The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-09-09
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phen Cook. "a, farmer living neal
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longer will provide for her.
Paul Geidel. the bell-boy who slew
William H. Jackson. the broker, in
New York city has been sentenced tt
serve not less than twenty years IL
states prison.
Preferring death to attendance al
school. Homer Davenport, son of Ben
jamin Davenport, who lives near Jop
lin, Mo-, killed himself ON Tuesday
The boy shot himself through the
heart and fell dead at the feet Of hii
father.
Knockout Brown gave Johnnie Nor
an terrible beating In seven rounds
at Toronto, Ort, the police stopping
the bout to save him. The boys were
to have boxed ten rounds.
While physicians worked over his
unconscious wife to revive her from
the effects of poison taken with sui
cidal intent, c. D. Leyan. a railroad
conductor at Kansas City, rushed in
to an adjoining room and drank the
remainder of the bottle of poison his
wife had taken. Both are dead
WASHINGTON
Over 100 postoffices of the second
class have now been designated as
postal banks, and these will all be
open for business by the middle OF
the present month.
The design of new Mcnamara de
tense fund stamp submitted to the
postoffice department by Frank Nor
rison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor, has been ap
proved by Third Assistant Postmas
ter General Britt.
The big army recruit depots of the
country soon will be commanded per
manently by colonies, instead Of by of
ficers OF junior grade, as has been the
custom in recent years. Seldom has
colonel been detailed to recruiting
stations because of the deficiency in
the number of officers of that rank.
The joint maneuvers of the regular
army and the organized militia next
year will cost $1.30O,OOO, according to
estimates prepared by the war depart.
ment. These exercises are held in
alternate years. none being scheduled
this year.
FOREIGN
Wild rumors are being circulated in
the German provincial towns. All
Stetin large sums of money have beer
Withdrawn from the savings banks
owing to rumors that war was i'm
pending.
Attaining an altitude of 1875 feet,
Roland G. Carros, the marvellous lit.
tie monoplane OPERATOR broke the
worlds record at ST. Malo, France, on
Monday
A French aviator, M. lie Jarrestiere,
while flying at Huelva, Spain. fell $50
feet and was killed. The motor ex
ploded, setting fire to the aeroplane.
The aviator was incinerated.
The German foreign minister, Herr
Won Observation-Disclosures, and the French
ambassador, M. Cambon, met at Ber
lin, Monday, to discuss Frances pro
posals to Germany looking to a set
Element OF the Moroccan dispute.
Eleven lives lost, fourteen persons
injured, two of whom are not expect
ed to live, and the Juneau hotel and
the McGrath building in ashes, are the
results of fire which started in the
hotel at Juneau, Alaska.
Mount Pavlof, the volcanic peak in
the Aleutian islands, has been active
this summer, according to advices
brought to Seattle by the bark Guy g
Goss.
The French battleship Brennus
while speeding toward the rendezvous
of the naval maneuvers near Toulon
France. Monday. crashed into the ex
cursion steamer Magali. There were
no fatalities, though many of the Mag.
ali's passengers jumped into the wat
er Some twenty persons were injur
ed.
There are sixty-four war vessels
under construction in England, OF
which eleven are being built at royal
dockyards and forty-eight at private
yards or the British navy, while five
are being constructed at private
yards for foreign governments.
A motor bus service between Jaffa
and Jerusalem has been established
To the person with old ideas a Jour
ney made by motor to the holy sep.
ulcher seems little less than the
abomination and desolation OF
which the sacred writer speaks.
j. r. Keene, the American financier
Is now in nursing home, London
having suffered relapse, but all in.
formation regarding his condition is
absolutely refused by the physician
in attendance.
Lieutenant De Grailely of the Eighth
culrassiers, while making an aero.
plane flight from Troyes, France,
was burned to death in midair, the
disaster being caused by the explo-
sion of the fuel tank.
The gift of the American people to
the German nation a replica of the
washington statue of General Baron
Won Steuben, the Prussian and Ameri.
can general, was unveiled at Potsdam.