The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-21
NEWS SUMMARY

Fire destroyed 1000 shaeks IN Sam
plouic district Of Manila. The dam
age is estimated at 100000.
A bomb exploded in tho central
market place at Barcelona, Spain, on
Sunday. severely injuring a woman.
Another bomb was found near by.
At the first automobile race held in
Egypt. at Heliopolis. on March l. a
policeman and two spectators were
killed and fourteen persons were in.
jured.
John Hays Hammond. the mining
engineer, who has been Ill in San
Francisco for several months and
whose sickness finally resulted in an
operation, has fully recovered.
Fifteen hundred operatives were
affected by the closing at New Or.
leans of the Lane.Maginniss cotton
mills. A poor demand for cotton
goods was given as the cause.
John l.. Smithmeyer, the architect
who designed and superintendent the
construction of the Congressional IL
brary, died in Washington on March
IL, aged 76 years. He was born in
Austria.
A special dispatch to the Daily Mail
from Berlin says that the emperor
sent warm personal congratulations
to President Roosevelt on the arrival
of the feet at Magdalena bay, ahead
of schedule time.
Mrs. Beatrice Thomas Metcalf, who
attempted to shooot Attorney S. r.
Hamill during the trial of John r.
Walsh, at Chicago, has been commit
ted to the general hospital for the in.
sane by commission.
The senate has ratified two more
of the Hague treaties. They relate
to certain restrictions with regard to
the exercise TO right to capture in ma
val war and prohibit the discharge
OF project from balloons.
Instructing them to vote for any
proposition favorable to the candidacy
CT William H. Taft for the presidency,
the Oklahoma Republican state CON
vention elected four delegates at large
to the Chicago convention.
Charles j. Glidden, of Boston, and
Mrs. Glidden arrived in Jerusalem on
March 13 in a motor car from Haia,
Syria. 1t was the first motor car ever
seen in Jerusalem, and created a SEN
sation among the populace.
John Browns antiquated wagon, in
vuhfnh hn Vflort q
during his crusade against slavery,
was destroyed by fire at Iowa City
Iowa, last week The wagon was left
there by Brown forty-eight years ago,
President Roosevelt has directed
Herbert Knox Smith of the bureau
of corporations to investigate the
methods of stock trading, with view
OF furnishing the basis of possible flu,
ture legislation regulating such prac'
tees.
The jury in the trial at Jackson,
KY, of John Abner, charged with
aiding in the murder of Town Marshal
James Cockrill during the Hargis-
Cockrill feud in 1902, reported a hope
less disagreement, and have been dis
charged.
N. T. Anders, president of the Com
mercial bank of Jackson, Miss, and
former director of the Central Bank of
Mississippi. has been indicted by the
Hines county grand jury on the charge
of embezzlement of $4,000 from the
latter bank.
The Supreme court Of the District
of Columbia has dismissed the pro-
ceedings instituted some months ago
by George w. Austin of New York
to compel Secretary Cortelyou to is.
sue to him 100000 worth of Pana-
ma canal bonds.
News has been received from Ital-
ian Somiland to the effect that local
tribe, helped by soldiers of the Null
lah, attacked another tribe under the
protection of Italy and killed thirty
of their opponents. They then drove
~ nnmbar of asttla