The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1913-01-04

les. lney demand higher pay and
better working conditions.
Adolph Gotch, brother of Frank
Gotch. champion heavyweight wrestler,
died In rooming house in New York.
He had fallen from bathtub and an
autopsy showed that his neck was
broken.
1t is said that Thomas w. Lawson,
of Boston. has been measurably be.
hind the attacks upon Wall street and
the New York stock exchange that
have emanated from Washington and
other places.
Singing Onward, Christian Sol
diers," 200 children, members of a
Sunday school class, marched out OF
their classroom through smoke from
fire that destroyed the Lorimer Me-
mortal Baptist church In Chicago.
WASHINGTON
Attorney General Wickersham said
Monday that in his opinion, the fed
eral court at indianapolis had been
extremely lenient in imposing senten.
ces on the labor officials convicted IN
the dynamite conspiracy
War department officials say that
although quantity of military stores
are being gathered at Ell Paso, the
department does not expect to make
Ell Paso one of the great depots Of
the army.
President Taft has declined TO in
struct the comptroller of the currency
to make an investigation to secure
for the house money trust investigat-
ing committee facts not now in the
possession of the comptroller.
Information made public by Post
master General Hitchcock shows that
the postal savings repositories in
Utah have made application for
1880 of the postal savings bonds to
be distributed on January /.
Approval Of the extension of voca-
tional education in the Philippines and
the immediate grant of American citi.
zenship to those Porto Ricans desir.
ing 1t, constitute the principal fea-
lures In the annual report of Briga-
der General Frank Mcintyre, chief
OF the bureau of insular affairs.
A New Years gift by the American
government to the American people
VIII be a thoroughly equipped domes-
tic parcel post. Following considera-
ton of the subject In general way
for a third of century, congress
last August authorized the postmaster
general to establish the new system
on January l. 1913.
FOREIGN
After o fortnight OF sparring and
feinting, Turkey finally has shown her
hand In the peace conference Medi-
alton by the great powers is the Otto
man scheme for emerging from the
war.
The American community In Pekin,
numbering eighty persons, tele-
graphed to Washington Monday urg-
ing an early recognition OF the Chin
ese republic.
The Irish home rule bill reached re-
port stage in the house of common
Monday afternoon. Premier Asquith
announced that sevenday would be
given for the discussion of this stage
Of the measure.
Great Britain Is beginning to re-
cover from the effects of the gale of
Christmas and two following days,
while reports of loss of life and dis
aster are coming in from many di.
rections- Besides many sea disasters,
much damage has been done by floods
on land.
A Berlin dispatch reports the dis
covery of the greatest espionage con.
spiracy known for years. Thirty men
and women, including Germans and
Russians, have been arrested, charged
with spying in behalf Of Russia.
Reorganization soon will begin of
the federal army in northern Mexico.
Its first effect will be the assigning of
commanders to new stations, and
later, 1t Is said, in altering the rela.
tons between the regular and irregu.
lar troops.
The ashes of DR.. Jose Rial, the
national hero Of the Philippines, were
inferred Sunday at the base Of his
monument near the scene Of his exc
cution by the Spaniards on December
80, 1896.
Fifteen of the crew of the Danish
steamer Volmer were drowned when
she was wrecked in the great gale
which has been raging in the English
channel.
Moritz, the famous chimpanzee
which appeared at the London Hippo
drome. is dead at Brighton. He was
insured for something like 100000
He could write and play two bars oil
the national anthem on the piano.
! News Of the massacre of the old
men, women and children composing
virtually the entire population of a
native village on the island OF Papua
has just reached officials at Port
Moresby, British New Guinea.
The expedition with which the Turk
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