The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-07-01
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FRos THE WIRES
get OF News For Easy Disestisn-Ail
Parts Of the Country ReTresented-
Interesting Items.

again engaged in a toll-gate war. and
fears are entertained that much loss
of life may result.
Il has been stated in New York that
all the first mortgage bonds OF the ST.
Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Rail-
way Company, which is leased by the
Great Northern, have been paid off.
The second mortgage, amounting to
81, 900, 900, becomes the first mortgage.
The National Anti.M Mob and Lynch
ing Association has been incorporated
in Columbus, Ohio. by colored citizens.
Its purpose is to discourage lynch law
and arouse public sentiment for legis-
lation providing adequate punishment
by forming similar associations every
where.
Without any special ceremony the
battleship Iowa was transferred by her
builders to the Government and put
into commission at League Island,
Philadelphia. Captain W. T. Samp-
son. formerly chief of ordinance, who
has been placed in command, assumed
full control.
A st. Louis dispatch says that +. w.
Crandall of the Western Electric Com
pany of Chicago, who bought the
Scudder interest in the st. Louis Elec.
trio Light and Power Company, has
sold out to the Edison Illuminating
Company. This practically combines
all the electric light companies in the
city.
The Papyrus Club of Boston has
given to the public library of that city
fund of $1,000 in memory of John
Boyle O'Reilly, the Irish poet, author
and educator. The fund is to be in
vested and the income spent for books,
in each of which book plate perpet-
uating the poets memory is to be in
serted and maintained
The New Haven Chair Company,
manufacturers of bicycles and rolling
chairs, have applied for receivership.
Isaac Damn, resident of the company,
and W. NJ. Merrick were appointed.
Liabilities about $4,000; assets I'M
known. The company was organized
in 1864, with capital stock of $l10,-
OOO Business depression is given as
the trouble.
In deal for coal lands in East
Tennessee and Northern Kentucky the
amount of money involved will be be.
tween five million and ten million.
The Coal Greek and ,Jellico mines,
which it is thought might not be &C.
quired until later, are in the deal, and
the only mine of any consequence left
to compete with the syndicate will be
the State mine at Brusby mountain.
In Detroit, Michigan, Ella Holbrook
Walker, daughter of member of the
largest firm of whisky distillers en-
this continent. became Countess Man
fred Won Matuscbka and Baroness Won
Toppolizen. Justice Shellenberg per-
formed the civil, land Right Rev Bishop
Foley the religious ceremony. The
groom was attended by his brother,
Count Eberhard. The brides dowry
is about half million. The couple
departed for Upper Silesia.
A dispatch from Anderson, Ind,
says Mrs. Harrietta Wilkie of Elwood
has been admitted to the Madison
County Circuit and Superior Court
bars over the protest of Attorney John
Beels of Anderson, who protested on
the point of constitutionality. The
case has been under advisement for
some days and this ruling is very i'm
portant precedent, as this is the first
time the question of legality of a
woman practicing law has ever been
brought up in this State.
A committee of German projections
lists has addressed communication 70
the Foreign Office, complaining of
American competition and asking for a
heavy import duty on American
cycles, on the ground that if such a
duty is not imposed, 1000 men en-
ployed in German cycle factories will
be thrown out of work, owing to the
extraordinary cheapness of American
wheels. The petition is not likely to
be granted, for the cheapness COM
planned of generally lasts only until
the cycle in question becomes famous.
A Minneapolis dispatch says Judge
Simpson of the district bench has
handed down an opinion that, while il
was the duty of the Governor to re.
spond to the Grand Jury's subpoena
and to produce such papers as 1T re-
quired. he could not be compelled to dc
so by the judiciary branch of the State
government, which is only coordinate
with and not superior to the legisla.
tive. The Governor is exempt from
judicial processes while in discharge
of his duties, and he alone is judge of
when such processes would interfere
with such duties. He is amenable tc
the Legislature alone. which may i'm.
peach him for violation of duty.
New York capitalists, through Man.
ming & Cameron of Phoenix, Arizona.
closed the pure base Of the famous
group of San Xavier mines from the
Boston owners. The group com.
veloped. They were first discovered
and worked forty years ago. and are
considered to contain the largest de-
posits of copper, silver and lead ores in
Southern Arizona. The mines are
located sixteen miles south of Tucson.
The effect of the sale has been to
already stimulate commercial interest
there. as we'll as the demands for
options of several other large copper
properties in the district.
Formal application has been made
by the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany for permission to list $4,000, 900