The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-30
TELECRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS
Selections That VIII Greatly Interest
Our Readers Beth Old
ana Young.

A Baptist preacher and rabbi of
Chicago. have made arrangements by
which they will preach in the same
edifice.
Work has been resumed in a number
of the coal mines of Pennsylvania and
the general feeling is for an early re-
sumption.
Senator George L. Wellington re-
signed the Craftsmanship of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee Of
Maryland.
The heaviest rain ever kno IN to
Central Arizona fell recently. the pre-
cipitation for single hour being near
ly two inches.
Yellow fever is epidemic in several
of the Southern States. and every pre-
caution is being taken to prevent the
spread of the plague.
]. s. Smith, colored nominee for
a uadetship at Annapolis. failed to ap-
pear for examination, and has lost his
chance for appointment.
Adjutant General Ruggles has re.
tired from active service at the age
limit Of ga years. Hs will be sue
ceeded by General Sam Beck
1t is reported that the New York,
American and United States Biscuit
Companies have formed trust with a
capital stock of thirty millions.
The standard Oil Company will be-
gin war against the Puerto Oil Com,
pany of Los Angeles. The latter says
it is prepared to meet all outs in
prices.
w. II. Wallace, of Hammondsville
Ohio, the Oldest postmaster in the
country, is dead. He was appointed
by President Jackson in 1880 and had
served continuously since.
The will of the late Charles T.,
Wilder, of Wellesley, Mass, has been
probated and leaves over $1,000 to
be divided among charitable and ben
evolent institutions.
1t is proposed to remove the collec-
tion of relics of General Grant from the
National museum at Washington to
the large room in the mausoleum at
New York. designed for the purpose.
The collections of baggage of incom-
ing passengers at New York during last
month was $46.S92, against 51.081
during August of last yeaI-an in
crease under the new tariff of $31 ,SI1.
The Treasury Department figures of
immigration for the month of July
show total immigration into the
United States of 1856. against a.
476 for the corresponding month last
year.
The postoffice department has de-
cided to recommend that carriers in
free delivery offices be decorated with
stripe on their sleeves for every five
years of service. The plan originated
in Chicago,
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
notified customs collectors that Chi.
nese laborers who leave this country
under the existing treaty with China
must land at the port from which
they departed.
At ventor, Isle of Wright, Colonel
q ustav Pabst, a son Of the Milwaukee
millionaire brewer. was married re.
Gently to Miss Hulda Lemp, daugh tel
of the millionaire brewer, W. j. Leml
Of St. Louis.
r. r. Eckert, the Oldest conductor
ON the Wabash railroad, is dead al
Moberly. Mo-, from injuries received
by falling from his train. He was
over 20 years old, and had been con-
duotor since 1855.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
given authority to the Nee Lee Way
Village Company to bring into this
country 800 Chinese to take part in the
Transmississippi and International Elk.
position at Omaha, Neb., next year.
The American liner st. Paul has
again reduced her time between New
York and Southampton. She has
lowered her record below that of the
last trip by about an hour and a half.
The time of her passage was about Q
days, IL hours and Z minutes.
A leaky gas main at Broad Ripple,
Indiana, caused a terrible disaster at
that place. The Easements of several
buildings were filed with gas, which
was exploded by a lighted match,
killing six persons and seriously iujur-
ing thirty. in addition to laying an
entire block in ruins.
1t is announced by the Pocatello,
Idaho, Tribune, that twelve of the
chiefs of the Shoshones and Bannock
Indians Of the Fort Hall Reservation
have signed treaty for the sale OF
100, 900 acres of the southern end of
the reservation for "a per acre. or in
round figures for 100000. This
will open up the southern end of the
reservation to public settlement.
Jim Ballard, Pat Largee and twelve
other chiefs representing the Bannock
and Shoshone Indians of the Fort Hall
reservation in Idaho. Me-. met and
SA6AASu uoaby iOE bnO sdtO VI aUOut
100000 acres of the southern portion
Of the reservation for 81 pei acre.
The land oeded by the Indians includes
valuable agricultural and mineral
lands extending some thirty miles
north and south of that city. In the
event of the treaty being ratified by
Congress. the Indians say they will
sell the residue of the surplus lands.
The greatest depth yet attained in
the mines at Randsburg is by the
Wedge Company, which is down 365
feet. Assays of the ore from that level
run 500 to $l07, There is very fav,
orable change in the character of the
ore. as 1T is now running largely in
sulphurets. This development indi-
Gates permanenoy of the ore bodiea.
William II Enulish hos ratuvuod