The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-08-26

Lawrence Mitchell, alleged leader
Of the mob that lynched William
Potters, a negro, in the opera house
at Livermore. KY, has been acquitted
by the jury that is trying the lynch
ing cases.
Delegates from eighteen states and
Canada are in attendance at the
eighth annual American Apple Grow
ers' congress, which opened at St.
Louis Tuesday.
Just now when everybody who can.
is getting away from office. shop or
factory for a vacation at the shore
or in the country, and when more I'M
fortunate folk are passing the entire
summer in leisure, comes a warning
from DR.. Dudley A. Sargent of Har
ward, who says that many of the va
cationists would be better off if they
stayed at work
A considerable number of the EN-
ployes of the Southern Pacific Railroad
company will be dropped temporarily
from the company's payrolls Septem
Der /, according to advice from San
Francisco.
WASHINGTON
Congress adjourned Tuesday. The
adjournment was featureless. despite
the strenuous ACTIVITY that had gone
before. The president vetoed the
cotton tariff revision bill. just as he
had vetoed its predecessors. the wool
and the free list bills
Chairman Fitzgerald of the house
appropriations committee, in review
ing the work of the extra session,
stated that the appropriations of con-
gress during the extra session aggre.
gated $301,052. He declared that nc
session of congress has ever run for
so long a period and appropriated SO
little.
Champ Clark, speaker of the house
of representatives, in a review of the
work of the first session of the sixty
second congress, declared that the
Democratic party set good example
for Democrats everywhere, and that
the party had redeemed every prom
Use 1t made in the campaign of 1910.
Republican Leader James Mann of
the house, in a statement giving the
minority view of the work of the ex-
ira session of the Democratic house,
declared that the net result was to
strengthen the president and weaken
the Democracy, and that the Demo-
Gratis, trying to put the president in
a hole in tariff revision Legislation,
had been hoist by their own Pc
Lard."
Frederick r. Dudley. representing
the commissioner of the general land
office, has left Washington for the
west to confer with state land boards
and state engineers in regard to the
operation of the Carey desert land
act.
FOREfGN
1t is reported that the former shah,
Mohammed Ali Mira, is surrounded
It Savadup, in the mountains sew
miles northeast of Teheran.
The report adds that he lost 800 men
Ind two guns in pitched battle with
he government forces.
The announcement comes from
Paris that Leonardo da Vinci's mas
erpiece, Mona Lisa" has myster-
ously disappeared from the Louvre,
having been stolen.
1t may now be said that Pope Plus
8 entirely convalescent. Drs. Mar
hiafava and PetaccI have ceased
heir visits to the pontiff, but have
recommended that he take the great
,st care of his health and avoid ia
iguing himself
Violent outbreaks against Jews
lave now occurred for three success
sive days in Monmouthshire and are
giving the authorities great concern,
as they are altogether a new phase
n British life
That Francisco l. Madero will not
be influenced by the laws of reform
10 such an extent as to hamper the
freedom of the church was stated
Tuesday by Archbishop Mora del
Rio, explaining the support given to
Madero's candidacy for the presi-
lency by the Catholic party.
The industrial strife in the United
Kingdom is abating. With truce in
effect on all the railway lines, ex-
cept the London & Northeastern, the
board OF trade Is occupied in an en-.
1eavor to reach an amicable ar
rangement between the employees OF |
his line and the managers, and also
n trying to settle the strike of the |
South Sea traders.
Congress has declared that Emilio |
Estrada has been legally elected pres
dent of Ecuador by plurality OF |
more than 100000 votes over General
flavio Alfaro. Estrada will assume |
,ffice on August 81.
Hawaii's Chinese population fell off
Turing the last decade, but this de.
rease was met by the great increase
n the number of Japanese, according
o preliminary figures made public by |
he census office.
Prosecution for violation of thei
lours OF service act faces officials of