The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-13
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed TeIegraphic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget Of News For Easy DigestiSn-All
Parts OF the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

MdbOu o NODDt bnOc mduuldCbuIcIc
of Auburn. Maine, have assigned.
Liabilities, $50, 900; assets, $4,000.
Wages Of employees on the Union
Pacific railroad have been reduced, the
reduction amounting to about 30 per
cenC of their former wages.
Preparations are being made to start
the tube mills Of the Oil Well Supply
Company at Pittsburg, Pa, Fifteen
hundred men will be employed.
The wholesale grocery house of
Noyes, Hubbard & Co.. at Charleston,
W. Va, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, $125, 900, with an insurance of
$40, 900.
1t has developed that the big coal
selling combination Of the anthracite
railroads is only part Of vast project
for the conrol of the entire coal indus
try i'll the East.
Marcus Nassauer, a young man liv-
ing in Clayton, suburb OF st. Louis,
shot his sweetheart, Miss Katie Dosen-
bach, daughter of an ex-Sheriff, and
then blew out his own brains.
The towboat Hotspur went over the
dam at lock No. ON the Monongahela
river, at Pittsburg, Pa, and was COM
pletely wrecked. The crew of eleven
men were rescued with difficulty.
Three desperate men who plotted to
kidnap DIR. d. 7. Potter, a wealthy
citizen and ex-Mayor of Memphis,
Tenn, in order to force him to sign a
check for 81 &, 900, are under arrest.
Will and John Livingston, brothers,
of Blue Creek mines, Alabama, quar-.
relied over trivial matter while drink.
ing and the former shot the latter to
death. The murderer is Is years old.
Two prisoners, Frank Barbain and
Harry McCallum, colored, attempted
suicide at about the same time in the
penitentiary at Caldwell, N. j. Nc
Callum is dead. Barbain will recover
James w. Allen of the Taking firm
of Winslow & Allen, Worcester, Mass. =,
died recently in that city of pneu-
monia, aged 81 years. He was United
States Consul at ZANZIBAR from 1892 to
1895.
The Missouri Electric Light and
Power Company ana the Edison Elec-
trical Company have consolidated at
st. Louis, Mo. The new concern will,
it is stated, issue 81, OOO,O 900 of gold.
bearing bonds.
Harry English, prisoner in the Jail
at Ysieta, Tex, was burned to death
at that place. He attempted to burn
his way out of Jail, and the wooden
structure was burned before he could
be rescued.
The business houses in the center of
st. Louis, Mo-, were shaken to their
foundations by an explosion of dynam-
lite used in trying to raise the sunker
towboat Dolphin, which went down
during the tornado.
The Queen mine has closed down at
Negaunee, Mich, indefinitely, throw.
ing 900 men out of employment. In
case the company can induce owners
to reduce the royalties, operations will
probably be resumed.
James Noble, who was private score.
tary to United States Senator Thomas
Corwin, died recently in Cincinnati,
; Ohio, of old age. For the last thirty
years he had been the confidential
bookkeeper of the Longworth estate in
this city.
While skating at Rlfton, New York,
on Waikiki creek, New York, Mrs. v.
Vanberger, aged 80 years, broke
through the ice. Edward McMichael
went to her rescue, crawling along
the ice, but the ice broke under him
and he was recipitated into the water.
Both were drowned.
Grace and Annie Mason, whose ma.
rents live near Franklin, Pa, were left
alone in their home during the even.
ing. The former fell into the CRATE
fire and her clothing ignited. She was
burned to death. In trying to save
the life of her sister, Annie was also
badly burned, ard 1t is believed she
cannot recover.
A. G. Allison of Sunbury, Pa, con.
vioted last March of fraudulent use o,
the mails and sentenced to serve eiph.
teen months in the eastern peniten.
tiary, hes been pardoned by President
Mckinley as a Christmas gift. 1t is
feared that the pardon came too late as
Allison is lying in the hospital of the
penitentiary critically i'll from con.
sumption.
The g-standing differences be.
tween O'Brien & Clark and Brown.
Howard q Co., contractors for the new
Croton aqueduct, in New York, over
money claimed for extra work ON the
aqueduct, have been settled by the
Corporation Council, the contractors
accepting voluntary Judgment Of
100000 from the city, in return 70,
which they agree to relinquish all
claims. which in the aggregate
amounted to $40, 900.
Judge Jones of Stockton has denied
the motion for new trial in the sui,
OF harry Vizleich against the Southern
Pacific Company. Vizelich was given
verdict for $4,000 for the loss of .
leg while engaged in helping on a
train at the depot. The defendant de.
MED that Vizelich was employed BY
any one authorized to employ help on
the road. Judge Paterson of San
Francisco won the verdict six months
ago.
| Elghty per cent of the edge tool
manufacturers in the United States
have consolidated their interests. and
have agreed for the erection of new
plant near Chartrui, about forty miles
south OF Pittsburg, Pa. The concern
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