Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-12-12
News Of the World.
Happenings OF the Past Few
Days from all Quarters.
An Entire Family Killed In a Rail.
road Accident Two Big Fires In
Philadelphia = Hobson Successful
With Wrecked Vessels.

ears at Laramie.
Paper money has fallen to one-fifth
its normal in value in Colombia, 5. A.,
because of the decline in coffee.
Demand for quartz miners i'll Colo
RADIO has so drawn upon the coal miners
MS to threaten coal famine i'll that
state.
The Colorado Springs, Colo, Mining
Stock association contemplates the erec-
ton of II new mining stock exchange.
Eastern street railway companies are
importing steel rails from Scotland and
Germany. The Federal Steel company
of New York is shipping steel rails to
Glasgow, Scotland.
The general organizer of the Ameri-
can Federation of labor i'll Wisconsin
estimates that the average advance in
wages in Wisconsin for all classes in
the year past was 10 per cent.
The Russian government is about to
establish steamship line from Port
/ Arthur to the United States, to be
operated in connection with the Trans
siberian railroad Either San Francisco
or Seattle will be the eastern terminal.
Hongkong advices of November 3
give details of the preliminary trials
of the reconstructed cruisers lsla de
Luzon and Isla de Cuba, under charge
of Chief Constructor Hobson. The
Luzon made an average Of l4.S5 knots
over two-mile course and the Cuba
made IA knots. Everything connected
with the machinery aud boilers worked
smoothly and there was not a hitch from
/ start to finish 1t was expected that
both vessels would be ready for sea
/ about December Is.
General Leonard Wood will be the
master of all Cuba under the direction
of the president until the time comes
when congress takes action by provid-
ing new civil government for the isl
and. General Wood is not to be called
officially ''civil governor. He will be
military governor, in supreme command
/ of the island, but in the absence of any
/ insurrection or trouble-and none is OK
pected by the administratioii--his duties
/ will be chiefly civil.
In railroad accident last week near
/ Patterson, n. j., Alex. Craig, his wife
and two children, Mrs. Maybert Roe
and Walter j. Wallbrook were killed
! besides a large number were injured.
/ The entire Craig family was wiped out.
President Mckinley and Admiral
Dewey have signified their intention OF
/ financially assisting j. p. V. Gridley
through the naval academy at Annapo.
/ lis. Gridley is the SON of the late Cap.
tain Gridley, who commanded the
/ Olympia at the battle of Manila bay.
When ne died he left his family almost
without means.
Nearly So 1000, 900 worth of property
was destroyed by two fires IN the heart
of the business section i'll Philadelphia.
The greater of the two fires started III
the big department store OF Partridge Il
+ Richardson, at the southeast corner OF
Eight aud Filbert streets, the very cen
ter of the shopping district, and before
the flames had been put under control
they spread to adjoining property and
caused n heavy loss. While the fire was
progressing and spreading every moment
another fire broke out four blocks away
on the fourth floor of Il9 Market street
The loss at this fire is estimated at
/ $4,000.
The sentence of private. late sergeant,
Lewis j. Crawford, Troop l.. First
cavalry, to 13ls years Imprisonment for
conspiring in the escape OF prisoners,
has been published by the war depart
ment. This heavy sentence was i'm
posed by the court martial which tried
Crawford for conniving and assisting in
the escape of prisoners at Wardner,
Idaho. who were under arrest for par
ticipating in the mining troubles there.
Crawford was sergeant of the guard at
the time that the prisoners escaped and
that fact contributed to the severity of
his sentence.
Calvin de Wolf of Chicago was found
dead in bed few days ago. He was
one of the earliest of Western abolition.
lists and took an active part III the
movement.
In the United States supreme court ii,
Washington the Addystone pipe ease
was decided. This case involved the
constitutionality of the combination OF
pine manufacturers, which ii was
charged was trust The decision wa.
handed down by Justice Pecllham, and
was adverse to the combination. 1t wa,
therefore in opposition to the trust. The
opinion of the court of appeals for the
Sixth circuit was affirmed. In review
ing the case Justice Peckham said thai
ii had been brought under the antitrusl
act of 1890, and that an injunction wa'
asked to oenjoin the corporations engaged
in the manufacture of water and ga,
pipe, which composed the combination
/ from continuing business under tn,
agreement by which they had dividec
the territory of the United States among
themselves, and by which they hat
agreed to fix prices.
A rear.end collision occurred between
two passenger trains on the Denver ant
Rio Grande, near Denver, Colo, il
which six persons were killed outrigh
and several others severely injured.