The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-07-29
NewsStory
of a Week
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF
WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
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ing picture film operator at Denver
theatre probably saved a panic and
injury to many in the audience or 500.
The operator was seriously burned.
S. A. d. Hahn, a former prominent
commercial college teacher of Helena.
was killed on Tuesday by lightning
while on a ranch near Townsend,
Mont.
The Western Federation OF Miners
on Tuesday in convention at Butte,
voted that it considered the sugges-
ton of President Meyer in favor OF
ownership in mines and smelters by
labor organizations to be impractic-
able.
The largest delegation in the his
tory OF the Sheep Shearers' union No.
/ of North America attended the
opening session of their annual meet
ing in Butte on Monday.
Fire which started from an explos-
| ion in a hardware and furniture store
swept the two main business blocks
of the town of Sedro Woolley Wash,
causing loss estimated at 100000
Utah received a magnificent birth
| day present on Pioneer day, July "a,
| in the form of a decision by the In
terstate commerce commission which
makes substantial reductions in all
! freight rates and removes discrimin-
atory conditions under which Salt
Lake and the state generally has la
bored for years.
Four inches of snow fell on Pixies
Peak Sunday night and early Monday
morning. The snow was not heavy
enough to interfere with the mountain
train.
DOMESTIC
Bobby Leach, 40 years old, OF Nj
agara Falls, Ont, Tuesday afternoon
went over the Horseshoe falls in a
barrel and still lives. Though ne was
severely battered and bruised in the
drop of 1853 feet over the rink Of the
cataract, he sustained only superb
cial injuries.
The Nebraska Republican state con-
vention at Lincoln on Tuesday gave
President Taft and his administration
Ia strong endorsement and effectively
blocked all efforts OF small band OF
insurgent delegates to arouse senti
ment for Senator Robert M. Lafollette
as presidential candidate,
Lillian Graham, one of the women
who shot W. e. d. Stokes in New
York last month and who disappeared
from New York several Gays ago, was
found Tuesday at Poughkeepsie, N. Y
She tells story of having been kid
mapped by a strange man in New
York.
Several lives are believed to have
been lost and thousands of dollar;
. worth OF property destroyed by ter
rife windstorm which swept the st
Lawrence river Tuesday night
News has been received OF the muir
der of Miss Emma Brown, who hat
taken up homestead near Saratoga
( Texas. A 16-year-old Mexican boy
, named Martinez is under arrest
In family fight at South Quick
sands, four miles from Jackson, KY
Sunday, William Sims and his wifi
, were killed and Alfonso Allen serious
ly wounded. Herman Allen, son-in
law of the dead couple and a brothe
OF the wounded man. is at large
: Many shots were exchanged be
{ tween strikers and guards IN a gar
ment strikers riot at Cleveland Tw
strikers were wounded and the pc
, lice made many arrests.
The National Futurity Coursing clu
+ has announced that the National Fl
/. turity, greyhound puppy stake, ha
= been awarded to Friend, Neb., racin
n to begin October 4 and to continu
each day until finished
Il Ad Wolgast has posted forfeit {
$1,000 to bind the tenround bout wit
y Packey Mcfarland, scheduled to tax
place in Milwaukee. September Is.
Eight persons were injured an
many lives imperiled by an explosio
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occupied as restaurant and shoe
: the entire business section OF Gar
y Indiana.
Three armed thieves invaded til
!. heart of the tenderloin in New Yor
at its gayest hour Sunday nigh
smashed Sixth avenue jewelers. viii
le dow, shot his clerk dead, seized Sc
600 worth of diamond rings and g
= capped.
Gustavus G. Pearson, retired capita
list, who in the gold craze of ski
" years ago was one OF party fro
Utah who discovered the Yosemit
he valley, died at Danville, ILL.,, aged SO.
The rain fell in torrents in Johnst
and Gage counties, Nebraska. on Su
= day, causing streams to break the
banks. Women and children we
he rescued from the tops of box car
boats being used in the rescue wor
AS far as can be learned no lives we
os lost.
Two men are dead, young man,
q young woman and an old man are q
ing, two persons are seriously iniure
seven more slightly hurt and fourte
" people are under arrest as result
an automobile speed wave that ,swe
over Chicago Sunday.