The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-06-29
NEWS SUMMARY

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at Hamberg fell. six wsrkmen being
taken out dead and four injured.
The house has passed bill granting
to the state of California five per cent
Of the net proceeds OF the sale OF pub
lie lands
DR.. E. NJ Sutton. one Of the leading
surgeons of Illinois. committed sui.
eide at Peoria, by shooting himself
through the head.
NJ. D. Wilcox, a merchant and post
master at Dixon. S. D.. has been con-
gicted in the circuit court at Fair
fax of horse-stealing.
AS a result of an inquiry by Gov.
ernor Pardee. it is ascertained that 800
Grand Army men lost their homes in
the great fire in San Francisco.
The cotton manufacturers OF Falls
River, Mass, have granted the opera
lives a IA per cent increase in wages.
About $4,000 hands are benefited.
Information has reached Washing
ton that Jiminez. one-time president
Vt Santo Domingo, has taken com
nand of the revolutionary forces
here.
A captain Of gendarmes named
Sherenatieff was killed on the streets
1t Kertch, Russia, by revolutionists.
His wife, who accompanied him, was
'eriously wounded.
A primary election bill containing
provision which is intended to re-
'trict the voting of negroes at the
primaries has been passed by the
louisiana legislature
All records for large trees in Brit
sh Columbia forests have been brok-
IN by the Telling of gigantic Douglas
ir at Rocky Bay, B. C. The tree con.
aims 1880 feet Of merchantable lum.
ger.
The Duke of Almodovar, minister of
oreign affairs, who acted as presi-
lent of the conference on Moroccan
eforms held at Algeciras early in the
present year, died at Madrid, Satur-
lay
Two men lost their lives, another
vas fatally injured and six more were
severely hurt as the result of an ac-
,ident in the Pennsylvania tunnel be-
.ween New York and Long Island
City
Adherents of the Sultan of Morocco
hnsuccessfully attempted to assassin
lte Buhanara, the pretender, while he
was sleeping in his tent Several OF
The pretender's guards were killed and
others wounded.
Four men are dead and one perhaps
fatally injured, all white men, as the
result of an attempt by three life-term
convicts to escape from the Angola,
La, state convict farm, seventy miles
from Natchez, MISS.
William Bates, clam fisher at Red
Wing, Mimi, has found a pearl in a
clam shell which is said to be the larg-
est fresh water pearl in existence. Its
worth is estimated at anywhere from
$4,000 to 100000
Mrs. Minerva Williams, tried as &C
eessory before the fact in the murder
Of James Leigh last January, at Evans
vile, Ind, has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree, and SEN
fenced to life Imprisonment.
G. w. Martin, farmer, his wife and
three children were drowned near Sis
seton, S. D., while returning home
from circus. In the darkness Martin
drove off the bridge into the river,
which was baoly swollen from recent
rains.
DR.. w. T. Harris, commissioner Of
education, has rendered his resignation
to the president and the latter has an
nounced the appointment of DR.. Elmer
E. Brown, professor of education in
the University of California, as his
successor.
]. B. Baremore, farmer residing
near Fort Smith, Ark, and two of his
children, are dead of ptomaine pois-
Dning. A daughter, aged seven years,
is at the point of death. They had
eaten sausage purchased from a street
lunch stand.
Governor Folk has granted a re-
spite until September next in the
cases of Mrs. Aggie Myers and Frank
Hoffman, under sentence of death for
the murder OF the woman's husband.
Clarence Myers, at Kansas City two
years ago.
Clarence M. York. private secretary
for many years to Chief Justice Fuller
Of the Supreme court Of the United
States, jumped or fell from a window
ht Garfield hospital, Washington, and
received injuries from which he short
(y afterwards died.
In the office of Chief Of Detectives
Desmond of st. Louis, Mrs. w. c. Ar
mold confessed that she killed Frank
l.. Phelps at her house because she
thought he was going to make her
carry out compact between them
TO commit suicide
By a unanimous vote the executive
board of the Western Federation of
Miners has turned down the appIica.