Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-03-27
Two A0mlSphGreS
C|Gsni0gs from The Dispatches
The Balkans and Turks are Brew
ing Trouble A National Strike of
Machinists to Be Declared Fatal
Result of lighting Fire With Gas
oline.
President Mckinley has signed thu
financial bill.

President Mckinley has signed the
financial bill
Several Chicago men are reported to
have engaged in game Of poker at
New York q short time ago III which a
million dollars is said to have changed
hands The game lasted a week.
Charles Adams. passenger agent
living mt Cincinnati, was shot and killed
by his wife few days ago. She claimed
he was cruel to her and was beating
her when she shot him.
The buildings for the Paris exhibition
are not yet completed and it is thought
that the exhibition cannot be opened
before June 1.
R. p. Leary, governor of Guam, re-
Gently issued proclamation abolishing
slavery i'll the Eadrone islands.
Maud S, the famous trotter, died Sat
urday on farm near Portchester, n. Y.
The famous mare was 26 years old.
A sub-commission of the national in
formation in regard to conditions in the
different industries of this country. will
hold sessions Mt the Auditorium hotel,
Chicago. this week.
A London cable says: The pacific
condition which European matters have
assumed is far more likely TO be dis
turbed by trouble in the Balkans than
by the South African war or anything
i'll which Great Britain is chiefly con-
cerned, though the Balkan difficulty is
most unlikely to result i'll continental
war This latest trouble consists in the
apparent determination of Prince Ferdi-
nand to declare himself king Of Bull
garia and renounce Turkeys suzerainty.
He would scarcely contemplate this
without the backing of Russia whence
come Prince Ferdinand's generals, guns
and, last week, his national loan. As
the spectator points out, for the sultan
TO refuse absolutely the request of
Prince Ferdinand, supported by Russia
and not negatived by the triple alli-
deed, land it may occur sooner than
we, who are looking southward instead
of eastward, are ready to suppose
Otto Brown, a l3-year-old boy, is in
jail at Portland. He is suspected OF
having murdered his cousin, a boy about
his age, by pushing him into the Will
lamette river.
A resolution has been introduced in
congress directing the United States
district attorneys to find means to
break up the Standard Oil company.
The enormous dividend caused congress
I fn think oo,pothipU xvax xpranu
Sir Thomas Upton has announced his
intention of again challenging for a
yacht race for the international cup.
The race is to take place next year.
1t was stated in New York recently
/ by Thomas b. McGovern that orders,
subject to approval of the opening prices
on Columbia river salmon. already ag
gregate the entire quantity estimated as
+ the probable pack of the association this
season, except such quantity of special
brands for this market as are usually
called for. The orders have come in
more quscSly and for larger quantities
than usual, notwithstanding the GER
tainty that prices will open high.r than
last year.
The senate committee on public
buildings and grounds a few days ago
reported favorably the bill to increase
the limit of cost of the proposed build
ing at Boise, Idaho, to $500, 900.
Lieutenant Victor Blue of the battle
ship Massachusetts,, now lying at the
Brooklyn navy yard, was detached and
ordered to proceed at once to the Pacific
coast and there report to Rear Admiral
Kempff, who will succeed Rear Admiral
Watson as second in command of the
Asiatic station. Lieutenant Blue is to
be flag lieutenant on the cruiser Brook
lyn, flagship of the Asiatic squadron.
Mrs. Ida Greycroft, the largest wo-
man in Indiana, died suddenly ut her
home at Kokomo, falling from her
chair while playing dominos. She
weighed about 800 pounds and was 30
years old.
A national strike of machinists. tying
up nearly every machinery manufac
turing plant in the country and throw
ing 100, 900 men out of employment is
to be called as the result of the dis
! agreement Ill lue Joiit coiiltIehtc vi
the representatives of the national asso-
Citations of union men and the manu-
facturers held at the Grand Pacific hotel
in Chicago. 1t had been expected that
the differences between the employers
and the machinists throughout the
country would be adjusted mt this meet
ing, and the Chicago strike involving
5000 men, would be called off, as well
as the strike of 800 men at Columbus.
O., and of 500 men at Paterson, N. j.,
but it was flat failure.
Five dead. one fatally and one seri-
ously injured is the result of an attempt
to start fire with gasoline. George
White used the fluid at James Weaver :
residence in Columbus, o., and an ex-
plosion followed. The building was set
on fire and the inmates Were covered
with the burning fluid.
France is said to have sent word to
her consuls all over the world asking for
list of Frenchmen who could BE-
pressed into service in case of war.
The action has caused a great stir III
England.