The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-18
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.

Hiram g. Truesdale, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Arizona, died
recently in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Snug Harbor" Home at New
York is being Investigated on charges
Of irregularity in the management.
Chicago proposes to build drainage
sewer that will carry as large a body of
water as the Ohio river. and that will
cost $50, 900. 900.
About $50 employees of +. A. Bach
mans dress goods factory at Philadel-
phia. Pa, are on strike for an advance
of 10 per cent in wages.
President Mckinley has issued the
annual Thanksgiving Day proclama-
tion. Thursday, the 25th inst, is de-
signated as the occasion.
The schooner Donna T. Briggs,
suspected Cuban filibuster, has been de-
tanned at Norfolk, Virginia, by order
of the Treasury officials.
The general offices of the Wabash
Railroad of st. Louis, Mo-, have been
burned, entailing loss which the
company places at 100000.
In consequence of the disastrous
news from the Arctic whaling fleet,
whalebone has risen to "a pound in
the New Bedford, Mass, market.
A tremendous gas explosion occurred
in Hartje Brothers warehouse Pitts
burg, Pa. One man was badly burned.
The loss was sixty thousand dollars.
Five miners were burned to death in
attire in the Won Storch coal shaft in
Scranton, Pa, during one night. The
bodies were recovered the next morn
ing.
A heavy northeast gale swept the
Atlantic coast recently, causing a
number of maritime casualties, among
them the wreck of the Italian bark
Francesca, with the loss of one sea.
man.
Henry George the famous leader of
the Single-Taxer and author of PRO
gress and Poverty, died of apoplexy
at New York few days ago. George
was native of Philadelphia, Pa, aged
IS years.
The Judge Advocate General of the
United States Navy, in his annual re-
port, recommends that seamen should
have the same privilege of retirement
after long service as is now enjoyed by
the army
The survey of the Arizona Pacific
Railroad, which was suspended at
Geronimo last September, has been
resumed, and the survey is being made
to the Salt River valley, by way of San
Carlos, Globe and Florence.
Walter H. Houghton, under arrest
at Denver, Colorado, on the charge of
stealing a $1,000 money package, a
few days ago, while acting as postal
clerk, has acknowledged the theft and
returned all but $500 of the money.
A special to the Times from Victor,
CAL, says four Denver laborers were
killed and several others injured by
an explosion of dynamite near that
city. The men we're blasting rock in
grading for the roadbed of the Cripple
Creek district road.
General Miles, of the United States
army, who has recently returned from
tour of Europe, reports TO the War
Department the necessity of large ex.
penditures for the coast defenses of the
country, and considerable increase in
the size of the army.
President Mckinley has appointed
Medical Director W. X. Van Reypen
to be Surgeon General of the Navy, to
succeed Surgeon General Bates, de-
ceased DR.. Van Reypen is at present
a member of the Board of Inspection.
and Survey, which office he has held
since 1894.
The articles of incorporation of a
ship canal to pierce the Florida penin-
sula have been filed in New York
State, the capital being SIS, O0O, 900.
Ths assent of the Tallahassee Leg sla.
ture has been secured and there seems
some possibility of the canal being
built. 1t will be 200 feet wide and
take five years to complete.
Severe storms of rain, snow, and
sleet have seriously interfered with
traffic during the week i'll the States or
Colorado, Kansas. and Nebraska.
Snow plows have been called into SER
vice TO clear the tracks. Much damage
has been done to telegraph and tele-
phone lines, specially in Denver.
General Brooks has come to the res.
cue of Captain Lowering. convicted in
| Chicago, of cruelty treating Private
Hammond because he refused to obey
some petty order. The sentence of
the court martial was that Lowering
should be imprisoned for one year. that
he should forfeit his pay and be dis
honorably discharged. General Brooks
has reduced the sentence to six months
imprisonment and forfeiture of $40
per month.
Cyclist ]. A. Briegel has left Chi
cago bound for Klondike, via FL Paso,
Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seat
tie. A large crowd congregated TO
watch the man start. His wheel, with
outfit, weighs sixty pounds. Briegel
is an honorably discharged United
States soldier, and we'll acquainted
with the country through which he
will have to travel after leaving st.
Louis. He expects to reach Seattle
the middle of February.
Boys celebrating Halowe' en- at Fort