The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-10-07
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget of News For Easy Digestisn-AII
Parts of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

Boston's subway has thus far cost
81, 200. 900 and fourteen lives.
Henry W. Sage, a well-knowB
philaDthropist of Ithaca, N. Y, is
dead, aged SO.
Paul de Pierre, formerly Vice-Con-
sui of the French republic at New Or
leans, committed suicide at New York
by inhaling Illuminating gas.
In place of the concourse that the
ocean ruined along the Coney Island
shore front, at New York. an elevated
esplanade to cost $50, 900, is projected.
e. w. Palmer of the Cleveland,
Ohio, Window Glass Company, says a
gigantic trust will be formed to put up
prices as high as the tariff will permit
Five men were instantly killed and
three were badly injured in a head
end collision of freight trains OH the
Wisconsin Central Railroad near
Howard, Wis.
Gen. John w. Foster is now arrang-
ing for the international conference of
seal experts in Washing ton, which will
take place some time in October. The
Japanese Government will send repre-
sentatives,
Gen. II. V. Boynton, president of
the Chioamauga- Chattanooga Park
commission, announces that the State
of Illinois will begin at once the erec-
ton of two more handsome monuments
ON the Missionary Ridge battlefield to
cost 5000 each.
Reports from the Ohio Valley show
the hottest September weather ON re-
cord. The temperature at Cincinnati,
for the past eight days, has averaged
above 80 degrees, according to the
Weather Bureau, the hottest weather
in September for many years.
The establishment of a National
Board Of Health with power to enforce
sanitary measures throughout the coun.
try and to regulate commerce in times
of epidemic, the head of which shall
be q Cabinet officer, is advocated by
Commissioner of Health Reynolds.
The President has been asked to
provide means for alternating the dis
tress which is bound to be felt in Alas
kan mining camps during the coming
winter, and the matter has already
been brought before the cabinet,
though no definite action has yet been
taken.
The farmers along Taylors Bayou in
jefferson County, Texas. are the heav
lest losers from the terrible storm
there. The rice crop was the largest
in years and was ready for harvesting
but hundreds of acres were totally de-
stroyed, the loss being estimated at
$4,000.
Percy W. Smith is dead of heart
disease at Guthrie, Okla, having died
while sitting on his front porch, and
when in apparent good health. He
was the only clerk of Woods county,
and served as private secretary to Gov.
Renfrew during the latter's admins.
tration.
Acting upon the request of the Sec
rotary of Agriculture the Treasury De.
partment has requested the Secretary
of State to instruct all consular off GERS
OF the United States to refuse authen.
tication of invoices of hides of meat
cattle from districts in which anthrax
exists.
A private letter from Toxic, Japan,
announces the arrival in that city OF
Senators Cannon and Pettigrew and ex.
Senator Dubois. The letter states that
arrangements have been made for an
interview with the Emperor on the
silver questionable principal purpose
of the Senatorial visit TO the Orient.
1t is probable that within few days
Attorney General McKenna will an
nounoe the course the government will
pursue with reference to the decree of
foreclosure in the case of the Union
Pacific Railroad. 1t can be said upon
good authority that the chances are
very strongly against the government s
appealing from the decree.
The Treasury Department has ruled
that spruce scantling two by three
inches in dimensions. planned on one
OF the narrow sides, is properly subject
TO the additional duty of so cents per
1000 feet provided for in paragraph
1876 of the new tariff act. This addi-
tional duty covers the +. lting of any
lumber on one side.
A conspiracy to smuggle large guam.
titles of phenaoatine, in which Several
prominent druggists OF: New York City
are said to be involved, was nipped by
the seizure of 400 ounces of the drug
in saloon-keepers box in Hoboken.
Great restrictions are placed around
the importation of the drug, and the
tariff upon it 10 heavy.
E. q. McLennith, of Phoenix, Ariz.
has filed with the Territorial Secretary
notice of intention to build local rail
way lines approximating $40 miles in
length in the northwestern part of the
Territory, the mail line being from
kingman TO Whitehills Camp. A. f.
Root and several other capitalists in
terested in Whitehills mines are stated
to be behind the project.
The great miners strike. which was
declared on July 4. has been brought
to an end, so far, at least. as Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Indiana and West
Virginia are concerned, by the action
of the convention of miners in session
at Columbus. After day of voting
and wrangling. the convention voted
to accept the proposition OF the Pitts
burg operators. The vote was 400 for
and BIZ against accepting the terms of
settlement, and II votes were not cast.
Another Sugar Plant.
The contracts for constructing and
eQulOinU tho f,1onf of tho GtOckt0u