Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-02-27
News Of the World.
Happenings OF the Past Few
Days from all Quarters.
Big Fire in Denver Russians Making
Peculiar military Moves--Rivers Ris-
Ing In the south - Miller Made .
Million Dollars.

Roland b. Molineux was sentenced At
New York to die In Sing Sing prison
during the week Of March 20 for the
murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams.
Deputy Consul General Hardy writes
from Mexico that land suited to the
growth Of rubber can be had anywhere
from 81 to $l5 per acre. The titles are
vested in private ownership.
Pueblo, Colo, smelters are handling
considerable Mexican ORE. The United
States government gets no revenue from
these importations of lead, for the ore
is treated in bond and then shipped out
Of the country.
A mob of negro soldiers from Fort
Bliss attacked the city police station at
El Paso, Tex, with the object of releas-
ing two of their comrades who had
been arrested. During fight which fol-
lowed, Police Officer Newt Stewart and
one negro soldier were killed and it is
believed that another of the soldiers is
wounded.
Aime Dupont, one of the leading
photographers of the United States, is
lead in New York
The date of the fight between James ].
Jeffries and James J. Corbett has been
fixed for May IA. George w. Considine
and William A. Brady. managers Of the
men, met Tom O'Rourke, manager of
the Seaside Athletic Club. recently, and
formally accepted the offerof the Coney
Island club for the fight The Seaside
club is to post 5000 forfeit and the
fighters $1,000 each with AL Smith.
Congressman Charles A. Chickering
Of Copenhagen, N. Y, was found dead
outside the Grand Union Hotel in New
York city few days ago. He had
either fallen or jumped from a fourth
story window of the hotel The body
was found under the open window of
his room, which was ON the fourth fioor
and evidently it had been living there
for some time. as the clothing was
soaked with rain. There was a large
cash in the right side of the head.
Salt Lake City, Utah, is going to buy
two miles of water pipe, 80 to 80 inches
diameter, foE use in q new gravity sup.
ply main
Atchison, Kansas, Is about to drill for
coal. 1t is thought veins Of coal under
lie the section at 60C to 1000 feet depth
The Canyon City extension of the
Florence g. Cripple Creek railway is in
connection N3sh the Denver g. Rio
Grande at the former point.
The four story building at 1885 to
1889 Wazee street. occupied by the Mil
lar. Osborn Spice company aud the
Kansas MoliS Plow company at Dem
yer. Colo, was Quilted by fire. The total
damage is estimated at Sl50,00O, of
which $4,000 is on the stock of the
Millar- Osborn company, $4,000 on the
stock of the Kansas-Moline company
and $50, 900 ON the building. owned by
Charles Boelcher
Robbers attempted to rob a train near
Benson, A. T., some days ago. The
messenger in the car opened fire on them
and drove them off. One of the rob-
bers was wounded and died, and the
other two captured.
The announcement in the papers of
Pittsburg recently, that the long threat
ened clash of the steel kings had been
finally precipitated by H. @. Frick filing
the widely heralded suit against An
drew Carnegie and the Carnegie Steel
company, praying for an equitable ac-
counting of the ex-chairman's stock
holdings in the giant steel concern
created a sensation in financial and
manufacturing circles. The suit is re-
garded as the most important ever filed
in connection with the steel business
and it is said more money is at stake
than in any legal proceeding ever
brought in this country in which all
the parties were simply citizens. Steel
manufacturers view the trouble as a
bitter personal struggle for supremacy,
and are watching each move with in
tense interest.
William q. Cramp, for nearly go years
connected with the Cramp shipbuilding
company in Philadelphia, died suddenly
of apoplexy few days ago.
A heavy and general rain fell through
out the Central South IA few days ago.
rhe rivers are above the danger lines at
many points in Georgia. Damage is re-
ported at Columbus and Thomaston, Ga. j.
and at Eufaula, Ala. The rivers are
expected to continue to rise. At West
4 Point, Ga, business Is practically sus-
pended, and there Is five feet of water
/ in part of the N,sidencc section. Several
railway washouts are reported Colum-
bus reports that all factories are closed
( down because of the food in the Chatta-
! hoochie river.
4 Cecil Leslie, "press agent " and EN-
rloyee Of the Miller $40 per cent swindle,
has made a long confession. Leslie says:
"rhe Franklin syndicate was colossal
bunko game. Some Of the men inter.
ested in the concern were formerly man.
ayers of Lyons & Co. and the Z. S. Dean
Company in this city, which We're run
ON similar lines. Miller must have
gathered at least 81 100000 out Of the
scheme, probably more"
Mrs. Jeanette Schwartz and her two
children, Lulu. aged nine years, and
Henrietta, four months old, were found
dead in bed at Chicago, the result of
asphyxiation.