The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-01
NEW S SUMMARY

The senate committee on military
affairs has agreed upon a favorable
report on Senator Warren's bill in.
creasing the pay of the army.
At the annual meeting Of the Aetna
Indemnity company at Hartford, Conn,
last week, the Heinze interests were
voted out of the directorship.
A motion offered in the Kansas house
OF representatives declaring William |
H. Taft the choice of Kansas for presi.
dent was unanimously carried.
Four fremen we're killed and fifteen
injured, including Chief George Hor'
ton, by the falling OF the wall OF a
burning building in Baltimore.
Rev. John F. Kaestering, aged rs.
= retired Lutheran clergyman, was
murdered in Cheltenham, a suburb of
st. Louis, robbery being the motive.
Commissioner Ballinger of the gen.
eral land office has asked congress
for a special appropriation Of $4,000
for surveying homestead entries with
in forest reservations.
Frank J. Constantine, who killed
Mrs. Louise Gentry in Chicago and at
tempted suicide later by throwing him
self from a gallery of the prison, is
dead from his injuries.
Former United States Senator Geo.
Peabody Wetmore was elected to the
United States senate on the first ballot
| cast in both branches of the general
assembly of Rhode Island.
Leslie NJ. Shaw has resigned the
presidency of the Carnegie Trust COM
pany, which he assumed early last
March on his retirement from the
treasury portfolio at Washington.
President w. L. Bochemohle of the
suspended Bank of Ellinwood Of Film
wood, Kan, has been arrested, charged
with having sworn falsely in report
of the banks condition last month.
The Labor party held a conference
at Hull, England, on January Fl, at
which an amendment to the constitu.
ton binding the party to Socialism
was rejected by large majority.
The project of st. Petersburg has
suspended the Tovarish and the Seved-
mia, two newspapers of wide circula
ton, on the ground that they we're fol
lowing a subversive course and
preached revolution.
Governor Patterson of Tennessee
has committed the death sentence o.
Lee Holder, aged 10, to life imprison
ment. Holder, a year ago, murdered
his father, B. G.. Holder, a preacher
of Cumberland Presbyterian church.
David S. Kresky and William A
MCGOWAN, who pleaded guilty to oh
tanning rebates in violation Of tn
United States laws last December
: were fined $1,000 each by Judge Smit
Mcpherson In the federal court q
Kansas City.
Clarence barrow, of Chicago, VIII
was operated on at a Los Angeles hos
pital for mastoiditis, is improving. Tn
physicians in attendance regarded hi
condition as favorable and believe tina
the operation ultimately will prove
complete success.
The state census Of Rhode Islant
| completed and presented to the gel
eral assembly last week, shows an II
/, crease in population of IL per Ger
since 1908. The present population
the state is 4S0,0S0, while Ave year
ago it was 42S,556.
A bulletin just issued by the int
state commerce commission, GOVERN
the months of July, August and Sc
TENDER, 1907, shows that the numb'
of casualties on railroads during thi
quarterly period were 23,O63, includir
A 1889 killed and 21,724 injured.
e The return to Italy of emigran
from the United States is gradual
stopping, while emigration to TIL
g country is being resumed. Steame
leaving Genoa and Naples before Il
end of the month will take back
America at least 5000 emigrants.
Nils Nelson, night tender at Il
lighthouse on the New Haven brea
n water, committed suicide by cuttil
his throat. He had a reputation as
hero, having saved number OF liv'
1t is thought that the lonely life
u the lighthouse unbalanced his mint
Charles Az Roberto, describing hi
= self as president Of the Italian I
change bank, located in the tall
quarter of Baltimore, says on d.
&c. while in the ONCE Of the bank Ia
at night three masked men entert
forced him to open the safe and to
$4,000
The Illinois Central Railroad co
pany has entered suit against the to-
of Herrin, Ills, for 100000. on
grounds of interfering widh traf
A Herrin police magistrate recen
assessed a fine against the railrc
for shipping into the place beer q
whisky.
Representative Kahn Of Califor
has introduced a bill to provide for
defense of the Pacific coast poi
The bill appropriates $1,000,000
- ward the construction on the Pac
- coast of submarine torpedo boats
u the most approved type to cost
= more than $5,000,000.
bv Portions of Spain was visited by
! earthquake shock on the 23rd.
a. shocks we're particularly severe at
In. village OF Blanco, Brancoleone, BI
rty zano and Forrazzano. Terrified !
m pie rushed from their homes in
au open fields, or took refuge in the NJ
81. by subterranean grottos.
the The Madrid correspondent Of
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