Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-02-06

The Colorado Iron s. Fuel company
will have $50, 900 display ut the Paris
exposition.
The United States government has
assurance from Costa Rica and Nicar-
auga that they are willing to lease terri
tory to tho United States for 100 years,
II necessary. for the construc ton of the
Nicaragua canal.
Colorado members Of congre 50 will
try to have the government place \
geologist and mineralogist at the United
States mint in Denver to examine and
determine the nature of the different
ores discovered throughout Colorado.
In the district court at Juarez, Mex
leo, Mrs. Matte Rich, an American was
found guilty of having murdered her
her husband and was sentenced to serve
II years in prison.
Post Chaplain David H. Shields has
been dismissed from the army of the
United States, to take effect February
!. The action in the case of Chap
lain Shields was the result.of court-mar-
tial proceedings. He was tried at San
Francisco for conduct unbecoming an
officer and gentleman in CONSCIENCE
of the alleged use of Intoxicating liquor,
and was convicted and sentenced te be
dismissed
According to last accounts the fund
for the benefit of General Lawton's
widow had reached S93. .364
A crew has sailed from New York for
Newcastle, Eng, to bring to the I'M
tied States the cruiser Albany. The
vessel was purchased from Chill just
before the war with Spain.
In recent battles with the Mexican
troops the Yaqui Indians have suffered
severe losses. The Mexicans think the
war is at an end.
An imperial edict issued at Peking,
China, says that, owing to the emperor's
poor health, he is unable to conduct the
business of state and appoints Pu Chun,
son of Prince Tuano, his heir. The EN-
peror apparently has been compelled by
the dowager empress to abdicate about
the Chinese new year, though it is un-
derstood this will meet with consider
able opposition in certain court circles.
The dowager empress, however, intends
to carry out the programme which she
has been planning for years. According
to special dispatch from Shanghai, it
is reported the Emperor Kwangsu has
committed suicide.
A freight train on the Central Rail
road of New Jersey, going down the
Wilkesbarre mountain side, ran away.
At the foot of the mountain the cars left
the track and were piled high in a big
wreck. There was dynamite III one of
the cars, and it exploded with great
force. The shock was felt for a distance
of 20 miles. Three men, all of them
brakemen, were killed, two unknown
men We're fatally injured, and several
others were hurt badly. The dead are:
Frank Mclaughlin, Michael Bird and
William Buckley
In fit of insanity caused, it is be.
lieyed, by too close attention to church
duties, Mrs. Anna Kudzen of Chicago,
attempted to murder her husband and
six children with potato masher and
was only subdued after terrible strug.
gle Kudzen had one eye destroyed
and policeman was severely scalded
with d kettle of boiling water, which
the frenzied woman threw at him. Ii
took the combined strength of Kudzen
and four police officers to subdue the
woman, who screamed 1.-The Lord
has told me to kill them all One OF
the children was slightly scalded by the
water thrown at the officer.
Three dynamite explosions occurred
ON different nights at Leadville, Colo,
last week, each time in a different part
of the city. Considerable property was
destroyed, but no one was injured The
motive for the outrages is unknown.
A Philadelphia locomotive works has
Just received an order from French
railroad company for 30 large 0-wheeled
passenger engines.
Thomas Reynolds, the convict, who,
with three others. escaped from the
penitentiary recently at Canyon City,
Colo, after numbering Night Captain
William c. Rooney, was captured neal
Florence, ten miles east of Canyon
city, and brought to the latter place in Il
wagon, where he was taken from the
officers by mob and hanged to tele
graph pole.
According to the pension rolls there
are now drawing pensions on account OF
the Revolutionary war, four widows and
seven daughters War of lSl2-One sur.
vivor, 1898 widows Indians wars, 1882
to lS42-l665 survivors and 1889 widows
Mexican war-92o4 survivors and Sli5
widows. Granted since 1861 under gen
eral law-32l 900 invalid and ~, 90l wild
ows and other dependents; under law OF
1890, invalids, 420,9l2; widows aud de
pendents, l30,224.
The glass trust is cutting the price OF
its product in hopes of driving the inde
pendent factories out Of business.
A. j. Honeycutt, aged 80, farmer liv-
ing near Center, Tex, attacked his wife
with knife. Their children ran to the
assistance of the mother, when Honey
cutt stabbed Rosa, aged Is, killing her
instantly. The wife and two sons, aged
IL aud TO- were so badly wounded that
they may die. Honeycutt is in jail, and
precautions have been taken to prevent
= lynohtns.