The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-22
NEWS SUMMARY

A Oil lnlTOuuC6u IN the DAlNlah
house of commons prohibits smoking
under the age of 16.
The Standard Oil company last
week announced an advance Of cents
in three grades Of oil.
A loss approaching s25o.O0O was
caused by the storm which swept |
across central Georgia last week.
1t Is announced that there is pros
pect Of Raisuli, the Moroccan bandit,
appearing on the variety stage in Lon !
don.
document bearing the signature
of George Washington has been found
in the Essex county, New Jersey,
courthouse.
Seven persons were burned to death
by fire, which destroyed the home Of
Lawrence Haacke, carpenter. near
New Liszard, Ont
Mrs. Martha Anderson was found
dead at GAINESVILLE, Wis. with ner
throat cut from cart to ear. The dis
trict attorney is investigating her
death.
Newton Edmunds, former governor
of Dakota territory and president Of
the Yankton National bank, died at
Yankton, on the 18th, Of paralysis,
aged SO years.
King Manuel formally took up court
life on the 18th, when he received
populations from several Lisbon asso-
/ oi,+{o,,r o,5 oorraSDopdaptc uybA 90.
sured him of their sympathy and sup
port.
David Kolich, aged 81, who has just
returned home after an extended SER
vice in the United States navy, acct.
dentally shot and probably fatally
wounded his mother, Mrs. Olive Kol-
ich, in st. Louis.
The corporation commission of Ok
lahoma has ordered the Santa Fe
railroad to appear before them and
explain why they ordered their recent
retrenchment in train service, cutting
off four trains on the main line.
II is said on what is believed to be
good authority that w. B. Ridgley, the
! pllOllCI vi lhV NuAA VhNJg hoo w
cided to accept the presidency of the
suspended National Bank of Commerce
of Kansas City, when it is reorgan-
lied.
One hundred and seventy Japanese
are being detained in quarantine at
Victoria, B. c., failing to pass the edu
cational test in the Natal act. They
are likely to be excluded. Should this
happen, the case will be taken to the
courts.
Nearly fifty women suffragists, who
made a raid on the house of commons
were arraigned in police court anC
sentenced to pay fine or one months
Imprisonment. All but two of the wo
men preferred to go to jail rather
than pay the fine.
John Grant, an unemployed printer
jumped from the Brooklyn bridge and
although he landed among floating ic'
in the river, 200 feet below, ESCAPED
with only minor hurts. He is noN
at a hospital under arrest on charg
of attempting suicide.
John w. Boolwalter, the millionair
and the former Democratic candidat
for governor of Ohio, last week cable
$4,000 to Mayor Burnett, of Springfield
from Nice, Italy The money is to b
used for the poor people of that cit
who are out Of work.
Five persons were killed by the e1
plosion of a mixer in the starch fa'
tory of c. S. Tanner, at Providence
RI. Three other persons were il
jured. Their condition is not regarde
as serious. The building was badl
wrecked by the explosion.
Tom Lougboat, the Indian long-dls
ance runner, who is to represent Can
da at the Olympic games in Londo
next summer, won the ten-mile rela
. race at the Park Square coliseum
Boston, defeating three men. His tin
Il was so minutes 50 3-5 seconds.
. George Washington, negr
:. charged with brutal assault on h
wife, was taken from the jail at Ell
worth, Kan, by a mob of one hundrt
masked men and threatened vii
hanging. He was released after
% horse-whipping was administered
70 him.
1t is stated that losses on some eas
le ern transfers now being booked a
severe. Prices for about all kinds
D. wool are considerably lower than la
ID fall, and on some kinds the shrin
re age in values is pronounced. Strict
Of clothing territory woods suffer t
it ! most.
to In the criminal division of the C
?" cult court in st. Louis, Judge Muen
sentenced Chauffeur Jesse Watson
one year in Jail and imposed fine
81, 900 in addition for the killing
" little Christine Musick who W
oh struck by Watsons automobile Ia
k? October.
lis Preliminary orders have been
W, sued to carry out the plan for fl
do midable military demonstration
ZIP Russia on the Turko-Persian 'front.'
we involving the organization of a co
ar. pact expedition of $4,000 men.
far as is known no troops have !!
been moved.
Indictments alleging perjury We
IT. retrned last week against a form
governor Of New Jersey, Foster
Nn Voorhees,, and Frank II. Coombs,
tn lowing a grand jury inquiry into
m, acts of these men while they VI
lat officials of the Bankers Life Ins
in ance comnanV