The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-08-26
TELEGRAPIIIC NEWS.
Condensed TelegraPhic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget Of News For Easy DIgestIsn-Au
Parts Of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.


the coal mining towns are under mar.
tial law
A Georgia mother killed her six
year-old-bOy because she said he was
too ugly to live, having a disaguring
birthmark.
Kansas authorities defy the injunc.
ton of Federal judge and a long war
between State and Federal authorities
is looked for.
The Empire State now holds the
record on fast trains, a regular train
having covered the distance from Syra.
cuse TO Buffalo, 149 miles, in 143
minutes.
President Mckinley visited the Cliff
Haven Catholic summer school the
grounds of which adjoin the Hotel
Champlain. He was accompanied by
the Vice-President and General e. q,
! O'Brien.
1t is now said the decision of the
cabinet in regard to the monetary con-
terence In answer to the representa-.
lions of the American monetary com.
mission will not be made public for
three weeks.
At meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Adams Express Company-
Henry Sanford was elected yice-nres;.
dent and VIM. B. Dinsmore trustee.
The vacancies were caused nv the
death of Q. A. Seward, who acted in
dual capacity.
The Brotherton mine at Wakefield
Mich. has resumed operations and will
employ 200 men. The Sunday Lake
mine, which works in conjunction
with the Brotherton, will probably
resume in few days with about the
same force of men.
Antonio W. Evans of New Jer.av
has made twenty -four hour bicycie
record. 1t is 356 miles over twenty
hve mile course. Evans previously
held the twenty hour record of
2f7 miles. An increase to 356 milss
locks rather impossible.
Stockholders in the Irondale Steal
and Iron Company of Middletown-
lnd., nave filed suit for a receiver in
the Federal Court. They allege that
che affairs of the company are involved
and that some 5000, 900 of assets are
likely to be dissipated unless the stems
prayed for are taken.
Collector Russell of Chicago has
called the attention of the treasure
department o fficials to a case in his
bailwick which may have a tendency
to revolutionize transportation methods
now practiced in this country by the
Canadian Pacific for the purpose of
being distributed throughout the
United States.
A party of enthusiastic New England
college men, sound of wind and limb.
one from New York and another from
Philadelphia, have just succeeded in
planting an American flag upon the
summit of Mount Lafroy, one of the
highest and most stubborn peaks of the
Canadian Rockies.
A Kearney, Neb.. dispatch says r.
Y. Robertson, president Of the sus.
pended First National Bank of that
city, has been brought here under
arrest from Forest City, Mo. He is
charged with swearing to false state
ments in securing large deposits of
county money, which was lost when
the bank failed.
Leon Godchau, the owner of seven
sugar plantations in Louisiana. and
said to be the largest producer in the
United States, has ordered an increase
OF sixteen and one-half per cent in the
wages paid to his field laborers. The
wages of laborers skilled in the manu-.
facture OF sugar will be increased from
twenty to thirty per cent.
A terrific storm struck Paterson. N
j., last week. The rainfall was heavy.
and much damage was done bv the
CYCLONE wind which accompanied it.
Trees were uprooted in some places.
signs and fences carried away and the
trolley cars were stopped. One
crowded car was struck by lightning.
but fortunately no one was injured.
Numerous streets were flooded.
A Kansas City, Mo-, dispatch says
the Wholesale price of dressed beef by
I'll the big packers has been raised
Inc lowest price on dressed beef now
Is D cents, whereas few days ago fair
TO good western beef could be bought
tor "a to 81. Better grades were
raised in proportion. The best grades
OF bacon were also raised u cents
pound.
The New England Fish Company of
Boston, which has been operating from
vancouver for the last two or three
years, has sent request to the Do
minion government for permission to
use American steamers. Hitherto thew
have chartered Canadian vessels.
are supporting the petition. as
the company has sent $3.50, 900 in
wages and supplies during the halibut
fishing season.
A Houston, Tex, dispatch saws that
at Barnum, Polk county, between IA
and ! o'clock recently fire DESTROYED
inc planning mill and dry kiln, lumber
1ard, lumber store and number of
tenement houses belonging to w. IT.
carter q Bros, number of cars. two
mail bridges belonging to the Kansas
md Iexas Railroad. The loss was
'Soo, 600; insurance as yet not ascer-
but small.
a Washington dispatch says that
jonsui Reed at Tien-Tsin reports to
ne State Department. that the impor.
alton of American -four at that mort
: iessficsea solely to the needs Of the
oreign residents, and that the stand.
rd OF living among the Chinese and