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

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IS years.
DR.. George W. Bradley, an aged ply.
slcian OF Waverly. ILL.,, was arrested
Sunday and taken to the Morgan
kill Frank Wyle, ieweler of Waiver.
ly, whom he accused of alienting his
wife's affections.
Col. e. ]. Cochrane, governor OF
the Sawtelle California; soldiers
home, has forwarded his resignation
to 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 ]. 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 Score.
tary Wilson to appoint DIR. Carl Ais.
burg, a 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 $4,000, the eleven principal crops
estimated exceeded the value of the
same crops last year by $50,531 900.
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
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
plan on Monday through which Sem
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
cd States, has shared In the country's
prosperity, according to Comptroller
Lawrence @. 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
stratdng 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-sixth
year. having been born October 27,
1887. in Xenia, o.
Arms furnished by the United States
government for the protection of Am.
orleans at Cananea, Mexico, are in
the hands of some 1000 Mexicans,
who threaten strike based on an
movement.
The report current that the Russian
government was withdrawing its de-
posits from the German banks is Of
ficially denied.
Rulgara is declared to be about to
enter the triple alliance, thus Joining
forces with Austro- Hungary, Germany
and Italy, according to information
given from diplomatic source to the
Figaro.
A Turkish destroyer attempted to
pass into the Aegean sea from the
Dardanelles on Saturday, but was
driven back by shells fired by two
Greek destroyers patrolling the straits.
Walter Mumm. OF Paris, well
known sportsman and member of
prominent family connected with the
wine trade, was shot and seriously
wounded by an American woman.
The Antarctic steamer, Terra Nova,
sailed from Christchurch, New Zea-
land, to the relief OF Captain Robert
F. SCOTS Antarctic expedition.
Leon Bourgeois, former premier
and minister of labor In the present
French cabinet, has told his friends
definitely that the condition Of lis
health forbade him entertaining any
idea Of standing as a candidate fol
the presidency NJ Eranra ~ Tho nn~o