The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-28
NEWS SUMMARY

years, was killed while boxing with
Charles Wolf. same age.
The senate mas accepted the
amendment OF the legislative bill in.
creasing the salaries OF surveyors
general from $1,000 to $4,000
The steamer Pomona. which plys
between San Francisco and Eureka
was wrecked near Fort Ross on
March H. All her passengers were
saved.
Three men were killed and four in.
tured. two fatally, by the blowing uu
OF one of ten wheel houses of the
United States Powder company at
Coalmont, Ind.
An unknown negro shot and NOR.
tally wounded Baxter and Rufus
Burns at Burns. Miss. Both are rela,
tiyes of United States Senator Nc.
Laurin of Mississippi.
Senator B. r. Tillman of South Car.
olina, is dangerously i'll at his home
at Trenton, S. c., suffering with a re.
turn of the disease which affected his
health three years ago.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
J. P. Edwards, whose resignation was
accepted last week. has accepted the
receivership of the New Amsterdam
National bank of New York, which
recently suspended.
Mrs. Mabel Woodham Medley, of
Kalamazoo, Mich, whose two-year-old
son Walter died last December from
pneumonia while under treatment by
two mental healers, was last week re-
arrested and charged with man
slaughter
Walter r. Day, secretary of state of
Kentucky under the Republican re-
gime of Governor Taylor in 1900, has
been sentenced to serve one year in
the penitentiary for forging the name
of his uncle, Floyd Day, to a check
for $4,000.
The bubonic plague in Ecuador is
increasing and the sanitary condition
of Guayaquil and other towns is caus-
ing great alarm. There are fifty-one
cases of the plague in the Lazaretto,
besides several cases of smallpox and
yellow fever.
AS the result of an unsuccessful at.
tempt to assassinate Federal Judge
Lira, of the northern district of Chi
huahua by firing two shots at him
through door, four alleged plotters
are held in Jail in Juarez on a charge
of COnSDiracy To murder
Frank Kito, a Japanese cook, fired
five bullets into the body of Mrs. Liz.
zie Hulse of New York City, who
had spurned his love- Kito then
drank carbolic acid and died. Mrs.
Hulse will recover. Both had been
employed in a restaurant.
The Notifications BILL carrying to-
tai appropriation of $S,210,611 instead
of the S38,443,945 asked for by the
war department, has been reported to
the house committee on appropria-
tons by Chairman Smith of the sub
committee on Notifications.
Under pressure exerted by the
Iransvaal government, which is en-
titled to 60 per cent of the company's
output, the Premier Diamond Mining
company has refinitely refused to re-
new its agreement with the diamond
syndicate, and will market its own
output.
Two men were killed and five per-
sons seriously injured when an excur-
sion train on the International &
Great Northern railway bearing
party of homeseekers from Kansas
and Oklahoma en- route to Las Pal
tenas, Mexico, was wrecked at Pear,
sail, Texas.
In the arrest OF Fanny Richie and
Harry McCuen at Delsun Texas, the
mystery of a wholesale murder in
Oklahoma City last August, involving
the death of five persons, is cleared
up. The woman declares McCuen
committed the murders, robbery be.
ing the motive.
The government of the little
African republic of Liberia has APP.
pealed to America to protect her ter.
ritorial industry against France. The
state department has been informed
that a delegation is now on it's way
from Monrovia to Washington to
make personal appeal
The suggestion has been made in
the Australian senate, and greeted
with enthusiasm, that the federal gov
eminent invite President Roosevelt to
come to Australia as the guest of the
commonwealth during the visit next
winter in Australian waters of the
American battleship fleet.
So badly do the farmers of Lancas-
ter county, Pennsylvania, require help
on the farms that the Farmers
league has ISSUED an appeal to the
of the cities and towns
to go to tle country for work, and an
appeal has been sent to the bureau
of labor and immigration.
The supreme court of Missouri has
decided that city ordinances prohibit
ing persons from lounging or loafing
on street corners are unconstitutional |
The case came GrorI st Louis, whore
Jacob Gloner was fined for standing
on street corner doing picket duty
during strike in 1905.
The claim of the Countess of Buena
Vista against Major General Brooke
for $780, GOO damages on account of
his revocation, while military gov
ernor of Cuba, of her license to
slaughter all the cattle for Havana,
has been decided by the supreme
court against the countess.
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