The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-12
TFLEGRAPIiIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM TIE WIRES.
budget Of News For Easy DIgestisn-AIl
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

of the Naval Obserya.
-ory, has been placed on the retired
list of the navy.
Twenty-one convicts in a sipple
New York penitentiary have. become
insane since January. when convict
labor was stopped by law.
The United States battle-ship Ore.
gon has been ordered to Honolulu IN
relieve the cruiser Philadelphia, which
is stationed there for the present.
Unless Governor Hastings of Penn.
sylvania signs the bill before him an
100000 to Lehigh Uni
versity in Bethlehem the institution
must close.
Secretary Bliss has approved two
schedules of allotments of land in sew
crafty made by the Chippewa commits.
sion to the Boise Fort and Deer Creek
reservations.
The suburban towns in the vicinity
of Chicago have threatened to place a
tax on all bicyclists passing through
them. This is a consequence of the
Chicago tax of 81 year.
An investigation into the affairs Of
the Montana State Reform School
shows that each inmate costs the tax
payers So per month. Convicts in the
State penitentiary cost about $1,000
per month.
The conductors and motormen of
the Lynn and Boston line have been
ordered to address all their women
passengers as Madame" and not as
Miss, Mrs" or Lady as has
been customary in the past
A Louisville disratch says the Avery
Plow Factory has resumed operations
after three-years' shutdown, giving
work to 1000 men. One thousand ad.
ditional workmen will be given en-
ployment in the near future.
Andrew Foo, Chinese merchant of
st. Louis, is planning to organize a
college for Cinnamon here, provided
the Geary law does not interfere. He
wants to import young men, and also
to cater to the local Mongolians.
The Americans returning from
Europe this year find Custom House
officers far stricter than ever before.
when they could bring any amount of
wearing apparel and personal effects
III free OF duty. Now personal effects
costing over 800 have TO pay duty.
The disagreement between coal
miners and operators in the district
around Birmingham, Ala. has ended
by compromise, the operators agreeing
to pay the miners 37la cents per ton,
a reduction of 2la cents. About four
thousand men who have been on
strike will resume work.
/ The negotiations between the Amer
lean Bimetallic Commission and the
representatives. of Great Britain and
France have now reached a stage which
render it probable that Great Britain
will agree to participate i'll confer.
ence to be held in Washington next
fall.
A telegram was received at Peoria,
H., by the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen saying they had won their
suit against the receiver Of the Phila-
delphia, Reading AMI New England
Railroad to prevent the reduction of
The wages of the Ioadmen. In 1894
they won II similar suit against the
Union Pacific.
/ A strics of terrible electrical storms
with heavy rainfall has passed over
Marion, o., and vicinity. George
Stout, while driving a moving ma.
chine, was killed by lightning.
Charles Setter and William Sontag,
mechanics returning from work, were
struck down on the street They may
recover -Four men near RadLurn, if.
teen miles from Marion, were killed.
A dispatch from Columbia, Mo,
says that a old discovery ON the banks
of Dry Ford Creek, near New Flor.
ence. in Montgomery county, Mo-, is
announced by DR.. G. A. Broaohead,
geologist of the State University. NJ.
A. Bibb, the discoverer has sent sew.
eraI consignments of quartz to DR..
Broadhead, and assays by the latter
have proved the genuineness of the
find. DR.. Broadhead will visit Mont
gomery county to inspect the vein.
Idaho trappeis are returning from
the mountains with the result of their
winter work, some bringing in valua.
BILE pelts. Recently trapper arrived
/ from the Bitter Root mountains with
some excellent martin and two valu-
able bear hides-one of brown color
and the other of silver tip. The
season has not proved as profitable as
usual, the cause being the early disap-
pearance of the snow, which gave the
game plenty of vegetation and took
them from their winter haunts along
their streams.
a special to the Denver Rocky
Mountain News from Las Vegas, N.
NJ. says that in the matter Of fiying
machines, Las Vegas is not behind the
rest of the world John R. Kirk, a
Santa Fe engineer, claims to have per-
fected, after several years of hard
study and experimenting, flying ma
chine that will fly. 1t is entirely
different from anything yet attempted
in this line, while at the same time it
is marvel of simplicity and durabil.
lily. The motive power is contained in
storage battery. Many citizens have
seen the machine i'll its nocturnal
fights, but supposed it to be a falling
star.
1t is stated that big scandal is like.