The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-05-20

HannlDal Hamlin, Vice president I'M
der Abraham Lincoln, and a veteran
of the civil war, died Monday at Ban
gor, Me.
An explosion partially wrecked a
three-story fiat building in Chicago,
and drove twenty-five families into
the street
A demand for the cleaning up OF
the Illinois legislature was made by
State Senator Walter Clyde Jones be-
fore a meeting of 700 Republicans.
comprising the Progressive Republi.
can league, in Chicago.
Robert Kemp, an old Indian, has
just been released from the Oklahoma
penitentiary after serving nineteen
years for a murder committed by his
stepson. The confession of the step
son. who died recently and confessed
that he was the real murderer, led to
Kemp's release.
A triple drowning took place in
Blue lake at Onawa, Ills, Sunday
afternoon, when a boat in which six
boys were riding was struck by a
huge whitecap and sank.
WASHINGTON
Samuel GomDers. John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison. president. vice.
president and secretary of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor, respective
ly, stepped from within the shadow
of the Jail on Monday when. the SUI.
preme court of the United States set
aside their sentences of Imprisonment
for contempt growing out of the liti.
cation between the Buck Stove &
Range company of st. Louis and the
federation. The basis of the courts
opinion was that the proceeding
brought against the labor officers was
civil contempt, which could be pun
ished only by the imposition of fine
The postmaster generals report,
made public Monday, upon the opera
tons of the postal savings banks up
to April 80, shows that western insti-
tutions are the most successful of the
forty-eight established. Leadville,
Colo, heads the list with total depos-
its of s4S.950.
John Hays Hammond has petitioned
the supreme court of the District of
Columbia to postpone the further
hearing of the $1,600,00O damage suit
of Daniel ]. Sully against him until
next November.
| Three centuries of civilization have
not brought the full-blood Indian to
the point where his rights are equal
to those of the white man. Such was
the decision Monday of the supreme
court of the United States in holding
constitutional the twenty-five year re.
strictions on the sale of Indian lands.
FOREIGN
DecaDitations of rebels and suspects
occur daily in Canton. The relatives
of those executed do not dare remove
the bodies from the streets, and as 8
result there is horrible situation
Provisional President Francisco l
Madero, Jr., at the conclusion of .
conference with Judge Carbajal, the
federal peace envoy, Monday night
said there was a strong probability
that peace would be restored in a
short time
Two British gunboats, one French
one German, one American and one
Italian are now off Canton. Another
German gunboat is going to the city,
carrying two Maxim guns and sup
ply Of ammunition.
After formal and official identified.
ton, the body of Lafayette the Great,
the vaudeville performer who lost his
life when the Empire music hall at
Edinburgh was burned, was cremated
Medical experts claim that the cpl
demic of suicide among children which
prevails in Vienna and has shocked
the city for the past few months Is
due to over education.
Between 1908 and 1910 seventy-four
male prisoners were condemned to
death and forty-seven executed in
London. Ten women were sentenced
i 10 death, but all were Teprieved and
given life sentences
The flag of Denmark, plain red
banner bearing on 1t white cross, is
the oldest flag now in existence. For
over 300 years both Norway and Swe-
den were united with Denmark under
this flag.
Ugly rumors of threatened mas
sacre of Jews at Kiev, Russia, are
! afioat. 1t is reported that the Jews
have divided the city into districts
for organized self defense.
Maria Krissoff of wilma, Russia. is
petitioning for divorce because her
husband shot off her high heels as
she was walking In their garden one
morning.
| American commercialism has spread
to Abyssinia. Mr.. Love, United
States consul general at Ads Abada
reports to the state department that
an American cotton house has con
cluded contracts with people of Abys
sinia, involving three quarters of 3
million dollars.
The Norwegian government has tax
en- up the adoption OF wireless teleg
raphy to the peculiar geographic con
ditions of the northern lands. Cen
trail radiograph stations are to be es