Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-08-30
NEWS Of THE WORLD
Taken From The Weeks
Dispatches.

DolIiver Appointed United sta'e senator
From Iowa-TataI DoubIa Duel In
Texas--trime Runs Rampant sunday
At Dallas.
Governor Shaw of Iowa has nnnounc.
ed the appointment of Congressman ].
P. Doliver to be United States senator
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
Of john III. Gear The appointment
runs to March /, 1901. The Legislature
Hoes not meet in regular session till
1902, and Delivers appointment is
likely to he renewed to run until his
successor i elected.
a Chicago packing house has received
IN order from the Russian government
For 6,oOo,O6c pounds of s'beef ON the
hooi" to feed the soldiers of the ear in
China. II is the largest order of its
kind in the history of the Chicago meat
trade.
Former Justice of the Peace Wilker-
son, the alleged leader of the mob that
lynched the three Humphries in Hen
derson county, Tex, III May, 1899, aud
J. A. Johns, Sam Hall and John +.
Haddis, the remaining defendants,
pleaded guilty at Palestine. Tex, to
murder III the first degree and each re-
ceiyed life sentence in the peniten-
tiary. The action disposes of all tho
Hnmphries lynehing cases, eight in
number Each defendant received a
life sentence.
General Baden Powell, according to a
dispatch from Pretoria, dated August
%, headed off General DeWet, preyent-
ing his junction with the main body of
the enemy. Dewitt abandoned his
transport and took to the hills. his COM
mando dispensing, some trekking south
Baden-Powcll rescued loo British pris-
oners at Warm Baths August %, and
captured q Beers and a German artil-
lelv officer.
In freight train collision ut Ken
sico, n. y, seven persons We're killed
and others are missing. So far as can
be learned the accident was caused by
the engineer of the second train run
ming past block signal that had been
set against him. The engineer was
William Sangerback of NeN York. an
his fireman was John Gasaidy Of New
York,
In a dou bic duel in Polk county. Tex,
IL quarrel over family affairs, C,abe and
Cicero Copeland We're instantly killed
and John and Charles Baker probably
e. NJ
30 PAGES with rifles.
Gland Barbee stole II saddle near Mes
calero reservation, i'll Lincoln county,
n. NJ, and started for san Andreas
mountains. \ young man named Ham
ilton pursued Barbee, overlook him at
Rhodes ranch, in Eastern Socorro
county, and was shot six times by Bar
bee. He died instantly. Barbee es-
capped To the mountains. Sheriff Pat
Garrett, the officer who killed Billy the
Kid, is on the ground and has started
with Deputy Williams of Las Cruces
in pursuit of the murderer.
Bob Fitzsinmons and Jim Jeffries
have been matched to fight at an early
date.
Thieves stole $1,000 worth of gold
from the assay office of the Jay Gonld
cyanide plant at Helena, Mont. The
amalgam was red hot when taken, hay
ing Just come from the furnace. -
Crime ran rampant Sunday at Dallas,
Tex. John Bonner and Clement Long
emptied their pistols at each other and
James Daniels, II disinterested bystand-
er, was mortally wounded, james
Boston stabbed Jennie Lepaw IN the
eve. destroying the sight. Cause. jeal-
ousy. John Thrasher struck IL small
boy and the latter's brother stabbed
Thrashor, infiieting fatal wound.
Gus Roebel, saloon keeper, commit.
ted suicide by shooting John Albert
contractor, fell i'll the street from ex
cessive heat and died III a few minutes.
A mob of excited Italians attacked l..
b. Harlow and friend at Haussel
Junction, Wash. The friend was killed
Harlow was badly injured and his life
is despared.
a number of small race roits broke
out i'll New York Sunday. The direct
cause was the shooting of John Bren,
men, white messenger boy, by negro
The boy will probably die. Aside from
this bruised heads was the only damage
Sunday passed quietly at Akron, O..
after the riots of the week The militia
was withdrawn Monday.
Matthew Hunter, aged ~. aud Joseph
Moreno, aged l6. were drowned ii
Toost park lake, Kansas city, while
boating. They tried to change theil
seats and the boat capsized
The British admiralty is buying
large supplies of American coal for us,
of the home and the Mediterranean
fleets
Fire burned the government expert
ment station building ut the state uni
yersty ar Reno. New Ii was a two
story structure, with basement III,
contents were partially saved. The los
cannot be ascertained, but it is prett,
well covered 10y insurance.
Reliable grain dealers from all part
of Indiana have collected statistics show
ing that the total yield of wheat in tn
state for the present year Is the smalles
for many years, and not exceeding
5000, 600 bushels against 2d,000, 900 Il
10000. 600 several years in succession
prior 10 1899 The crop is praetica
failure, there being but little more thai
enough grain raised for seeding an,
| leaving shortage OF 10000 bushels