The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-05-13
NewsStory
of a Week
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF
WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
iNTERMouNTAIN


down the street in Salt Lake, threat.
ening pedestrians. Connors was soon
captured by policeman but Morris
shot and killed one man and wounded
two others, one of whom may die,
before he was captured.
Peter L. Liese, lineman in the en-
ploy of the Helena light company, was
shocked to death when making a con-
nection on a 2,30O-volt wire.
Alva Bruner, seventeen years old,
whose family is believed to live in
Omaha, when found at Colorado
Springs in a dying condition, declared
that he had been struck down by a
rock hurled out of the darkness. The
lad was rushed to hospital, where
he died.
In an effort to capture the body
snatchers who stole the body of the
Conrad baby from the Great Falls,
Mont, cemetery over year ago, the
father of the dead baby and his bro
Their Tuesday night killed in mistake
for one of the grave robbers, Joseph
Hamilton, ex-sheriff of Cascade coun-
ty, who was aiding them in an effort
to capture the men who had the body.
After dragging the mill pond at Jes-
sups mill, eleven miles east of Kali
spell, Mont, since Friday evening, the
bodies of two boys, sons of Peter
Eimen and Douglas Smith of Creston,
aged II and IA, respectively, have
been recovered The boys were
drowned while fishing.
A bold attempt to rob the East Side
bank in Portland was defeated by the
bank employees. The robber entered
the bank, fred one shot at Cashier
Fred Alt, who returned the fire, as
did President Newhall. The robber
fed. but was captured
George NJ Lewis. one of the best
known tailors in Salt Lake City. COM
mitted suicide at O'Clock Sunday
morning by jumping from fifty-story
window of business block.
Edmund F. Richardson, a promi-
nent attorney of Denver, who was
one Of the counsel for the defense in
the Moyer-Haywood trial in Idaho
four years ago, and Horance Gran
field Of Mount Vernon, N. Y, veal
thy mining man, were killed In an
automobile accider. near Denver.
DOMESTIC
An entire family was wiped out near
pucncr, Nfch., when Casey van IIes'
rem. a farmer. shot and killed his
wife, his two children and HIMSELF.
Van Lieren and his wife had been
separated five weeks.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners of Kansas has refused to per-
init the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railroad to issue s1O2 100000 in bonds
on ground that the proposition is too
indefinite.
The 190-ton wood steamer Wildly,
WHICH piled on Puget sound, was
burned at her wharf at Oak harbor,
Camanoa island, and Fireman Joseph
Parker and Manuel Silva, wharf
hand, who were asleep in the hold
persisted.
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son, historian and author, minister and
soldier, and one of the last of famous
scholars and abolitionists of a half
century ago, died at Cambridge, Mass,
Tuesday, aged eighty-seven years.
Pinned to the coat of man found
shot to death in sparsely inhabited
district of Los Angeles, was a slip of
paper bearing the scrawl; This man
got killed for mistake" Cards found
on the body bore the name, Alfonso
Bostkowski, Melrose Park, Ills.
While Margaret Martinez a 19-year-
old Spanish girl, of whom he was in
sanely jealous, was playing piano
at Stockton, CAL, for his entertain
ment Paul Miller, a miner, aged 43,
fired two shots into her back, killing
the girl He then blew his own body
into fragments with dynamite.
Five of the six children of Sanford
Davis, a farmer residing near Free
Union, Virginia, were burned to
death in fire which DESTROYED the |
Davis home.
William Schumacher. a 25-year-old |
Chicago tourist, was "steered" to a ,
hotel room in San Francisco by con-
fdence man. and soon thereafter lock-
ed into 1t, handcuffed and robbed by
another one
Jumping into the Ohio river from a
window of train going forty miles
an hour, John Tucker, who was be-
ing returned to Linton, Ind, from
ILL.,, to stand trial on
the charge of forgery, is believed to
have been drowned
Former United States Senator AL
fred Beard Kittredge of Sioux Falls.
>. d., died at Hot Springs, Ark.
after a months illness
with liver and kidney trouble He
had been unconscious for forty-eisht
hours. His senatorial service ended
two years ago
Christopher Snyder, who claims to
be wealthy mining man of Montana.
was arrested on board the steamship
Manchuria at San Francisco by Dep
uty United States marshals on a
caDied warrant from Honolulu charg-
Ing him with smuggling opium.