The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-10
TELECRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS
Selections That VIII Greatly Interest
Our READERS Both Old
and Young.

The old Tombs prison in the city Of
New York is being torn down.
Forest fires are destroying valuable
timber in the Michigan peninsula.
The last estimates reduce the acreage
in wheat 100000 below last year.
The losses by the Mississippi floods
are now estimated at $l4, 10000
Governor Black of New York has
vetoed graduated Inheritance tax bill.
The Colorado legislature has passed
bill prohibiting blacklisting and boy
cotting.
The internal revenue receipts for
ten months to May 1st aggregated
$122, $50, 404.
A New Jersey court recently held
that hardware is not baggage to be
carried by railroad.
On the 22d of July, a monument to
the memory of General John A. Logan
will be unveiled in Chicago.
General Bliss, just made a major
general, will ask to be retired under
the forty-year service law.
The new dry dock in the Brooklyn.
N. Y, navy yard is disabled, and it
will cost $4,000 to repair it.
The Union Iron and Steel Company
at Youngstown, Ohio. has reduced the
wages of many of its employees.
The Balknap Savings Bank at La.
coma, New Hampshire, has failed
with about 81, 100000 due depositors.
DIR. Benjamin Eddy Getting, for
fifty.five years curator of the Lowell
(Mass.) Institute, is dead, at the age
of 70.
One John Ginzburg wants the United
States to collect of Russia for him $50, :
900 for damages by bad treatment by
Russian officials.
Governor Black of New York has
signed bill to give a subsidy not
exceeding one cent pound to manu-
facturers of beet sugar
The State National Bank of Logans.
port, Ind, has been closed by National
Bank Examiner George B. Caldwell.
The deposits amount to 100000.
The Federal court IN Omaha has re-
fused to interfere with an order prev
iously made requiring the Union Pa
cific and Western Union companies to
separate their telegraph lines.
A special to the Lewiston, Me-,
Journal from touchdown, says that
Caswell's Mills have been blown up.
Four men were killed and several in
jured. The mill is total wreck and
the loss is heavy.
About 200 electricians in Milwaukee,
Wis, are on strike because contractors
refuse to grant their demand of 311
cents as the minimum wage scale pei
hour, eight hours to constitute day
work for journeynen.
The most important work of the last
special session of the House and Senate
of Kentucky was the election of al
United States Senator. the passage o.
an anti .mob and of bills to raise more
revenue to decrease the enormous State
debt.
Reports by wire to Topeka, Kansas
from twenty of the principal wheat
growing counties of the State indicate
that this years crop is in splendit
condition. Early rains gave the plan
a good start, and recent showers have
greatly helped the outlook.
1t is said the Governor will imme
diately call special session of tn,
Legislature to pass maximum freight
rate law. avoiding the defects of tn,
present law, which it is reported til,
Supreme Court at Washington viii
announce to be unconstitutional.
The Cobb Divinity School of Lewis
ton. Me-. has just graduated the frs
native African in the history of the
school. Louis Pennick Clinton,
native-born African, the hereditary
king Of the Bassa tribe, has been mad
a minister of the Free Baptist Church
1t is announced in Cleveland, Ohio
that John ID. Rockefeller has issued al
edict against Sunday labor by the mel
employed on his ore docks on the uppe
and lower lakes. While the men ar
expected to respond to calls to load o
unload vessels at any hour of the da,
or night, they will not be asked t
work between midnight Saturday an,
midnight Sunday.
The Supreme Court of Indiana ha
finally overruled Helen Cougar
famous suit in Indianapolis to secur
for women the right to vote in In
diana. The case was one that attracte
much attention among the progressiv
women of the United States, and tn
result, although not unexpected,
yet something of disappointment t
them.