The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-24
NEWS SUMMARY

oonlc plague az Campos, Rio de ia |
neiro.
A serious potato blight has ap-
peared in the heart of ireland and
threatens the failure OF the crop.
A. B. Lamason. a wealthy banker,
cashier Of the Bank of Ankeny, Iowa.
was struck by lightning and killed.
Jams Realty was fatally Injured in
a collision between two street cars at
Granite City Ills Thirteen other per-
sons were more or less seriously hurt
Joseph Castleman, living in Weak
ley county, Tennessee, shot and killed
his divorced wife and then killed him
self. He was so years old and she
was so.
The Rhine & Moselle Insurance com
pany of Germany has decided that it
will not pay its 100000 of liabilities
arising from the San Francisco con.
fiagration.
Revolutionists armed with revolv-
ers killed Chief of Police Mironovttcn
and seriously wounded Captain Het-
rolf, the chief of the Rural Guards, at
Votslavsk.
Prince Mohammed Ibrahim of Egypt
was most seriously injured in an auto
mobile accident at level crossing at
Bernay. Normandie. His chauffeur
was killed.
Between thirty and fifty Mexican
laborers and bystanders were killed
at Chihuahua, Mexico, by the explo-
sion of a carload of dynamite on a
Mexican Central train.
James Pierre, an Englishman, was
fined $25 in police court at Bayonne,
N. j., for kissing the American flag
during the performance at a theatre.
Pierre's action almost caused a riot
In a dispatch from Warsaw the cor.
respondent of the Tribune says that
the house of one British and one Am.
erican resident of Lodz were looted
by cossacks alter tho bomb outrage
Of Wednesday.
The United Transfers of America,
the newly launched rival of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Transfers,
completed it's organization at Chicago
by electing Newton w. Evans, Bloom.
ington, H., as president.
The murder of DIR. Graham of Hold.
er, l. t., who was shot and killed
about a month ago by Ben Steward,
was avenged last week. when un.
known parties shot the latter from
ambush, killing him instantly.
Eight armed men attacked the treas
urer of the Black Sea company at mid.
day on the principal street of Nicolaei.
veff They killed the treasurer as well
as a policeman, who was accompany.
ing him and made off with $4,000.
John Waters of Doniphan, Neb., a
delegate to the Populist state conven.
ton at Lincoln, while suffering from
heat left his hotel and wandered to
the Burlington railroad yards and was
struck by a switch engine and killed
State Senator F. o. Butt of Perry
vile, Ark, has been convicted by a
| jury in the circuit court on a charge
of offering a bride to another state
senator. He was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary and to pay
fine of $500.
John Donahue, wealthy farmer
was shot a1d killed at his home neal
Coyville, Kan, by his wife, whom he
had attacked with butcher knife
Donahue was 20 years old and hat
lived near Coyville more than quar-
ter of a century.
A boy threw bomb into a process
sion at Moscow, returning from pill
grimage to the shrine of the Holy Vir
gin at Rokitno, wounding two of the
processionists. The explosion at
tracted a patrol of infantry, who free
and wounded thirty persons.
The Forest City, small passenge
steamer plying between Muskogee,
T., and Fort Gibson, on the Crane
river, sank near the latter place. Their,
were forty passengers on board, bu
all escaped safely, being removes
from the craft in small boats.
Wrapping a sheet around him s,
that it's folds made a perfect shroud
]. w. Brown, an East Des Moines
Iowa, commission merchant, lay Of
the floor of his bath room, and, In
sorting a gas tube into his mouth, in
hailed a sufficient quantity to caus
death.
Four boys, all under years of age
were struck and killed by train Will
walking across the railroad bridg
over Broad street. in Elizabeth, N.
The bodies of two of them fell int
the crowded street amidst a numbe
of women shoppers, several of whor
tainted.
AS a result of row between twent
drunken Mexicans engaged at Pro
pect Heights, Canon City, Colo, Ma
shall Berggantz was dubbed and Ma
shall Pillmon was seriously stabbed
During the fight three Mexicans wer
seriously injured and one America
slightly.
With one bullet through his heal
and another through his temple, el
tering at one side of the head an
coming out at the other, Charles Wi
liams, negro of Hattiesburg, Miss
has survived for three days, and tn