The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-28

| anu Inc Island lies In The Pacific
about $50 miles southwest of Panama
and for years has been the lure OF
treasure seekers.
Nine persons, five men and fouI
women are detained by the police in
connection with the brutal murder oil
]. H. Logue. a diamond merchant, in
his office in Chicago
A private bank in Chicago which
advertised to pay 100 per cent interest
a year, ION all deposits from l cent
to $15,000,000" was closed with the
arrest of F. B. Carson, its promoter.
j. Frank Hickey was found guilty al
Buffalo, N. Y, of murder in the sec
ond degree in having strangled tc
death Joseph Josephs 7-year-old boy
of Lackawanna. October II, 1911.
John S. Huyler. aged 10, the young
est son of the late John S. Huyler
millionaire candy manufacturer, fell
beneath train at Morristown, N. ].
and was killed.
WASHINGTON
More than 200 Japanese coal miners
were entombed and are probably deae
as the result of terrible explosion
which occurred in the Ubari colliery a.
Sapporo on the island of Hokkiado.
News Of the coming to America un
der the name of Ruiz of Cipriano Cas-
tro, one time president and PRACTICAL,
dictator of Venezuela, has been sent tt
the state department from the Ameri
can embassy in Paris.
The new series of stamps for parcels
post matter have been issued and viii
be sent to all postoffces before the
law takes effect on January l. Ordi
nary postage stamps will not be ac
cepted in payment of the carriage o.
parcels post matter
The foreign trade of the United
States in 1912 will exceed all previous
records. Figures indicate that the i'm
ports of the. year will approximate ST.,
S0O,O0O,000, against $1,563 100000 in
1910, which was the former high rec
ord, and that the exports will aggre.
gate $2,400,000,000, against $2,O93,O 600.
600. against $2,O93 100000 in the for
mer high record year for exports, 1911
Railroad companies and steamship
combinations control the regular
steamship lines of the United States
and have destroyed competition on
many of the water highways of com
merce, declares Luther Conant, Jr.,
commissioner of corporations, in a re,
port to President Taft.
President Taft's ultimatum to Mex.
leo was telegraphed Friday to Mont
gomery Schuyler, Jr., American
charge d'affaires at the Mexican cap
ital in the absence of ambassador
Henry Lane Wilson.
FOREIGN
Madame Bloch, novelist, who on
July 81 shot and killed Mrs. Minnie
Bridgeman, wife of James e. Bridge
man, an employee of the Paris branch
of an American life insurance com
pany, was acquitted in the assizes
court at Paris on Monday of the charge
of homicide.
The London Post published an auth.
oritative Greek account of the recent
lighting at Epirus, according to which
Ali Ria Pasha, the Turkish command
er at Janina, and his chief of staff
david Pasha, both were killed and
the entire Turkish artillery in the San
goni Pass fighting were captured by
the Greeks.
The name of Samuel T. Adams, al
present assistant secretary of the in
terror, is perastently mentioned as the
future occupant of the secretaryshr
under President Woodrow Wilson.
The Mexican chamber of deputies
has levied flat per cent increase on
import duties. This action, however.
does not dispose of the general tariff
revision bill which provides a special
tax on numerous articles, especially
luxuries
The British schooner Geogiana, with
ten passengers and a crew of five,
foundered off Lucea, Jamaica, in try.
ing to make that port during the No.
vember gulf storm, and all on board
were lost, according to dispatches 1ust
received
The Vienna Reichspost says it lea MS
from Cattaro on the Adriatic sea that
the Servian forces are assisting the
Montenegrins,
1t is reported from the island of
Chlos, off the Turkish Asias.ic coast,
that the Greeks have bombarded the
village of Pitos. where the Ottoman
wounded are in the hospitals.
| Thirty-fve men were imprisoned
when the Nelson tunnel of the Happy
Thought mine at Crede, Calo caught
fire and an were rescued after fifty
tons of debris were removed.
A film caught fire during cinomato
graph performance at Barraqus, Ger
many. The flames spread with great
rapidly, causing dreadful panic.
Twelve persons were killed and TWEEN
ty persons injured
Charles Jones, an American EN-.
ployed as telephone lineman In the
Yaqui river district. was found dead
near Potero, Mexico. There were four
bullet wounds in his back
The British armored cruiser Natal
sailed out of Portsmouth harbor with
the body of Ambassador Reid on board
Saturday afternoon, amid a salute OF
nineteen guns
A Rome newspaper publishes sen
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