The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-08
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
BadEet Of News For Easy Digestion-All
Parts of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.


Interesting Items.
The st. Paul, Mimi, Pillow Works
assigned to c. NJ. Power. Assets,
800, 900; liabilities, unknown.
The trouble between the Cleveland
Shipbuilding Company and its en-
ployes over the wage scale has been
settled.
Tuain-wrecking has been made a
capital offense by the Alabama Legisla-
tu1e. This action was suggested by
the recent throwing Of train from a
bridge at Cahaba.
The National Rubber Works at Bris-
toll. r. l., will be abandoned and the
works transferred 30 the Alice mill of
the Woonsocket Rubber Company in
Woonsocket. r. !.
The Nebraska Senate has passed a
bill providing for the greater safety Of
depositors in State banks by assessing
a tax of one-half of per cent on all
deposits, to be used as sinking fund
in case Of failure.
Owing to the dissatisfaction among
the miners with the price in bitumin-
Gus coal regions the men at Dudley,
Pa, have gone on a strike. About 500
men are affected by the strike, which
involves the collieres of Reed, Sweet,
Ficheiberger and Hicks.
Ryan & Clark's elevator at the foot
of Ferry street, Buffalo, N. Y, has
been destroyed by fire. The loss on
the elevator is $4,000; contents,
$4,000. A floating elevator, also
owned by Ryan & Clark, and valued
at $4,000, was destroyed.
The factories of the Peck, Stowe ~
Wilcox Company of Southington,
Conn.,, manufacturers of general hard
ware, have shut down indefinitely.
The Aetna Company's works and roll
ing mills are also at standstill, and
the works of the Southington Cutlery
Company are running ON short time.
A recent patent claims to replace
the old-fashloned leather horse blinkers
by squares of celluloid. The latter are
semi-transpareat. and while not en-
tirely shutting out side view, serve
the purpose of preventing shying. The
celluloid blinker has, says Hide aud
Leather, attracted favorable attention
in Germany, where it is being brought
out.
There are now forty State colleges
in the United States having an attend
ance of about 1900 students. Minne-
sofa educates the largest number, 3014,
at State expense, Michigan being next
with 1878, followed by Wisconsin with
1900, Nebraska with 1906, Iowa with
1900 and Illinois with 100. Tuition
fees are charged in only six States, the
fee in North Carolina being $50, in
South Carolina $40. in Iowa $25, in
Missouri $40, in Oregon $40 and in
South Dakota SO.
One young woman was burned to
death and another probably fatally hurt
in fire which destroyed the residence
of William Spear, 3643 Vernon
avenue, Chicago. Mr.. Spear, who is
an invalid, was rescued by neighbors,
and his three children barely had time
to escape from the building before the
roof fell. Barbara Newman, the
eighteen-year-old niece of Mr.. Spear.
was imprisoned on the top floor of the
building and her body burned to
crisp. Rosa Mayfield, the sixteen year
old niece of Mr.. Spear. jumped from
the second-story window, and was
burned about the hands and face and
internally injured. She may recover.
Mrs. William Spear was burned about
the hands and face.
Bids for repairs to the lighthouse
tender ManZanita of the Thirteenth
lighthouse district have been opened
at the Lighthouse Board, Washington.
The Risdon Iron and Locomotive
Works Of San Francisco bid $24.475.
The lowest bid was from the Astoria
Iron Works of Astoria, Or, SIS, 800,
to be completed in three months.
The contract was awarded to them.
The postal receipts for the San Fran
CISCO office for February last were
500, 800, while for the corresponding
period last year they were but sos,
gag. This shows an increase of S25s
In this years receipts over those for
last year. San Francisco was one of
several cities out of total of thirty
whose receipts showed an increase.
Violent storms are reported from the
northwest; the fiercest blizzard in
many winters occurring in Minnesota.
In the south the valley of the lower
Mississippi is vast inland sea and
death. desolation and distress are
spreading. The heavy rainfall of the
past fortnight and consequent floods
are the TO-. sdiate causes of the fright
fui swell in the rivers. Mississippi
county is virtually at the mercy of the ,
raging torrent. 1t is believed that ,
many persons have persisted in the ,
vicinity OF Nodena, Arkansas. Twenty. !
nve negroes are reported drowned in
bushy canyon. For miles and miles
west OF Memphis every home has been
abandoned. The break in the leyee is 7
widening. Six hundred people have \
'een brought to Memphis from Crit. {
enden county, many in state of star. i
'afion. When rescued women were n
ound in water up to their waists. t
several stories are told of death and r
|esoiation. 9
The Southern California Railway y
company have made arrangements =
nth Jules Kaufman & Co. to erect a :
lrge grain warehouse at Alessandro. :,
handle the immense grain crop from :,
at section. The warehouse will .
I've q capacity of $4,000 sacks Of y
ain. -
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