Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-07-25
News Of the World.
Happenings of the Past Few
Days from aII Quarters.

Onl6lpOX Ii pEcVuiuuB III Vdiious part
4 Kentucky.
A law has been passed in England re-
luiring shopkeepers to provide seats fol
their assistants.
A trip around the world in 80 days
IAN actually be made when the Trans
iberian railway Is finished. The pres.
Dnt record is 6411 days, achieved by
Nellie Bly,.
Iowa is experiencing great boom In
railroad building.
81 Smith, the farmer who killed Viii.
liam Bell, commercial traveller from
Atlanta, was shot to death while In jail
1t Gaiusville, Ga, by mob.
The sheep-raising industry in the
lands oeded by the Sioux Indians be.
tween the Missouri river and the Riack
hills has now reached such proportions
that the owners have decided to form an
association similar to the associations of
the cattle men. A meeting has been
called for next October next at Fort
Pierre, when the Sheep Mems associa-
ton will be organized.
Women of Kingston, NO., recently
raided blind" saloon there and sue
ceeded in closing it. The town is a
temperance place and the women have
declared that they shall see that the law
is respected.
Three tramps were killed and five
others were seriously injured by the
wrecking of freight train ON the
Chicago and Alton road near Glendale,
Mo. The body of another man is be-
lieved to be at the bottom Of the wreck
age, which consists of ten carloads of
merchandise, hogs and cattle.
Elias Hatfield, the noted desperate
and son of Devil Anse" Hatfield, the
originator Of the Hatfield Mccoy feud
that cost 141 lives. surrendered to Gov
ernor Atkins of West Virginia in per-
son at Gray. Hatfield shot Deputy
Sheriff Ellis week ago and has been
holding off posse in the Kentucky
mountains. He sent word that he
would surrender to Governor Atkins
only.
Many cases Of lockjaw are prevailing
In New York. Most of the cases prove
fatal. A majority of the sickness seems
to have been brought on by Fourth of
July accidents.
j. Homer Bird of New Orleans, is in
Jail at st. Michael, Alaska. charged
with the murder of J. H. Herling and
r. H. Patterson.
A dispatch from Kiel says the Ger
man cruiser Geier has left Corinto, Mic
aragua, for Guatemala. to join Great
Britain in q demonstration in behalf
of the foreign creditors of the Central
American republic.
Wreckers succeeded in moving the
Atlantic liner Paris off the rocks on the
English coast, where she ran some
weeks ago during dense fog The
vessel was patched up and taken to
Falmouth harbor where she will be re-
paired.
Louis w. Holiday, son of Jesse w.
Holiday, Chicago millionaire, is lying
probably fatally wounded at St. Louis.
He was shot by his wife at their home.
Mrs Holladay was arrested and locked
up at the police station. She says that
she did the shooting in elf-defense.
Young Holladay met Mrs. Holiday, nee
Annie Brewster, trick bicycle rider in
Houston, Tex, in 1897.
The United States balance sheet for
the year ending in June shows increases
in our foreign trade that are marvellous.
In spite of the war that disturbed the
run of things, in spite of abundant crops
in other countries and consequent de.
crease In the demand for food stuffs, the
total foreign trade of the country
reached the enormous sum of 1924,
52O,9l3, which is $67,000,0O0 greater
than in any previous year in the
country's history, and the figures show
the United States to have the right side
of the ledger by the enormous sum OF
$3.50, 1886, ,087. We sold to other countries
that much more M our products than
we bought of theirs. At the same time
we purchased from other countries $Sl,
or, 1874 worth more of their products
than we purchased In the preceding
year.
Portable mortors are to be used in the
warfare against the Filipinos, and as
they are capable of throwing a deadly
missile 1000 yards good results are ex-
pected.
Colonel A. B. Jones, United States
consul to Tuxpan, Mexico, died at Tux.
pan recently.
The president has appointed Colonel
Alfred E. Bates paymaster- general OF
the army, to succeed General Asa b.
Carey, retired.
The expectation of -four for the fiscal
year is over lS, 900, 900 barrels, represen-
ting more than 80,000,0 900 bushels of
wheat. While the increased expectation
is general the most marked growth is
towards the Orient.
1t is feared the wheat crop of France
will be failure.
An American company has purchased
the Popocatapell volcano in Mexico and
will work the sulphur deposits there on
an extensive scale.
Trouble over barbed wire fence be-
tween the properties of Ira Smith and
w. ID. Hayes caused shooting scrape
at New Boston, Texas, in which six
men were wounded, of whom two will
die.
Oar fares have been reduced on some