The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-10-09
TELECRAPHIC RESUME.
Things That Have Happened all
Over the Country
MENTIONED In THESE PARAGRAPHS
Selections That VIII Greatly Interest
Our Readers Beth Old
and Young.

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list, died at Marysville, O., aged 80
years.
The State Bank of Ambia, Ind, is
short of cash between $780, 600 and
$50, 900. Fred Met oennell, cashier of
the bank is also missing.
Lazarus Nor gentheau, of New York
City, aged IS, who vas called Cupid
AGENT" because of his scheme to give
orphan girls a dowry of 500, is dead.
Three young men who we're rowing
on the Niagara River were thrown
into the water by the capsizing of their
boat, and all three were swept over
the falls.
The negroes of prominence all over
the United States are making prepara-
tions to hold a mammoth convention
in Atlanta in October to protest
against lynohing.
Fifteen hundred operators on fine
coats have struck for an increase of
25 per cent per garment, weekly pay
ments, recognition of the union, and a
nine-hour working day.
J. P. s. Goblin of Lebanon, Penn
slyvania. was elected Commander.in.
Chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public at the encampment now in ses-
sion at Buffalo, New York.
It is reported that President Nc
Kinley is now sounding European
governments to ascertain the extent of
their neutrality in case the United
States should intervene in Cuba.
Ten thousand delegates were present
at the triennial silver State convention
held at Lincoln, Nebraska. William
J. Bryan, Senator Allen and General
J. b. Weaver made speeches.
The shoe factory of George @. Snow,
at Brookton, Mass, employing 400
hands. was closed for one day recently,
by a strike Of the lasters against a wage
reduction of so cents per day.
William Writ Howe of New Orleans
has been elected president of the Amer
lean Bar Association, John Sinkley of
Baltimore secretary, and Francis
Bawle of Philadelphia, treasurer.
John R. Bitner, president of the
Fulton National Bank, of Lancaster
Pa, and a prominent capitalist Of that
city, died recently. from stomach
troubles. He was II years old.
A Naval Board has been appointed
to look into the subject of dry-docks,
the condition and capacity of those
already available as we'll as the num-
Der which should be constructed.
The Cleveland, o., Machine Screw
Company, one of the largest in the
country, has been bought by a French
syndicate and capitalized at $3,000,-
900. The price paid was over 81, O0O,-
900.
Notice has been served on several
theatrical managers of New York that
if they continue to employ n~on-union
scenic artists the union carpenters and
stage mechanics will refuse to handle
the scenery.
The oyster season at Baltimore,
Maryland, has opened. Oysters are
plentiful and of fine quality. Forty
eight packing-houses employing thirty
thousand persons are preparing to ship
the raw stock.
At the recent commencement of
Franklin College, New Athens, Ohio,
there were twenty graduates in
the classical, philosophical, and scien-
tific courses, no one of whom uses to-
bacco Of intoxicants.
The New American Party has
been organized at st. Louis, Mo-, with
a platform declaring for the abolition
of trusts, non.seotarian public schools
and equal suffrage, based on educa-
tional qualification.
Seth Low, president of Columbia
University, New York City, has been
nominated for mayor of Greater New
York by the Citizens Union. Con.
ference committees representing five
boroughs were present.
The First State Bank of Mcpherson,
Kas., of which Senator Royal Mat
thews is president, has failed with
liabilities amounting to $28, 900. The
bank is now in charge of Bank Exam
liner John W. Breidenthal.
The Republican editors of Ohio, at
their annual meeting in Columbus,
O., recently, adopted a resolution ex-
pressing sympathy with.the case of the
striking miners, and decided to at
once begin an active campaign in their
behalf.
Marie, the 14-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Valdez of Port Tampa, Florida,
started a fire with kerosene. In an ex-
plosion that followed, both the girl
and her mother were burned to a crisp
and ar unknown boy was burned to
death. The house and five others ad-
joining it were consumed.
A new use has been discovered fer
the cathode ray, that of identifying
the skin. 1t is claimed that the "bom-
bardment of PARTICLES" when contin-
ued for a sufficient length of time, will
cause the old skin to fall off and a
newer and purer tegument to take its
place.
Great efforts are being put forth to
save Evangelina Cisneros, niece of
the president of the Cuban republic,
from a twenty year term of imprison-
ment to which she was cruelty con-
demned by Spanish court-martial be-
cause she would not submit to dishonor
at the hands of a Spanish official.