The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-12-21


Dr. George w Bradley, an aged ply.
stefan OF Waverly, H., was arrested
Sunday and taken TO the Morgan
county jail accused of attempting 20
kill Frank Wyle. a jeweler OF Waiver.
ly. whom he accused of alienting his
wife's affections
Col. E. j. Cochrane, governor OF
the Sawtelle (California) soldiers
home. has forwarded his resignation
10 the board of managers of the Ma.
tional Soldiers home
Announcement of the engagement
of Miss Helen Miller Gould of New
York, daughter of the late Jay Gould
TO Finley j. Shepard, a prominent
railroad man of st. Louis, is made
public.
Millions of dead fish have been cast
up from the gulf of Mexico at Tam
pico, Mexico, and vicinit during the
past ten days, the result, it is believed
of submarine volcanic disturbances.
WASHINGTON
President Taft has directed Secre
tary Wilson to appoint DR.. Carl Ais.
burg, chemist in the agricultural de-
partment, chief of the bureau of chem.
istry, to succeed DR.. Harvey W. Wiley.
President Taft has announced
through Secretary Hilles that the
post of ambassador to Great Britain,
made vacant by the death of Whitelaw
Reid, will not be filled by him.
Record crops OF corn, spring wheat,
oats, barley, potatoes, rye, hay and
rice were harvested this year, accord,
ing to the final estimates of the de-
partment of agriculture. announce
Monday. With a total value of So
Oil ,449 600, the eleven principal crops
estimated exceeded the value of the
same crops last year by $50,
A plan to enable the Judiciary COM
mittee of the senate to take the tes-
timony in any impeachment trial not
involving the president, vice-president,
members of the cabinet or justices OF
the supreme court is proposed in a
resolution introduced by Senator
Sutherland.
The chair of the presiding officer
of the senate was filled for the rest
of the session by the adoption of a
plan on Monday through which Sen
ators Gallinger and Bacon will alter
nate In terms of two weeks each as
president pro TEN. until March 4.
Business in general, as reflected In
the condition OF the banks of the Unit.
ed States, has shared in the country s
prosperity, according to Comptroller
Lawrence O. Murray In his annual re-
port.
FOREIGN
Conditions In Paris and reports re
ceived from the provinces show that
the fourth attempt of the general fed
GRAFTON OF labor to bring about a gen
eral strike for the purpose of demon
strating their power to paralyze the
resources of the government has been
as Ineffective as on previous occa.
sions.
The preliminaries of the peace con.
ference at London were completed
Monday and apparently the Greek diff
ficulty regarding the signing of the
armistice has been surmounted
Whitelaw Reid, the American am
bassador to Great Britain since 1905
died at his London residence, Dor
chester house, shortly after noon Sun
day from pulmonary oedema. White
law Reid was In his seventy-sixtf
year. having been born October 81
1887, in Xenia, o.
Arms furnished by the United State.
government for the protection of Am
orleans at Cananea, Mexico, are il
the hands of some 1000 Mexicans
who threaten a strike based on al
anti-American movement.
The report current that the Russian
government was withdrawing its de
posits from the German banks is OF
ficially denied
Bulgaria is declared to be about t.
enter the triple alliance, thus joining
forces with Austro, Hungary, German
and Italy, according to information
given from diplomatic source to tn
Figaro.
A Turkish destroyer attempted t
pass into the Aegean sea from tn
Dardanelles on Saturday, but wa
driven back by shells fired by tw
Greek destroyers patrolling the strait!
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known sportsman and member of
prominent family connected with tn
wine trade, was shot and seiiousl
wounded by an American woman.
The Antarctic steamer, Terra Now
sailed from Christchurch, New Re;
land, to the relief of Captain Robe,
; F. SCOTS Antarctic expedition.
Leon Bourgeois, former premit
and minister of labor In the presel
French cabinet, has told his frient
: definitely that the condition of Ia
health forbade him entertaining al
i idea of standing as candidate +,
the presidency of France at the Ger
ing election.
y Colncldent with the arrival OF II
:, Greek peace commissioners in Lo
i dan, news came from Athens of a r
l. SUMPTION of hostilities between Il
L Greeks and Turks on an imposir
scale.
r An incipient revolution In Hondur,
d was quelled Immediately by the killii
r Of its leader, General Jose Maria VAL
dares, while urging his followers