The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-11-11
NEWS NOTES.

Gov. Pingree Of Michigan has taken
steps to enforce the State law requiring
railroads to sell 1000 mile tickets for
$50.
Members of the Cumberland Presby
terrain church at Visalia are discussing
the advisability Of building a new
church.
1t is stated in the yearly statisti cal
abstract by the United States Govern
ment that the population of the coun-
try in 1896 vas II 1888, 900.
Andrew Hasche, aged 10, died re-
Gently in New York in the Astoria
hospital AZ the result Of broken neck
received in a football game.
The Fowler Bicycle Company of
Chicago. has assigned, with liabilities
of $500, 900, and assets much less.
The concern employed 500 men.
The gunboat Detroit has been sent
to the eastern coast of Guatemala for
the purpose Of protecting American
interests there during the rebellion
now in progress.
The Farmers Institute, announced
to be held at Kingsburg on October
2Sth, has been postponed to an indefi-
mite date. as farmers are too busy just
now to attend institutes.
A New York syndicate composed of
the Vanderbilts, Astors, and other
millionaires, has assumed control of
the Honduras revenues and will pay
the national debt of $25, 000,0 900.
New York's pneumatic mail tube
has been given an official test and
proved eminsntly satisfactory. The
carrier. weighing twelve pounds, were
set at the rate of a mile in thirty
seconds.
Alexander de Soto, lineal descend
ant of the explorer, will head an ex-
petition, under the auspices of the
New York Bowery Mission, to carry
the Gospel into the Klondike mining
regions.
Hon. John M. Kassop, of Iowa, has
been chosen by President Mckinley to
have charge of negotiations with for
eign countries in matters of recipro-
city, especially affecting international
commerce.
Fire broke out in the warehouse in
the rear of Cooper. Ulrey & Co.'S store,
in Kings City. and the whole building
and most of the stock of merchandise
were destroyed. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
Mrs. Todd, of New London, NO.,
who killed her daughter, Hettie Bethel
in an insane fit of jealousy has been
convicted Of second-degree murder at
her fourth trial, and the penalty was
fixed at two years in the penitentiary.
Speedy. the professional bridge
jumper. jumped from the Louisville,
Kentucky and Jefferson bridge before
an audience of $4,000 people. He
made the jump of 1870 feet in safety,
and was mingling with the crowd
few minutes later.
Mrs. Jennie Campbell has been
arrested under the new compulsory
education law at Indianapolis, charged
with failure to keep her son William
in school. 1t is expected that the case
will go to the Supreme Court, and thus
test the constitutionality of the law.
Plans contemplating the investment
of from $500,000 to $1,000, 900 by
Eastern capitalists in sugar factories
and refineries have been consummated
at Denver, Colo, and an agreement
signed by 100 farmers. pledging them
selves to the cultivation of 1000 acres
of sugar beets.
The Capps family. residing in Illi-
nois. Springfield. Riverton. Vandalia
and Mount Pulaski, H.. have Just
come into an Inheritance of between
81 900, 900 and 81 900, 900 through the
death of brother named Thomas
Capps, in London. on September 10.
He was 80 years old.
Commissioner Hermann Of the Gen
eral Land Office has decided that the
locator of mining claims on the Col
Vile Indian reservation in the State of
has the right to cot only
such timber on his claim as may be
necessary in the ordinary working of
his mining claim.
Preliminary steps have been taken
to form colossal combine Of sewer
pipe and terra Gotta ware manufactur-
ers of the United States, with capital
of $1l ,000.000 to be controlled by
Eastern capitalists. At secret meet
ing at Pittsburg. Pa, nineteen manu-
facturers signed the agreement.
The Postoffice Department has modi.
fed the order Of September Sd as to
steamboat mail service from Seattle,
WASH, to Dyea, Alaska, to aooonmo.
date Klondike traffic, so as to permit
the Postmaster at Seattle to dispatch
the mail to Fattelton twice month
from about September 8, 1897, to June
30, 1898, instead of one trip only.
The Sl4, 900 package sent by regis.
Tered mail to the State Savings Bank
OF Butte, Mont, by the National Bank
OF the Republic in Chicago has been
given MP for lost. The Union Marine
insurance Company of New York. |
with which the package was insured.
notified the bank by telegraph that It
would pay the loss. The company has
10 recourse. the Government having
10 responsibility.