The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-23
mTELECRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget OF News For Easy Digestisn-An
Parts of b Country Represented
Interesting Items.

- 2 aO0o Nus Naos 49, WV
So 1000, 600 and fourteen lives.
Henry ". Sage, a Well-knowr
philanthropist Of Ithaca, n. Y, is
dead, aged SO.
Paul de Pierre. formerly yice-Con.
sui Of the French republic at New Or
leans. committed suicide at New York
by inhaling illuminating gas.
In place of the concourse that the
ocean ruined along the Coney Island
shore front, at New York. an elevated
e~splanade to cost $50. 600, is projected.
E. W. Palmer of the Cleveland.
Ohio, Window Glass Company, says a
gigantic trust will be formed to put up
prices as high as the tariff will permit.
Five men were instantly killed and
three were badly injured in a head
end collision of freight trains on the
Wisconsin Central Railroad near
Howard, Wis.
Gen. John W. Foster is now arrang.
ing for the International conference of
seal experts in Washington. which will
take place some time in October. The
japanese Government will send repre-.
sentatives.
Gen. b. V. Boyrton, president of
the Chicamauga- Chattanooga Park
commission, announces that the State
tion of two more handsome monuments
on the Missionary Ridge battlefield to
cost $4,000 each.
Reports from the Ohio Valley show
the hottest September weather on re-
cord. The temperature at Cincinnati,
for the past eight days, has averaged
above 80 degrees, according to the
Weather Bureau, the hottest weather
in September for many years,
The establishment of a National
I Board Of Health with power to enforce
} sanitary measures throughout the oun
} try and to regulate m in times
, of epidemic, the head of which shall
be a Cabinet officer. is advocated by
Commissioner Of Health Reynolds.
The President has been asked to
provide means for alternating the dis
tress which is bound to be felt in Alas
kan mining camps during the coming
winter, and the matter has already
! been brought before the cabinet,
though no definite action has yet been
! taken.
The farmers along Taylors Bayou in
jefferson County, Texas. are the heav'
lest losers from the terrible storm
there. The rice crop was the largest
in years and was ready for harvesting
. but hundreds of acres were totally de,
: stroyed, the loss being estimated a,
$3.50, 900.
Percy w. Smith is dead of hear
disease at Guthrie. Okla. having died
while sitting on his front porch, ant
n when in apparent good health. HI
. was the only clerk Of Woods county
and served as private secretary to Gov,
Renfrew dur ing the latter's admins
' tratioD.
Acting upon the request of the Bee
=. Rotary of Agriculture the Treasury De
' partment has requested the Secretary
of State to instruct all consular off GER
Of the United States to refuse authsn
t~ication of invoices of hides of mea'
9 cattle from districts in which anthra,
r exists.
A private letter from Toxic, Japan
announces the arrival in that city o.
Senators Cannon and P%ettigrew and ex
= Senator Dubois. The letter states tina
q arrangements have been made for an
interview with the Emperor on the
silver questionable principal purpos,
of the Senatorial visit TO the Orient.
1t is probable that within a few day
. Acknowledgement McKenna will an
= nounce the curse the government will
pursue with reference to the decree Of
foreclosure in the case of the Unior
Pacific Railroad. 1t can be said upor
> good authority that the chances are
very strongly against the government
. appealing from the decree.
: The Treasury Department has ruled
that spruce scantling two by three
inches in dimensions. planed on one
} of the narrow sides, is properly subject
TO the additional duty of 30 cents pei
: 1000 feet provided for in paragraph
; 1876 of the new tariff act, This add.
tional duty covers the planting of any
lumber on n side.
A conspiracy to smuggle large guam.
titles of phenaoatine, in which several
prominent druggists ofsNew York City
are said to be involved, was nipped by
the seizure of 400 ounces of the drug
in a saloon-keepers box in Hoboken.
Great restrictions are placed around
the Importation of the drug, and the
tariff upon it is heavy.
E. q. McLepnith, of Phoenix, Ariz.,
has filed with the Territorial Secretary
notice of intention to build local rail-
way lines approximating $40 miles in
length in the northwestern part of the
Territory, the mail line being from
Kingmap to Whitebills Camp. A. E.
Root and several other capitalists in
terested in Whitehills mines are stated
to be behind the project.
The great miners strike, which was
declared on July 4. has been brought
to an end. so far. at least, as Western
Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and West
Virginia are concerned, by the action
of the convention of miners in session
at Columbus. After a day Of voting
and wrangling, the convention voted
to accept the proposition of the Pitts
burg operators. The vote was 495 for
and 317 against accepting the terms of
settlement, and II votes we're not cast.