The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-18
TELECRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed TeIegraphic Reports of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget Of News For Easy Digestion-AIl
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

Governor Sadler of Nevada has
signed the bill legalizing prize fig ats.
W. q. Harrington q Co., jewellers.
have assigned at Columbus,O. Assets,
$25, 900, liabilities, $l7. 900.
The people Of Alabama are so much
opposed TO the Australian ballot system
that it will probably be abandoned.
Ira d. Sankey, the revivalist, is
coming west on account of his wife's
health and will be in San Francisco
in April.
The abolition Of the forty days
quarantine bill VII probably result in
large cattle trade between the United
States and Canada.
I The directors of the Chicago Gas
I Company have declared a regular
quarterly dividend of = per cent pay
able February Goth.
I The Homeopathic Society of Kings
county, n. Y, asserts that the girls Of
Brooklyn are being injured by the
amount of study enforced at the
schools.
The Indian school that is maintained
by the Government at Carlisle. Pa,
has been quarantined on account of the
prevalence of measles among the boys
and girls.
Colonel NJ. ]. Foster of Louisiana is
at Colon, Colombia, making inquiries in
connection with the quarantine at New
Orleans against shipping from South
American ports.
A receiver for the Dime Savings
Bank of Chicago has been appointed.
The bank owes depositors $685. 200,
and has but $l15, 900 cash, but claims
to be able to pay depositors in full.
Charles A. Eaton d Co., who oper-
ates one of the largest shoe factories in
Brookton, Mass, have discharged 300
employees and issued notice that the
factory would be closed indefinitely.
Burglars entered the shop of the A.
II. Reeves Gold Leaf Manufacturing
Company, 1853 Fifth avenue, Chicago,
and blew open the safe, securing $4,000
In gold in various stages of manufac
ture.
The woman suffrage bill passed the
Senate of Nevada by a vote of 8 to 5
and was sent to the Assembly, where
it was referred to a committee. 1t is
thought it will be defeated in the AS
sembly by a very small majority,
The boys dormitory of thu Genessee
Wesleyan Seminary, a four-story brick
building at Lima, N. Y, was burned
the other morning. One student was
injured. The valuable library was
entirely destroyed. The loss is $780,
600
A defalcation of S43, 900 has been
discovered in the Second National
Bank of Parkersburg, West Va, in the
accounts of Lee Mcfarland. an old and
trusted clerk in charge of individual
deposits. Mcfarland had speculated
! in grain and stocks.
/ With the intention of providing
/ something to occupy the minds of the
| copvicts at Sing Sing Prison, New
4 York, a class in drawing will be
( started Among the convicts is al
artist and architect There is also il
{ Sing Sing an Italian sculptor, who will
start class i'll modelling clay and wax
) Edward Batson was instantly killed
and ten others seriously injured, tw,
probably fatally, at the Georgia mine
! near Pennington, w. Va. Coal is sen
, down an inclined railway by gravity
) loaded cars hauling up empty ones OF
!. another track. When the acciden
occurred thirty miners were going u,
in two cars when loaded car jumped
! the track, crashing into the upbount
! train.
q A stoekman named Maxwell, Will
Q hunting cattle, discovered a large bod,
n OF very superior quality of gilsonit
&. within sixteen miles of Price, Utah
r The vein is thirty three feet thick. |
| has been tested by an expert chemist
O and he claims it to be worth 10 d cent
!. per pound. By pouring turpentine o,
!. it it dissolves and makes an excellen
' polish, as smooth and hard as the bes
5 yarnish.
j, A fire is reported from Salt Lake
y which caused the loss of propert
Q valued at fully quarter of millio
Q dollars. One man was badly hurt
J. The fire broke out III the rear of tn
l. large hardware store of Scott q Co. o
+ Main street. 1t spread rapidly, an
IS the entire department of the city wa
d called out. The building was a larg
0 four-story brick structure, and the fire
Il men We're under disadvantages, as the
it had to work mostly from the front {
e the building, ON Main street. After
Q hard fight OF more than four hours til
s fire was brought under control. Tn
= loss is estimated at a quarter of mi
II lion.
i The City of Chicago Council has b,
gun crusade against the ringing {
q any large bell in the city limits ws
presented to the City Council by Alder
! man Greenaore and referred to the il
dietary Committee. If such an ord
I. nance should be passed, it would mea
the discontinuanee of all bells. inclut
:, ing chimes on churches and other pull
!. lie or private buildings. The oIdinanc
: provides that "any person, firm, societ
! or corporation that shall violate tn
provisions of this ordinance shall h
q fined not to exceed 5000 for eac
: offense. -
The Federal Council of BernS
, Switzerland, has submitted to tn
! United States Government the drai
! of new extradition treaty, to super
sede the present treaty. which permit
Swiss citizens to be axtradiied To th