her in a cri-
minal case. 1t isn't often that re-
tributive justice like this comes to
the front and runs in the criminal
lawyer.
A Cleveland ore firm has Just re-
received an order from London for
1000, 900 tons of iron ore, to be de-
livered at Cardiff. This calls for
! 500, 900, 900. Quite bit of prosper
ity in that, to begin the new year
with.
Chris ,asperson was killed last
week while hauling poles from the
mountains in the western part of
Humboldt county Is is supposed
that he was kicked to death by one of
his horses while in the act of un-
hitching them. White Pine News
The Kansas City Journal asks:
pray tell us what has become of the
old-fashioned printer who used to
gain admittance to all the shows by
exhibiting his composing rule ?" The
printer is all right, but the rule
doesn't work any more according to
the Chicago Dispatch.
The st. Louis Republic thinks
there will doubtless be strong
Kentucky movement to capture the
Secretaryship of the proposed
Cabinet Department of Commerce
when it becomes generally known
that one OF the duties of that office
will be the sampling of whiskey in
an effort to suppress adulteration.
One of the best cattle sales made
in Lander county for a number of
years past was made by Patrick
Walsh last week, when he sold a
trainload of beef cattle to Joseph
) Blackburn of Reno, for the San
Francisco market. The price paid
was 1915 gross or $3.50 net per
hundred pounds, delivered and
weighed in at Battle Mountain.
An order for TO- 900 of the latest
pattern of military rifles and 5,000,-
900, 900 rounds of ammunition has
| been placed with the Winchester
Arms company of New Haven Conn
/. through it's San Francisco Office
They are to be shipped at the earlies
possible moment. The order comes
from the Russian government.
nj A Tennessee editor, after CAREFUL,
m surveying existing conditions in th'
m m South, concludes that there is mark
IN IN ed room for improvement in man.
IN particulars. eve let our timber rot,
m m he says, "and buy fencing. w
90 throw away our ashes and greas
and buy soap; we raise dogs and bu
hogs; we raise weeds and buy vegt
:. tables; we catch Scent fish with q
rods; we build school houses an
send our children off to be educate
Al, and, lastly, we send our boys OF
NJ with $40 gun anda $40 dog to hu,
10-cent birds.
Paul Pelkey of Fillmore, is sti
living and is 102 years old. He too
sick and died forty years ago, WI
in grave clothes and was placed in
coffin in an upstairs room at b
home. The funeral was ready
: start and the stairs were narrow an
I old fashioned and but two me
I. could handle the coffin. They star
i ed down the stairway with it, ar
one of the men slipped and down II
coffin went bumpty-bump. The coff
broke open and the corpse set up III
rubbed his eyes and asked for
drink of water, and Paul Pelkey
funeral was put off indefinitely.
has not since been announced and
is said is not likely to be for son
time to come. -Maryville Review.
An Ohio young man complain
that he dident know he was engag.
: to be married until he received /
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