The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-05-06
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS
Selections That VIII Greatly Interest
Our Readers Both Old
and Young.

600 ounces of silver from New York To
Europe recently.
The Carnegie Iron Works has secured
the contract for the first steel building
to be erected i'll Japan.
E. S. Dean & Co. New York bucket
shop men, have failed. 1t is said that
10000 investors lose $4,000 900.
Idle faces workers at Marine Island
have resumed work. Beaten at last in
a three years strike that cost them
$50, 900.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kentucky Legislature providing for
the branding of convicted burglars on
each cheek.
The strike of the plumbers and
steam-ftters of New York against the
employment of non-union men has
been declared off.
By the closing of the Illinois Steel
Company at Chicago 1000 men arc
thrown out of work. The works were
closed to prevent a strike.
A federal court i'll Boston has en-
tered decree Of foreclosure OH $3.50.
600 worth Of mortgages of the San
Diego town and land company.
1t is rumored that Justice Field will
shortly resign from the United States
Supreme Court. He will be succeeded
by Attorney. General McKenna.
The strike at A. NJ. Dyer big roll
ing mills in Pittsburg has been de-
clared off. The strikers gave in.
They accepted reduction Of so cents
ton.
The employees of three silk mills in
West Hoboken, Homestead and Hack
ensack, N. Y, have struck. The en-
ployes want an increase of 80 per cent
in wages.
st. Paul. Mimi, House of Represent
tatives passed bill prohibiting sectar-
ian instruction or wearing sectarian
garb in public schools. The penalty
Is fine and Imprisonment.
By getting the new battleship Iowa
in such excellent form, contractors
Cramp & Son, Philadelphia. will re-
ceive 100000 above contract price.
She makes II knots an hour.
Great floods continue to devasta 70 the
Middle and Northwestern States.
Many presons have been drowned, and
a large amount of railroad and agricul-
tural property has been destroyed.
The break in Mississippi levee at
Flower Lake, Ark, is now 100 feet
wide This will cause overflow of
northern Mississi ppi counties-a coun-
try usually producing 5000, 600 bales
of cotton.
The Mill Spinners' Association of
Boston will accept no reduction in
the present scale of wages. That
position was taken by vote of the
association at the session of the con-
vention held few days ago.
G. E. Tripler of New York claims to
have invented a new power to displace
electricity and steam as motive force.
The invention is in the form of lique-
fed air, and the inventor claims that
certain amount of it will run an engine
forever.
The Chattanooga, Tenn, has re-
turned indictments against the cast
iron pipe manufacturers of that city
for violating the anti trust law. They
are accused of having combined TO con.
troll the output of thirty six States and
territories.
One hundred and fifty men have
gone out of the Ohio and Pennsylvania
Coal Company's mine ut Salineville,
", because of the failure of the com.
pany to secure proper ventilation. The
State Inspector of Mines has inter.
vened in behalf of the men.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers recently sue.
ceeded in getting a clause inserted in
the contract for the new Wayne county
building at Detroit, Mich. to the effect
that only iron made by union men
should be used. The Carnegie Com
pany were the lowest bidders, but were
unable to get the contract. The lob
went to Jones & laughing, Pitts
burg, Pa.
Great interest is felt IN INDIANAPOLIS.
Ind, in regard to three.cept street car
fare. The Citizens Street Railway
Company gave no instructions to con-
ductors and declines to consider the
law until decision is reached in the
Federal court, where test case is
under argument. On North Indiana
car a conductor put young woman
Oft the car by force when she declined
to pay more than three cents. Other
conductors have accepted three cents
and say they will pay two cents addi-
tlonal out of their own wages rather
than have row.
Never in the history of Knoxville
has the city suffered such a loss by fire
as 1T did, following tho breaking ont
OF flames i'll a grocery store adjoining
the big Knox Hotel. The hotel and
adjoining buildings were soon in
flames, and the best business part of
the city, including some of the largest
wholesale and retail business houses
IN the South, were destroyed. The
loss is variously estimated at from one
to one and a half million dollars, with
about go per cent insurance. The loss
OF life is uncertain as the register of
the hotel, in which fifty-six people
were sleeping, was burned.
The Peruvian Government has sus.
pended the coinage of silver at the
government Mint and has issued pro-
hibition against the importation of sill
yer coins after the 10th of May next.
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