The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-25
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS
Selections That Will Greatly Interest
Our Readers Both old
aud Young.

The Port Arthur Dock and Channel
Company proposes to build drydook
500 feet long at Port Arthur. Texas.
Miss Francis E. Willard has been re-
elected President of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Oscar Hammerstein, the theatrical
manager in New York, has assigned
for the benefit of creditors to Lewis ].
Phillips.
Edward Hamilton, employed in the
Worcester Mass National bank,
killed his wife and daughter and then
shot himself.
The Standard Oil Company has de-
clared the regular quarterly dividend
of per cent and an extra dividend OF
per cent.
In Silver Greek, N. Y, three men
blew open the safe in Heines' Bank
securing $40, 900 in money and $4,000
in jewelry.
The crew of the life-saving station al
Cobb's Island, Virginia, were recently
compelled to abandon the station on
account of storm.
Four persons were killed and mum.
Der injured by the breaking of an axle
ON the Chesapeake q Ohio Railroad
near Charlottesville. Va.
George Brown, Jr., of Indiana, SOL
of Admiral Brown, retired. has beer
appointed by the President an Assist
ant Paymaster in the navy.
The extensive establishment of the
Haywood Brothers. in Boston, manu-.
facturers of rattan furniture, has beer
badly damaged by fire. Loss, $50, 600
The bed of the Carson river, Nc.
vada, from Dayton to Churchill, il
covered with dense growth of young
cotton woods, which sprung from the
seed
Acting Mayor Scobey of Denver
Colorado, has approved the ordinanc,
recently passed by the Council fixins
a license fee of $1,000 for all dealers il
cigarettes.
A number Of employees in the Office
OF the clerk of the Federal court al
Philadelphia have been arrested fol
issuing fraudulent naturalizatio
papers.
The Southern Pacific Company
Sunset route to New Orleans, from Sar
Francisco, which has been badly Grip
pied for some weeks past, on account
of the yellow fever scare. in the South
ern States, has now reopened fol
through business.
The total receipts of the bureau O.
internal revenue for the fiscal yea,
ending June 30, 1897, show receipts
OF STAG, 619, 500, decrease of $311,
O22 as compared with last year Tht
total cost of collection was SO, 848, sos
decrease over 1896 Of $237, S22.
A Youngstown (O.) dispatch says
the employees at the Andrews Bros
Company's furnace have been giver
notice of 10 per cent advance il
wages, to go into effect December |
Other blast furnace companies will
soon advance the wages of their men.
A plan is now under consideration
to run two limited trains east of E
Paso, one making the trip to Chicago
by way of the Texas and Pacific, St
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
and the Chicago and Alton roads, ant
the others to New Orleans over tn,
Sunset route.
A Pineville, Ky, dispatch says An
drew van Horn, prominent farmer
and his wife, were found in a dyins
condition by neighbors few morning.
ago. 1t is supposed that Van Horn
became mentally unbalanced, ant
while in this state shot his wife and
then himself.
Postmaster.G General Gary ha,
awarded the contract for the ocear
mail service for five year, between
New York, Cuba, the West Indies and
Mexican ports to the New York anG
Cuba Mail Steamship Company. The
contract price is about 81 per statute
mile, and the company is to build two
new vessels of about 5000 tonnage and
about sixteen knots capacity.
A new industry has started al
Greensboro, Kentucky, with 100 en-
ployes. 1t is to utilize corn stalks
for cellulose for lining battleships.
Material for making AN imitation of
silk and for making celluloid are
among the products. Paper is another
product. W. W. Gibbs of Philadel.
phia'i is president, and the stockholder
are Fasteners.
The auction of the Union Pacific
Railroad took place ON Nov smber ] al
Omaha, Nebraska. There was but on.
bid for the road. that offered by the
reorganization syndicate, and amount.
ing to SOS, 065. 7iS. The Kansas Pacific
branch of this road and the Central
Pacific remain to be disposed of, but
their sale will not take place until
after Congress meets. The auctioneel
received 800, 900 for his half-hour'
work.
The council held with Gov. Mount
at Indianapolis with reference to the
importing of Kentucky miners into
Davies and Pike counties. Ind. to take
the places of striking miners of Gabel
and Kaufman coal operatives. has come
to satisfactory ending. One hundred
of the striking miners, it is said, will
go to work Immediately, and others
will follow. The labor commissioners
went to Davies county for the purpose
of bringing about better understand
ing between employees and employers.
Colonel John S. Ford. known
throughout Texas as Colonel Ripford,
the Indian fighter" died at his home
recently in San Antonio, that State,
after months illness. Colonel Ford