The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-22
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS.
Selections That VIII Greatly Interest
Our Readers Both Old
aud Young.


} recent flood cost the city of New Or
0 leans $171 900, which was much lesl
than was expected.
The Matthews cotton mill, at Selma
!, Ca, employing 300 persons, is about
to be sold to wealthy negro. HI
. will employ negro operatives.
S The question Of holding a Pan.
! American Congress in Chicago is being
discussed by business men and the
, newspapers. The plan will probably
, be adopted.
( Wall street in New York is terribly
D aroused over the proposed tax ON stock
and bonds. This Populistic attack
ON Wall street is outright demagogu.
{ ism, . says Henry Clews.
: The cruisers San Francisco and
Raleigh are bound for Tangier, where
they are to coerce the Emperor of
Morocco into punishingl the ASSISTANTS
of American citizens.
The wine shipments to New Orleans
are about 100000 gallons a month,
and at the cut Of Is cents a gallon
the war means loss of $40, 900 q
month to the California industry at
that point alone.
A freight train ON the Boston and
Maine road ran into a washout at
Poors' Brook, Wells River, VT, En-.
gineer Lennon, Fireman rebbles and
Brakeman LANCE were killed; 200
foot nf tranlr hal
The Clarendon Hotel, two houses
and two barns have been destroyed by
fire at Melville, Mass. Two tenement
houses were badly damaged. Daniel
Keogh, Jr., was fatally injured. The
total property loss is $50, 900.
An Inter urban car for Saginaw
crashed through the iron bridgeynear
Bay City, Michigan, carrying seven
passengers into the water. An un.
known woman and three children were
drowned. The draw was swung.
According to the immigration Bu-
reau. the number of immigrants that
arrived in this country during the
eleven months ended May Sd was
2lO,271, decrease as compared with
the same period last year of 105, O38.
John W. MILESTONE, late secretary
OF the City Water Works Department.
OF CINCINNATI, has been indicted for
embezzlement Of $40, 900 of water
works funds. MILESTONE has been a
leading politician and office.holder for
years.
Colonel J. S. Ridley died recently
at his home near Columbia, Tenn.
aged 70 years. He had for years been
identified with the farming ind stock
interests of the South, and was called
the mule King of the world at
one time.
The Controller of the CURRENCY at
Washington has received information
of the failure of the First National
Bank of Mason. Tex. The bank has a
capital of $4,000 and at its last re.
port the liabilities amounted to about
$50, 900
The management of the Broadway
Central Hotel in New York has imam.
gurated profit-sharing system among
its employees. Beginning on the LIST
inst. the employees will receive one.
third share of the profits IN addition
to their wages.
In wenty-eight years Harvard Col.
lege has received in gifts of money.
lands and buildings an aggregate of +
~, 209, 7O3, the cash gifts amounting
to ", $50, 7O3, or an average of S2S,.
OOO,0 from gifts of money alone
during the coming century.
1t has long been the boast of the
British that the sun never sets ON the
Queens dominions. 1t is equally true
that the sun never sets on the United
States. When it is 6 p. m. on Attoo's
Island, Alaska, it is $3.50 a. m. of the
following day at Eastport, Maine.
Alvin Dilaway, son of President
Z. o. Dilaway of theMechanics' Ma.
tional Bank of Boston, committed
suicide. In competitive examination
Toung Dilaway received an appoint.
nent to West Point, but was expelled
or breach of the rules before his
course was completed.
A shipment of sixty tons of butter
arrived from New York recently. at
vancouver, B. c., in refrigerator cars
md will be forwarded to Sydney by
he Warrimoo. This is the first ship
nent of American butter sent to Aus
ralla, though quantity of Australian [
utter has been received at Vancouver.
Within seventy two hours four
ulldings and loan associations, whose
stimated assets and liabilities foot
p over million and a quarter dol.
ars, went to the wall in Louisville.
~, finding it impossible to conduct
usiness under the recent decision of
ne Court OF Appeals in regard to the
sgal rate of interest. The Kentucky l
nd Citizens Building and Loan AS {
ociations assigned with assets and liza L
llities Of $4,000, both from the t
'me cause. At the offices of all the e
uliding and loan companies in the .
tate the greatest uneasiness prevails. 4
nd the stockholders are hourly giving p
otice OF Withdrawals. 1t is the gen. o
al opinion among local financiers d
'at the building and loan business
Is suffered its death blow in Ken. p
cky.
reports from central Kansas state u
at the heat was SO intense there for u