The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-07
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports OF
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES
BudEoiIoT News For Easy Digestion-A Z
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

Interesting itsns'
Secretary Long has reohristened the
cruiser Abrouall, recently purchased
from the Brazilian Government, and
hereafter she will be known as the
Albany, in honor of the capital OF the
Empire State.
Coroner Edward b. Cnombs Of Kings
county. New York, convicted OF NAL
feasance in Office, was sentenced 70
one year and seven months imprison'
ment in the penitentiary and also to
pay fine Of $1,000
The Bank of Merriam Park failed To
J open the other day on account OF the
time.oheck fraud. The banks capital
is $50, 900, of which $4,000 is report
ed to have been invested in the South
all Government time checks.
II Is common report in railroad cir
Giles that the joint meeting nf North
Platte, Neb., of all the railroad broth
, erhoods, held during the week past,
was for the purpose of considering
means of combating possible reduc-
tjop Of wages on the Union Pacific
system,
The steamship Keinshin Maru,
which has just arrived at Port Town
send from Hopgkong and Yokohama.
brought as passengers thirty Chinese
actors, who are the vanguard of k400
soon to land in the United States to
participate in the Transmississippi Ex-
position at Omaha.
Judge Ned in the Common Pleas
Court at Cleveland, g., has rendered
his decision in the case against the
Cleveland City Railway Com.
pany. The Court held that referee
should be appointed to determine how
much spurious stock was overissued
by the directors of the road and to
/ whom
! The mysterious disappearance Of
package containing $1,000 from the
mails between Williamsport and Liv-
onia, N. D., was solved by the comics.
sion of Walter Boutellier, mail car.
rier, who has been under arrest. Bou-
TELLER said he concealed the package
in deserted barn, where it was found
by the inspector, all the money and
checks being found but SEQ
The monthly statement of the oollec.
tions Of internal revenue shows the
receipts during February from all
sources amounted to 81, $3.50. $50, a
gain, as compared with February,
1897. of $,257,68s; The receipts for
the eight months of the present fiscal
year were $llO, 4S4 ,524, an increase
over the same period last year of $1l,.
500, $50.
Replying to question of inquiry,
the Attorney. General has sent to the
Senate statement to the effect that
the records of his department. do not
show that any writs of injunction or
restraining orders have been Issued
by United States courts against labor
organizations or their members en-.
gagged in strikes during the years 1897
and 1898.
Information has reached the Govern
meDt that number of banks at st.
Paul, Mimi, end other nearby places
have been made the victims Of oolos.
sal frauds through the suspected collu.
sion of Government clerks connected
with the commission having in charge
the improvements on the Upper Missis-
sippi river. Statements submitted by
the banks indicate that $500, 900 or
more has been procured from them
through fraudulent time checks for
services never performed
Lolita Crabtree, the actress, was
before the New York Grand Jury the
other day in an effort to have Charles
q. Macy and William S. Pendleton
indicted for grand laoreny. They com.
posed the brokerage firm of Macy &
PendletoD. which failed in January
for $4,000. Miss Crabtree says she
invested with the firm and her money
should have been represented BY stock
kept in her name. No such stock was
found and she is unable to recover
her money. The Grand Jury voted to
return indictments.
The Navy Department has succeeded
in purchasing eight steam yachts and
four steam tugs, presumably at or
near New York. for use in the auxil.
larry naval feet. The boats are about
400 tons each, and in an emergency
would be suitable as torpedo boats.
The yachts purchased are among the
fieetest along the Atlantic coast, and
are said to be somewhat similar to the
Maytiower. recently purchased from
the Ogden Goelet estate. This acqui.
sition to the navy is regarded as AN ex-
cepitonally valuable one at the present
time, rs the greatest need is felt for
small craft suitable as torpedo boats
and dispatoh-boats.
Litigation which was begun in 1881
between the late Steele Maokaye, the
actor and playwright. and Marshall s.
aallory, over the ownership of the
play Hazel Kirke." and an alleged
breach of contract charged by each in
his suit against the other. has at last
been settled by decision in the
United States Circuit Court at New
York. The Judge DEGREES that the
right to the production of Hazel
kirke" belongs exclusively to Mallory.
and he must pay to Mrs, Maokaye. as
administratrix of the estase Of Steele
Mackaye, $7s2S. 40. with interest.
pursuant to a clause in the agreement
made between the original persons to
1t. This means that Mallory is re.
quired to pay the Administrative about
SIS, 900.
The Treasury Department has ar-
proved the bond Of the Chilooot Rail-
road and TRANSFORMATION COMPANY as a