Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-12-20
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Taken From The Weeks
Dispatches.
International Conference about Patents
-No'unteers to Return Several Rail
road Hold-ups-A Disastrous Fire st
Canton-A Statesman Dead.

| HILL Dy the nafne OF AlDerts0n
iving in Michigan city, Ind, recently
sold his wife for 49, The purchaser
did considerable haggling before he
paid the amount.
At the annual convention of the Am.
erican Federation of Labor held last
week at Louisville, Ky. Samuel Comp.
ers was reelected president.
A bold robbery on the Cotton Bel,
Railway occurred at Bassetts, Tex, on
the train coming north, in which Postal
Clerk John n. Dennis was almost killed
and mail pouches of his car rifled of
sthelr contents. The amount stolen IL
not known. Dennis was hit violent
blow on the head as he opened the car
door, which rendered him insensible.
The thieves then rifled the car, securing
great deal of registered mail.
The international six-day bicycle race
held at New York last week was won
by the American team-Harry Elkes of
New York and Lloyd Mcfarland of San
Jose. The Canadian team came in sec.
ond.
The fight last week between Terry
McGoyern and Joe Cans at Chicago is
reported 10 be fake and one of the
largest swindling schemes ever played
on the public. Over 10000 is said to
nave been cleaned up by the promoters.
The Fredonia state normal and train.
ing school at Dunkirk, n. Y, was de.
stroyed by fire recently Seven persons
lost the lives i'll the flames. The prop
erty loss is $500. 900.
Michael Q. Mulhall. the famous Eng
lish statistician. is dead at London.
Henry @. Heisler of the United States
Geological survey is in Arizona and will
begin at once explorations of the reser-
voir dam sites which are under con-
sideration for the storage of water for
the Salt and Gila river valleys. His
visit, it is believed, indicates immediate
and effective action by the government.
Three men went into South Butte,
Mont, butchershop, and, at the point
OF rifles, demanded all the cash in the
till. Henry Strader. who was in
charge, refused to deliver One of the
highwaymen shot Strader through the
body. All then ran. An hour or so
later the police arrest d man giving
the name of Harry Smith. He admits
firing the shot.
-Four masked men held the town OF
Shanesyille, four miles west of Canal
Dover, O., at bay tefore dawn while
they blew up the safe in the private
bank of John Doerschuk. The explo.
sion aroused the citizens. who armed
themselves and turned out, but were
held off by the determined burglars
until the wrecked safe had been looted.
four escaped on handcar. carrying
with them between $1,000 and $4,000.
That some of the bullets took effect il
evident by trail of blood The con.
ditions surrounding the robbery are the
same as those at Seville few days ago,
and the belief is general that the same
men did the work. The robbers aban
doned the car before reaching Baltic,
five miles distant. posse is now ID
pursuit with bloodhounds.
Judson G. Clements of Georgia has
been reappointed Interstate Commerce
Commissioner.
The international conference for the
protection of industrial property, held at
Brussels, ut which United States Assist.
ant Patent Commissioner Chamberlain
.,l N,,is,a,. To,rnoand .xaro tho A,,av;
,an representatives, has adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions: First-The period of
exclusive rights, previous y fixed at six
months for patents and three months
for industrial designs, models and trade
marks, is extended to year for the first
named and four months for the second
named. Second-Countries signing the
convention enjoy reciprocally the pro.
lection accorded by each country to its
pwn citizens against unfair competition.
rhird-Patents cannot lapse because
they are not p.s III circulation except
after minimum delay of three years,
dating from the first application in
countries where the patent is allowed,
and in cases in which the owners of the
patent do not justify causes of inaction.
Paddy Ryan, at one time the cham
pion pugilist of the world. who was de-
feated by John i. Sullivan in theiI
famous fight in Mississippi some years
ago. died at his home i'll Glens Falls,
N. Y, Friday afternoon.
Edmund Hansen, alias II. Larkee
believed to he the leader of the gang OF
counterfeiiers operating at Spokane
has been captured. Hansen was I
bridge watchman for the Great North
ern. In his shack were found counter
felt molds and letters ordering gold ant
silver bullion. Near by IN cache il
the rocks many stolen articles wer,
found Hansen protests complete limo