The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-29
DOings of the Day Reflected
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THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Told in Short Paragraphs--Th
Latest Intelligence from
All Sources.

The Irish Department of Agricul-
ture has decided to order a special
exhibit of Irish industries for the St.
Louis exposition.
The athletic officers of Yale are con-
sidering the sending of a challenge
to Cambridge university, England, for
track meet in this country.
Four men were badly injured, one
perhaps fatally, in a stampede that
followed the explosion of a fuse in a
Fulton street, Brooklyn, car Wednes-
day.
Four persons were suffocated to
death and two others so badly burned
that 1t is feared they will die, in a
fire early Wednesday morning in a
New York fiye-story apartment-house.
For the fifth time. but not consec-
utively, General Luis Terrazas, states
man and hero of Mexico's fight for in
dependence, and the richest man in the
republic, was inaugurated Governor of
Chihuahua Wednesday.
An engine and four cars on the Air
Line and the new works of the Ana
conda copper company jumped the
track yesterday morning and two men
of the crew. John O'Mara and John
/ ad
w. c. Clifton, murderer of Mr.. and
Mrs. John w. Church. was lyncheu
by mob from Gillette, Wyo., We'd
nesday night. The mob battered down
the Jail door, holding up the sheriff
and deputy the while, and hung Cliff
ton to bridge west of town. Clifton
had his head jerked off by the fall OF
forty feet.
The deaths resulting from the tor
nado at Elmo. Mo. are placed at
eighteen, with one man missing. Dan
iel c. Barker. retired farms. ~.
during the night of apoplexy caused
by fright; Ed. Wiseman, a farmer,
is missing, and c. Daniels and Mrs.
John Mcmahon are seriously injured.
While a girl was cleaning a pair of
gloves with gasoline at San Diego,
Cal, the fumes of the liquid ignited
from a stove and totally destroyed
the home of Mrs. keenan, on Univer-
sity avenue.
A posse of officers from Brighton,
a small town north of Denver. had
tragic experience Wednesday. They
had a warrant to serve on George NJ.
,tufhebeam, a farmer, and the officers
had been informed that he would not
be taken alive. They found him in
clump of woods back of the house.
with a weapon in his hand, and when
the officers got within forty feet OF
him, Stuffiebeam raised the weapon,
demanded that the officers retreat, ana
then shot himself dead. Stufflebeam'
wife charged him with criminal in
timacy with their eighteen-year-old
daughter. He was a prosperous farm
er and heretofore had borne an ex-
cellent reputation.
BY far the most sensational develop
ment of the postoffice investigation
up to this time occurred Wednesday.
Augustus w. Machen, the general su-
perintendent of the free delivery ser
vice, was arrested on warrant issued
upon the information of Postofiice
Inspectors charging him with having
received rake offs" from contracts
made with the local firm OF Gron
brothers, for a patent postal Sox fas-
tener. The warrant specifically charges
him with receiving $1S,9S1.7S since
August -, 1900. 1t is alleged at the
department hearquarters. however.
that this amount does not represent
all that Machen obtained from his con-
tracts, it being charged that he profit
ed by them for several years prior
to the date of the first contract men
ton in the warrant Other arrests are
to follow.
Two efforts were made during We'd
nesday night to wreck the power sta
tion at the Utah Light and Power
company ON East street. Salt Lake
city. either of which would have
thrown a pail of darkness over the
city and shut down the entire street
car system indefinitely. The efforts