The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-30

The Hawaiian sugar crop for 1906
promises to be the biggest in the his
tory Of the territory. 1t will prob
ably amount to more than 100000
tons.
General Polkownikoff, commander of
the garrison at Pattava, Russia, was
shot dead and a soldier who was pass
ing at the time also was killed by un-
known parties.
Gen. Willard Warner, ex-United
States senator from Alabama direct
ly after the Civil war, died suddenly at
Chattanooga Tenn, last week, of di-
seases incident to old age.
The crop reports received here from
II provinces and districts of Russia
show the yield of wheat to be 49,
o54 1000, 900 pounds which is 9,95S,O0O,-
900 pounds below the average.
The supreme court of Iowa has
affirmed the decision of the lower
court sentencing Louis Busse, convict
ed Of numbering his wife and burning
the body, to hang December IA.
In message sent to the editor of
the Buffalo Evening News, Senator
Plat says: THE question of my resig-
nation | will discuss hereafter | am
not considering it seriously now.
Henry Papineau, of Chicago, has
been held to the grand jury on
charge Of numbering his paralytic
wife by pouring gasoline on her
clothing and setting fire to her.
The fuel supply in Carlsbad, N. NJ,
Is exhausted, and people have been
forced to burn bacon to keep from
freezing. Schools have been dis
missed In consequence of the terrible
cold
Mrs. Dora Drogmund, aged 20, who
shot and killed her husband. Ed.
ward Drogmund, last April, in Kansas
City, has been convicted of man.
slaughter and sentenced to one year
in jail.
I1CACA LdmbClNg Inc AClIC6o WIZ
was injured in the automobile col
lision in New York City in which
| Tom Cooper lost his life, is dead
This makes the third death from the
| accident.
| The Ave unions of cotton mill OPP
eratives, Of Fall River, Mass, at
special meetings, voted large ma
jorites to reject an offer of a five
per cent advance in wages, and to go
on strike.
The first Official printed report on
the representatives OF the Sixtieth
congress has just been issued by the
clerk of the house The Republi-
can memberhip is 222 and the
Democratic membership 164.
Mrs. Aurelio Schreck, widow of Joel
Schreck, for whose murder in Los An
geles, July 14th last, Ernest Stackpole
Ia now under sentence of life impris-
onment, has been freed from a charge
Of perjury and discharged from
custody.
Two masked men in an attempt to
hold up the st. Charles hotel at Ar
kansas City, Kans., shot and instant
ly killed William Golf. the night
clerk, and wounded s. A. Halpin, an
actor, so badly that he died few
hours later.
The steam barge Resolution, from
Erie, Pa, to Toronto, Ont sprang a
leak and sank. The crew put off in
two boats. One containing five men
reached shore safely, while the second
was swamped, her six occupants be-
ing drowned
John Fusick, proprietor of lodging
house in Los Angeles, was shot and
instantly killed by two policemen
who had entered his place in search
Of supposed blind pig" Fusick, il
is claimed, drew a pistol on the on
sers, whereup they shot him
Frank Lynch, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, who promoted the boxing
match between Mike Ward and Har-
ry Lewis, in which Ward met
his death, has been arrested on a
warrant charging him with making an
agreement to promote a prize fight
E. H. Gary, chairman of the board
of directors of the United States
Steel corporation, has announced that
the wages Of common laborers in the
plants of the subsidiary companies of
the corporation will be increased 10
cents a day beginning May ! next.
Secretary Metcalf of the depart
ment of commerce and labor. has di-
rected the commissioner of corpora
lions to make an investigation of the
action of fire insurance companies in
the settlement of claims for losses re-
sulting from the earthquake and fire
in San Francisco.
In the Virginia Supreme Court OF
Appeals, Judge Cardwell handed down
| a decision affirming the decision of the
State Corporation commission, de
claring the two-cent passenger rate
act passed by the Virginia Legislature
contrary to the fourteenth amendment
Of the constitution