The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-11
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed TelegrapIlic Reports of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget of News For Easy Digestion-AII
Parts OF the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

I police force has resulted in the exon
Grafton of the officers accused of accept.
ing share of stolen securities.
The Fall River Mass Mills have
|, decided to curtail their output about
200 pieces a week for the next
three months by shutting down two
days each week.
! Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of the Ha-
! wRiian Islands, has paid a personal
visit to President Cleveland. 1t was
entirely informal and nothing was
! said about restoration.
The Dodson,Hills Manufacturing
Company of st. Louis has fled chat
tel mortgage for 1000 to secure
) creditors, and the firm is in the hands
of George w. Mercer, trustee.
D A ledge of free-milling quartz has
> been discovered pear Elliston, Mont.
3 that assays 700 to the ton. One pan
of dirt taken from the surface where
the ledge was uncovered washed $44.
Almost an entire block of business
, houses on Water street, the principal
business thoroughfare of Sandusky,
Ohio, has been destroyed by fire. The
losses will aggregate more than $3.50,
900.
The fight between Generals Prince
and Guest for the Brigadier- General
ship of the Iowa National Guard has
been reopened by the act of General
Guest in appointing full list OF staff
officers,
Governor Mount of Indiana has
signed bill directing the Vandalia
Railroad to make an accounting as TO
its alleged debt of about 81, 900. 900
to the State school fund under an old
charter.
A decision handed down by Judge
Coke of the United States Circuit
Court, restores to the Union Pacific
Railroad Company seouri ties worth
1928, 900, which have been tied up
ever since the failure of Field, Lind.
ley, Wiechers & Co., New York, in
1891.
Notice has been given to the en-
ployes of the Illinois Steel Company.
Milwaukee, Wis, that all the mills, /
with the exception of the Merchants
and the Puddle Mills, the latter of
which has been closed for the past two
weeks, will close. This will throw
about 600 men out of employment.
The Senate bill to remove doubts
concerning the jurisdiction of District
Judges has been passed. 1t provides
that District Judge shall have all
the powers of Circuit Judge within
his own district, and also within any
district in which he shall be designated
to hold court during the time limited
by such designation.
A number of prominent colored peo.
pie of Chicago and also of the State
(lllinois) organized THE Civic League
of the State of Illinois, The object
of the league is to get the moral sun.
port of the North to enable the league
to educate its kindred in the South and
to endeavor to get trades unions to raise
the bar they have placed against the
admission of colored men.
Captain j. L. Parkinson died recent.
ly IN Boulder, Montana. He crossed
the plains between Colorado. Califor.
ma and Montana fourteen times. the
first time in 1862. He steamboated ON
the Mississippi south from st. Louis,
and was one of the company who laid
out the townsite cf Denver. He came
TO Montana in 1868, and engaged in
and mining mn To the
time of his death.
The High Court of Pretoria has
decided IN favor of the American engi.
neer. r. +. Brown. who sued the
Government for a declaration of rights
at his favor respecting certain claims
n Wlttontain, or, in default, demand
ing the payment of e1,000,O 900. The
SUIT arose from the Government pro-
flaming Witfontain to be open for
gold mining ON certain day, where. '
ipon Mr.. Brown pegged out large I
Jocks OF claims. But, in the mean q
'lme, the Government withdrew the q
PROCLAMATION and afterward proclaimed l
Nltfontain under the lottery law. {
President Cleveland has issued a
reclamation placing all quarantine b
matters at the port of San Francisco G
nder the charge of the National Gov Il
This is the direct result of t
he conflict which ragged between the a
tate and national authorities, and is t
ne outcome of DIR. Chalmers exercise n
authority as to State control of the
uarantlne service. One result of the !,
mango IN the administration of uuarap- ,,
he regulations will be that the Ma \
onal Marine Hospital Service will =
ave closer surveillance of epidemics =,
IAN before, which is now especially q
eeessary, as the prevalence of the !,
abonlc plague in India has caused n
'tra precautions at Atlantic ports. n
A decidedly stringent anti football
III mas been introduced in the lower b:
'use OF the Legislature, Nebraska. by Ii
peaker John Gaffin, by which re- re
'rters Tor newspapers and even specta. h:
rs are made liable. The bill in sub. W
anoe provides that any person engag- fir
g as participant in a football DC
me shall, upon conviction, be fined a III
m not less than $50 or more than pl
W. or Imprisonment for term not ha
ceedlng three months, or both. tn
lrther, If anyone is concerned as ne
cker, umpire. assistant, reporter or of
'kout he is liable to fine of from lis
TO $40. Another clause in the bill fo,
abies the proper authorities to place
rsons under bond to keep the peace
10 shall be caught training for a :.
'tball game. fift
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