Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-08-01
News Of the World.
Happ enin&s of the Past Few
DAYS from all Quarters.
Robert In, ,versoli Dies suddenly-The
Olympia at Trieste-Alger Resigns rs
Secretary of Tar-Elihu Root of New
York Succeeds Kim.


States and probably the world. The
company is to furnish 1000 tons Of steel
each day and at that enormous rate il
will take ten years to fill the contract.
Over a score Of firemen were hurt al
a fire in the Grace Hotel, Milwaukee
recently Four of the victims are
thought to be fatally injured.
A fire broke out in the st. Roohs
suburb Of Quebec recently destroyed 60
houses entailing property loss of
$lO0, 900, Over 100 families are homeless.
The Ramsey street-ca barns of the
Twin City Electric Railway of st. Paul
caught fire and were destoyed. Sixty
electric cais were destroyed with the
buildings and q quantity of general
supplies stored ON the second floor. The
loss is estimated at $l25, 900.
Word was Ieceived of the drowning
in northwestern Iowa. near the Mime
sofa line Monday night, of A. w. Blades,
his wife and eight children, while EN-
route to Minnesota in an emigrant
wagon. The family was encamped for
IA.
cloudburst raised the creek IL or 10
feet and the family, team and wagon
were swept away.
The fourth section Of freight train No.
S6 ran into the third section at Angel,
Arizona, badly wrecking one engine,
piling up the caboose and several cars of
the third section and killing Engineer
Baird of the fourth section. The fire
man jumped, escaping with a few
bruises.
President Diaz of Mexico and his cab
met win be formally invited to attend
the ceremonies of the laying of the cor
ner-stone Of the new federal building
in Chicago on October 8, by committee
of representative Chicago men, who
leave for that purpose August 8.
The grand jury of Santa Cruz county,
Arizona, created sensation by their
final report fled in the district court.
The jury found two indictments against
Allen T. Bird, editor of the Oasis for
libeling the supervisors and filed two
scathing arraignments against w. p.
Harlow, district attorney, for kindaping
and malfeasance in Office Harlow
ordered deputy sheriff to arrest four
citizens of Nogales and force them
across the line into Mexico, where they
were taken and Immediately shot by the
authorities of that republic without
trial. This act brings up an interna.
tional question and has created indig.
nation on both sides of the line. Among
parties indicted are those who secured
the removal Of Collector of Customs
Chenoweth, and the labors of the grand
jury may reopen his case at Washing.
ton.
The cruiser Olympus bearing Admiral
Dewey has reached Trieste. where the
Admiral and his officers were banqueted
by the Austrian Hungarian officials.
Secretary of War Alger rendered his
resignation to President Mckinley last
week. The president accepted the resig-
nation, which is to take effect August l.
Elihu Root of New York, has been ten
dered and accepted the Office made va
cant by Mr.. Alger.
George Z. Roberts, director of the
mint at Washington recently stated that
$l1 200, 900 worth of gold has this year
been received from the Klondike.
A quarrel over herd of wandering
goats at Tallula, La, eliminated in the
lynching of five Italians. The Italians
attacked citizen and shot him, and
mob promptly lynched them.
In the athletic contest between teams
from Oxford and Cambridge and teams
from Yale and Harvard. held at London
Saturday, the Britons won by score
to points.
Adjutant- General Corbin said that the
Third cavalry, for the assembling of
which orders have been issued by the
secretary Of war, would sail from Seat
tie on or about August 30 for the Phil
ippines. In the quartermaster.g generals S
office it was stated that the exact time
of sailing would depend upon the ar
rival Of the transport Hancock at San
Francisco and the condition in which
she was found to be regarding repairs,
etc., and how long 1t would take to put
her in readiness for the return voyage
before sending her up to Seattle.
Albert " Roe, a one-armed messenger
boy, has left New York on a bicycle for
San Francisco, bearing message to the
Postal Telegraph company,
After terrific struggle in the surf
Jack Hogan, life saver at Fire
Island beach, Fire Island, N. Y, lost
his life in attempting to rescue Adelbert
c. Hubert, a newspaper correspondent
from drowning Howard Bayliss of
Crawford, N. j., almost lost his life
while assisting Hogan. He, too, risked
his life freely to save that of stranger.
The Fresno, CAL, oil strikes are con-
sidered by the Union Oil & Transporta-
ton company, to be OF sufficient i'm
portanoe to justify organization with
intent to lay 8 inch pipe line from
Panoche to the San Joaquin river.
Labor Commissioner Smith of Col
orado says he considers the eight hour
law just and favors compulsory Arbitra-
tion. He says that on the average 20
per cent of the laboring people Of Colo
RADIO were idle half the time and that
| higher wages were paid there than in
any other state.