The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-17
TELEGRAPHIC news,
Condensed Geographic Repor,s =,
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
Budget of News For Easy Digestian +.
Parts of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

put at hard labor.
From New York on the 25tb ~ u
S2,5OO,O00 of gold was shipped ~
Europe. 'D %
The president has decided to vis;.
the Nashville Exposition on the Ion
of June. 'n
The miners in the Hooking VALLEY
Ohio, mines, are reported IiteralIv
starving.
The Directory Company's animal
census gives Chicago population Of
l 800, 900. VI
In Patterson, N. j., 500 silk weavers
who have been on a strike have re-.
turned to work.
The wheat and oat crops in Indian
territory have been injured by wind
and hailstorms.
The teachers of Chicago protest
against state law providing for mi.
formity of text books.
The Supreme Court has decided
that the interstate railroad commission
has no power to fix rates.
The trustees of the Coates colleoo
for women at Terre Haute, Indiana
have made an assignment.
Thirty five mining claims in the
Black Hills have been sold to AN
eastern syndicate for 81, 500, 900.
Explorer Peary has got a 5.year
leave OF absence from the navy To
continue his arctic explorations.
1t is said the STANDARD Oil trust has
made deal by which it gets control
OF the products of the Los Angeles
wells.
1t is announced that owing IN
scarcity of seamen it will be months
before the new gunboats can be put in
commission.
Philip McElhone, convicted NJ
stealing valuable papers from the cen.
gresslonal library, has been fined in
Washington, 5000.
The Southern Pacific has boupbt for
81 900, 900 the Galveston, Laporte. and
Houston railway, which gives it en-.
trance into Galveston.
The Canadian steamer, Louis Shink.
lun, was sent to the bottom of Lake
Erie, OF Long Point, by collision with
the steamer Tecumseh. The crew es-
capped
One-third of FL Paso, Texas, is sub.
merged, and thousand buildings have
oeen destroyed or injured by the flood
Not less than $500 people are without
shelter
The executive board of the National
Mine workers Association will order
strike of $4,000 men emplyed by the
Lake coal companies, against reduc.
tion of wages.
IL is announced that company of
foreign capitalists has been formed to
engage in beet-sugar manufacturing
on large scale in Illinois, Wisconsin,
and neighboring states.
David Lubin of Sacramento occupied
two hours of the time of the Central
Labor Union of New York the other
day IN favor of export bounties ON
agricultural products.
Jesse Grant has filed a bill with the
comptroller of the city of New York
Tor the expenses of himself and family
IN attending the dedication of his
fathers tomb; amounting to $3.50.
1t is reported that an international
bicycle tube trust has been formed by
the consolidation of the four largest
tube manufacturers in England and
the two tube plants in EIwood and
Greenville, Pennsylvania.
A poem entitled Our Bows" bv
Alice ). Mitchell, author of the Lib.
erty Bell, has been dedicated to Mrs.
U. >. Grant and Mrs. jefferson Davis.
Special permission for the dedication
was granted by the two famous women.
William A. Eddy of New York has
just taken the first double photograph
IN mld-air that has ever been secured.
by this invention Eddy claims that
photograph can be taken at sea which
VIII show ship approaching when it
Is ten miles beyond the horizon line.
Professor Hallook, of Columbia
college, is planning to produce power
from the internal heat of the earth.
Nc mas bored into the earth one mile,
ana hnds the heat increasing as the
smart grows deeper. He expects to
mo- at certain depth, such tenn
perature that he can force water into
'ne smart and have it instantly con-
'erted into steam, to be used for oper-
'ting machinery.
Fruit crops and vegetables are re-
ported considerably damaged by severe
rosts in the Northwest. Snow and
reezlng weather are reported from
Northern Wisconsin and Minnestota.
me wisconsin strawberry crop is OK.
,ected TO be total loss. Corn in
northern and North Central Illinois is
Town by the frost i'll some places. Pc.
atoes must be replanted. Similar re.
'orts come from Northern Indiana.
owa and parts of Michigan.
The Missouri River and Los Angeles
.allway Company, capitalized at $42,-
1V'ooO, has been incorporated at Da.
ota City, Neb. 1t plans to build
Inc from the river to the Pacific.
loux City will probably be the Eastern
ermlnus. 1t was hoped to use the
,aclhc Short Line as far as O'Neil.
'eo., but the road cannot be had for
ess than 81 800, 900, and the Short
ane bridge would cost 81 900, 900,
lore.
Inc athens correspondent of the
ondon Times says: 1t is believed