Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-03-14
News Of the World.
Happenings OF the Past Few
Days from all Quarters.

A new ministry has been formed in
j Spain.
The fifty-ffth session of congress
ended at noon Saturday.
Jesse James Jr. has been acquitted al
Kansas city of charge of train robbery
Lord Herschell, one of the high joint
commissioners from Great Britain, died
suddenly at Washington one morning
/ last week.
/ The Pennsylvania Steel company o1
Harrisburg Pa, has posted notice an
nouncing that beginning April lst there
/ will be a general advance of about ten
percent in wages. The advance effects
about 5000 employees.
The Spanish cabinet resigned last week
owing to friction over the peace treaty
The gunboat Vixen has been ordered
to Manila.
Representative John W. Crawford OF
the Fouth District Of Texas died al
Washington Thursday night.
The leading paper bag manufactures
OF the country have combined as the
Union Bag and Paper company. with a
capital stock of $27, ,000, 900.
The Southern railway depot at Char.
lotte n. @. was burned Thursday. Loss
100000.
The United States hospital ship Re
lief sailed Thursday from New York for
Manila. She carries 300 hospital stew.
ards and number of surgeons.
The president has approved the bill
appropriating $40 900, 900 to carry out
the provision of the treaty or peace with
Spain
| The North German Lloyd has reduced
the transatlantic passage rate to $50.
The Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes,
which was sunk In Santiago harbor dur
ing the bombardment by Admiral Sa,np-
sons fleet ON July Sd has been raised
and pumped out by the government.
General Maxine Gomez has asked
the army of occupation to 10000 men,
retain 10000 Cubans in the service of
the military government.
The United States gunboat Wheeling
has been ordered to Manila by way OF
Honolulu.
The senate recently settled the Samp-
son-Sehley controversy py making each
a rear-admiral, with Sohley two num-
bers in advance of Sampson.
Rear Admiral Schley has been di-
! rantad hv tho y,racidapt ~ m y,
the body of Lord Herschell to England.
1t is officially announced that the Brook
lyn will bear the body of the eminent
Englishman back to his native country
and the vessel has been detached from
Havana station and ordered to Hampton
Roads to prepare for the trip.
A tornado, about 10 yards wide, struck
a portion of Madisonville, Penn, Sun
day night. killing three persons,
wounding ten or twelve others and
completely destroying l2 or l5 houses
and several barns.
Charles Smith of Denver, Colorado,
who controls majority of the bonds of
the California and Nevada railroad, de-
nies that the line has passed into the
possession of the Santa Fe company.
Miss Lillian Maroni, prominent
Christian endeavorer of Marshall, H.,
shot and fatally wounded her brother
in-law, w. A. Vaughn few days ago.
There is no apparant cause for the
shooting.
Senator George G. Perkins of Califor-
g., 1.
ing colleague, Senator Stephen Mallory
White, at the Metropolitan club in
Washington few days ago. The func-
ton was one of the most elaborate of
the season, and drew from the senate a
third of the members now in the city.
Smallpox has been discovered in a
tenement house at Cleveland, 0.
The Chinese foreign office has re.
turned TO the Italian charge d Affaires,
Marquis Salvage Raggo, his dispatch
containing the demand of the Italian
government for lease on San Nun bay,
ON the same conditions as those under
which Fermany holds Kiaochau bay,
accompanying it with letter declaring
that the Chinese government is unable to
grant the request
The order of the board of police com
missioners of st. Louis that all saloons
be closed at midnight Saturday night
and remain until midnight Sunday
under the provisions of the law was car
ried out to the letter.
Mrs Edward o. Wolcott, wife of
United States senator from Colorado,
has begun proceedings for divorce at
New York, from her husband, on the
ground of incompatability of temper
John NJ Cook, the head of the great
tourist agency, is dead at London. He
never recovered from the illness which
he contracted while conducting the
recent tour of Emperor William of Ger.
many in Palestine.
A dispatch from a snow bound train
came to Cheyenne, Wyo., Sunday, stat
ing that AZ passengers were on the train
and We're i'll danger of starvation, there
being no provisions on the train and nc
way of getting any. A relief train wa,
Immediately sent out.
The official statement of Representa-
tive Joseph G.. Cannon of Illinois, til,
chairman of the house appropriation,
committee, summing up the appropria
tions of the Fifty fifth congress, show,
AN aggregate appropriation by the EN-
tire congress of 81, ,566, ,S90,0l6, and foi
the session lust closed, total of S673