The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-29
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports OF
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget Of News For Easy DIgestion-AIl
Parts of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

The Exchange Bank at Edmore
Michigan. has failed.
Chicago wheelmen so. 900 strong pro- /
pose organizing a political party.
An oil stove explosion at Beaver, I
Pa, causes loss of over $50, 900 worth |
of property.
The first Quakers' church ever estab-
lished IN Denver was opened there re-
Gently.
The Senate Of the Connecticut Legis- !
lature rejected proposed bill to grant
divorce for incurable insanity.
New rules are to be agreed upon be-
tween the United States and Spain
regarding naturalized citizens.
The navy department will withdraw
several ships from active service. saw
ing million and half dollars.
A pair Of ladies' boots can be turned
out complete in twenty minutes by one
of the large factories in Lynn Mass.
Electricity has been adopted as the
motive power of the machinery con-
nected with the drainage system in
New Orleans.
The report of the secretary of agri-
culture, puts the worlds wheat crop
for 1896 at 2,42S, 1893, 900, or 11S, 000,-
900 less than in 1895.
The town Of Guthrie, in Oklahoma,
is almost completely destroyed, the
result of terrific storm. Many lives
have been lost, and many people in
jured.
The schooner Charley Hastings is be.
lieved to have foundered in Long
Island sound, New York, and the
crew. consisting of six men, is thought
to have been drowned.
The owners of a Colorado sawmill
started well to supply water for
their engine. and. at depth Of SIX
teen feet, struck pay ore, and will
have a mine instead Of we'll.
The proposal to establish the State
Of Manhattan. including, within its
boundaries the territory now included
in the greater city of New York. is
before the New York legislature.
The North Carolina House of Repre-
sentatives has passed q bill requiring
all teachers in the public schools to
read aloud to their pupils at least twice
each year the Constitution of the
United States.
A company has purchased large
farm in Illinois which will DO used
entirely for the raising of cats for the
fur which they will produce. The
skins will sell for from ten to fifteen
cents each.
The lower house of the Tennessee
Legislature has passed bill making
whitecapping committing outrages or
lawless acts) felony, punishable by
not less than three nor more than
twenty lone years imprisonment.
Recent advices from Washington
are that the Wichita country owned
and occupied by the Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache Indians in Oklahoma Ter
ritory, will be opened by May lst.
The gold and silver excitement i'll the
Wichita mountains has drawn hun
dreds on the border of this new couu.
try.
The gunboat Wilmington on hel
official trial trip on the government
course ON Long Island Sound, made q
speedy trial of over fifteen knots al
hnur Har rocu;ran,ant xuas th;rkaar
knots, and the ship thus earns bonu:
of SAC, 900 for her builders, the New
port News Ship Building and Dry Docl
company.
A New York Herald special from
Caracas says: Jacob Schmed, agent fol
Harry Clews and other bankers, ha.
secured from the Government con
tract. by the terms of which American
financiers will control the telegraph
lines of Venezuela for thirty years
The concession. which is of grea
value, will enable the syndicate t
construct cable. telegraph and tele
phone systems in all parts of tn,
J country.
Western railroads are in troubl,
over rates for the Christian Endeavo
convention to be held in San Francis
co. The rate heretofore made will
the Endeavor people is knocked out b,
the Chicago Supreme Court decision
and the general passenger agents o
the Western roads have been consider
iug proposition made by the Southern
Pacific. Unless an understanding cal
be reached Western roads threaten
to make one-wav rate from Chicag,
to che Missouri River of So. and Mis-
. souri, River to Denver So.
There are now three breaks in tn
, levees that protect the Mississippi delt
from the waters of the river. One i
seven miles below Greenville, Miss,
at Wayside, which is 1900 feet wide
one forty miles north of Greenville. q
the head of the delta. which Is 100
feet wide and becoming deeper an
longer as the water rushes through il
The third occurred seven miles mort
of point opposite Arkansas City, an
at last reports stream as wide rs tn
J Hudson was tearing through it an
covering the country for miles in tn
interior. The river from the north b
the south break ia like mighty cres
cent, with Greenville, Gunnison an,
many other small towns between tn
arc and its chord. which is the rive
! side division of the Yazoo and Missis
sippi Valley Railroad.