The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-05-27

the state constitution Invalid because
II is violation of the fifteenth amend
ment of the federal constitution, Judge
]. S. Cotterall in the district court at
Oklahoma City. Okla. overruled the
demurrer of defendants in the case Of
the United States VS. ]. ]. Beal and
Frank Quinn, D. w. Jeffries and Will
lard Smith, election officers
Joe Moore, the negro who confessed
to having murdered Henry Googhem,
a wealthy farmer. Saturday night,
near Charlottesville. Ca, was taken
from Jail by mob and hanged to a
tree.
Five daughters of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Roach, of Utica. Kans., rang
ing in age from seven to sixteen
years, were burned to death Sunday
night in fire which started in the
Roach restaurant The parents were
seriously burned
WASHINGTON
With warning from Senator Root
against experimenting with the con.
stitution and caution from Senator
John Sharp Williams that the south
could not support federal supervision
of senatorial elections, though favor
able to direct popular vote, the sen
ate spent two hours Tuesday without
action discussing the house resolution
for electing United States senators by
dirppt nnnu1ar VITO
The joint resolution admitting Ari-
IONA and New Mexico to immediate
statehood, but withholding the APP
prevail of the constitution of both I'M
til the people had voted on the amend
ments, passed the house of represen-
tatives Tuesday evening by viva
voce vote. No roll call was required.
April's internal revenue receipts
comprised nearly half the govern
ments total income from all sources,
aggregat ng $22,O00,OOO. This fiscal
year $246,000,0O0 has been collected.
The state department has transmit
ted to China $4,000 received Saturday
from the Christian Herald for the re.
lief of the Chinese famine sufferers.
This makes total of $4,000 contrib.
uted to the fund
FOREIGN
In an address at the dinner Of the
Pilgrims society in London. Sir Will
ford Laurier, the premier of Canada,
scoffed at the idea of annexation OF
Canada to the United States. The
premier aroused enthusiasm when he
said that Canada and the United
States proposed to continue to show
the world that the two nations with
the longest boundary, extending from
ocean to ocean, could live in peace
and mutual respect, without fortress S.
a soldier or a gun on either side OF
that boundary.
M. Davigson, the Belgian minister
of foreign affairs, announced in the
Belgian chamber of deputies on Tues
day that Andrew Carnegie had estab.
lished hero fund for Belgium, the
annual income of which is $11 500.
The court at Cork, ireland, which
has been hearing the petition against
the election of Captain Anthony J.
Donelan, the Nationalist whip, who
defeated William O'Brien in the east
division of Cork at the last general
elect on, ON Monday unsea zee Donel-
an, but declined to brand him with
personal dishonor.
The imperial conference was for,
mally inaugurated by a luncheon at
Buckingham palace Monday after
noon, at which King George and
Queen Mary enterta ned the visiting
premiers and their wives and daugh
tiers. Most of the members of the roy
atty who are now in London were
present.
BY an immense majority the Mexi-
can chamber of deputies Monday
night passed the bill providing am
nesty to political prisoners. 1t be-
comes effective Immediately.
In the presence of great gather
Ing composed of the leading members
of musical and artist circles, Gus
tave Mahlen, the eminent composer,
who died May Is, was buried in the
Grinzing cemetery at Vienna, Monday
afternoon.
All France is in mourning as the
result of terrible accident on Sun
day. when monoplane, the driver of
which had lost control. plunged into
a group of cabinet members who had
gathered to witness the start of the
race from Paris to Madrid, killing
Henri Maurice Berteaux, minister of
war, and injuring Antoine Emmanuel
Ernest Monis, premier and minister of
interior, his son Antoine, and Henri
Deutsch De La Mourthe.
1t is reported from Kuersk, Russia.
capital of the government of the same
name, that an aeroplane fell among a
crowd of sightseers on Saturday, in
juring 100 persons. Five of the in
jured are not expected to recover.
At the end of rope. which had
been tied around his neck by rebels,
DR.. j. w. Linn, Chinese banker. was
dragged around the plaza in Torreon,
Mexico, until his body was mass of
broken bones and bleeding wounds,
after which he was shot to death.
Officially designated representa-
tives of the Mexican government and