Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-01-23
News Of the World.
happenings Of the Past Few
Days from all Quarters.
Prominent Citizens of Virginia Engage
In a Pistol Duel In Court Room
A Banking House Blown to Atoms-
Young Crispi Sent to Jail.

In Clay county, KY, Liege Lewis and
Gene May were shot and killed and
four other participants seriously wound
ed in fight that started at murder
trial. Four of these involved in the
trouble were placed in Jail.
Felix Morris, one of the best known
uf character actors, died of pneumonia
1t New York Saturday.
Lieutenant-C Commander Hedges, in
charge of the work of sounding for a
cable between San Francisco and Manila,
reports the project thoroughly feasible.
Beyond Guam no greater depth than
5000 fathoms was found.
H. H. Tammen and Frederick Bonfils,
proprietors of the Denver Post, We're
both shot, the latter seriously wounded,
by Attorney w. W. Anderson. The
shooting resulted from quarrel brought
on by murder trial.
An Oswego, N. Y, man, Ephraim
Latulip, is the latest one to claim that
he has rediscovered the lost art of hard
ening copper. He says he can make it
rs tough as steel, so that it will hold and
carry an edge as keen as a razor. His
brother is the man who made cannon
of rawhide
Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell and two of
her children, Jennie and Archie, were
burned to death in fire which destroyed
her home at Corona, l.. l. The mother
lost her life trying to save the children.
Colonel John f. Stone. president of
the Peoples bank, Kingfisher. Ok. T.,
was shot and killed at the farm of Jim
Watcher, near Columbia, Kingfisher
county Colonel Stone had foreclosed
mortgage on Watcher and went to take
possession. Watcher claimed his attor-
ney had advised him to resist eviction.
Oak Ridge, Va, was the scene of
desperate pistol duel in which three of
the best known residents of the county
were killed. The dead are A. ID. ROLAND,
4. s. Stephenson and Dr. Otho Austin.
Dr. James Austin, his son, Otho Austin,
and his son-in-law, r. s. Stephenson,
had been arrested on an affidavit sworn
out by ROLAND, charging them with
whipping one of Rolland's negro ten.
ants. Just after the opening of their
trial in Justice Griffin's court at Oak
Ridge the shooting began, but who fired
the first shot is not known. When the
smoke of battle cleared away ROLAND,
Stephenson and Otho Austin were
stretched on the floor dead. and DIR.
James Austin and young son of Rol-
land were seriously wounded
Luigi Crispi, son of Signor Francesca
Crispi, the distinguished statesman and
former premier of Italy, was sentenced
to four years Imprisonment for the
theft of jewelry from the Countess
Cellere at Rome in April. 1896.
The banking-house of McGinnis, Teel
81 Co., at Owensville, Ind, was robbed
of about $4,000 in currency, all the
banks ready funds, recently The vault
and safe of the bank were wrecked with
dynamite, and so great was the effect of
the explosion that the few persons who
say they heard it thought the shock was
caused by an earthquake. The bank
building is in ruins. Five hundred dol
lars in gold coin was melted by the
explosion.
Iron and steel of the value of $780,
900 were produced in Colorado last year.
The handsome residence of Joseph
Pulitzer, publisher ef the New York
Herald, was recently destroyed by fire
and two women servants were burned
TO death. The loss is estimated at
$30O.OO0
Walter Rosser, who almost killed
Frederick Slater in New York some
time ago, was discharged from custody
at his preliminary trial by the failure of
Slater to appear. The grand jury con-
sidered the case had been fixed" and
caused Rosser' rearrest and will prose-
cute Rosser is the Tennessee soldier
who murdered Henry Hildederbrand i'll
San Francisco when the regiment was
stationed there.
DIR. G. w. Appleby of Hampton, Ia,
while examining 4-year-old child was
taken with a fit of insanity and tore the
child to pieces before its parents eyes.
All England is greatly stirred over
the statement that 275,000i Russian
troops have left Tifiis, Trans-ca -caucasia.
for Baku, from where they are to pro-
ceed to the British Indian frontier
As a result of the sudden food in the
+ Potlatch river near Kendrck, Idaho,
/ three lives are known to have been lost
and fears are expressed for others.
/ Twenty houses have been swept away;
stores are flooded: railroad tracks and
bridges have been destroyed. and many
people have fed to the adjacent hills.
+ Street Commission Hamblin and family
tried to escape from the flooded district
i in buggy The vehicle was overturned
and three children were drowned
Joe Melivich and Joseph Maxwell
We're instantly killed while an work in a
mine near Butte. Mont, by the acciden-
tai discharge of dynamite.
Mayor Carter H. Harrison of Chicago,
has declined the Democratic nomination
for governor of Illinois.
The United States will have a more
extensive exhibition at the Paris exposi-
ton than any other country with the
exception of France, which will utilize
one- half the total space. The American
exhibit will be several times larger than
Great Britain ., and as large as Russia 8
and Gexmany's combined.