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

1890" $1,000
day.
The Star gambling house at Fair
view. Nevada, was held up and robDed
Of $780, A vigilance committee is be-
ing organized by the citizens to pun
fish criminals In Fairview.
Five ice dealers. representing local
companies, were sentenced in common
pleas court at Toledo. o., to pay
fine Of $4,000 each. and each man -
serve one year in the work house.
At 11:15 p. m. on the goth the presi.
dent signed the railroad rate bill. He
also signed the immigration bill and
the bill for the construction of lock
canal over the Isthmus of Panama.
Charles Mcwharter, assistant cash
Ter of the Washington City postoffice,
has been arrested on complaint OF
City Postmaster John A. Merritt.
charged with the embezzlement OF
$4,000.
In his crusade against automobile
speeding, Municipal Judge G. l.. Smith
Of Minneapolis has imposed a straight
workhouse sentence of Ave days upon
Harry Queal, SON of millionaire lum-
herman.
The girls dormitory of Knox Indus
trial school, just beyond the city linn
its OF Knoxville, Tenn, was totally de-
stroyed by fire. Fifty-eight girls
sleeping in the building escaped with.
out injury.
Detectives disguised as workmen
were denounced and nearly battered
to death with "knuckle busters" at a
workmen's meeting in st. Petersburg.
They were removed to the hospital in
dying condition.
Special discount has been introduced
In the Manchurian railway tariff for
tobacco and few other commodities
Foreigners are apprehensive of the ex-
tension of the rebate system in favor
Of Japanese goods.
According to dispatch from War
saw to the Jewish Chronicle, Uman,
liz miles southwest of Kiev, Is In q
ferment and massacre of Jews 10
feared. The Jewish population of the
town is In a state of panic
Investigation by the interstate com.
merce commission into complaints
from independent oil dealers that
transportation rates in Southern
States are exorbitant and prohibitive.
has begun at New Orleans
N. ]. Free. known all over the coun.
try as the Immortal J. NJ died last
week at the Toleda State Hospital for
the Insane. For years he travelled all
over the United States, paying neither
hotel bills nor railroad fare.
The Chilean government has sane
toned the Trans-Andine Construction
company's issue of bonds. valued at
$1,S90,0O0, bearing per cent interest
and guaranteed by Chile for twenty
years. The interest will be paid In
London
Terrorists attacked the city pay
master at Warsaw, robbed him of
$1,000. and escaped. Another band
robbed the gas works paymaster of
$l,25O and escaped, and third band
robbed the office of Enufelds bedstead
factory Of 1915.
The Joint postal committee Of the
senate and house elected Senator Pen.
rose chairman and Representative
0verstreet vice chairman. The COM
mittee is to investigate the cost OF
carrying second class mail and see IL
It can be made to pay the cost of han
ding.
Forest fires are burning timber
tracts in Magdalena county, Texas.
and the town of Magdalena is threat
ened. 1t Is reported that several min.
ing camps have been destroyed. The
region is sparsely populated with
American miners.
There were sold on the Kansas City
market last week nine cars OF Arizona
grass wethers, average ninety-eight
pounds, at $3.50 stra ght, and FIVE cars
of Arizona grass lambs, average sew
enty-one pounds. at s7S5 straight, rec
ord-breaking prices.
Frank e. Stoneman president OF the
North American Lead company, and
identified with other business inter-
ests, was killed and Joseph f. and
George w. Davidson painfully injured
in an automobile accident at Alton,
near Columbus, Ohio.
Edward S. Schoudoney. farmer 2S
years old, living near Santa Fe
Springs, Colo, made an unsuccessful
attempt to kill his wife with pistol
and after being disarmed by her, Sc
cured shotgun and shot himself in
the stomach, dying instantly.
Three men lost their lives In a DOW.
der explosion at the Mohawk mine,
between Biwablk and Aurora, Mimi.
All are unmarried 1t is supposed
that one of the men was getting out
dynamite, which is used in sticks, and
the flames OF his candle touched it.
Returning unannounced to his home
in Warrington. W. va, James L. Coad.
an Oil dealer shot and instantly killad |