Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-03-13

Union men in every machine shop In
Chicago are on strike. A general
order instructing them to drop their
tools was issued Saturday by Pres
/ ldent James O'Connell Of the In
ternational Association Of machin-
lists. 1t is considered practically certain
that sympathetic strikes will follow and
that in Chicago alone $4,000 men will
be ont of work
I At Brewersville, Ind, Al Fuller and
Isaac Powers, school teacher, met and
began shooting. The trouble was over
the correction of Fuller's child by the
the lung. and Fuller received three
balls. Both men will probably die.
Garlic, Dittmar & Weitbrec have the
contract to build the west end Of the
Colorado Springs & Cripple Creek rail
road. About II miles OF grading il to
be done; the cost will be nearly $500,
600. They expect to employ about 900
men and finish by November 1. 1900.
While making dash to escape at
Kansas City, Mo-, Lonnie Logan, one
of the six men who ON June 2 last, rob-
bed Union Pacific train of $4000 i'll
cash near Rock Cut, Wyo., was shot
and killed by detectives who had track
ed him from Cripple Creek. Logan
was visiting the home Of his aunt, Mrs
Bob Ice, i'll the country ten miles south
of Kansas City, and had been there a
week. This makes the fifth member Of
the gang who has been made to bite the
dust
Charles l.. Davis, the actor who made
fortune with the play Alvin Joslyn,
died at Pittsburg few days ago.
Owing to receiving no pay the meet
ings Of the richstag, at Berlin, are but
slimly attended by its members.
The secretary of the treasury has
designated Skagway as a port from
which merchandise destined for places
III the British possessions of North AM
erica may be entered for transportation
through the territory of the United
States without payment of duties. An
order to this effect, signed by Acting
Secretary Spaulding has already been
forwarded to the collector of customs ut
Sitka Ii states that the designation is
made in order to facilitate entry and
transportation of merchandise destined
for the northwest territory, and is done
under authority give To the secretary.
The commerce of Hawaii has grown
50 rapidly since annexation to the Unit
ed States that. according 10 reports
secured at the navy department from
Captain Merry, oommandant OF naval
station at Honolulu the commercial
wharyes are so crowded that more goods
cannot be landed conveniently. At the
request of importers and others Captain
Merry urged the department to grant
permission for the use of the navy yard
wharf for shipping and forwarding pri-
yate goods. The department will grant
the request
The British government. through an
outside party, was recently making in
quiries as 10 whether it could buy l0,-
000. 900 tons of bituminous coal at New
York There appears TO be some trou-
BILE in Great Britain, Austria and Rus
sia as to getting the coal needed for
manufacturing and naval uses A let.
ter from "A Liverpool manufacturing
concern to one of its New York Gus
toners. stating that no more orders
should he solicited. Us the firm found
difficulty in getting sufficient coal to
run its factories.
Joseph Clean, farmer living near
Bluefeld, w. Va, killed his daughter
and Albert Marsh, her lover, and killed
himself Clean had forbidden Marsh
to call on his daughter. and. finding
him in the parlor, ordered him to leave.
Upon Marsh's refusal, Clean fired at
him with shotgun. Ellen Clean
sprang in front of her lover and re-
ceived the charge in her throat, dying
instantly. The second shot killed
Marsh. Clean then cut his own throat.
The monthly statement of the public
debt issued. shows that at the close OF
February 2S. 1900, the debt less cash in
the treasury amounted to ii / Is, 1856. .05S,
a decrease since February Of ~, 100.
l6s. This decrease Is largely accounted
for by the increase in the amount Of
cash on hand The debt Is recapitulated
as follows: Interest bearing debt ST.
O26, s62, 100; debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity. 81. POS. 900; debt
bearing no interest, 1899, i9S, i6l; total,
81 ali, ,2iS. S32.
The attention of the treasury depart.
ment has been called to the advertise.
ments of Canadian steamship lines so
liciting freight to be shipped during the
coming season from Seattle to Cape
Nome, Alaska. This was done upon
the erroneous assumption that Gaps
Nome would be made SUPPORT Of entry
of the United States. The route oi
these shipments it was intended should
be from Seattle to Vancouver by rail,
n distance of 80 or 90 miles, thence tc
Cape Nome by steamer, thus evadine
our laws, which prohibit foreign vessels
from carrying goods from one port OF
the United states to another. The de
partment. in view OF this fact, has de
cided, for the present at least. not :,
make Cape Nome SUPPORT Of entry
leaving. st. Michael the nearest port I,
the new gold fields. The effect Ut thi
action will be to presereve the trad
! with Cape Nome for American vessels