The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-10
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened ali
Over the Country
MENTIONED In THESE PARAGRAPHS
Selections That Will Greatly Interest
Our Readers Both Old
and Young.

: War has begun, and you can 90
: from San Francisco TO New York, first
!. class. for $40.
: Virginia's Legislature has passed a
bill to provide seats for women work
ers in stores.
Large deposits of coal are being I'M
covered in Western Dakota, most of
!. it being Ignite.
r Men who expect stronger prices for
Z onions have 10000 barrel of these
/. vegetables stored at Lyons, n. Y.
s A sleeping-oar on the Santa Fe road.
: at Dalles. Tex, has been looted by
robbers and $4,000 in valTables taken.
Alexander W. Call, Of Parma, ILL.,, is
dead. He was SO years Of age, but. as
he was born February 80, 1928, he had
D seen only sixteen birthdays.
3 A delegation of about seventy five
! leading business men of Omaha are
. making a tour Of the southeastern
States, booming the big trans Missis.
sippi fair at Omaha, BEGINNING next
June.
The body Of former Commissioner
Leonard Wells Of Brooklyn, was found
in the woods near Scotch Plains, N. j.,
recently. The throat was cut and it
was evident Wells had committed sui.
eide.
The postoffice and store at Runsberg,
Mimi, have been burned. Postmas.
ter Olaf Kartunen, who slept In the
building, was cremated. The fire is
thought to have been the result Of an
accident.
Rev. j. b. Thompson Cole, general
secretary of the American Church Mis-.
sionary Society, at New York, has
rendered his resignation, having ac-
cepted call to parish in West Vir.
ginia.
Pure food bills have been recently
presented to the New York and New
Jersey legislatures. The bills, with
the exception of minor difference, are
identical and their provisions are very
sweeping in character
The following star-route mail service
has been ordered discontinued. Stock.
ton to Collegeville, Collegeville to
Oakdale, Fresno to Fowler, Selma to
Clifton. Kingsburg to Lillis, Dinuba to
Orosi, Burbank to Toluca.
Counterfeit half dollars are being
uttered in the country around st.
George, Utah. They are of excellent
workmanship, but they are perfectly
dead to the ring They bear the San
Francisco Mint mark and are light in
weight
The owners of the lumber vessels on
the Great Lakes met in Detroit, Mich.
recently, to establish uniform rate
for lumber carrying and for loading
and unloading oargoes. A tonnage of |
l30,0 out of a total of 1919, 900 was
represented.
William j. Scanlan, the singer and .
Irish character actor, died recently
of paresis in Bloomingdale Asylum for
the insane, at New York, aged AZ years.
He had been an inmate of the asylum
for six years, and had been cared for by
his wife, Maggie Jordan.
Judge Sutherland of the Superior
Court Of Milwaukee, Wis. has handed
down decision knocking out the
plumbers license law passed at the
last session of the Legislature. The
decision is severe blow to many
master plumbers and to trade unions
which favored it.
Orders have been issued for the en-.
listment of 800 men for the navy to
MI the vacancies caused by the de-
struction of the battleship Maine and
to complete the legal quota. The new
men will be sent to receiving ships,
whence they will be sent to ships in
commission whenever needed.
Edward Schultz, Peter Raven. Harry
Wright and William Prendergast, said
by the police to be four of the clever.
est confidence men in the country. ,
have been arrested in Chicago. charged
with swindling Christian Wuster of !
Dawson, Neb., out of $4,000 in cur.
rency and $4,000 in checks.
Austin Gollaher died recently in !
Hogdensville, KY, aged 80 years.
Gollaher was the boyhood companion
Of Abraham Lincoln. They were born !
on adjoining farms and attended school
together. Gollaher once saved Lin.
,oln, at the risk of his own life, from
A special to the Post Dispatch of st. !
Louis from Shipman. H., says that :
The vault of the Shipman Bank was !,
blown open by robbers, who used nitro. :
slyoerine. The robbers only obtained /,
FLO in pennies, as they were frightened
way before being able to break into
he inner steel safe which contained Q
thousands of dollars. 1
Three MenOminee, Mich, fishermen \
Who were lost in the blizzard in Green !,
'ay, were found wrapped in the sails h
II their fishing smaoks and nearly Z,
lead. They are John Swanson, Eric O
Anderson and Gus Thomson. Nine q
ther fishermen are supposed to have
'erished. and searching crews are now >,
ut. The storm has been the worst in :,
en- years. y
The Presidentsh as granted pardons W
the following cases: Marion Hald- b
rman of Arkansas. convicted of lar. te
eny. The only result of the pardon is W
restoration to citizenship. Jack dj
of the Eastern District of s,
exas, convicted in 1895 of assault m
18th intent to kill. The papers in ia
10 case show that the prisoner can
We only short time.
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