The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1907-01-18
NEWS SUMMARY

American syndicate is buying up the
richest tin mines there.
A train loaded with coal was raid
ed at North Yakima, Wash, by cit
liens without fuel and almost twenty
carloads we're carried off.
Senator Culbertson has introduced
a bill to require common carriers to
furnish cars for the shipment Of live
stock within reasonable time.
]. Pierpont Morgan's billion-dollar
steel trust is to be rivaled by Henry
H. Rogers and other Standard Oil
magnates in a billion-dollar copper
trust.
Fire that started in the tobacco
warehouse of S. r. Moss Co.. at
Lancaster. Pa, spread to adjoining
property and caused loss estimates
at s1.oOO.OOO.
Joseph Blanchette. painter. shot
his wife to death in her home In
Cloverdale, N. H., and killed himself.
The couple had been separated. They
leave eleven children.
Fire destroyed the major portion OF
the Michigan Stove Works, in Detroit,
Mich, causing a loss estimated at
$4,000 The plant covered an area
Of ten or twelve acres
The Japanese government has de-
cided that on account Of the anti-Jap'
anese agitation on the Pacific coast,
the training squadron will not visit
the Pacific coast, but will go as far as
Honolulu only.
The South Carolina senate has
adopted a resolution endorsing the
action Of President Roosevelt in the
brownville matter and requesting the
Soukh Carolina delegation in congress
to support this course.
The army appropriation bill passed
by the house included an amendment
opening the hospital at Fort Bayard,
N. NJ, for the treatment of tubercu-
losis. to the officers and men OF the
navy and marine corps.
The submarine boat Algerian sank
at her mooring at Cherbourg, France.
There was no one on board the YES
gel when she went down. Divers
found the boat lying on her starboard
side at the bottom of the harbor.
The steamship Ponce, supposed to
have been lost, disabled but safe, is
riding at anchor in st. Georges bay,
the Bermudas, and her crew of fifty
two persons and the seven passengers
aboard the Ponce are reported all
well.
The assassin Of General Pavloff was
executed on the 18th. He refused to
take the sacrament and died uniden'
titled and with cheer for the revo-
luton on his lips. The head of the
assassin was preserved for later iden-
tification.
John c. Sufert, fireman who was
rescued from the ruins of Hills paper
warehouse, New York City, in which
he had lain for twenty-eight hours,
seemed little the worse for his terri
BILE experience, except as to the ner-
vous shock.
The Republican members of the
Minnesota legislature in caucus nom
mated United States Senator Knute
Nelson to succeed himself. This is
equivalent to election on January %,
as the Republicans are in oyerwhelm-
ing majority.
Western North Dakota is expert
encing one of the heaviest snow,
storms in history. Never have the
trains had such difficulty in getting
through. The snowbanks in places
are so high that some trains are even
lost track of.
The court of appeals at Albany
N. Y, decided in favor of the Brook
Ign Rapid Transit company the case
involving the right of that company
to charge a double fare 90 cents)
from central points in Brooklyn tc
Coney island.
Colonel Patl1o Andrieff, chief of the
gendarmes of the LODI district, was
shot and killed on Poludniowa street
A passing infantry patrol fred vol
ley at the assassin, but only wound
ed several innocent persons. The as
sassin escaped.
The budget for the next fiscal yeal
which the japanese government ex
poets to present soon, provides an ex
penditure of 100000 yen (abou
1906. 100000, Of which $4,000, 900 yer
is for ordinary purposes and $4,000,
600 for extraordinary purposes.
To prevent complications shoulC
the supreme court of the United
States decide to grant Mrs. Aggi,
Myers, now under death sentence 70
the murder of her husband, a new
trial, Governor Folk, of Missouri, ha
issued a reprieve for ninety days.
After daily negotiations which hav
lasted several weeks. western raj
roads have decided to give locomt
tive engineers increased wages al
gregating between s5.000.000 and Sc
100000 annually. The increase wi
AFFECT between $4,000 and 10000 eng
neers.
Although most Of the 76O Japanes
laborers arriving in Honolulu on tt
Chinese Maru were classed as labo
ers in search OF employment, nor
have gone to the plantations. 1t h;
been discovered that many Of the
are ex-soldiers, who brought their III
forms.
William e. Church was hanged