The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-07-20
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3eart OF fayi0rVllle, lnu., ana caused
loss OF about ss50OOO.
Fire at Johnstown. Pa, destroyed
ialf a dozen business houses and one
ireman was fatally injured.
Jean Baptiste Millet, the artist.
brother of Jean Francis Miilet, the
amous painter. is dead in Paris.
Two dynamite explosions in differ
mt parts Of New York killed one man
Ind injured nine, three seriously.
The peasants at varonezh, Russia,
ire rising as protest against the man
Der in which the famine relief is being
iistruhted.
Licensiado Cleto Gonzales Viquez.
lormerly minister of finance, has been
elected president of the republic of
Costa Rica.
The workmen in the Presencia and
effort districts of Russia have pro-
bounced against general strike be-
ore Easter.
c. M. Hatchs store. Bridgeport.
Conn, in which is located the post
pfice. was robbed of $4,000 in money
md stamps.
Daniel F. Spiers, a well-known ex-
'lave, who purchased his freedom in
S51, for 5000. died at East Liverpool,
D, last week, aged 1903 years
The revolutionists at Warsaw have
announced their intention to declare
general strike in order to prevent
he government from contracting
new loan.
The dispatch of Russion troops to
Finland is producing disquietude 1t is
cared that the authorities at St Pc.
ersburg intend to supercede Governor.
General Hard
Many threats have been made
against the life of Premier Witte On
Tuesday he received warning that un-
ess he left the government in a week
nc WOulu De killed..
Charles Secrest, the policeman who
shot and killed Thomas johnson in the
Cottage bar in Denver on February 8
asst, was found guilty of murder In
he second degree
A negro known as Cotton" was
ynched near Oak Grove station, Flor
da, within an hour after he is alleged
o have attempted criminally to assault
1 young white woman.
The Sankey bill. providing for 2
cent railroad fare In Iowa, was killed
n the house. Statistics were presented
% prove that the Scent fare only paid
Expenses on Iowa roaes.
St. Paul put on its holiday attire on
he 31st in honor of Its fiftieth ami.
gersary as a municipality and cele.
prated with parades Of bands, mill,
AIRY and civic organizations.
President Reiso Of Chile has signed
decree authorizing loan of $12,50O,- ,
300 from German financial house for
he construction of a railroad from
africa, Chile, to Lapaz Bolivia.
Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau at Washington. announced at
he dinner of the Maritime association |
hat the weather bureau might soon is
sue forecasts of whole month.
Mrs. Mary c. Wallace OF Denver
was fatally injured in the public ele. !
Fator in the senate wing of the cap.
tcl at Washington by attempting to
leave the car while it was in motion. |
Prince Eugene Troubetskoy, leader
of the moderates, who refused to ac- !
eept the portfolio of education in the |
Witte cabinet, has been elected del. /
agate to the provincial congress. He
was elected by the land owners.
1t is positively known that Leonard
Heck, Frederick Nicloy AMI Wilfred
Dhckhut, three young men who left
Quincy, ILL.,, for McCloud Cal, were
killed in the wreck at Adobe, Colo.
The bodies were completely inciner.
ated.
The Hottentots in German South
west Africa have surprised a German
detachment consisting of an officer
and sixteen men. The officer and
three men were killed, four men were
wounded. one man is missing and one
man escaped.
William WEIGH, who is said to be
the Oldest surviving member of the
Union army In the Civil war, and the
oldest member of the Masonic order
In America, celebrated his one hun
dred and sixth birthday at Lemster,
N. H., on the goth.
The village of Muelheim, near Co.
plenz, Germany, is threatened with de-
struction by a Hill which has been
gradually slipping into the valley for
several days. Up to this time $50
houses have been damaged and 300
persons rendered homeless.
1t IS understood that as a result
1f conferences at Vienna between EN-
peror Francis Joseph and the Hunga-
ian cabinet ministers. It was decided
Q postpone the elections for a few
months, when the government hopes
o be able to obtain an effective ma
GRITTY.
A negro prisoner at Corsicana, Tex,
ct fire to his cell in an effort to es-