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

land. The 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 foul
women are detained by the police II
connection with the brutal murder o
j. H. Logue, diamond merchant, Il
his office in Chicago.
| A private bank in Chicago which
advertised to pay 100 per cent interes
year, ION all deposits from / cen
to $15,000,000," was closed with the
arrest of F. B. Carson, its promoter.
J. Frank Hickey was found guilty a.
Buffalo. N. ", of murder in the sec
ond degree In having strangled t.
death Joseph Josephs. 7-year-old boy
of Lackawanna. October IL, 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 deat
as the result of terrible explosion
which occurred in the Ubari colliery a.
Sapporc on the island of Hokkiado.
News of the coming to America un
der the name of Ruiz of Cipriano Gas
tro one time president and practically
dictator of Venezuela, has been sent t.
the state department from the Ameri
can embassy in Paris.
The new series of stamps for parcels
post matter have been issued and will
be sent to all postoffices before the
law takes effect on January 1. Ordi
nary postage stamps will not be &C
cepted in payment OF the carriage OF
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.,
SOO,O00,000, against $1,563, 100000 in
1910, which was the former high rec.
ord, and that the exports will aggre-
gate $2,400,OOO,OOO, against $2,O93, OOO,
600, against $2.093 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
fighting 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 secretaryshir
under President Woodrow Wilson.
The Mexican chamber of deputies
has levied a flat per cent increase on
import duties. This action, however,
does not dispose of the general tariff
revision bill which provides special
tax on numerous articles, especially
Injuries.
The British schooner Geogiana, with
ten passengers and a crew Of Ave,
foundered off Lucea, Jamaica, in try.
ms W huoho tudI pOIl uuTluS Tue NO
vember gulf storm, and all on board
were lost, according to dispatches Just
received.
The Vienna Reichspost says 1t len 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 Asiasic coast,
that the Greeks have bombarded the
village of Pitos, where the Ottoman
wounded are In the hospitals.
Thirty-five men were imprisoned
when the Nelson tunnel OF the Happy
Thought mine at Crede, Gallo, caught
fire and all were rescued after fifty
tons of debris were removed.
A Aim caught fire during a cinomato-
graph performance at Barraqus, Ger.
many. The flames spread with great
rapidity, 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