The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-28
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports OF
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget Of News For Easy Digsstisn-AI
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

AhAeNcehihk A'O~'
Ex-senator John Mcpherson of New
Jersey died in New York few days
ago.
The S. p. and S. +. P. are preparing
to launch new time cards for trains in
all directions.
1t is feared in some parts of the
Indian Territory the rains come too
late to save the Fall crop.
An Austin Pa Dispatch says eighty
families were burned out by fire ut an
average loss of about $1,000.
The President has appointed Rafael
Madrigal, of Maryland. United States
Consul at Cartagena, Colombia.
The October term of the United
States Supreme Court began on the
18th. There are 466 cases on the
docket.
Atlanta, Ga, has an ordinance pro-
hiding vehicles from passing places of
worship at rapid rate of speed on
Sundays.
Florence Helm, relative of the late
Governor Helm of Kentucky. died re-
Gently in New York from the effects of
opium.
Grover Cleveland refuses to discuss
politics and will not say that he would
accept the United States Senatorship
from New Jersey.
Twenty thousand house carpenters
in New York City treaten to strike
because the contractors are importing
woodwork from other cities.
A license has been secured in Cleve-
land, Ohio, for the marriage of Abra-
ham Garfield to Sarah Williams of
Chenille, a suburb of Cleveland.
The New York police have arrested
Emmett G. Gibson, who is said to be
the most accomplished bogns check
man and hotel thief in the country.
The tobacco crop in the tobacco
counties Of Tennessee is reported SER
lously damaged by frosts, the yield be-
ing estimated at about half an average
1t is said that the bacilli of cholera
can not resist the powerful citric acid
of the lemon, and that one grain will
destroy all the microbes in quart OF
water.
fernando de Soto Money has beer
appointed United States Senator from
Mississippi, to fill out the unexpireG
term caused by the death of Senator
George.
All but four of the thirty three sail
ors on the United States revenue cutter
Perry quit at Seattle, Wash, becaus,
of reduction of wages from $2S to $2l
pei month.
The state Department is Informed
that George Newton, an American cap
tured while fighting with the Cuban
patriots, died in Havana OF wound
and fever.
resident Mckinley has decided t,
allow A. Benzinger, an artist who re
sides at Brunnen, Switzerland, but VIII
has studios in Paris and New York, t.
paint his portrait.
Brooklyn, New York, public schoo
teachers in the primary grades will
receive an increase on salary, so as t
have it run from $500 to $500, accord
ing to the experience of the recipient.
VILLAS A. Trask, the fugitive telle
of the First National Bank of Walline
ford, Conn, has been arrested at Hall
fax, Nova Scotia. Trask's embezzle
ments are said to amount to $4,000.
A great gold strike is reported nea
the Revenue tunnel, ON Mount Sneffel.
in Ouray county, Colorado. Tests ru
as high as $4,000 to the ton, an
$1,000 has been taken out of two cubi
feet of rock.
Reports received at Washington
d. c.. from naval attaches abroad
show in the opinion of ordinance ey
perts, the superiority of the Europea
armor, which is made by the cemen
ing process.
Prof. Elmer Gates, of Washington
d, g., has invented microscope, {
an improvement on the microscope, b
which the power of magnifying an oil
ject can be increased 800 times aboy
what it is now.
Thomas Evans, famous America
dentist to Europe and royal families
has sailed from New York for Havre
Paris. He announced to friends til
surrender of the bulk of a fortune {
twenty-five millions to the establish
ment of benevolent institutions i
America.
Carter, a negro, killed James Burc
in saloon in BRENNAN, Texas, an
then went to the Jail to surIende,
The next day his body was found iii
died with bullets and buck shot, lyin
about 100 yards back of the Jail.
mob of unknown persons had pursue
and killed him.
The Masters trust has been forme
in New York. embracing all the prom
inent mailing houses in the countr,
1t is to be known as The America
Mailing Co.. and is capitalized at $l5
900, 900. The manufacture of malt
to be confined to Chicago, milwaukee,
st. Louis and Philadelphia.
Attorney General McKenna hs
issued statement regarding the Unto
Pacific, which declares that guarar
J teed bid of 500, 900, 900, as high as tn
government could expect, had bee
received, end that there is no prospet
of higher bid in the future. The sal
is competitive and there is possibilit
of a bid above the sum named.
Thomas A. Dillon, president of Ca