The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-01-25
NEWS SUMMARY

Senator William flncNneN why Ae
of Delaware has been elected United
States senator to fill the unexpired !
portion of the late Senator Germans
term.
Isaac n. HascaIl, at one time acting
governor of Nebraska. and for many
years one of the most prominent poll
ticians in Nebraska, is dead at the
age of II.
Owing to a decrease in business, al!
division superintendents of the Mich
igan Central railway have been or.
dered to lay OFF as many employees as
business will permit
The Western Bank & Trust com.
pany, of Dallas, Texas, capitalized al
100000, has passed into the hands
Of an assignee. Heavy Withdrawals
recently is given as reason.
During the year 1907 Frances i'm
ports amounted to s1,2o9,5296Oo, an
increase over the preceding year Of
4.093, 400. Her exports amounted to |
81, 1OS, 100000, an increase Of $55,,
064,600
Secretary Taft has written letter
to the president recommending an in
crease of the width of the Panama
canal locks from 100 feet to 10 feet.
The change will cost about $5,O0O,O0O
additional.
The police of Paris, France, have
captured a woman named Rosali Sc
mapaisH who is believed to have been
member of the Russian terrorists
band that in July of last year secured
$4,000 at Tiais.
The British steamer Tolesby bound
| from Galveston for Havre, went
ashore during heavy snowstorm lat
Freshweather Point, Cape Race. Il
is thought the vessel will be a total
loss. The crew was saved
The recent labor riot at Chatam-
vile La. in which a score of Bulgar-
ians were driven from the town with
shotguns, has resulted in the arrest
Of seventeen persons, charged with
participating in the fighting
The house of representatives of
Oklahoma has passed the prohibition
J bill which carries a state dispensary
provision. Dispensaries are to be es-
t tablished under the bill in all cities
of 2,000 and at all county seats.
China has placed an important ur-
gent order for quick firing guns in
! Paris. Whether the guns are pur-
chased owing to the acute relations
2 between China and Japan or on &C
4 count of internal troubles in China is
! not known in Paris.
q John H. Clemens, aged GA years
+ who fifteen years ago was million
aire, but who for the past year ha
l. been marriage licence clerk of ST
A. Louis. was found dead in bed one da,
g last week. He was formerly a clos
st friend of John W. Gates
1t Pipe smokers consume more thai
v half of all the tobacco grown in tn
Il United States, according to a state
y, ment made by Vice President Harri
~ of the American Tobacco company
=, while testifying in the government
= suit against the company.
- Senator Penrose proposes that tn
Sc, / RG0GIdl
"a penses of future irrigation congresse
q and has introduced bill appropria
n. ing $4,000 to pay the expenses of tn
sixteenth congress, to be held at A
" buquerque, N. NJ, this year.
al An executive decree issued at Car
IN cas-. Venezuela, annuls the existir
AS match monopoly and puts an end
al the concession of the National MatC
of company. This company was cal
as talized at 100000, and the shar
were held mostly in England.
de A court martial at Boknara, Russ
re has sentenced to death five men WI
IA attacked the palace of the AIMEE
ia killed the minister of finance and CT
at ried off about $4,000. Among tho
Ieh condemned was Prince Dzhayany,
tut Georgian nobleman. who organic
the plot.
emit The diplomatic relations betwe
ur- Japan and China over the propos
vas Simintun- Kukumen railroad ha
an. reached a stage wherein Japan has
the sumed a most firm attitude and has
wn sured China that railroad parall
ter ing the South Manchurian shall
be built.
opt. Prof Charles Baetens, aged 80, &C
ent mitted suicide at Omaha by shoot
eph himself while seated in a bath tub
ion his boarding house. Baetens for ma
ers, years was solo cellist in Theod
jail Thomas orchestra, and at one Il
ena, was head of the Cincinnati Conser
tory of Music.
of The campaign for the eradication
nit the bubonic plague in San Francis
was which has been conducted by DR..
day pert and staff of $50 medical offic
: a of the United States marine hospl
! to is almost over. Only one case
kill plague has occurred in the city 81
December 26
yles Walter Rollins, who several "
don ago owned famous string of hor
Just which won many large stakes in
sew parts of the country, killed hlmsel
the his home in New York, by shoot
has Hollins had grieved over the deaf
,rac- his wife five months ago and his he
had failed rapidly.
ON Archduke Ferdinand, fourth 81
the duke of Tuscany, died at Salesb
cord. Austria. Friday He was the ia
from of Countess Monugnoso, form
wave Princess Louise. and the divorced
and of the present king of Saxony,
wees who last year was married to ST
Toselli. musician
Is DR.. F. D. Beauchamp. who k
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