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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
DEATH IN PATH OF STORM.
Lightning, and Crops Ruined
by Hall.

Pittsburg, Pa.-From many points
in western Pennsylvania come reports
of death and damage by severe thun-
der showers and electrical storms Sun,
day. At Monongahela the storm was
accompanied by high wind that up
rooted trees and blew down many
buildings A number of residences
were struck by lightning, the tele-
graph service was put out of commits
sion and several thousand dollars
worth Of damage was done.
At Beaver Falls hailstones of i'm.
mense size fell, doing great damage
70 windows, fruit trees and crops.
At Kittaning, James Mitchell and
his 15-year-old son, who were sitting
on a porch, were struck and killed by
lightning, and the house was set on
fire. Others of the family were
stunned and neighbors came to their
assistance in time to rescue them
from the flames.
AT Punxsutawney, Clyde Blose, aged
49, and Bert Weise, aged 20, were
killed by lightning while standing in
the doorway of barn Lacid Blose,
brother of Clyde. was also struck,
and Is not expected to live.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
.SNOOT CASE
NEARING END.
Committee Finally Submits
It's Report TO the Senate
for Approval.
Majority Members Of Committee De-
clare That Utah Senator ls Not
Entitled to Wear the Tosa-
Minority Report Submitted.

Washington.-Senator Burrows on
Monday reported in the senate the
resolution adopted by a majority vote
OF the privileges and elections com.
mittee declaring that Reed Smoot is
not entitled to a seat in the senate.
A report on the resolution was also
presented, and Burrows asked that TO-
600 copies be printed as a senate doc
ument and that the same number OF
the minority report to be offered
should also be printed, which was
agreed to.
Senator Foraker presented the
minority report in the Smoot case and
moved that both reports be printed
In the record in addition to being is
sued as senate documents. Senator
Burrows said he hoped the case OF
Senator Smoot could be called up at
an early date and voted upon. Sen.
ator Foraker indorsed this proposition
and said the minority members of the
committee would like to see early ac-
ton taken
Senator Bailey of the privileges and
election committee said that while he
concurred in the conclusion of the ma
1ority OF the committee that Smoot is
not entitled to a seat in the senate, it
was his opinion that he could not be
deprived Of his seat except by resolu-
ton by expulsion. While both anti
and pro-Smoot senators expressed on
the floor a desire for an early vote, 1t
is believed that final action in the
case will not be reached this session.
Senator Allison. in discussing this
phase of the case, said II there should
be disposition on the part of many
senator's to speak on the Smoot case,
1t would not be taken mp this session.
1t was stated by Senator Smoot
that he would speak on his own behalf
in the senate If general discussion
takes place.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
TRIED TO KILL FAMILY.
Brigham City Boy confesses to Hor-
rble Crime.

Brigham City.-Edward Sorenson,
aged Is years, is now under arrest at
Brigham City, charged with having
attempted the murder of the whole
family of his employer, Daniel b.
Woodland, at Willard, few miles
firm Brigham City. Sorenson has
confessed. and duplicates Henry
Woodland, son of the family,
Sorenson at o'clock Monday morn.
ing entered the room occupied by Mr..
and Mrs Woodland through a window
and fired the contents of a double
barreled shotgun into the bed Mrs.
Woodward's arm was blown off, and
she received terrible injuries. After
firing the shots Sorensons nerve
failed him and he fed
Sheriff Joseph Josephson of Box
Elder county arrested the young men,
and Sorenson made his confession. He
says that Henry Woodland had be-
come incensed at his parents over a
land transaction and planned their de-
struction.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
TWENTY PEOPLE HURT IN
STREET RAILWAY ACCIDENT
Two Portland Street Cars, Running at
Terrific Speed, Collide, With
Disastrous Results.

Portland-More than twenty pea
sons we're injured in head-on COLI
sion between two loaded Woodlawn
cars OF the Portland Railway com
pany at the intersection of Union and
Holiday avenues. There is a consid-
cradle incline on Union avenue just
beyond Holiday. and on this the in
coming car, which is supposed to con
tinue on past Holiday, became un
comfortable. The car, instead of con
tinuing on its proper tracks, ran into
an open switch at Holiday and with
terrific speed whirled around the cor
ner and into an outgoing Woodlawn
car, which had come to stop before
turning from Holiday into Union ave.
nue.. Both cars were badly wrecked
and hurried calls were sent for the
police and ambulances. When all the
passengers had been removed from
the cars it was found that only eight
persons had suffered sufficient injury
to necessltate removal to the hospital.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
BUILDING FOOD
no. Bring the Babies Around.

When a little human machine Cor a
arge one) goes wrong nothing is so
important as the selection of food to
bring it around again.
my little baby boy fifteen months
I'D had pneumonia, then came brain
fever, and no sooner had he got over
these than he began to cut teeth and,
being SO weak, he was frequently
thrown into commissions" says a Col
orado mother.
Il decided a change might help, so
took him to Kansas City for a visit
When we got there he was so very
weak when he would cry he would
sink away and seemed like he would
die.
when reached my sisters home
she said Immediately that we must
feed him Grape-Nuts and, although |
had never used the food, we got some
and for few days gave him just the
juice of Grape-Nuts and milk. He
got stronger so quickly we were soon
feeding him the Grape-Nuts itself and
in a wonderfully short time he fat
tened right up and became strong and
well.
THAT showed me something worth
knowing and, wien later on my girl
came, | raised her on Grape-Nuts and
she is strong healthy baby and has
been. You will see from the little
photograph send you what a strong
chubby youngster the boy is now, but
he didn't look anything like that be-
fore we found this nourishing food.
Grape-Nuts lourished him back to
strength when he was so weak be
couldn't keep any other food on his
stomach" Name given by Postum
Co, Battle Greek. Mich.
All children. can be built to a more
sturdy and healthy condition upon
Grape-Nuts and cream The food con-
aims the elements nature demands,
rom which to make the soft gray
alling In the nerve centers and brain.
A well-fed brain and strong, sturdy
nerves absolutely insure a healthy
body.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book. "The Road to MELVILLE"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
ODD EATING CUSTOMS.

Frazilians never eat when the,
drink, nor drink when they eat and
the Tartars continually persist in pul.
Ing a guest by the ear until he drinks
Maldive islanders retire to the dark.
est part of the houses and hang chr.
tains about them, so that none NJ
their fellowmen may see them at their
meal.
When they desire to show a mark
OF great esteem, the negroes of Ardra
drink from the same cup at the same
time, and the King of Loango used
to eat and drink in two separate
houses.
The Philippine islander will not eat
a meal alone. Whenever a Filipino
finds himself without companion
with whom to share his meal, he will
abstain from eating until he has
found one.
strange custom prevails in Kam-
chtaka, where a man who wishes to
entertain a guest invites him into a
cabin, which Is heated to an excessive
temperature, and then presses him
with food until he is in a state of tor
por. Instances of men dying at these
orgies have been known.
The Tahitians, though a naturally
sociable race, dine separately. Even
the man and his wife do not eat to-
gehter Each member of the family
has his own food-basket. They take
their places about five yards apart,
and then, turning their backs to each
other, dine amid a profound silence.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
To Succeed Senator Burton.

Ottawa, Kan.-Judge Alfred Watson
Benson Of this city, who was offered
the appointment of United States sen.
ator to succeed Joseph r. Burton, has
accepted the appointment He will
start for Washington at once. In an
Interview Judge Benson said: 81 pre-
sumo that | shall be candidate for
reelection to the senate before the
state legislature next winter. My in
clination is to ask the people to send
me back If my services are satisfac-
tory The whole thing comes as a
surprise to me, as l had never for a
moment considered my appointment
to the senate a possibility"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Labor In Philippines.

Washington.-In response to a com.
plant by President Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor, So.
licitor Charleton of the Philippine gov.
eminent has reported to Secretary
Taft that the eight-hour law is en-
forced in the Philippines and is held
to apply to all works there provided
for by appropriations from public
moneys of the United States. AS to
the employment of Chinese laborers,
the solicitor says that the Chinese are
now excluded from the Philippines,
but II has never been the policy of the
government to restrict or to prevent
The employment of Chinese in any
branch of the war department as me.
chanics or laborers.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15

81 have suffered with kidney, -,
bladder trouble for ten years pisr
Last March 1 commenced pss
Peruna and continued for three mont
have not used it since, nor have / q
pain.
Il believe that l am we'll and Itbs,
fore give my highest commentator
the curative qualities of Peruna."
Perfume for Kidney Trouble.
Mrs. Geo. H. Simser, Grant, ontar;d
Can, writes:
had not been we'll for about fouI
years. had kidney trouble, and y
fact, felt badly nearly all the time.
This summer l got so very bad
thought | would try Peruna, so / wrotl
toyou and began at once to take Perup1
and Manalin.
took only two bottles of Perm.
and one of Manalin, and now | feel
better than have for some time
II feel that Peruna and Manalin euref
me and made different woman of me
altogether / bless the day picked nj
the little book and read of YOUR Peruna
IT'S the business of the kidneys I,
remove from the blood all pOiSOnou
materials. They must be active all tn,
time, else the system suffers. There an
times when they need little assistance
Peruna is exactly this sort of a rem
edy. 1t has saved many people from
disaster by rendering the kidneys ser
vice at a time when they were not Ali
to bear their own burdens.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Health as a Business Asset

The average man is not accustomed
to regard his health as his very best
asset, yet that is precisely what 1t is
The man who will accord due regard to
his health, from strictly business
standpoint, will go farther, last long
er and accomplish more In the end
than one who makes health an after
consideration. Success which is at
tanned at the expense of health is
worth absolutely nothing to the man
who attains 1t. There is no pleasure
either in the process or in the final
result-St. Louis"Republic.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Big Liner on Rocks.

Cape May, N. with more than
1000 persons on board the American
line steamship Westernland, from
Liverpool and Queenstown for Phila-
delphia, is hard aground on the south
shoals near the entrance to Delaware
bay. The big steamer struck the
shoals as it was about to enter the
bay on the north side. The shoals
are about four miles off the Cape May
shore and one mile north of the Over
falls lightship. Although the Western
land is hard aground, the vessel lies
In an easy position and strong hone
Is entertained that the steamer will
be floated with the assistance of tugs
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Stabbed Boy With Nail.

Newark, N. J.-Stabbed by one of
his little playmates with a wire nail,
Louis Neuer, Is years old, lies in his
home in a serious condition. Charged
with having inflicted the injury, Louis
Seidenberg, 16 years old, was held in
$500 bail in the Fourth precinct court.
The stabbing as the sequel to a
quarrel between Neuer and a younger
brother of Seidenberg Neuer called
the younger brother name. and the
older brother went at him. After a
few passes had been exchanged Sci,
denberg pulled wire nail from his
pocket and plunged it into Neuer's left
breast.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
win cost neef Packers ! Laras SUM

Chicago.-The improvements at the
Union stock yards to be ordered by
the city authorities as the result OF
tina recent examination of building
wiD cost the packers nearly $1,000.
900. according to estimates made by
Building Commissioner Bartzen. 1t
will require an expenditure of about
100000, maybe 100000 more, to make
the changes needed 10 conform with
the requirements OF the city building
ordinances, while the sanitary i'm.
provements to be insisted upon will
cost in the neighborhood of $500, 900.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
NEW CABINET WANTED.
Retirement Of eoremykln Ministry 10
Near at Hand.

St Petersburg spite of the Of
fetal denial, belief that the retirement
OF the Goremykin ministry is near at
hand was reasserted Sunday by the
Reich, the constitutional democratic
organ, which apparently is looking
forward hopefully to the installation
of cabinet more in harmony with the
lower house of parliament.
This hope apparently springs from
the belief that the ministry is about TO
go to smash through internal dissen-
sions over the agrarian program OF
Minister Stichinsky, concerning which
there has been much gossip lately.
Members of the cabinet, however, as.
sert that serious discord has not mani
tested itself
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Statue of Washington.

New York,-A heroic equestrian
statue of George Washington will be
unveiled next Saturday at the Brook
Ign terminal of the new WILLIAMSBURG
bridge and formally presented to the
city of Brooklyn by James F. Howe.
City officials, members of military or.
CARNATIONS and government repre-
sentatives from Washington will be
present at the ceremonies. Washing.
ton is represented in continental uni.
form as he appeared at Valley Forge,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Bomb Throwers in New York.

New York.-An attempt was made
Sunday night to explode a bomb in a
manhole of the marlborough Rapid
Transit company in front of the power
house at East Seventy-fourth street,
which furnishes current to the sub.
way. One man, Joseph Bartky. %
years of age, was arrested, the police
say, as he was about to light the fuse of
the bomb as it lay on the manhole
cover Two companions who were
with him escaped On Bartky were
found three other bombs.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Clerk Violated Orders.

Springfield, Woodward c. Bau.
mann, a clerk in the United States
land ONCE here, was dismissed Satur.
day on an order from Washington
signed by W. A. Richards, general
land commissioner. In two specific
cases Banmann had bought entered
land. taking the deed in the name OF
his wife. 1t is violation of the law
for land Office officials to deal in gov,
eminent land. 1t is thought that ir,
regularities of this kind have been ex,
tensive. and special agent is making
an Investigation.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Revolt In the South.

Mexico ity.-Salvadorean advices
report great victory for the revolu,
tionists. who repulsed vigorous at.
,ack by government troops in southern
Guatemala. though the government
lorces had artillery and kept up ter
life cannonading for six hours. I'm
Ter the leadership of General Toledo.
The revolutionary forces fought dec,
perately, and as a result OF their sue,
cess there is great rejoicing in their
camp, President Cabreras cabinet
has resigned in a body.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
TENEMENT HOUSE FIRE.
Four Persons Known to be Dead and
Several Others Missing.

New York,-Four persons are
known TO be dead and several others
are missing as a result of fire in a
tive-story tenement house at No. 20g
East Ninetyseventh street Two fire.
men were injured by falling from the
building and one of them cannot live.
Scores of thrilling rescues took place
and Just as the tiremen were about to
take woman and her two-year.old
baby from the fire escape on the third
floor, the woman fell, overcome by the
smoke and dropped the child 1t was
dashed to death on the pavement
thirty feet below. The other bodies
were found on the top floors of the
tenement.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Afraid Of American Meats.

London.-The house OF commons re.
assembled Thursday. after the Whit.
suntide recess, and set to work on the
army appropriations. In the course
of the debate Hugh Cecil Lea, Liberal,
"A newspaper proprietor, who has
served in the British and American
armiee, pressed the government for
an assurance that no more American
timed meat would be purchased for
the British army. He asserted from
personal observation that the condi
tons ander which it is packed are re
voting.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Charged With Awful Crime.

Trinidad, Colo.-Manuel Matinee.
aged II years, Mexican coal mine
worker, was arrested Saturday,
charged with having set fire to the big
Engleville coal mine owned by the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company. Mat
inez was discharged from the mine
three weeks ago and the next day the
property began to burn Hundreds OF
miners were imperiled. many of them
being saved with difficulty. The fire
" reported to be still burning fiercely
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Franz Joseph Expresses Thanks.

Vienna.-Emperor Francis Joseph
on Sunday received the members of
the Austrian and Hungarian delega
tons in formal audience at the Hof
burg. Replying to the addresses OF
the president of the delegations, the
emperor in speech thanked them for
their loyal devotion. The foreign re-
Iations of Austria and Hungary, he
declared, were entirely friendly. Aft
er an expression of deep indignation
at the attempted assassination of King
Alfonso and Queen Victoria, the EN-,
peror continued:
Our alliance with Germany proves
itself to be now, as hitherto, by virtue
Of its defensive and conservative char.
acter, valuable guarantee for peace"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Auto Turned over,

Chicago.-Four Chicagoans were in.
jured, two of them fatally, by the over
turning of an automobile near Win.
netka, north of here. The accident
was caused by the bursting of tire.
Those fatally injured were Edward
Salvess Pinger and Walter Stefins.
the chauffeur. Miss Margaret Finger,
a sister, and John Pinger. father OF
the young woman, were badly bruised.
The party was returning from a visit
at the residence Of Louis Swift. the
packer, in Lake Forest.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Henry A. Dupont Elected Senator
From Delaware.

Dover, Del.-Colonel Henry A. Du.
pont of Wilmington defeated ]. Ed.
ward Addicks In the contest for the
vacant seat from Delaware in the sen.
ate. Mr. Dupont was selected to fill
the vacancy by caucus of the TcDub-
lean members which was in session
several hours. The action of the eau
Gus ends contest that has continued
for eleven years, during which time
Addicks was the candidate of the
Union Republicans fer United States
senator,
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Quite Reasonabl

Dr. Gustave lie Bon, of Paris, has
reached the revolutionary conclusion
that matter finally passes away by
spontaneous changes in its molecules
as Illustrated in the electrons of ra.
dun, and that the result of these
changes is substances WHICH are in
termediary between ponderable bodies
and imponderable ether"
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
CURT JETT coNFEssEs.
There's Liable to be Something Do
ing In Old Kentucky.

Lexington, ky.-A special from Win.
chester KY, reports that Curtis Jett,
now in jail awaiting his second trial
on charge of assassinating James
Cockrell in jackson three years ago,
has made a full confession, telling of
the assassination of DIR. B. N. Cox.
James Cockrell and James B. Mar.
cum 1t is believed that Jet has i'm.
plicated others not indicted in connec.
ton with the Breathitt case.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Popular Revival .snnes.:

1t is said that Mr., Alexapdsr's re-
vival songs are now as popular in
England as Mr.. Sankey's were gen;
craft a ago The Glory song-an
especial favorite-has appeared in
print about 100000 times in three
years. The London dailes even pub
lish the words and music.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
THEY FINALLY GOT HIM.
Russian Chief of Police Assassinated
While Out Driving.

Bielostok, sia.--Chief of Police
Derkatchoff, against whose life sew.
eral attempts had been made, was
shot and killed Sunday by several I'M
known persons while he was out driv-
ing, His coachman was severely
wounded, At the same time the secret
police were attacked in another por,
ton of the town, one of them being
wounded
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Comnrehensiue Word

Heroine is as strange word as any
in the language. The first-two letters
are male, the first three are female,
the first four are brave man, the
whole is a brave woman.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15
Keenine Her Handy.

That's a fine rope you have, Hank
err" commented the commuter with the
lawn mower and the weekly ham I'm.
der his arm. What are you going to
do with it,"
use 1t as tether," replied Harker.
"Ah! New cow"
mo, new ook."-Chicago Daily
News
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-15

Say, came to this dance without
an invitation" $50 did l. How did
you work it," Nobody stopped me.
How did your" Same way. Ny
wifes giving the dance"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1906-02-22
The LATEST Nj an.

THE LATEST man / ever saw" said
a travelling nan to a group of tel
low.drummers at a Chestnut street
cafe yesterday, "wss rot a tramp
nor a cop. but a station agent in a
little one-horse village in Idaho.
"Atter l had finished what little
business I could do in the town I
went down 10 the railroad station
TO buy q ticket for my next stop.
The lazy stationmaster sat- on a
broken down Office chair, his feet on
the desk and a pipe in his uou.b,
hnlit. When I asked tor .hc ticket
he slowly reached up to the rack,
drew it out, handed it to me and
took my money without bestowing
a glance upon me or moviog from
his chair.
THAT'S the LATEST thing I ever
saw" I said to him. ut you can do
anything lazier than that I'll give
you this dollar" Without the
slightest curiosity or even interest,
the loafer drswled Put it In my
nooket,' and T did."-Philadelphia
Record.