The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-04-04
NEWS SUMMARY

A tornado which struck New Bos
ton, Iowa, demolished a church and
injured a number OF people.
Half of the business section Of Mid
dleville, Mich, has been wiped out by
fire. the loss being $4,000.
Ten members OF a pleasure party
we're drowned by the upsetting OF a
motor ferry boat on the lake near Bu-
beck, Germany.
The oklahoma legislature has
passed law making 1t crime, pun.
ishable by a fine of from IS to S25, to
smoke cigarettes.
Conventions between Japan and
the. United States and Japan and
Great Britain covering trade marks
and patents will be signed shortly.
Favorable health conditions con.
tinue on the zone, according to the
latest report of Colonel Gorgas, chief
sanitary officer of the Isthmian Canal
commission.
Ferdinand Dudenhefer, formerly
tax collector of the Third district OF
New Orleans, who disappeared about
a year ago. being short in his accounts
about $4,000. has been captured.
Over a score of persons were in
jured when an interurban car on the
Ann Arbor branch OF the Detroit
United railway. bound for Detroit
from Jackson, Mich, was derailed by
defective rails.
Drury Lane theatre, one OF the
most famous in London, was practical
ly destroyed by fire on March rs, The
whole interior of the theatre was de-
stroyed and the outside walls were
badly damaged.
The Fifth Avenue hotel, land
mark Of New York, and for half
century the gathering place OF Repub'
lican politicians, will close April 4.
The hotel will be torn down to make
room for a skyscraper.
A coroner's jury has declared Chief
of Police Shippy, of Chicago, and j.
e. Foley, his driver. to have been
justified in killing Averbuch. the
young Russian Jew who attacked the
chief In his home recently.
There is movement on foot
among the Japanese to erect monu-
ment to Durham w. Stevens, the
American advisor to the Korean coun.
Gil of state, who was assassinated by
a Korean in San Francisco.
The government is preparing to
send 1000 workmen to the Philippines
for work on the Notifications of the
Island of Corrigidor. at the entrance
of Manila bay. This will make 1900
to be sent within month.
l. Wang Chaeng and Ming Wun
Chun, the Korean patriots who elect.
ed to kill Durham w. Stevens of San
Francisco for what they considered
his treachery to the Hermit kingdom,
are behind the bars and will be tried
for murder.
Seven men arrested In Pekin re.
Gently charged with trafIicking in
governmental secrets, have been
found guilty and sentenced to long
terms of Imprisonment. This punish.
ment is generally considered to be
worse than death.
The statistical bureau of the Union
Pacific passenger department has is.
sued statement compiled from gov.
eminent reports, showing the value OF
farm products In seventeen states
west of the Mississippi In 1907 to
have been $1,O91, 100000.
Rev. F. 2. Nesbit, pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Coalinga, Cal,
and speaker at the incorporation
celebration of that town, dropped
dead Immediately after he had con,
cluded his address, and in the pres.
ence of crowd of 1000 people.
Jim Lee and Lee Ellerick have been
arrested at McLoud, Oklahoma. on
the charge of robbing the Hoffman
bank at HOFFMAN, Okla. A blank
book was dropped near the bank con.
tanning the names of two young men
and on this clue they were located
near McLoud.