The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-24
TELECRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS
Selections That Will Greatly Intere.,
Our Headers Both Old
and Young.

uOO sudISS VI tine LeDlgn valley Coal
company of Pennsylvania.
The Florida House has passed an
act to prohibit the instruction or at.
tendance as scholars at the same school
of white and colored persons.
Certain proofs reached Ell Paso.
Texas, of the death of Francis Schlat.
ter, the famous wonder worker. Pros.
pectors who found his remains believe
his death was the result of religions
fast.
The town of Frost, seventy five miles
south of Dallas, Texas. place of 1900
inhabitants in Navarro county, has
been visited by disastrous fire. The
entire business portion was DESTROYED.
approximating twenty buildings. The
origin is believed to be incendiary.
Loss, 100000.
beginning this week the owners of
the paper-mills of the Fox River Val.
ley, Kankana, Wis, will shut down
Friday and Saturday each week in
order to control the output and better
the market for their product if posi-
bic. This movement, it is reported.
will be general throughout the coun-
try.
The annual convention of the ANAL
gamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers of America completed its
sessions at Detroit on the 2Sth nit.
1t adopted as au addition to the consti-
tuition civil service plan of promo
tions. Advances of from 49, to Is per
cent in the tin plate and sheet iron
sales were also adopted.
Florida. which is near Mexico, Mis-.
souri,, has recently lost valued relic
the birthplace of Mark Twain. The
old structure is being removed, prepar-
atory to building a new house. Mum.
erous calls have been made upon Mrs.
Rooney, the owner of the house, by adj
mirers of the humorist for sufficient
timber to make cane
A Cincinnati dispatch says that nine
German Catholic pastors in that CITY
announce that hereafter sermons in the
English as well as in German will be
preached IN their churches. This is
done in furtherance of the spirit of
the recent papal DEGREES, looking to the
condition of Catholic worship in the
established language of the country.
An Omaha dispatch says that it has
been stated there and not denied that
the Union Pacific and Southern Pa
cltic have reached an understanding.
and that closer traffic relations be-
tween these roads will begin imme-
dlately. A new rate sheet is being
prepared at Union Pacific headouar-
tiers. All western business will here
after be routed over the Southern Pa
cific from Ogden in retaliation for the
opening of the Ogden gateway by the
Oregon Short Line
George c. Underhill, the marble ex-
pert of Rutland, VT, has gone to the
Big bug onyx mine, twenty-eight
miles southeast of Phoenix, Ariz. This
is the property recently purchased by
Congressman Fowler of New Jersey
for $4,000. The presence of Under
hill and his experts means the imme-
date development of one of the richest
onyx mines in the world, and this de-
velopment is undoubtedly due to the
fact that the new traiff law will place
heavy tax on Mexican onyx.
The volume of business transacted
at the port of Philadelphia during the
past SIX months has been phenomenally
large, the exports of petroleum during
that tine having reached 81, 1913, O93
gallons in excess of the corresponding
period of last year. The corn exports
are 10, 600, 900 bushels, and wheat ship
ments 100, OOG0 bushels greater than
during the first six months of 1896.
Still further increase of business with
correspondingly high freights is as
sured. Shipping men predict an era
OF prosperity at this point such as has
never been known.
American Cotton mills are less pros-
porous than formerly There are SO of
these mills at Fall River, Mass. the
largest aggregation at any one center
III the United States. These are paid
quarterly, when paid at all For the
past quarter 20 of the mills declared
dividends, o passed their dividends,
and one takes action some time in
June. The aggre gate amount of the
% dividends is $192, $50, which is
equal to 81 of per cent on the total
amount OF capital represented by the
81 mills. Some of the Cotton mills of
the East have recently been closed in
whole or in part.
sensation was created in the Texas
Legislature by the introduction of n
resolution in the House providing for
The appointment of a committee to in
Vestlgate the management of the State
University in Austin. The resolution
charges that the professors are against
The interests of the institu tion and are
'eaohing heresy and initiating the minds
u the pupils with Republican political
attn and that the entire management
u the institution, as we'll as the stu
tents, is suffering by the presence of
hese Northern Ishmaelites, The re-
solution charges the committee to
ecnre the dismissal of the Northern
professors if any of them are found in
he university.
Professor Alvan q. Clark, the
amous telescope lens manufacturer,
ned at his home at Cambridge, Mass,
eoently OF stroke of apoplexy. His
attest finished work, the mammoth
ems for the Yerkes telescope was
hlpped to Chicago short time ago.
'ut CLARK was better known in Cali
ornia as the maker of the lannon's Lick