The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-01-07
TELECRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget Of News For Easy DigestiOn-Al
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

There has been big fire in st. Paul.
with loss Of nearly $500, 900.
The strike of the Indiana miners,
which has been on since May, is over.
There is no foundation for the story
that Senator Sherman is to be Secre-
tary of State.
Mayer Herzog. a jewelry drummer,
was recently robbed Of $4,000 worth
of diamonds in Boston.
Fire at Cambridge, Mass, has de-
stroyed four large business blocks. The
loss is about $4,000.
Prominent New Workers. believe that
Congress should not be hasty in recog-
nizing the Cuban insurgents.
Liebler & Mass, photographers and
printers Of New York City, have
failed for $50, 900. Their assets are
half of that amount.
A new process has been found, by
which cornstalks can be made to yield
81 a ton and give an income of $780,
600, 900 a year to Western farmers.
Miss Barton, President of the Red
Cross Society, was the guest of honor
one evening at the Red Cross Bazaar,
held at the Waldorf Hotel, New York.
William Lyman, Of Middlefield,
Conn, the inventor and manufacturer
of the Lyman gunsight, in use all over
the world. died in New York recently
FROM, pnaumonia
Fire has destroyed the Allen Theater
building at Albany and George streets
and four adjoining stores in New
Brunswick, New Jersey. The loss will
probably aggregate 100000.
Ex-Oongressman Roswell G. Horr,
of Plainsteld, N. Y, is dead, after an
illness of two weeks with bronchitis
and Brights' disease. He was first
stricken after finishing his speech
making in the late Presidential CAM
paign.
A family of five persons were burned
to death few nights ago, in their
home, IA East Fifty eighth street,
New York. The dead are: Araon
Goldsmith 40 years old, wholesale
liquor dealer; Mrs. Katilda Goldsr
SO years; Bertha Goldsmith, 10
Hattie Goldsmith, 8 years; Ak
Goldsmith, years. The fire vas
caused by the explosion of a piano.
lamp in the parlor.
Tickets to the ball in Washington to
celebrate the Inauguration of President
Mckinley will cost 50 each. This
price has been fixed by the executive
committee. The executive committee
decided to request the Joint Traffic
Association and other railway associa'
tions, which will fix rates to Washing.
ton for the Inauguration, to make the
rates good from February gath to March
18th, so people desiring to visit Wash
/ ington will hive ample time. The
traffic association have already fixeC
special rates from March LIST to 9Th.
The Creah; City, Milwaukee. Wis.
in which will be celebrated Wiscon
sins semi-centennial, bids all tn,
world prepare for view of the chang
ing gardens. I" They will be tn,
browning feature of the great terraceC
structure, semi-circular in form, a
least 1900 feet long. to be built a
the northern extremity of the beautl
full Milwaukee bay. Surrounded by
the splendid residences of Milwaukee
wealthy men, the structure will b.
the central edifice of an exposition
which is expected to eclipse in novelt,
and magnitude anything of a simila
nature ever undertaken, the World
Fair excepted. The hanging garden
will be patterned after those of ancien
Babylon.
The National Bank of Illinois, il
Chicago, generally considered one o
the strongest financial institutions il
the West, has closed its doors, tn
failure dragging down three other con
cerns-E. S. Dreyer & Co., Wasmans
dorff, Heineman & Co. and the Rose
land Bank. The failure of the Ma
tional Bank of Illinois was due to tn
fact that its entire capital of So, 900, 90
and 100000 over and above its sur
plus of $500, 900, had been loaned o.
} Calumet Electric Railway stock. Fiv
hundred thousand dollars was loane
! to Dreyer 81 Co., who had spread thei
} capital out so extensively that the
were unable to concentrate it in tim
to save themselves. The other failure
/, were due to the locking up of asset
held by the National Bank of lllinoi
and which were not available whel
that institution closed its doors.
The New York journal says: U
and down Wall street. that financia
world wherein men are content to wi
or lose princes ransoms on the strengt
of rumoI untraced and untraceable
there is strong belief that the grea
Gould fortune, built to its colossal siz
by Jay Gould, who worked an
schemed so ably, is breaking up at las
and that the properties which delighte
his thrifty soul are sinking under
hammering produced by lack of conf
dence. These properties are in severs
railroads In which the family hav
vast interests. Some of them the
control absolutely. For long tim
the public is said to have made EN-
phatic its loss of confidence, and Their
has been a gradual decline all alon
the line of the Gould securities
There has been such tide setting il
against them that the bear interest ha
added its hammering in most un
kindly fashion. and the result has BEEF
startling.
1t has been reported in financia
circles in New York that the purchas
of the Mountain and Rathbun iro,
mines in the Messaba Range. Mime
sota. by the Carnegie Steel Cnmnan,