Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-01-02
News Of the World.
Happenings of the Past Few
Days from ali Quarters.
Fatal Rear-End Collision In Utah -
Eleven Lisiie Girls Burned to Death
Forty school Children Drowned In
Belgian.

In Colorado Ignite coal is to be laid
down for $3.50 per ton.
Denver, Colo. has s3J, ,0oo,000 surplus
money on deposit.
The u. $. homestead law will be ex-
tended to the Philippines.
There are $50 miners at work in the
foal mines at Red Canyon, Wyo.
The American Steel and Wire com
pany is credited with having made
81, 800, 600 last month.
There is an advance of 20 per cent in
the price of leather betting.
There will be general advance in
railroad freights on all roads east and
west of Chicago January |.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron company
proposes manufacturing coke, under the
Hemingway patents, in Colorado and
/ Utah.
/ Late Chinese papers say that there are
! at present six sinckeless powder factories
in operation in the Chinese empire.
John L. Sullivan, for many years
champion pugilist of the world is broke
in New York.
A French railroad company has Just
/ placed an order with Philadelphia
locomotives building firm for ten loco
motives of the latest designs.
Rich copper veins have been discov-
cred in the heart of Butte city, Mont,
and a company has started to sink a
shaft with the intention of developing
/ the find.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company proposes to spend 100000 in
1900 extending its lines in Montana,
Wyoming, Utah and Idaho.
The steamer Defiance, at Vancouver,
b. G., from Vananda and other north
ern mining ports, brought smelter pro-
/ ducts valued at S25ot0-
A s25. 600 refinery has been put in at
the Sunset Oil company's works at Snn-
set, Cal, where the entire output will
be refined aud distilleries manufactured.
+ 4 drydoclz to cost $4,000 is to be
built at Hunters Point san Francisco.
+ II will be over a natural rock basin, will
E III I1N iH'i NlNEt 81 ihtt " AA' ttt hAt% 'ff-
tom and i2o feet at the top.
The six Chinese companies of San
Francisco have donated $1,000 TO the
California state board of trade to aid in
bringing about closer relations between
f China and the United States,
The ship Kennehee has arrived AT
+ Mare island with 3l00 tons OF coal fol
the navy yard. The ship is deep in the
water drawing % feet three inches, tive
feet more than the battle-ship Iowa, and
experienced ND difficulty in coming VI
to the island The ship Mayfield is now
at Mare island discharging coal.
immigration continues to be unusually
heavy for this time of the year. Dur.
ing the month of November 26, 460 i'm.
migrants came to New York, as com
pared with Is, 1876 during the same
month last wear. For the preceding
four months the figures stand as follows
October, 2S, 7oi, against 1854 for that
month last year; September, q 1869,
against 1869; for August, 1866,
against e,621; for July, II 593, against
13.056--in each substantial increase.
In a rear-end collision between the
first and second sections of passenger
train No. at Terrace, Utah. Fireman
Fl. 4 Shorer of the second section,
whose home was at Wells. New, was
fatally injured, and died while being
taken to Ogden, and Engineer Bert
Cave of Ogden was slightly injured.
,,1 b.
death, five others suffered injuries which
in several cases are likely to prove fatal,
and several older persons were seriously
hurt during fire that interrupted tho
rehearsal of Christmas play ut St.
Francis parochial school in Quincy, Ill.
The children were dressing for the play
when the cotton used ON the dress OF
one caught fire from a gas jet and soon
she was a mass of flames. The light
dresses OF others also canght fire and
resulted in the deaths and injuries OF
many
Inward of 40 school children were
drowned in an ice accident at Freeling-
ham, Belgian, near the French frontier.
The children of the district had been
gwen holiday with permission to play
on the frozen river Lys. When the
merriment was AT full height the ice
broke suddenly and the children disap
pearod a few were rescued half dead,
but the majority were drowned. Thirty
six bodies have been recovered, but
others are still missing. The catastrophe
spread CONSERVATION throughout the
town, where nearly every family suf-
fered loss.
The German flag was hoisred over
tho courthouse recently ut Apia, Somoa,
as an official notification of the annexa-
ton of the islands, by agreement, to
Germany. The German consul, on
board the Cormoran, was interviewed
by the Samoan chiefs They informed
the consul that Mataafa would be
selected to rule. Having declared their
government established the Mataafaites
are driving the Malietoans out of the
villages Trouble appears imminent.
The British government intends tc
mobilize a force of 10000 mounted in
fantry men for the war i'll South Africa.
They will be on the same lines as the
rough riders of our recent war.