Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-05-24
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Monthly Report OF Wheat Crop - Biz
strike at Tampn-A Negro Quickly
Lynched A stepmother's Fiendish
Act.

Jim Corbett and Kid Mccoy are to be
matched to fight for n purse of $25 ,000
Richard Yates is to run for governor
of Illinois on the Republican ticket. :
/ Jadge Paeifiens Ord, an old-tim Cal
ifornia jurist. died at Washington last
week
The Ams,ican pavilion ut the Paris
exhibition has been formally opened and
turned over TO the authorities
In fight between Corbett and JEFF
ferries at New York last week the for
round.
The cholera continues to rage in the
famine camps of India. There have
been 400 deaths in three days at Man
divee. So numerous are the cases at
Godra that it is impossible to collect
the bodies, which lie for days in the
sun. The people have fed and cannot
be induced to return. A similar state
of things prevails at Broach.
The Indian famine relief eommitte to-
night issued an appeal asserting that
despite systematic aid furnished 6.00),
600 people in India at least 6,000,000
are starving. The appeal says that Am
erica ought 10 send at least 81 900, 900.
The city rnkin, Japan, was visited by
disastrous fire last month. Sixteen
hundred houses, 30 temples and all the
business structures We're destroyed.
Il H.. to !.
and over 100 injured. The loss will
reach ~ 500. 600.
The steamship Samoa sailed from
Baltimore last Saturday for Vladivp-
stock, Russia, carrying the largest shin.
ment of steel rails ever sent from the
United States 10 a foreign country,
500 tons. insoiced at s2l Il ton
Mrs. Anna GRADIENT of Chicago satu
ated her clothing and that of her two
stepchildren with kerosene and set
it afire The children We're burned to
death aud the woman may die. She is
supposed 10 have been insane
Rev. q. VI Sheldon, who for d week
published the Topeka Daily Capitol as
"Christ would publish it. received
5000 profits from the venture. The
money was given to charity.
The British ship Sierra Nevada, Cap.
tain Seatf. from Liverpool, January 9.
for Melbourne, was totally wrecked.
Five of hsr crew were saved. but IL is
beloved that " others, including the
captain perished.
Two masked men held up crowded
gambling house at Ash Fork, Ariz., one
day reaentiy aud succeeded IN getting
away with several hundred dollars.
John ID. Long, now secretary OF the
navy. has been named as the Repub-
lican candidate fer vice president.
While hunting fleeing robbers In tho
Neosho valley. Kas.. Deputy Marshall
Edward Roberts was killed by one Of
them Posses have started i'll pursuit
and the men will be lynched II caught.
Alec Whitney, aged 25 was shot and
killed ON a street car at Augusta, Ga,
BIZ Il negro. IN n quarrel over seat.
The negro, Jus Wilson, was taken of
Georgia railroad passenger train Mt
Harlem by q mob and lynched. He
was being taken to Atlanta for safe
keeping.
There is now general strike in all
the cigar factories of the Havana Amer.
lean company at Tampa, Fla. and about
1000 men ara out. The trouble is u
struggle between the labor unions for
supremacy
The monthly reports for April of the
agricultural department is as follows.
Returns to the statistician of the de-
partment OF agriculture made up 10
May / show the area of winter wheat
in cultivation on that date to have been
about 20, 5S5, 900 acres, or 2,563, 600 or
S per cent less than the area esfi-
mated to have been sown last fall. The
reduction in acreage III the principal
states owing to winter killing and the
rayages of the Hessian fly is as follows;
Indiana, sos, 200; Ohio, 900, 1000; Mich
igau, 81, GOO: Pennsylvania, l5s,oo and
Illinois, 1000 acres,
William G. Indicott, who was seeres
tary of war during President Cleve-
| lands first administration, died OF
pneumonia at his home in Boston sun.
| day.
Colonel Charles i. w. Nicely, chief
| financial agent of the Cuban postoiliee
department, who was arrested at Roch'
| ester recently while on the way Co hi>
home at Muncie, Ind, ON Il charge oi
embezzling $50, 600 of government funds
intrusted to his keeping, is believed to
be but merely one Of . gang of swim
| dlers who have been defrauding the
| government. As far as can be learned
| the method followed was merely to
withhold funds and secure certificates
At the auditors department for lesser
| sum. II is predicted that the defalca-
| tion will reach 100000. No other ar.
rests have been made, but others are
| anticipated.
Three of the mills of the American
Steel and Wire company mt Joliet, Ill,
started Monday with nearly full force,
1900 men going TO work. For the pres
snt only day force will be run, but II
is expected the night men will be on IN
short TINA