The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-11
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS.
Selections That VIII Greatly Interest
Our Readers Both Old
and Young.

feet vide from Yuma to Nogales is |
still open, as part Of the land will fall |
to Mexico.
A new syndicate of New York men
has been organized to bid on the Union
Pacific in opposition to the Hunting
ton-Gould combination.
w. q. Hitchcock a. Co., of New
York, one of the largest dealers in silk,
have assigned. Their liabilities will
exceed a million dollars.
The executive officers of Western
roads have adjourned their meeting
at Chicago and given up the attempt
to restore freight rates.
The Ute Indians are pouring over
the line from Utah to Colorado in
great numbers to kill deer, and the
settlers threaten to drive them out.
Seventy four wooden buildings, filed
with tobacco. and eight dwelling
houses at Durham, N c., have been
destroyedby fire with loss of $780,
900.
Adam Huffman, large landowner,
living near Bloomfield, Ind, was
choked to death by two masked men
because he would not give up his
money.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has de-
cided that certificates in fraternal in
surance orders, like the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, cannot be as
signed.
The Chicago Record is making a
grand fight toward the establishment
of Postal Savings banks. The senti.
ment of the masses of the people is
with the Record.
Santa Fe road capitalists are looking
into New Mexioo's possibilities in
sugar beet production and will proba-
bly, establish sugar factory at some
point in the central Rio Grande valley.
Maud q. Bagley, clerk in the gen.
eral land office at Washington, ID. O.,
committed suicide by jumping off
Cabin Johns bridge, six miles west of
the city, which spans ravine 125 feet
deep.
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citation team will probably make a
western tour this winter, with games
scheduled with the Butte, Denver,
Stanford, Berkeley. Reliance and Los
Angeles teams.
Attorney General Boyle, of Kansas,
has commenced proceedings to secure
a forfeiture of the charter of the Kan
sss City Stock Yards Company, because
the company maintains its general
offices in Missouri
Assistant Secretary of War Meikle-
john is making tour of inspection Of
military posts in the West, and will
visit the headquarters of the military
departments of Dakota, the Columbia
California and Texas.
The Terre Haute, Ind, Electric
Street Railway Company has gone into
the hands of receiver because of in
ability to pay delinquent taxes amount
ing to $1,000. Russell B. Harrison is
president of the company.
Patrick Callopy and Henry Haight,
employees. were burned to death in a
fire re cently that destroyed an old three
story brick structure on Broadway, in
New York, opposite the big Washing
ton store The loss was $50, 900.
The yellow fever situation at New
Orleans continues to fuctuate, the
number of cases increasing and decreas-
ing at intervals of two or three DAYS.
There are little prospects of cold
weather drying the present month.
At a meeting of the Federation of
Miners at Lafayette, Col, it was de-
cided to close all the mines in this dis
triot unless the operators consent to
the tonnage system Of payment in all
the mines. About 1 200 miners will
be affected.
The Illinois River Improvement As
ISOLATION, with its object to further the
project of deep waterway from Chi
cago to the Mississippi river, held n
convention at Beardstown, Ill. 1t
hopes to influence congress and get an
$4,000, 900 appropriation.
The statistioian of the Inter State
Commerce Commission at Washington
reports that over thirteen billion pas
sengers were carried one mile by the
railways last year. The total mileage
was 1872, 776,000. A hundred and
eighty passengers and 1861 employees
were killed.
Herbert Mulherren, of st. Louis,
Mo-, has invented an engine weighing
but 800 pounds. which will furnish
four and half horsepower and run
ten hours on five gallons of gasoline
Horseless wagons equipped with horse
engines will be put in use by all the
st. Louis breweries.
The entire Pullman estate is said to
be valued at $25. 200, 0eO. 1t is init.
mated that the portion of the estate set
aside for his twin sons, George NJ. and
W. Sanger Pullman. was left in trust,
allowing them an annuity and making
provision for absolute bequest upon the
fulfillment of conditions named in the
will.
A New York Central train loaded
with passengers plunged into the Hud-
son river near Garrison's, Wy, carry
ing 2s persons down to death. while
many 9th srs were injured. The road
bed at the point mentioned had been
undermined by the action of the water,
and this caused the track to give way
under the weight of the train.
A quantity of whisky and beer
placed on the dock at Portland. Oregon,
for shipment to Alaska, has been seized
by Custom officers. Fifty cases
marked Cumberland Home Made
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