The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-02-09
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" million persons in Japan are on
the verge OF starvation.
Provincial Councillor Filonoff was
nred at I'VE times and killed at Pal
tava. Russia. by IA unknown assassin.
Many people are burning corn at
Lubbock, Tex, as II is the only fuel
they can get. Coal is worth $50 per
ton.
Vast quantities of soft coal are be-
ing stored in vessels at lake ports in
anticipation of possible strike Of the
miners.
Fifteen persons were injured, two
probably fatally, in a railroad wreck
near Durham. N. NJ, seven cars being
ditched.
II Is announced upon reliable au-
thority that Admiral Togo will visit
America in April with two armored
cruisers.
One miner was killed and three
others were seriously injured by an
explosion In Ball Knob mine No. 2,
near Delorme. w. Va.
An agreement providing for the es-
adjustment of parcel post at cheap
rates between Sweden and the United
States has been concluded.
A race war has again broken out In
the region between Elizabethpol and
Shusha, where the Armenians and
Tartars are massacreing each other.
Four more anarchists, making six
teen during the past fortnight, we're
shot without trial in the citadel at
Warsaw. OF the total fifteen were
Jews.
The double tracking Of the railroad
across the Isthmus of Panama is pro-
crossing rapidly, and It is expected
that both tracks will be ready for ser.
vice in July.
The funerals Of the thirty-two men
who were killed by machine guns at
Vladivostok January %, near the com.
mandant's house. were held in solemn
state on the Both.
Rocco Bell, who had been arrested
on charge Of burglary, committed
suicide in the county jail in Chicago,
hanging himself with a rope made
from the bed sheet
The president has sent the nominal
tion Of James Smith Of California to
be governor general of the Philippine
islands, vice Henry Clay Ide, resigned.
to take effect June /, 1906.
Lady Grey of London. wife of Sir
Edward Grey. the foreign minister,
who sustained concussion of the brain
by being thrown from her trap at Ell.
bingham, Northumberland, is dead.
1t is reported in Vienna that a mill
tary convention has been concluded
between Italy and Montenegro, for the
purpose of breaking down Austria's
predominating influence in the Bal
kans.
Frank Willard, a halfbreed, who
murdered Sheriff Smith at UkIah,
Cal. on December % last, has been
sentenced by Judge Burnett OF Santa
Rosa to be hanged at San Quentin on
April 2S.
Doubt as to the marriage OF Mrs.
Charles T. Yerkes to Wilson Miner
have been set at rest by the filing Of
the certificate of the marriage with
the bureau of vital statistics in New
York City.
House committee on the District of
Columbia has decided to report with
out recommendation the Adams bill.
providing the whipping post as pun
ishment for wife-beaters in the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
A statement prepared by the depart
ment of commerce and labor shows
that the commerce between Italy and
the United States in the fiscal year
1906 aggregated SIT 900, almost
equally divided between imports and
exports,
Informal negotiations for the float.
alton of Russian loan have again
been taken up in Paris. The amount
mentioned In Official circles varies,
but $400,00o.OO0 is generally spoken
Of with the price at 80 and interest
at per cent.
William Walter Hamilton, negro.
was hanged in the Jail in Washington
for the murder of Lizzie Lyman, his
common law wife. The drop fell at Z
O'Clock and death ensued twelve min.
utes later. The crime was a particu-
larry brutal one.
William Clark was acquitted by the
jury at Dubuque. Iowa. Of the murder
Of Leroy Summer whom he found
with is wife. The jury had been out
several hohrs. The plea OF temporary
insanity was made, but the real plea
was defense Of home.
Miss Bruer OF Minneapolis, whose
uncle, /. g. Bruer, a Minneapolis lum-
herman. was drowned on board the
Valencia, has engaged an Indian girl
as guide and Is preparing to go from
Victoria to the scene of the wreck to
search for her uncie's body
A decision was handed down in the
supreme court at st. Louis affirming
the decision of the lower court in find.
ing Lord Seymour harrington guilty