The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-12-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Latest quotations are Lead, New
'ork brokers, 90. so; Silver, 565.


York brokers, $50; Silver, 565.
Lavigne and Critic were booked to
meet at Oakland in a fifteen round con-
test, Wednesday.
A heavy snowatorm in Texas has
done great havoc among the cattle of
that state.
Miss Leila Herbert, daughter of Ex-
Secretary Herbert, in a moment of dis
pondency committed suicide last Tues
day by jumping from the third story
window of her home in Washington.
The statement of the condition of
the U. S. Treasury made on Wednes-
day shows an available cash balance of
1921, 25a, 239, and a gold reserve of 1853, :
sos, 032.
The thirty third degree III Scottish
Rite Masonry was conferred upon eight
candidates al Topeka, Kansas, last
week. This is the first time that this
degree has been conferred west of the
Missouri River.
Joseph Ladue, the pioneer of the
Klondike, vas married last week to the
sweetheart to whom he became engag-
ed when he was a poor man. The fort
innate young lady was Miss Kittie Ma
son, of Schuyler Falls, New York.
Prosperity in the East is being her.
aided by a general reduction of 10 per
cent in the wages of the operatives in
the great cotton mills of New England.
A strike of about IL, 900 employees OF
w mills at Fall River, Massachu-
sets, is threatened.
An unsuccessful attempt to bride in
surgent Col. Aranguren cost Colone
Ruiz, an Adiutant of General Blanco,
his life. He had been warned not to &c
to the insurgent camp on such an er.
rand and took his life into his own
hand.
Two of the missing boats and thirteen
of the crew of the wrecked steamer
Cleveland were picked up by the steam.
er Quadra about forty miles north Of
the scene of the wreck. Geo. Garlic,
a waiter died of exposure and the bal.
ance of the men had suffer d greatly.
fI'hn nf hon hnnf anfnfnt1,sa 80 nh, ,na,,
has not yet been heard from and was
probably lost.
Dial. Hawkins put out Eddie Connolly
in II rounds at the Mechanics Pavilion
in San Francisco last week, Thursday.
Owing to reports that the fight was to
be a fake, not more than 1000 specta.
tors gathered to see the contest. 1t is
not likely that another fight will be ar.
ranged by the Knickerbocker Club
right away, owing to the lack oil pub.
lie support.
Two murders in n day was the
record of San Francisco and Oakland
last week. On the saline day that Mrs.
Clute was murdered in San Francisco,
Patrick Murphy was shoO down by an
unknown assassin at his own door in
Temescal, a suburb of Oakland, at 8:15
in the evening. Frederick Uhl, an in-
sane man living with his parents in the
vicinity was suspected of the crime
but succeeded in making his escape UNI
til Friday when he was unprecedented
by the officers and placed in jail. He
has made a full confession of the crime.
Lii Hung Chang and his big empire
are rapidly going to pieces. The Ger
mans have made good their position at
Kaiochau, on the coast of Shantung,
the Russians have seized Port Arthur,
the strongest naval station on China's
coast, and now England and France are
looking for their share. 1t is rumored
that the Japanese and English are plan
ming to occupy Wei-Hai-Wei Jointly.
Should this result in a tug-of-war be-
tween the nations of Europe, it is hard
to predict which would be successful.
but one thing is sure, China would be
pulled to pieces in the melee.
The New York World of Wednesday
of this week publishes a threat of Sena-
tor Wolcott of Colorado to resign his
seat in the Senate providing the ad-
ministration supports Secretary Cages
bill eor currency reform and his Gold
bug utterances. Either President Nc
Kinley and Secretary Gage are at var
lance, or Mr.. Wolcott and his sympath-
izers are utterly deceived as to the
Presidents attitude. 1t is to be hoped
that the Senator will not resign, but
return to his old place as an advocate
of the free and unlimited coinage of sill
e by this country alone, where he be-
longs.
Cyanide Shipment from Phoebe.
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