The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-01-12

1t is understood in London that
China shortly will follow the ex
ample of Japan and propose raising
her legations at Washington, London
Paris, Berlin and st. Petersburg to
the rank of embassies.
Cable advices received at the state
department from Santo Domingo an
nounce that the revolution is practi
cally, at an end, the troops are dis
persing to their homes and the coun
try is again becoming quiet.
Haden Flowers, father of sever
children, kicked over the stove in the
Houston, Mo-, calaboose the other
night and was burned to death. The
building was destroyed. He was ar
rested for disorderly conduct.
The controversy between the city o.
Knoxville, Tenn, and its water com
pany, as to the right of the city to es
tablish it's own waterworks, has beer
decided by the supreme court of the
United States in favor of the city.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close OF
business December 80, 1905, the total
debt, less cash in the treasury
amounted to $994,S69,718, which is 9
decrease as compared with December
l, 1905, of $4,SS3.113.
At Acme, Ore, Frank Anderson, d
10-year-old boy was accidentally shot
and killed by Paul Besse, an older lad
Besse had been hunting with a shot
gun and met young Anderson at
whom he jokingly pointed the weapon
with the usual result
Editor o. F. McCannley of the Cam.
eron, Texas, Herald, was killed in his
office at that place by Writ Terry, an
employee. McCannley's throat was
cut from ear to ear with a pocket
knife. The difficulty is said to have
occurred over private matters.
The appeal of the counsel for
Charles L. Tucker, who was convicted
nearly year ago of the murder of
Miss Mabel Page at Weston, Mass, for
a rehearing of two of the exceptions
taken at the trial, was denied by the
supreme judicial court in Boston.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the Kentucky court of an.
peals in the case of James B. Howard
Howard was tried three times in the
circuit court of Franklin county, Ken.
lucky, on the charge of murderina
Governor Goebel, and convicted each
time.
Frank Physator, a millionaire Alas.
kan miner, ended his life in his apart
ments in San Francisco hotel, by
cutting his throat with razor PLY.
sator is said to have been one of ths
pioneers of the Klondike and was at
Forty Mile at the time of the great
discoveries.
Gerhardt ]. Van Wyck, brother-in.
law Of Miss Gertje Hast, found dead
in the cabin on her claim near Wray.
Colo, from the effects OF a bullet
wound in the head, has been arrested
on warrant ordered issued by the
coroner's jury which investigated the
woman's death.
Arthur Chapman and Thomas Muir
ray, each IL years old, committed two
highway robberies in San Francisco.
fractured one mans skull and cruel.
ly beat the other. One of the victims
Charles Aman, aged 81 years, is likely
to die. The other, A. T. Jatiin, was
not seriously hurt.
William ]. Moran, aged 10 years
has confessed to the killing at night
OF Robert Collier, aged II years, dur.
Ing quarrel in Chicago. after which
Moran says he placed Golfers body
on the railroad track, in the hope that
a passing train would hide the evil
dence of the crime.
The jury in the case of Marcellus
Thomas, coolred, returning a verdict
OF murder in the first degree and
passed penalty of death. Thomas
was charged with ambushing and as
sassinating B. F. Shropshire and
James Blair, prominent citizens OF
Montgomery county. Texas.