The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-08
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED IN THESE PARAGRAPHS
Selections That viii Greatly Interest
Our Readers Both Old
and Young.


1t is reported that all the glucose
manufacturers in the country, with
two exceptions, have formed a trust.
The Library of the Iowa State Uni
versity was struck by lightning, set on
fire, and destroyed. Loss. $l5O,0O0.
Governor Mount of Indiana has de-
oided to pardon all consumptives in
order to let them die out of prison.
A class of nineteen Indians from six
different tribes has been graduated in
Kansas from the Haskell Institute.
Governor Leedy conferred the de-
grees.
The Buffalo Life Saving Station is
working hard for telephone. The
keeper claims that people might die
of exposure in some parts of the dis
trict before word could reach him
without telephone communication.
Fire broke out in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard, New York, recently,
which did damage to the extent of
about $780, 900. The building known
as No. 10 was partly destroyed. 1t
was occupied mainly by the Ordinance
Department.
The cornerstone of the Ruskin Col
lege of the New Economy has been
laid at Ruskin, Tenn, with Masonic
ceremonies. The principal speech was
delivered by Henry D. Lloyd of Chi.
cago. 1t will be the first socialistic
college ever built.
Mrs. Long, the widowed daughter
Of President Jacoby, who was at the
head Of the insolvent Miners Bank at
Cripple Creek, Colorado, has settled
with all the depositors, paying them
so cents ON the dollar and taking the
assets of the bank herself.
George Croker, the California mil.
lionaire, is negotiating for the puI-
chase from the estate of the late Paul
Spofford Of 1870 acres at Hunts Point
on Long Island, New York. The
price to be paid is about $3.50, 900.
The deal will be completed in few
days.
A convention of wallpaper dealers
will be held at Niagara Falls, N Y.
shortly. An effort will be made to
force the entire retail wallpaper trade
of the United States and Canada into
the association. 1t is proposed that
the retail dealers form an interna-
tional organization.
G. H. Anderson of the Araphoe
Wheel Club of Denver, Col, has low
cred the road record for one hundred
miles from 6:31 to 6:30:3O. The
former record was made by A. l..
Hachenberger last year and has with
stood many efforts to break it. An.
derson rode to Evans and return,
making his ride actually 1O2 miles.
A New Castle, Pa, dispatch says a
secret meeting of the five great orders
of railway employees held there re-
Gently was attended by members of the
different orders from all parts of the
country. The Press Committee of
the meeting was instructed to only
give out the resolutions passed, but il
is understood that steps were taken
looking to federation of the several
orders.
Agitation has been begun in Kansas
looking to the passage by the next
Legislature of strong anti.butterine
bill. This comes as result of the
recent announcement by Kansas City
Kan. packers that they will imme
diately begin the manufacture on
large scale of butterine for shipment
to all States where laws do not conflict
with the sale of that article.
1t is reported in Chicago that tn,
Rio Grande Western has taken thu
same action with regard to the Sal
Francisco business that the Unio1
Pacific has recently done. 1t ha.
cleared the market of all the ticket,
of its issue that We're in the hands O.
brokers, and has notified all concerned
that 1T will pay no more street com
missions nor commissions of any sort
except to authorized agents of con
Meeting lines. This action will i'm
prove the situation on the Paciti,
Coast very greatly.
The New York Herald SAYS tina
Wall street is promised sensation
growing out of the war with the buc
ket-shops and alleged discretionar,
pool houses. A complaint is to b,
raised by way of retaliation for Ieoen
raids which involve men whose names
have been synonymous for probit,
and honesty. The charge which i
is intended to make against then
involves rather technical violation
OF the law sanctioned by custom thai
any suggestion of unfair dealing
Nevertheless it is not improbable tina
they may be found liable to punish
ment under the statutes.
A Washington dispatch says that il
accordance with the law for the sup
preston of contagious disease anon,
domestic animals. Secretary Wilson
OF the Agricultural Department ha
issued to the managers and agents o
railroads and transportation com
panies, stockmen and others, a circu
lar notifying them that the contagiou
disease known as sheep scab, or scab
bies OF sheep, exists among sheep il
the United States and that it is ,
violation of the law to receive fol-
transportation any stock affected with
that disease from one State or Terri
tory to another.