The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-01
RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS.
Selections That VIII Greatly Interest
Our Readers Both Old
and Young.

A scarlet flag has been adopted as
the official standard of the Secretary
of War.
The mineral lands bill. which failed
of passage by the late Congress, is 10
be reintroduced at once at the extra
session this month.
The first cargo of steel rails and
locomotives from this country for
Japan is now being loaded on the
British steamer Fortuna at Philadel-
phia.
The appearances now are that Greece
will refuse to yield, notwithstanding
the demands of the rest of Europe, and
war between Greece is almost inevi-
table.
Many of the cotton mills in Eastern
Canada have decided to curtail produc-
ton until the market improves. Sew
eral hundred employees are affected
The Storthing, the legislative assem-
bly, of Norway, has unanimously de-
cided to appoint a committee Of nine
to consider the question of entering
into treaties of arbitration with foreign
countries and to submit proposals.
A great Bourbon trust formed by all
the manufacturers of Bourbon whisky,
is the latest trust rumor. One hun
dred and fifteen distilleries represent
ing capital to the amount of $50, OOO,-
O0o, are in the organization.
Governor Black of New York has
signed the knockout drops" bill,
which rules it a felony for person
other than licensed druggist or phyl-
clan TO have in his possession or to ad-
minister to any person drug or narco-
I tic
Considerable opposition to the course
/ of the government has been stirred up
IN Germany III the matter of its inter-
/ ference with affairs in the island of
Crete. A prominent official says that
the interests of Germany are in nowise
involved in the Orient, and that the
present course of the government can
only make her enemies.
News recently received at Brass.
on the west coast of Africa.
that the French force, numbering
400 men, under white omcers
which was occupying the town of
Boussa, has been confirmed. The
officials of the british Niger Company
are considering the question of repell-
ing, by force this incursion into the
territory which has long been recog-
nized as being within the British
sphere.
The stockholders of the Madison
square Garden Company of New York
have decided to advertise for bids for
the sale Of the property in whole or in
part, as 1t has been an elephant on
their hands ever since its erection in
1890. In 1892 and 1898 it paid ex-
penses, but it has never made a profit.
If no good offer is received the build
ing, costing $1,000, 900, may be torn
down and rebuilt with more profitable
structures
just at u time when photographers
had almost abandoned hope of ever dis
covering a really practicable process of
color-photography, report to the State
Department from United States Con-
sul.General Mason at Frankfort, Ger
many gives description of means of
doing this IN manner so simple and
inexpensive as to be available to eyery
photographer. The process is the dis.
covery Of Chasagne Persian saveant
and is purely chemical.
Superintendent ]. j. Dickey of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
says the decree divorcing the Union
Pacific from the Western Union will
affect the main line of the Union Pa.
cltic to Ogden, the Kansas and Denver
line and all parts of the system whose
construction was in any way aided by
the Government. The Western Union
Will now have to cut its wires out of
the Union Pacific stations and take ont
Its instruments or sell them to the
railroad company. 1t can have no
operator in common with the railroad
company. Up town offices at points
reached by the railroad will be main
tanned, but the Western Union win
withdraw from all stations where the
commercial business is not considerable
enough to pay for the maintenance of
separate offices. At these stations the
business will have to be handled ex.
ciuslvely by the railroad telegram
company.