The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-09-09
NewsStory
of a Week
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF
WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
INTERMouNTAIN

iouSe OF wyoming, Knights of Pythias,
died at Denver, following an opera
ton. He was veteran engineer on
the Union Pacific
The execution of Jess Webb, con-
victed OF the murder of William A.
Johnson of Portland, did not take
place at Salem. Ore, on Wednesday
as scheduled, the governor at the last
moment sending a message commut-
ing the death sentence to life impris-
onment
The aerial tramway cable at Bing-
ham, Utah, parted as the result OF a
fire at the tension tower, and the
buckets. weighing probably 400 pound }
each, started on a mad race down the
canyon. tumbling to the ground for
distance of mile, much of the dis
lance being through the southern por-
ton OF the town. many people having
narrow escapes from death.
Six women and six men compose
the jury sworn in at Bellingham,
Wash. to try the first case docketed
for the September term of the super
Tor court. Ten of the September We
nire were women and all qualified.
-Four men who were confined in the
county jail at Fort Benton, Mont,
owaiting trial In the district court,
broke jail Sunday night and escaped
Malachi Hogan, the well known
sporting man and referee of prize
fights. died at Denver last week OF
tuberculosis.
Caught in vortex OF whirling steel
machine drills in a mine cage at
Butte. while being hoisted to the sur
face, five miners met instant death
In the shaft of the Black Rock mine
OF the Butte-Superior company, Sun
day. while the sixth, James Lee, died
few hours later in the hospital from
the effects of injuries he received.
Peter Mallick. half-breed Nez
Perez Indian and graduate of Car
Isle Indian school, was shot to death
by an Infatuated mob of Grangeville
idaho. citizens as he lay asleep In his
cell In the county jail in that town
Mallick was charged with beating his
half-breed wife.
DOMESTIC
The police on Tuesday arrested
young Italian in New York with a
bomb under his coat all ready to OK
plode, and believe through him they
will trace the perpetrators OF the
numerous bomb outrages
Ms. Chales Simpsons arm was torn
off while she was operating a wash.
ing machine run by gasoline en-.
CINE at Bennington, Kan. A belt broke,
catching Mrs. Simpsons arm and sew.
ering it at the elbow.
No American cotton crop ever
grown has sold for as much as the
one Just marketed, the total value. in
Guiding the seed. having been 81 $780,
10000, according to the report of Col.
Henry G. Hester. secretary of the New
Orleans cotton exchange.
Thomas Her, milkman. was
drowned near Gilmore, Neb., in 1000
gallons of buttermilk. Her was driy.
Ing tank containing the buttermilk
to town. when the wagon overturned,
he was caught beneath the tank in
depression In the ground and
drowned.
AS a result Of eating toadstools.
picked and cooked under the belief
that they were mushrooms, three per-
sons are dead in a New York hos.
pital. two more are dying and the con-
dition OF five others is serious.
John H. Cussack of Brooklyn. who
was John l.. Sullivan's hacker when
the former champion was defeated py
James ]. Corbett, died Tuesday. He
is said to have lost $6S0OO on Sulli-
van in that fight.
After seventy-nine walking days
from New York, from where he start
ed May 3 to lower Edward Payson
Weston's record across the continent.
John Henry Mooney, member OF
New York City's fire department, ar
rived Sunday night in Oakland, CAL,
practically completing his task and
winning the $4,000 prize contributed
by as many thousand members of
New York's fire department.
Frank Gotch won from George
Hackenschmidt in two straight falls
at Chicago. on Labor day, and thus
retains the title of champion wrestler
of the world.
The stars and stripes and the stars
and bars will be displayed on an equal
plane. neither above the other, in the
coming first national blue and gray
reunion. to be held in Memphis be. !
ginning September 81.
A driver and d mechanician slight
V injured, two cars wrecked and
worlds record for the fastest contest |
mile on dirt track, by Harry knight
OF indianapolis driving a Westcott ma.
chine. tell the story OF the 200-mile
automobile sweepstakes at Columbus.
o., on Sunday.
For the first time in thirty-five years
the people of Mississippi had pub
lie hanging ON Saturday at Louisville
and 1t was one of the biggest days
that section of the state has ever
known. Bell Gage. negro, paid the
penalty for the murder of his wife.