The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-20
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS
Selections That VIII Greatly Interes
Our Readers Both Old
and Young.

SoPAeAA VI SSOotVOOs
A single page in one issue Of the
Century taken for advertising costs
$500, Harper's. $3.50.
There is a new oil boom on at An
dersen, Indiana, where the big gusheIs
are running more than ever before.
The legislature of Texas has appro-
priated $50. 200 for the purpose of pur-
chasing the historic old battlefield of
San Jacinto, and deserving it as a
State park.
The Union Pacific has given notice
that it will make, every Tuesday while
the Tennessee Exposition is in progress,
rate of one fare plus 10 per cent
from all territory tributary to its lines.
This action may have the effect of
bringing down the exposition rates
generally throughout the East.
Forest fires have been raving in
Minnesota. near Duluth. and they are
dangerously near that city. The Fire
Department has been called on for as
sistance by people in outlying districts.
/ The Pesthouse and the Poorhouse
caught fire twice during one day, but
the flames were soon subdued.
At meeting Of the creditors Of the
Bacon Paper Company the assignees'
report was read showing liabilities of
$3.50, 900, against which there were
miscellaneous collateral aggregating
5000. 900. The assets were placed at
under $500, 900.
The miners strike IN East Tennessee
and Kentucky has grown in the past
few days. Miners who have gone out
number 3, 500. At Coal Greek serious
trouble is brewing. The men at the
Black Diamond mine have struck. A
meeting of miners and operators will
be held in day or so to discuss the
situation.
An invention has been devised by
Professor Albert Crehose of Darts
mouth College and Lieutenant Squire
of the United States Army by which
Geographic messages can be transmitted
at the rate of 5000 words a minute.
The highest speed at present obtaina.
BILE is from 100 to 200 words per min.
ute.
At the session of the Bakers Inter-
national Union, held in Cleveland,
Ohio, resolutions were offered to make
an eight-hour day uniform throughout
the country and met with enthusiastic
approval before theiS reference to COM
mittee. The union decided to abandon
all State branches and hereafter all
funds will go directly to national
headquarters.
The contract for smokeless powder
will be awarded by the War Depart
ment in few days. Three companies,
including the California Powder Com
pany, bid one dollar pound on forty
thousand pounds to be purchased by
the department. A War Department
official said that the purchase would
probably be distributed between the
three companies, though in what shares
was not yet determined.
A comparative statement of the Gov.
} elnment's receipts and expenditures
: for April shows total receipts of $37 :,
Sl2, 1876; expenditures, $32,O72, O97,
, leaving a surplus of $5,740,03S, as
compared with the deficit of April,
/ 1896, of 81, 704 ,4SS. For the last ter
, months deficit is shown of $33, 1885,.
69S. During April, the receipts from
customs amounted to $24, Asa, 35l; in
ternal revenues, $l1,447.2 13; miscel
laneous, $1,910,57O. These figure.
show gain in the receipts of custom.
as compared with April, 1896, of $12,
, 63S, $40, or over 100 per cent.
! There will be test of the newly de
. vised armor at the Indian Head, Wash
ington, proving grounds. in few days
which, if successful, means the down
J fall of armor plate monopoly and tn
! greatest stride in that branch of man
+ ufacture in quarter of century
$ The plan is to put together two plates
one five and half inches, the othe
a six inches. and apply to the OVERLAP,
: plate, thus obtained, the ballistic tests
Q Ii is believed the compound plate will
Q bear fire equal to that of solid plat
thirteen to fourteen inches thick
. The plan is that of Captain Samson
/, chief of the Bureau of Ordinance. A
: the surface of a plate is always NOR
n thoroughly tempered than the cente
). and as a thin plate will stand temperin
n better than heavy one, the placin,
d of plates over each other forces tn
n ball to break through three hard ex
o terror surfaces as we'll as to pierce til
q softer interior metal before the plate
Y have been perforated. In this way
= is calculated that there will be adde
9 at least 10 per cent to the resistance 0
a the metal in the plates. The effect o
4 the armor plate trust will be immense
Q Where now only the Carnegie an
9 Bethlehem works can roll heavy plates
there are at least ten works in tn
country which can make thin plates
These could be Harveyized at the nav
: yards or at the plant to be placed cor
: tiguous to the yards. Should the test
prove successful, armor of the ne,
plan would be used ON the battle-shi
Wisconsin, now being built at tn
Union Iron Works, and ON the Ala
bsma and Illinois, now building in tn
East.
, The Rhenish- W estphalian Explosive
Company of Cologne. Germany, ha
purchased SIT acres of land in Middle
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