The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-16
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget OF News For Easy DIEestisn-AiI
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Itsms.

The State Normal School at River
Falls. Wis, has been burned. Loss,
s75, 900.
The New England Burglary IDsur-
ance Company Of Boston is going out
of business.
Forty eight Hungarians who violated
the alien labor law have been sent
home from Baltimore.
Asphyxiation caused the death of
three men in the Grand Trunk Rail-
way tunnel at Port Huron (Mich.)
Eugene Moore, ex-Auditor of Ne.
brasks. charged with embezzlement of
$4,000, has been declared guilty as
charged.
The New York World says a move
ment is ON foot to unite all thei Heading
piano manufacturers in the United
States into trust.
The Two Orphans livery stable
caught fire at Caldwell, Kan, and
burned down. Twenty eight horses
were burned to death.
The Georgia Legislature has killed a
bill which provided for granting free
license to Yankee soldiers who might
now be living in the State.
The Ravenwood distillery at St.
Louis, Missouri. has been destroyed by
fire, involving loss of $3.50, 900. About
5000 barrels of whisky were destroyed.
Colonel A. Nj. Coffey, aged %
years, is dead at Knobnoster Mo. He
was Postmaster under President Cleve-
land and was the oldest Mason in the
State.
Miss Louise La Sale and Miss
Jennie Sheress, girls each about II
years of age, were drowned in the ST.
Louis River at Duluth, Mimi. while
skating.
The city board of estimate of New
York has appropriated $50, 900 for the
treatment Of consumption next year
under the supervision of the Board of
Health.
The Chinese Equal Rights League OF
America has been organized in Chi
cage, and will begin at once the work
of agitating for the granting of suff-
rage rights to Chinese.
The schedules in the assignment of
Il. d. Cutherbert q Co., bankers and
brokers of New York, who assigned on
August 3lst, show: Liabilities, $780,
1865; actual assets, $l69, 400.
Ole Halverson, who was shot at Ink
ster, N. d., by Miss Mary Luxton, is
dead. He was conscious to death and
begged that Miss Luxton might not be
prosecuted, as he alone was to blame.
Three men entered the home of Mrs.
Mary Eppinstein in Chicago and. after
beating Mrs. Eppinstein with revolvers
and locking her in room. they made
away with her diamonds, valued al
"a, 900.
Notice has been given in New York
that on January LIST next all securities
held as collateral under the Union Pa.
cific 6 per cent collateral trust of 1891
will be sold at the real estate exchange
in that city.
The Choctaws and Chiokasaw In.
dians, have determined to organize a
colony and emigrate to Mexico. II
is understood that the Mexican Gov.
eminent will sell them large tracts OF
land very cheap
Professor q. w. Ferguson, instruc
tor in drawing to the pupils of Sheboy.
gan, Pa, who was charged with prac-
ticing hypnotism on number OF
pupils at private exhibition, has beer
dismissed from the school.
The steamer Veendam, which ba,
arrived at New York, sighted IN mid
ocean the water-logged wreck of the
British schooner Elite. The crew ha6
evidently abandoned her. The Veen,
dams men set fire to the wreck.
Chagrined over the defalcation Of
his father, Charles W. Chamley, who
stole 5000 of funds of the Presby
terrain board of aid for colleges, James
Chamley shot himself in a room at the
Hotel Phister. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Fire in the power plant of the
United States Electric Lighting Com.
pany at Washington, d. c., put out
the electric lights in the greater part
of the city. The plant was badly
scorched, but the loss will not exceed
$40. 900.
Richard Reddie, negro who claim.
to have been born July ., 1777, near
Richmond, Va, applied at the Pitts
burg. Pa. department of charities fol
admission to the home, stating that he
is now too old to work and cannot sup,
port himself. The oentenarian was
assured that he would be taken care OF
by the authorities.
A dispatch from Larned, Kansas,
states that the railroad station of Rozel
one night recently disappeared, leav.
ing an oblong shaped hole, about al
acre aud half in extent, with almost
perpendicular walls. The hole is said
to be filed to within seventy feet OF
the top with dark, stag nant-lookinp
water. No casualties are reported, as
no one remained at the station over
night
About 500 coal miners at Hymers
and Star City, Indiana, have gone on
strike because the companies refused
to put in an inch and half screen in
stead OF three-inoh screens. Three
hundred coal miners at Carbon, nine
miles north of Terre Haute, also went
out, because tho company employed
non-union men. Great suffering is
experienced among all the miners in
the State.
George A. Reynolds. grand secretary
of the National Order of Elks, an