The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-14

| SUZUKI OHlCdSO III thirty years COul
menced early on the 9th from the
southwest, and wrought much damage
| i'll the downtown district.
According to P. H. Abbott, secre
tary of the Great Northern branch OF
the Order of Telegraphers, trouble is
brewing over the new schedule Of
working hours for operators.
Two negroes, Curry Robertson ant
John Henry, were lynched near Hawk
insyille, Ca, and their bodies burned
They were charged with the murder
of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Hart.
A violent gale has swept the coasts
of the British isles. There have been
numerous wrecks of small craft Most
OF them were on the east coast Of Ire
land. Altogether about twenty lives
have been lost.
Announcement was made last week
by the Missouri Pacitic-Iron Mountain
railway system that after March IL
the services of 1000 men employed in
the company's shops in st. Louis will
no longer be required.
A new social movement of national
scope has established headquarters in
Kansas City. Those interested are
literary and professional men, and
the object is to make the spirit of the
university a force in politics.
Three men were burned to death
and fifteen others seriously injured by
jumping from windows in a fire which
destroyed three workmen's shacks on
the north side of Manhasset bay, says
a Port Washington, l.. l.. dispatch.
Senator-elect W. o. Bradley of
Kentucky has given out formal
statement announcing himself in ia
vor of the nomination of Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks for the presidency by
the Republican national convention.
At the direction of Secretary Taft,
the opening of bids by the Isthmian
Canal commission for supplies of &C.
ment, set for March II, has been ex-
tended until April 49, The commits
sion expects to purchase 100000 bar
rels of cement.
Safe blowers robbed the Mount
Grab bank in Mount Grab. o., forty
miles east of Cincinnati, of $1,000 and
escaped in buggy. The explosion
shattered the vaults, partially wreck
ed the bank building and shocked the
entire village.
Senator Allison was 70 years old
on March 2, and received the congrat-
ulations of his colleagues. The sena-
tor has completed his thirty-tifth year
in the senate, which breaks all
records. He has been in congress
forty-three years.
Ellwood T. Hance, first vice presi-
dent of the Union Trust company of
Detroit, and former postmaster of De-
troit, shot and killed himself on the
9Th in his home. Friends say that he
had been greatly depressed over his
own financial affairs.
Governor Creel of Chihuahua an
nounces the establishment of co-edu-
cation in the public schools of the
state of Chihuahua. This is the first
time in the history of Mexico that
boys and girls have been allowed to
attend the same schools.
Senator Tillman wants to have the
comptroller of the currency send to
the senate detailed statement of all
loans made by national banks in New
York City upon collateral securities
from June l to December |, 1907, with
the full names of borrowers.
The advocates of female suffrage
were on March 3 given their annual
opportunity to present pleas to con-
gress, the presentation to the senate
being made before the committee on
woman suffrage, and to the house be-
fore the judiciary committee.
A contract has been signed between
the Rawhide Western. Railway com
pany and the California Construction
company for the immediate construc.
tion of railway from the new camp
to Walker Lake, Nevada, thus con-
Meeting the camp by rail with the out
side world.
1t is feared that thousands of men
will be discharged from the employ
of the railroads of this country within
the next few months and the wages
Of the men who are retained will in
all probability be materially cut, so
great has grown the decrease in
freight traffic.
While a fire ragged on the fourth
floor OF the tivestory public school
building in One Hundred and Ninth
street, between Amsterdam avenue
and Broadway, New York, 1000 pu.
pills marched from the building sing
ing America" under the leadership
Of their teachers.
Colonel Lewis Cass Carpenter, who
represented South Carolina in con.
gress just after the close of the civil
war, and was well known as a news
paper man at that time, having edited
papers at Charleston and Columbia.
5. c., died in Denver, March Z, of car.
Lac dropsy, aged u years.
The February statement of the
London board of trade shows a de-
crease of $2,499.OOO in imports and
$4,000 in exports. Although food
IMPORTS increased in February by $10,- !
100000, they were more than onset |
BY the decrease in raw material. priu-
cipally cotton, wool and jute.