The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-17
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed TeiegraphIS Reports u
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
bud Estlof News For kasy DiEsssIOn-Ail
PArts Of the Country Represented
interesting Items.

Kid Mccoy has accepted Joe Choyns-
ki's standing challenge. and has wired
him to that effect. the meeting TO take
place in Hot Springs April 90.
The proceedings for perjury against
Edward J. Radcliffe, the actor. will be
abandoned and he will soon begin serv-
ing his six months sentence for as
saulting his wife.
Arthur T. Layman. treasurer of the
Lowell Manufacturing Company.
wants a consolidation OF manufacturers
Of ingram carpets, with view Of con-
trolling that market.
The United States Supreme Court
has decided that United States officials
could not take advantage Of their Off ee
70 secure advantages over Others in the
location Of Government land.
A temper .3ent reduction in wages
went into effect recently in all depart
ments Of the Boston Manufacturing
Company's mills at Waitham, Mass.
The 1900 operatives accepted the cut.
The Supreme Court of Ohio. in two
cases wherein the life insuran % com
panies sought to compel the State Com
missioner to permit them TO do bust
ness in Ohio, in the Lloyds system,
sustained the Commissioner.
The order stopping the receipt of
gold at the Sub-Treasury at New York
for currency has been so modified as to
allow the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to receive gold in exchange for
paper currency to be shipped from the
Treasury in Washington.
Admiral Bunce, commandment at the
Brooklyn hayward, received permits
sion from Washington to open sub
scription list at the navy-yard for the
benefit of the families of the men
killed by the explosion on the Maine.
The list was posted at once.
A new 10,OO0-pound strut for the
torpedo-boat Dupont has been shipped
from Herreshoffs Works by rail to
Mobile, Ala, where the boat has been
lying disabled for some time A
similar piece of steel was also shipped
for the torpedo boat Porter, also lying
at Mobile.
The Queen City Jockey Club New
port, Ky.) has selected for its spring
meeting, opening April 8, the follow
ing track officials: Presiding Judge,
/. P. Tarlton; associate judges, Henry
M. Green and J. Gratz Hamlet: starter,
Curley brown. The betting privileges
have been sold to Eddie Austin.
At a mass meeting held in Spring
field. Ohio, to raise funds for monu-
ment to the victims Of the Maine,
Governor Bushnell, in a letter pledg-
ing 800, said that if it were proved
that Spanish treschery destroyed the
Maine, he was in favor of building a
monument on the ruins of MORO Cas-
tie.
The Southwestern Passenger Asso-
citation has granted TO the Christian
Endeavorers of the United States and
Canada all the concessions desired.
They include the sale of tickets to
Nashville and return for the conven-
ton at one fare for the round trip,
July lst to 9th. inclusive, with final
limit July S1st, and with privilege of
extension to August 10th.
Commander Lamberton has been re.
lieved Of duty as inspector Of the Fifth
Lighthouse District at Baltimore and
ordered to the Boston at Mare Island.
He will be succeeded at Baltimore, as
lighthouse inspector by Commander
Hutchins, who is detached from the
receiving ship Saratoga for that pur-
pose. The resignation of Ensign Os-
born has been accepted.
SPANS former Minister to the
United States, Dupuy de LONE. was
hanged in etfigy by people. of Troy, N.
Y. who had assembled TO hurl epithets
at the object of their scorn. Plaoards
on the effigy were thus inscribed.
Hang De LONE, V. H. r." and
Sucker de LONE. v. H. R. Club. +"
The police carried the effigy to the
police station, amid cries of derision.
The Winchester Repeating Arms
Company the ether day received a
visit from Government inspector.
who looked up the prospects for
hadling quick orders. The company
is making arrangements to manufac-
ture 5000, 900 cartridges daily. 1t
has stopped making sporting guns and
is running twenty-four hours day to
keep up to their Government orders
for navy rifles and cartridges.
The application of the Chicago Inter
Ocean for an injunction to restrain the
Associated Press from cutting off its
news service to that paper was denied
by Judge Waterman. The case of the
Inter Ocean against the Associated
Press grew out of an alleged violation
ON the part of the Inter- Ocean of the
rules of the Associated Press. The
lnter-Ocean applied for an injunction,
but after prolonged argument the
Court denied the application.
Senator Warren has introduced two
bills providing for the cession of arid
public lands to the various States in
which they are 81 .uated. One of the
bills cedes all the lands unconditional
iy, and the other provides for cession
after certain preparations shall have
been made by the States to redeem the
lands. such as the division OF each State
into irrigation districts. the oonstruc-
tion OF reservoirs. etc. This bill con-
veys all the land west of the Goth me-
ridian, except mineral land and forest
land and Indian reservations. to the
States in which they are located.
Superintendent Coyle of the Indiana