The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-09-07
NEWS SUMMARY

A conngration has occurred at Nor
dova. Two thousand persons have
been rendered homeless.
The Brazilian congress has voted
an appropriation Of s66e,OOO for the re-
lief Of sufferers by the earthquake at
Valparaiso.
Abraham Green, a German. 80 years
old. Of San Francisco, shot and killed
his wife and then committed suicide
by shooting.
A police, two gendarmes and a con-
ductor were killed on a train by
band of seven revolutionists near
Tamboff, Russia.
For the fourteenth time the execu-
tive council of Victoria has rejected
the proposal to confer the right Of
suffrage on women.
President Roosevelt has cabled to
King Frederick. through the American
minister, his congratulations on the
opening Of the cable to Iceland.
Four Greek laborers were killed and
another man fatally injured by being
struck by q Baltimore & Ohio South
western train at Symmes. Ohio.
What is believed to have been an
attempt to wreck the Santa Fe over
land train was made at Helen, Cal,
by the placing of a handcar on the
track.
Isaac Wine, so years old, committed
suicide at the Hotel Avon. Los An
geles, by blowing out his brains with
a 44-caliber revolver. Ill health led
to the deed.
When the body Of men known as
the Divorce congress" meets In
Philadelphia November IL 1t will have
submitted to it uniform statute re-
lating to the annulment Of marriage
and the granting of divorces.
A mob of about 500 persons at
tempted to take and lynch William
Thompson. a negro, confessed assail-
ant of two little white girls and a lit
tie negro girl at Mobile, Ala, but
were prevented by the officers.
The vault in the city hall at San
Francisco containing records Of the
board of supervisors was opened last
week and all the papers were found
charred by the prolonged heat to
which they had been subjected.
In desperate fight within the walls
of the United States prison at Allan
ia, Ga, Edward Richmond, serving a
term of ten years for train robbery
committed in Indian Territory, was
shot and instantly killed by Guard
Frey.
Captain J. Frank Griggs. who, dur
ing the civil war, was In General
Shelby's command, but who later was
with Quantrell, the raider, and who is
said to have been in the famous raid
at Lawrence, Kan, is dead at Grain
Valley. Mo.
The steamer City of Selkirk arrived
at Selkirk, Man, from the north end
Of Lake Winnipeg, and reported that
the steamer Princess. with sixteen
hands on board, ran into a rock near
Swampy island, and six of her Grew
were drowned.
Governor Folk has granted a re-
spite until October rs to Mrs. Agnes
Myers, now in Jail at Liberty, await
ing execution for the murder of her
husband. similar respite was grant
| ed in the case of Frank Hoffman. Mrs.
Myers accomplice, now in Jail at
Kansas City.
J. s. Merscham, travelling overland
from Portales, N NJ, discovered two
men sitting upright in a wagon, dead,
| and four mules in harness. The men
have been Identified as Victor and
Thomas Simpson, brothers, who lived
on farms near Elida. They were
killed by lightning while driving from
Roswell. N M.
Revolutionists effected a daring rob
berry Of a post Office collector in the
center Of st. Petersburg, Snuff was
thrown in the eyes of the collector by
the robbers. who seized his portfolio
and escaped with 1t. Fortunately
there were but few hundred dollars
in the portfolio.
A punitive expedition visited the
district near Weden, Russia, where a
rural guard was killed recently, insti-
tuted a drumhead court martial, put to
death three revolutionists and logged
many peasants with whips. A fine Of
1900 was imposed on the two COM
munes involved.
The Populist OF Indiana met here at
Indianapolis in state convention, nom
mated q state ticket and adopted a
platform. The platform denounces
trusts, imperialism, the present finan-
| cial system and the decisions OF The
United States supreme court adverse
to the income tax.
On account of the frequency of at.
tacks on policemen, the project Of
police Of Moscow has issued an order
declaring that the men had been
wounded owing to their own fault in
not taking precautions, adding that
they must hereafter employ their arms
In the most energetic fashion.
Secretary Wilson has returned 10
Washington from an extended trip
through the west and northwest. He
inspected personally many meat
packing plants in the various cities he
visited, making 1t a point always to
call at the plants In a given city with
out previous notice.
An outbreak occurred in the Moscow