The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-14
TELECRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Bud get of News For Easy DigestiOn-Al
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

The Commercial Gable and the Pos
tai Telegraph companies are to COM
bine.
Admiral Reardslee, of the United
States Navy. is to be received with
distinguished honors at Valparaiso.
The second day of the tariff discus
sion before the Ways and Means Com
mittee was devoted to the tariff on cot.
ton.
The Brentwood Works and the lum-
Der yards of Bumgardner q Conkle at
Junction City, o., have been burned.
Loss, 500, 900; insurance, $4,000.
A conference of high naval officers
has ben held in Washington to decide
on the best method OF protecting the
Atlantic and gulf coasts in case of war.
Kate Fields ashes, incased in small
cylindrical urn of polished copper, are
now ON their way to Chicago in charge
of General Taylor, editor and ploprie.
tor of the Boston Globe.
The Southern Pacific Company an
nounces in New York that after Jan
uary it will pay dividend of a per
cent ON the stock of the Central Pacific
Railroad in dividend warrant No. 81.
V. j. Rothschild. secretary of the
st. Paul, Mimi, Winter Carnival As
ISOLATION, has been authorized by the
executive committee to announce that
owing to the mild weather the associa-
ton has been forced to abandon its
plans for an ice palace.
President Il. P. Ripley, Third Vice.
President Paul Morton, General Solicit
tor 4. d Kenna and General Auditor
H. @. Whitehead of the Santa Fe
Railroad Company, held conference
with Governor.elect Leedy at Topeka
recently and argued against maxi
mum freight rate bill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Swain have
sold the Oskaloosa, Ia. Herald to
Charles V. and Phillip Hoffman for
100000. The Swalms had published
the Herald for twenty years, and the
new proprietors had been employed on
the paper for the greater part of that
time.
A new tire fastening for solid rubber
wagon tires consists of a loop bolt
passed through the felly and into 9
recess in the tire. A rod passes length
wise through the tin and through the
slotted bolts, which can then be
frightened by nuts on the other enc
pressing against the felly.
!. ID. McMaster of the Six Brothers
Gold Mining Company has just re
turned to Rochester, New York, from
London, where he succeeded in selling
a three-fourths interest in the Gale
donna gold mine to a syndicate of Eng
lish investors for $4,000.
The Windsor Hotel, four saloons
two clothing stores, three restaurants
one grocery store, two livery stable
and two barber shops, composing
large portion OF. the business section o
Pottsdam, N. Y, have been dest1oye,
by fire. The damage is estimated a
500, 900; partially insured.
By the will of the late John Hoff
man Collamore of Boston $500 is givel
to each of the charity funds of seven
teen di ferent Masonic bodies, and $50,
900 to the Grand Lodge of Massachu
sets. This sum il to be called tn
John H. Collamore Fund.-" and it
to be for the relief of deserving Ma
sons and their families.
An early morning fire on Eas
Thirty-third stree, New York, destroye,
property valued at nearly million
dollars and rendered 100 people home
less. Four buildings, including
Sohmer's piano warehouse and tn
New York Polytechnic Hospital wer
destroyed. The destroyed building
also include large five-story brio
tenement at 200 East Thirty-thir
street and large tive-stoIy brick fac
tory building.
There was large meeting at tn
Mansion House. Dublin. Ireland, re
Gently, the Lord-Mayor presiding, t
protest against the overtaxation G
Ireland as disclosed by the Royal Com
mission on the financial relations be
tween England and Ireland. The r.
port showed that Ireland is now over
taxed to the amount of So, rs, 900 ($13,
750, 000) annually. Resolutions wer
passed demanding that the Government
: remedy the injustice done to Irelan
in the matter of taxation.
The Lehigh mills. in South Eastor
Pa, manufacturers of cotton good.
have shut down for four months, an
there is said to be but little prospect {
a resumption at the end of that period
The mills are the Oldest in the Lehig
Valley. Depression in business
given as the cause of the shutdown
One hundred employees are affected
The plant was started nearly 100 yeal
ago and this is the first shutdown
has experienced.
Representative Loud intends to pre-;
his bill for a Hawaiian cable. He wi
/ make strong effort to induce tn
, Speaker to give time for its consider
, alton Immediately. The bill differ
, from others in that it provides for
| cable to Australia instead of China
The subsidy to Hawaii is $50, 900 wit
Government control for twenty year:
! Loud says he has evidence that Spauld
: ing has the only concession given I
any company by Hawaii to land car
cable ON the islands, and for that res
son introduced Spsulding's bill.
The festival of roses, Pasadena's an
nuAl Hnral disnlnv rol-o,,na o.4l..-.;