The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-09
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Condensed Geographic Reports Of
Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
Budget of News For Easy Digestisn-Ail
Parts of the Country Represented
Interesting Items.

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to equip its passenger cars with cleo
trio lights.
A smelter trust is being organize
at Denver to include this country and
British Columbia
Senator Perkins announces that he
is opposed to granting to Alaska a ter
ritorial form Of government.
The new form of interchangeable
mileage ticket issued by the Western
roads is proving very popular.
At Fall River, Mass, an increase of
10 per cent in wages has been an
nouneed in the Jersey wooden mill.
The Rambler bicycle company have
put the price of their 1898 wheels at
$50 and the bicycle pattern of 1897
will sell at $50.
Sixty students a. Vassar College are
reported ill, the effect of eating i'm
properly cooked veal. They are pro-
nounced out of danger.
Mrs. Terrill and nephew, Edward
Mason, were burned to death on farm
few miles from Peru, N. Y, by the
explosion of a lamp.
The Controller of the Currency has
declared a dividend of 20 pei cent in
favor of the creditors of The Dalles
/ National Bank of The Dalles, Or.
The supreme court of New Jersey
has denied the application for re-
count of the votes of the i-gambling
amendment to the State constitution.
Rev. Nathan Tibbals, founder of the
old publishing house of Tibbals &
Sons, New York City, died at his
home in Brooklyn, N Y, recently,
aged SO years.
The handsome colonial residence of
Lieutenant Edwin S. Jacobs, United
States Navy, retired, at Northampton.
Va, was burned to the ground. Loss,
about $4,000
Chicago experts after few years
experience with vitrified brick pave
ment, say it is equal to granite and
much better than asphalt or cedar block
paving. 1t is cheaper, too.
Through contract closed by Presi-
dent A. E. Stillwell of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Trust Company,
line of European steamers is to be
established at Port Arthur, Tex.
The government has brought suit in
the United States court at Boise,
Idaho, to recover $500 acres of land in
the Blackfoot land district proven up
on under the desert land act, on ac-
count of fraud
Sixteen head of cattle were roasted
alive in a santa Fe cattle car at WAX
arusa Station, Kas. The believing Of
the tortured beasts attracted the Ell
tire inhabitants of the surrounding
country to the scene.
George A. Taylor, cashier of the
defunct Argentina Bank at Kansas
City, was sentenced to four years in
the Kansas Penitentiary for receiving
deposits when he knew that the bank
was in an lnsolvent condition.
An investigation of the soldiers
homes will be made by congress as the
result of the report of Inspector { en-
eral Breckenridge, who recommends
that the administration of the homes
be transferred to the war department..
John Britton, late Major of the
Eighteenth Cavalry, died recently in
New York, aged 60 years He was
engaged in forty mine battles, and was
one of the 5000 picked men who par
tioipated in Kilpatrick's raid on Rich.
mond, Va.
Customs officers IRON Boston have
seized small schooner at Eastport,
Me-, having on board cargo of
twenty-five boxes of tin plate, which
had been struggled into the country.
This is the first known attempt at
smuggling tin plate.
Acting Assistant Attorney General
Barrett for the Postoffice Department
has decided that State has no author
ity to tax the emoluments paid to any
officer or agent which the United
States may use and employ as neces-
sary and proper means to execute its
sovereign power.
The assassination of Hon. John M.
Clayton has been revived by the re.
ceipt of letter by Governor Jones of /
Arkansas, written from Pitts, Ga, by
a person signing the name of Luther
Atkins The writer of the letter re.
calls the crime, inquiries about the re.
wards and states that he can locate the
murder and produce proof of guilt.
Fred B. Ketcham has been awarded
a verdict of $21 $3.50. 80 by the Jury in
Judge Clifford's court in Chicago in
his suit against the Northwestern Rail.
road for $40, 200 damages for black
list, During the great strike of the
American Railway Union, Ketchan
was employed as a conductor for the
Northwestern road. He joined the
strikers and was blacklisted
A frightful accident occurred at the
lower smelter at Anaconda, Montana,
recently, which may result in two
deaths. Michael Crogan and man
Kelly were at work under the
Cancine furnaces. In some unknown
torch holding nearly gallon
ot oil was upset, and the men were so
badly burned before they could be res.
,ued that death seems sure.
The Treasury Department has re-
,eived a number of applications from
newspapers Indifferent arts of the
country for permission to send repre-
on the expedition for the re.