Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-02-20
News Of the World.
Happenings OF the Past Few
Days from all Quarters.

General Lawton at Rest In Arlington
cemetery-The Armiess Artist Dead
A Child abductor Insane = Had Ac-
cident In Michigan.
Work has been started on the battle-
snip Missouri, in the ship-building
cards at Newport News, Va.
The political trouble in Kentucky has
ended, the troops ordered home and
peace reigns.
w. M. Allen, a carpenter of Black
Hawk, Colo, shot his wife and daughter
and then killed himself. He was insane.
Three persons were killed and three
seriously injured in a head-on collision
between fast freight trains on a branch
Of the New York Central at Gordon
Heights, N. Y The dead are Oliver 9.
Bennett. engineer; Mark Mcfarland
engineer, and A. McAvenu. fireman.
A German publication states that the
Philippine islands are among the few
places where gutta percha trees will
flourish, and suggests the cultivation OF
5he trees as an opportunity for Ameri-
can enterprise.
The Canadian Pacific has let con-
tract for construction of its Balfour
extension and work has begun. 1t will
cost about $500, 900. 1t extends from Bal
four, ON Kootenay lake. to Five Mile
point. five miles west Of Nelson, B. G.
George Beauregard Barrow the man
who planned the abduction of Baby
Sing Sing prison. New York, where he
had been conf. ID since June II
last under a sentence of IA years. 1t Is
likely that he will end his days in
Matteawan ssylum for insane Grim
inals, whittier he has been taken.
The Chicago & Northwestern passen-
ger train, known as the Felch mountain
accommodation, which runs between
Escanaba >nd Metropolitan, Mich, WAS
wrecked in "A rear-end collision at Ford
River switch Friday. Nine persons were
killed, three are reporte.. missing, five
seriously and four slightly inJured.
The war department made the state
ment recently that the total collections
for the port of Havana for the 1851 work
ing DAYS of the year 1899, was 81 ,091,-
l5I. making an average daily collection
of S36.S6i.
Robert L. Spencer, the cashier of the
.f ID D.1ha al
pencer at Thomsonville, Conn, which
filed petition in bankruptcy in the Un-
tied States court at Hartford Monday,
with liabilities of aho; Sl05,00 was ar.
rested Saturday With criminal charge,
alleging the emisappropriation of funds
Six men were injured by an explosion
in the Columbia Firecracker works at
Fosteria, O. A large part of the fac
tory was wrecked. Dell Everhardt, the
mixer of the explosives, will die. Frank
by falling walls. and four workmen sus.
tanned severe burns.
Secretary Root has sent to congress
an abstract of the mill Y force of the
Onlftu a'ttittS- II HhoN = thC totut hutii-
Der of men available for military duty
but unorganized, as l0.3i3, i50, and an
aggregate organized strength of 106, ,33e
William f. Miller, the head of the
notorious Franklin Syndicate in Brook
lyn, which promised to pay and did pay
to many persons 800 per cent on invest
ments and who fled when the news
reached him of his Indictment for grand
larceny and conspiracy by the Kings
county grand jury, was brought back to
New York He had eluded capture
since November last.
The remains of Major. General Law
ton were buried in the National come
terry at Arlington, d. O., a few days
ago. The president and his cabinet
and the diplomatic corps at Washing
ton attended the funeral in IA body. The
ceremony was very impressive and was
listened to by thousands of sorrowing
citizens.
Agust Horrmann, president of the
Rubsam & Horrmann Brewing cc
pany of Stapeton. 5. l., committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with a razor
in a private sanitarium in New York.
where he had been placed for treatment
for some mental trouble. Mr.. Horr-
mann was also president of the Staten
Island Savings bank. IL vas mil
lionaire.
A bill now under consideration by the
committee of the senate on public lands
provides that the state school of mines
at Golden, Colo, shall annually receive
25 per cent of all moneys paid TO the
United States Tor mineral lands within
the State of Colorado. 1t is stipulated
that this sum shall not exceed $4,000 in
any one year, nor shall it exceed the
amount of money expended by the state
for the school.
Charles Francois Felu, an armless art
ist. died at Brussels on Monday in his
seventeen year. He painted with his
feet and copied hundreds of the best
masterpieces. Many specimens of his
work are now in America. While work
ing he held his palette with his left
great toe and manipulated his brush
with his right foot and with great skill.
He always shaved himself He had
written a successful tragedy.
The Dawson city water works. over
the hydrant of each customer, who
pays 81 per week for the service, erects
a wooden house measuring six feet i'll
all three dimensions, each of which
conta,ns stove in which the com oany
keeps a constant fire.