The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-02-29
NEWS SUMMARY

Issued a call for a statement OF the
OF all national hanks at the
close OF business on February IA last
Mrs. Edward Lutzenburg was
burned to death and her son, Joseph,
probably fatally injured in a fire that
tor time serious threatened the town
of Barnesboro, Pa
II is estimated by one of the man
ayers of the Association for improv.
ing the Condition OF the Poor that
there are approximately 10000 home.
less men in New York today.
The court of appeals of New York
has sustained the constitutionality OF
the gas and electricity commission
law, giving the legislature authority
to delegate the rate-hxing power.
Brown Hal, 2:12h, for many years
champion pacing horse of the world
and the sire of the PAGER Star Pointer,
1859 "a, died last week at Ewell farm
in Maury county. Tennessee, aged 29
years.
Jake Kilrain, the former pugilist,
has filed petition In bankruptcy.
Schedules declare that Kilrain has
debts of S1,203 and assets of SGT. The
principal creditor is Ernest Roeber,
the wrestler
The Iowa supreme court has hand
ed down an opinion regarding the
constitutionality of the Des Moines
plan of municipal government by a
commission, unfolding the law in
every particular.
The death sentence against Mrs.
Violet Goold, who, with her husband,
We're st. Leger Goold, was convicted
of the murder of Emma Levin at Mon,
tie Carlo, last summer, has been com
muted to imprisonment for life.
Speaker Cannon has been endorsed
for the presidency by the Republican
organization of Guilford county, North
Carolina. Mr. Cannon is a native of
this county, having been born at New
Garden, seven miles from Greensboro.
General Tung Fuh Slang, the leader
of the Boxers in the uprising of 1900,
is dead He had been banished to
Kansu General Tung Fuh Slang was
regarded at one time as the ablest
and most powerful of the Chinese gen
erals
The cotton mills of the Boston Man,
ufacturing company of Waltham,
Mass, hereafter will be closed on Fri.
days and Saturdays, a reduction in the
working time from So to AZ hours
week. Nine hundred hands are at,
fected.
A special dispatch received from
Lisbon says that the greatest uneasi-
ness prevails there. The palace has
been surrounded by troops, the entire
garrison is confined to barracks, and
ball cartridges have been issued to
the men,
Charles j. Romadka Of Milwaukee
has instituted suit for divorce from
Evelyn Game Romadka, whose, SEN
sational escapade in Chicago resulted
a few months ago in her imprison-
ment in the penitentiary at Joliet for
burglary.
John Med. Hopkirk is dead from
malignant scarletina. Mr.. Hopkirk
was manager of Mills hotel in New
York City, in which cheap lodgings
are given to the poor, and in that ca
pacity handled hundreds OF dirty
germ-laden bills.
The French forces have recently
had serious battle with the MO0Ts
at a point fifteen miles southeast Of
Fedala. The French had two officers
and several soldiers killed and three
officers and twenty men wounded
The loss of the Moors was heavy.
Alexander E. Butt, cashier of the
wrecked Peoples bank of Portsmouth,
Va, after making restitution to the
depositors to the extent of $37 900 on
the total shortage of $252,0OO, was
sentenced to three years in the peni.
Tertiary and to pay fine of S7,1S4
Judge Charles G. Richie, formerly a
probate judge and once candidate for
governor of Kentucky, has been held
for trial in an Oakland, Cal, police
court on the charge of passing a
bogus check for so. His case is a
mystery to his family and friends.
Claude Brooks, a negro, who con.
fessed to killing Sidney Herndon, a
well-to-do butcher, in his apartments
in Kansas City, January Il, has been
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree, and his punishment fixed at
death. Herndon was murdered for his
money.
James A. Deane broke into the
home of Charles Mckay at West
Forks, Me, at midnight, killed Mrs.
Mckay with an ak, after chasing her
to the yard of a neighboring house,
and then committed suicide by cut
ting his throat, Jealousy was the
cause
While the Japanese cruiser Akashi
was engaged in towing work at Ari.
yaki in the Nagasak prefecture, on
the evening of February 20, a bollard
gave way. Three on-commissioned
officers were killed and two officers
we're injured The Akashi returned
to Kure.
The passage of sentence Of death
on General Stoessel, who was tried on
charges of cowardice and treason in
surrendering Port Arthur to the Jap
anese, is received with little satisfac-
tion in the Russian capital. il being
charged that Stoessel was made the
scapegoat.
Millionaires, racetrack followers,
olergymen lawyers and legislators
we're represented at the hearing at
Albany, N. Y, before the joint senate