Local News Snippets and National Labor Notes
Knights of Labor plan active canvass for Populists in Nebraska. Transatlantic steerage rates drop to 864. El Dorado in Western Australia called a land of sand and sorrow. Winne mucca militia readies for encampment while Coxey’s army dwindles near Baltimore. Coxey and son return home. J H Atkins now Southern Pacific agent at Castle Crag. J A Cochran handles estate of G R Walker and burial supplies. Cattle roam. owners risk impoundment. Carson observer notes strikes resemble patching rent with force. William R Melville of Bank of California jailed after embezzlement charges. Franklin joke on hanging together cited. Sacramento strikes: nearly a thousand workers back in railroad shops. others paid in full and returning to streets. unlikely to disrupt trains while soldiers are present.
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el Dorado
Western Australia
Winnemucca
Carson
William R. Melville
Bank of California
Carlin
Hadley
Howard
Low Thoreway
San Francisco
Sacramento
Electric Phenomenon at Redlands Gold Mining Company
A night in Inyo County California reported an extraordinary electrical display at the Redlands mining site. Touching metal produced a stream of fire between hand and object while observers saw a northern sea of flame and spectacular electrical pyrotechnics across the sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redlands Gold Mining Company
Inyo County
Cal
Nevada's Awards at the Midwinter Fair
Nevada and Nevadans win numerous prizes at the Midwinter Fair including firsts in wheat bar ley corn oats rye alfalfa hay and other crops. Individual exhibitors such as Alexander Wise Mrs. Theodore Winters E. G. Morrison A. E. Johnson and James Burke earn top honors across minerals timber and public school exhibits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver State
Nevada
State of
Morrison
Eureka
Nev
Occidental Alkali Co
Hawthorne
Nevada Salt and Borax Co
Rhodes
Borax
D. Bonelli
Rioville
Joseph Grandelmeyer
Hamilton
Nevy
State of Nevada
Mineral Exhibit Proposed for Fine Arts Building
A plan proposes using part of the fine arts building, left intact at Midwinter fair grounds, for a mineral exhibit with potential future relocation of the Mining Bureau collection. Nevada commissioner Yerington would seek space for permanent display and future strikes. The idea aims to showcase resources to visiting thousands rather than a few hundred at the mining bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fine Arts
Mining Bureau
James A. Yerington
Nevada
Park
Debs Declares Free Speech Stance at ARU Meeting
At a Chicago ARU meeting President Debs stated he has not forfeited his right to free speech and would prefer jail over any defense against him. He called contempt of court an honor if the court plans to try him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Congress
Chicago
Debs
Apportionment of School Funds Reported
Auditor presents semi annual apportionment of state public school funds for Humboldt County Nevada dated July 17 1894. Includes the official action by Auditor Treasurer and School Trustees with basis of distribution and totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senoon Sur’r, Or
Humpounr Co
Wrxvemvcen
Humboldt County
Nevada
Gestiemen
Grand Jury Call and Local Political Primaries 1894
All grand jury members must attend at the court house on Monday July 30, 1894, by order of Judge Cheney with Geo. S. Nixon as foreman. The notice lists district delegates for a state convention, polling places and judges, and details for the Silver Party coinage pledge and County Central Committee selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Cheney
Nixon
Silver Party
Humboldt County
State Central Committee
Reno
Lovelock
Rye Pateh
Humboldt
Unionville
Mill City
Dun Glen
Kennedy
Pleasant Valley
Golconda
Stone House
Eden Valley
Rebel Creek
McDermit
Bartlett Creek
Disaster Peak
Paralise
Willow Point
Little Humboldt
Winnemuccea
Feliz Hall
W. ©. Pitt
J. H. Thies
Johan T. Ried
Rye Fateh
Marion Howell
French
James Ashe
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Knights of Labor
Nebraska
England
Coxey
Baltimore
J. H. Atkins
Castle Crag
Southern Pacific Company
J. A. Cochran
G. R. Walker
Benjamin Franklin
Sacramento Strikers
James Burke
Steamboat Springs
C. Bell
Lander County
Brame Manufacturing Co
Wazon
New Era
Imperial Mill
Virginia
Cinnabar Mountain
Virginia Enterprise
Lake Donner
Paul Neth
Charles Neth
Reno Gazette
National Guards of
Reno Guards
Coryell
Virgina
Paris
M. E
James H. N. Willliams
U. S
Buena Vista
Central Iw
Winnemucen
Big Meadows
Juin River
Willow Point Ay
Sonoma
Floyd. Kennedy
L. A. Buckner
M. A. Leonano
The
California
California Fig Syrup Co
Hall
PF. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
O Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Porter
Bridge Street
Elaine Oil
E. Bernarr & Co
Third Street
Joux Hosiers
de Ayer
Syee
State Convention
Carson City
Postoffice
T. J. Hadley
Josiah Springer
H. Fellows
Woolcock's
Peter Organ
L. M. Donelin
J. F. Clark
Thomas
Sam Hendra
James Hendra
J. R. Benton
Norcross
F. Francis
Shallenberger’s
G. N. Shallenberg
Winnemuecea
Hose House
B. Gramm
Jos, Rougon
Rt. W. Lewis
United States
Winneminces
Geo
F. M. Fellows
Weighel
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