Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-01-09


The revolution in Columbia has
broken out again.
Emily Hilda Blake, domestic, was
hanged at Brandon, Manitoba, few
days ago for the murder of her mistress.
Mrs. Robert Lane.
The torpedo boat Stockton was launch
ed at Richmond, Va, few days ago.
The vessel is 175 feet long and is ex-
pected to make 20 knots.
The Union Pacific railroad will open
another coal mine at Rock Springs, Wyo.
The Standard Oil company is trying
to lease 10000 acres of oil land in
Indian territory for $4,000 per year.
The Indians protest.
The congressional industrial commits
sion will investigate manufacturing
business and labor conditions on the
Pacific coast next February.
British Columbia engineers have ac-
curately surveyed, determined and
marked the Atlin boundary line be-
tween British Columbia and the Yukon
territory.
The average cost in foreign countries
of all sugar imported into the United
States i'll the fiscal year 1872 was 5.37
cents per pound in 1899, 2.39 cents per
pound.
The remains of the sailors who We're
killing by the blowing up of the battle
ship Maine i~ Havana harbor and last
week brought to the United States,
were laid to rest in the Arlington ceme-
terry, near Washington, Thursday. The
ceremonies at the cemetery We're simple
but impressive, and attended by Presi-
dent Mckinley and cabinet, besides the
heads of the army and naval circles
Many of the important shipping ports
of the Philippines which have been
closed since the war have been opened
lately, and others are to be.
Two seyen-story buildings in New
York occupied by the wall paper factory
of William Campbell & company We're
destroyed by fire few days ago. The
loss is fully 100000.
Alfred Morrison. professor of Ian
guages, misstook his wife for burglar
during the night and shot her at their
home i'll Mount Vernon, N Y. Mrs.
Morrison exonerates her husband from
all blame. He is almost insane from
grief. Mrs. Morrison may die.
Lavish living and penchant for play
ing the races resulted in the arrest at
Chicago of Clyde H. Wallace, clerk in
the United States sub treasury, on char
ges of purloining a sack containing 5000
i'll gold coin. The prisoner is 20 years
of age, excellent appearance and good
address and the son of John G. Wallace,
prominent merchant.
During the past year Andrew Carne-
gle the steel manufacturer, gave up
wacds of s., 900, 900 to benefit humanity
in some form or other.
The Jones Scale works of Bingham
ten, N. Y, was recently badly damaged
b. fire and water. The loss will prob.
sbly reach $4,000.
The extensive mills of Joseph Filings
& Sons, manufactures of cotton in Ger
mantown, Pa, was almost destroyed by
fire recently. The loss is estimated at
100000.
An unknown ship and her crew of Is
men were wrecked during recent storm
on the Atlantic coast near Norfolk
Representatives of 81, 900 miners in the
bituminous district of Pennsylvania met
recently at various points to consider
the feasibility of strike for a general
increase of 80 per cent in wages. The
sessions were secret. The miners say
unless the operators consent to the de-
mand a general strike is certain. The
operators informed the miners that they
regard the demands as preposterous.
The bureau of internal revenue at
New York has decided that insurance
companies doing a call loan business
are liable to the bankers tax imposed
by the war revenue law.
Accoruihg .. .>.zs.narciai reports the
wear lust closed was the most pro,oos.
ous the United States has ever expert.
enced.
The building and contents of the Blk.
lin .Wisener wholesale grocery at Bur-
lington, Ia, were destroyed by fire, en-
failing loss of $50, 900. with insurance
of sos, 600 The intense cold prevented
the firemen from doing effective work.
Several large American manufacturing
establishments will not be represented
at the coming Paris exposition, being
too busy filing orders to attempt pre-
paration of appropriate display.
A bill for laying cable to Hawaii,
Guam and the Philippines Is before
congress, in which the cost is limited ia
Is, 900, 900, and preliminary appropri.
alton of 100000 is made to begin the
work.
The postmaster general ca ) for bids
for furnishing improved mail service be-
tween San Francisco and Sydney, N. S.
W., for an optional term of either five
or ten years, beginning November /,
1900.
II is asserted that Pope Leo has desg-
mated Cardinal Oirolamo Maria Gotti as
his successor.
John G. Baldwin, sentenced to life
imprisonment at Sing Sing, N. Y, on
circumstantial evidence for murder, has
been found to be innocent and granted
q pardon.