The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-05-13


sand dollars reward from the govern
ment for causing the arrest of the
bandits who looted the Overland Linn
tied in May, 1909
Nearly score out of 100 miners in
the Hartford mine of the Republic
Iron and Steel company at Negaunee,
Mich, were cut off from escape when
the tmbering of the mine took fire,
seven of the men losing their lives
With hard right swing to the jaw
Jim Flynn of Pueblo, Colo, knocked
out AL Kaufman of San Francisco in
the tenth round of their fight at Kan
sas City.
WASHINGTON
The trials of John ]. Mcnamara,
secretary of the International Associ-
alton of Bidge and Structural Iron
Workers, and his brother, James B.
Mcnamara, on charges of murder by
dynamiting, are not expected to be
held until September according to
official statements made in Los
Angeles.
Pensions of $4,000 a year each for
Frances Cleveland, widow of Presi.
dent Cleveland, and Mary Lord Har-
rison, widow of President Harrison
are provided for in bill introduced
on Tuesday.
PRESIDENT Taft has sent to the SEN
ate the nomination of Captain Austin
M. Knight to be a rear admiral. Over
the protest of Secretary of the Navy
Meyer, Captain knight was acquitted
by court martial of responsibility
for the sinking of the monitor Puritan
in Hampton Roads.
The first Democratic tariff bill. that
placing on the free list agricultural
implements, meats and many other
articels, was passed on Monday by
vote of 236 to 100.
Investigation of the American SUI
gar Refining company and all other
concerns engaged in the manufacture
or refining of sugar to ascertain
whether there have been violations Ut
the antitrust law have been recon-
mended by the house committee on
rules.
The nomination of Herbert L. Faulk.
ner as marshal for the Juneau district
of Alaska, held up in the senate ju-
dietary committee for year. was IA
vorably acted on Monday.
FOREIGN
Toward the close of a performance
in the Empire Palace theatre in Edin-
burg, fire broke out on the stage. The
fire curtain was promptly lowered and
the house emptied of the audience,
none of whom was injured, but seven
of the performers were burned to
death.
sss.' >-.-.- tp~r~xif~, ssss,se sssuedS Tuesday,
authorizes the Hukwang loan of $780,
100000 for railroad construction in
central China. 1t was signed a year
ago by financiers representing the
United States, France, Great Britain
and Germany.
That the federal garrison at Con-
cepcion del Orc, in Zacataces, sixty
miles south of Saltillo, has been an.
initiated. is the information brought
by passengers arriving at Laredo,
Texas.
The situation in Kwang-tung PROV
ince in China, recently the scene of a
revolutionary outbreak, is very much
improved.
According to Kingston, Jamaica,
newspapers, another revolution di-
rected at the administration of Presi-
dent Simon of Hayti is brewing here,
where Haytien exiles long resident in
this city have joined forces with their
expatriated countrymen from Porto
Rico and st. Thomas
The long-waited edict abolishing
the grand council of China and sub
stituting constitutional cabinet of
ten members was issued on Monday.
The cabinet as announced, howe yer,
Is made up of the present grand coun-
cillors with the addition of LANG Tun
Yen. the former president of the for
eign board, who is now travelling in
the United States.
General Porfiro Diaz has issued a
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claring his intention to resign the |
as soon as peace is re- |
stored. In this manner the president |
has virtually acceded to the demands /
OF Francisco l. Madero that he make |
announcement of such intention.
Adjournment of parliament for two
months while Sir Wilfrid Laurier and
the Canadian parliamentary delega-
ton are in England attending the cor
onation will mark the beginning of an
campaign for reciprocity
throughout Canada under the direc-
ton OF the Liberal members of the
house.
The Russian government will lose
no time in enlarging and increasing
the efficiency of the navy 1t has
been decided that the keel of four
for the Black sea fleet
are to be laid by the end of May.
The Japanese have established a
consulate at Aigun, a Chinese town
Of Manchuria on the Amur, eighteen
niles from the Russian frontier. and
his has caused the Russian govern
nent to inquire the reason for this
step and whether it was taken for
'trategical or commercial purposes
Australia's new system of uniyer-