The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-02-17
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Bad g-tlOf News For Easy Digestion-Ail
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

A disastrous IRE occurred in East
st. Louis, destroying property to the
value of 81, 900. 900.
The Marblebead which was sent to
Port Au Prince when Germany was
threatening Hayti has reJoined the At
lantic squadron.
Fire at Somerset. KY, destroyed
four stores and half dozen offices
and smaller buildings. Loss, $780,
600; insurance. S65, 600.
Governor Stuenenberg Of Idaho has
appointed number Of prominent eiti-
zens as Idaho commissioners to the
Transmississippi Exposition at Omaha.
The State Supreme Court of Vir-
ginia has decided that the newspapers
of Norfolk must pay the license tax
recently imposed blythe City Council.
The city Of Helena, Arkansas, and
several nearby towns were startled by
severe earthquake shock recently,
though no serious damage is reported.
The jefferson county, KY. Grand
Jury has returned indictments against
ls6 saloon keepers and others who have
slot machines in their places of bust.
ness.
The Chicago Tribune says the coal
operators will shorty advance the price
of their product 20 cents per ton as the
result of the recent advance of 10
cents ton for mining.
The barge Yongers. with four men
on board, sank off Barnegaton, New
York. She was in tow of the Walter
A. Luckenback, from Newport News
for Providence, X. |.
U. S. Secret Service Agents at Kan.
sas City, Mo-, report dangerous 81
silver certificate in circulation there.
The character is very fine and it is
considered an extremely dangerous one.
The action for the embezzlement of
sSi 900 against ex-Treasurer Gill of
the town Of Superior, Wis, will be
withdrawn. Gill agrees to turn ever
the accounts and shortage to his sue
cessor.
Seven prisoners confined In the
Buchanan County Jail, at st. Joseph,
Mo-, escaped in the night by climbing
over the cells in the women's ward and
crawling through trap door in the
roof of the Jail.
The Ocean Bluff House at Kenne.
bunkport, Me-, has been completely
destroyed by fire. 1t was the largest
summer hotel there and was owned by
the Kennebunkport Seashore Company.
Loss. $4,000
John Magil, wealthy farmer, com.
mitted suicide at his home, in Beaver
township, Atwood, Kansas. The only
known cause was his fear of being
called as witness against a local
joint keeper.
Rev. Leroy Church of Chicago, one
o. the most widely known Baptist
M listers in the West and founder Of
I chs Standard, ,ne Western denomina,
'aogll organ, is dead. He was born
in wayne county in June, 1918.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
held that retail dealers are primarily
responsible for the wholsomeness OF
the foods that they sell, and conse.
quently for any damage that may be
caused by their faultiness to the health
of any of their customers.
The output of the gold mines OF
Cripple Creek district in Colorado for
January was in round numbers ST.
200, 900. Eleven mining companies
declared dividends amounting to kl45,.
600 and fully $4,000 was cleared by
mines under private ownership.
h. Waldeman. representing himself
as general agent of the Ocean Acct.
dent and Guarantee Corporation of
London, has left st. Louis, Mo-, and
there has been issued warrant for his
arrest on the charge of violating the
State law regulating insurance agents.
The Denver and Rio Grande Rail.
road has perfected an arrangement
with banking houses for refunding of
the So, $50, 800 first mortgage bonds of
the road. which mature in 1900, into
an equal amount of consolidated bonds
which was in reserve for this purpose.
The Bloomsbury Car Manufacturing
Company of Bloomsbury, Pa, has
been awarded the contract to build ore
hundred gondola cars by the Orange
Free State Railway Company of South
Africa. They will also build for the
same company fifteen passenger ears
similar TO the American passenger
coach, but little smaller. These
will be the first cars of this description
built in America for use in Africa.
Emile Urfer. aged 81, who has been
in the employ of the Bolland Jewelry
Company at st. Louis, Mo-, for ten
years, being one OF its most trusted
employees, has been arrested charged
with stealing jewelry and silverware
estimated to exceed $4,000 in value.
he had been the support of his mother
and sister since he was old enough to
work. and since boyhood had been in
the employ of the firm which he is
charged with having robbed.
Allan Fairbanks who died at
Wheaton, H., recently, left an estate
worth $4,000, 900. He was horse.
trader and boarded his money until he
became wealthy, while he lived with
out the ordinary comforts of life.
Twelve years ago he was tortured by
two robbers, but refused to divulge the
hiding place of his wealth. His wife,
Dora, however. gave the secret away
and $4,000 in bonds and 81, 800 in
Currency were taken. Later the rob
bers We're captured and the money re-
covered.
The q. S. land department is pre-.
pairing to survey to ascertain if any
changes shall be made in the Presi-
Dental proclamations setting aside
| 600 000 arras of lands as foxast 80