The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-01-18

iority of the states in the Union of
| fcially cast their electoral votes Mon
day for the presidency, proclaimed in
a speech to the New Jersey presiden-
tfal electors that he interpreted his
election as the distinct expression OF
the progressive impulses OF the coun-
try.
Guy Eddie, suspended city prose
cutor. who originated many of Los
Angeles reform laws was found by
jury not guilty of having contrib
uted to the delinquency of Mrs
Alice Phelps.
Three convicts escaped from the
state penitentiary at Joliet, ILL.,, and
are thought to have made their way
I to Chicago in a stolen automobile.
Two of the men were serving sen
fences for murder.
DR.. Thaddeus S. C. Love, who
gained fame during the Civil war by
making the first military observations
from a balloon used by the army of
the Potomac, lies at the point OF
death in Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON
Robert w Archibald of Scranton,
Pa, for twentynine years an occupant
of judicial positions upon the Penn
sylvania state bench, the federal dis
trict bench and the United States com
merce court, was adjudged guilty
Monday by the United States senate
of high crime and misdemeanors.
was stripped of his office and forever
disqualified from holding positions Of
public honor or public trust,
The first pork barrel" appropriation
bill of the present session Of congress
was reported to the house Monday
when the house rivers and harbors
committee brought in its annual ap-
preparation bill providing $40 0S0,00o
for the improvement of rivers and
harbors throughout the country.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer has
announced that he might be a candi.
date for the United States senate
from Massachusetts if the Republi-
can caucus could not determine upon
candidate
Efforts by Democratic senate lead
ers to make an agreement with the
Republican forces for joint commit
tee to go over President Taft's recent
appointments and select such as
should be confirmed by the senate i'm
mediately met with failure.
That the present concentration of
money and credit has gone far
enough" that lin bad hands" it
would have bad effect upon the ma.
ton, was the declaration Of George
F. Baker, master of finance, before
the house money trust committee.
Carrying $93SSo,177, an increase of
nearly $3,00o,OOO over the amount APP
propriated last year the army appro,
priation bill was reported to the house
Friday by Representative Day of Vir.
ginia.
FOREIGN
The British government has re
versed its ban placed on the reception
or Populations of suffragets and
agreed to welcome in the house of
COMMONS body of working women
md the representatives of the Wo-
mems Social and Political union.
1t is lawful in Switzerland to call
man an ass either in anger or other
wise, according to decision OF the
cantonal tribunal at Zurich The
court declined to award damages in a
suit arising out of a quarrel between
two prominent citizens.
1t is announced that the represen-
tatives of the siX-power group of
bankers, meeting in London, have APP
proved the agreement with respect to
the proposed loan of $125 100000 to
China.
Two British airmen, L. F. MacDon-
aid and man named inglis. were
drowned Monday in the river Thames
They We're flying above theN river
when the machine suddenly swooped
downward.
The Liverpool Daily Courier says
that an agreement has been reached
for the amalgamation of the PENN
sular & Oriental Steam Navigation
company and the Royal Mail Steam
Packet company with a capital of
$3.50 100000.
DR., w. Roest of Batavia, Dutch
East Indies, who was appointed ad-
wiser of the Chinese government for
the reform Of the currency last No
vember, died at Mukden Saturday. 1t
is feared his death will disorganize
the reform scheme.
Moslems massacred thirty women
and children and pillaged and burned
100 houses in the village of Kera-
mlsza, in the Turkish province of
Epirus, a short distance from the
Greek frontier.
The accession of DR. Alfonso Coas-
Ia to power is responsible for a des-
perate political riot at CeEimbra.
eighteen miles south of Lisbon. Four
rioters were killed and seventy-nine
wounded.
The United Kingdom was swept
saturday and Sunday by heavy gales
and snowstorms. There have been
many wrecks of small craft and coast
shipping has h2en damaged
Roumania has decided to mobilize
her army If she does not obtain salts.
faction from Bulgaria in regard to the
rectif2ation OF her frontier according
TO dispatch from Bucharest to the
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