Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1901-02-28
A SUMMARY OF
THE DAILY NEWS
Events at Home and Abroad
That are Important.
Condensed From Dailies for
the Benefit of those too
Busy to Hunt for
Them.
Intense Cold In the Esst-Fined For
Hazing-New Sugar Company-Trust
to Control the Commerce of China
Duke Of westminstsr In Divorce Case.

Hazing-New Sugar Company-Trust
to Control the Commerce of China
I Duke of westminstsr In Divorce Case.
The Mississippi valley and Great
Lakes region, and Chicago in particular,
experienced last week the greatest cold
thus far this winter. In Chicago this
caused great suffering among the poor,
thousands OF homeless men and women
applying ~ many Of the police stations
for shelter.
Pesoh.growers of Catawba island, o..
have formed combination to fight the
San Jose scale, which has been destroy
ing peach orchards in that country. The
association will spray the trees with
crude oil exclusively, it having been
demonstrated that this remedy is more
effective In the destruction of the pest
than anything else. Two carloads have
been purchased for the purpose and will
be used early in the spring.
Justice Nelson Poe, descendant OF
the famous poet, fined three students OF
the Maryland Medical school for hazin2
Henry +. Schurman, q freshman. He
was orderd by second class men to re-
move his mustache, but this Schnrman
refused to do. He was afterward at
tackled by . number of students in the
dissecting-room and held down while
his mustache was cut off with scissors.
One student WAS fined $25 and two
others so each.
Chicago capitalists have organized Il
o., 200, 900 corporation known as the
Central Sugar company, to compete with
the trust in the home supply. A beet
sugar factory will be built at Shelby,
Ind, and will be ready in time for this
years crop. 1t will be able to produce
$50, 900 pounds of sugar daily, employ
Ing from 200 to 400 men.
The Bareel building, seven-story
structure at us Broadway. New York,
was sold for 81, ,225, 900. The sellers are
the descendants of Sarah, the wife OF
Robert Bareel, who received the site III
ls42 as her dowry from her father, John
Jacob Astor.
The principal financial houses OF
Europe and America have formed a
company which will constitute trust
for the purpose Of acquiring all the
commerce Of China. Its plans include
the construction and acquisition OF rail
roads and the establishment of steam
ship lines. 1t has bought large hotel
at Shanghai, where fetes and receptions
will be held, with the object OF winning
over the mandarins and native mer-
chants.
Twenty masked farmers, armed with
slotguns, attempted to raid saloon III
Millwood, small place fourteen miles
north Of Kansas City, aud in the melee
that followed Mrs. Rose Hudson, wife
of the bartender, was instantly killed,
her head being completely blown off:
William Reed, one of the raiders. was
shot in the arm, and two or three Others
were slightly injured One hundred
shots were fired. Several arrests were
made.
Judge Hazen of the district court AT
| Topeka, Kas., continued the case oi
Mrs. Carrie Nation, charged with smash
ing Murphy's joint, until the Apri'
term Of court. The cases against tn,
others implicated We're also continued
Mrs. Nation rose several times to ad'
dress the court, and each time called
him Your Dishonor."
Prominent public men in Great Bri
tam draw attention to the decline OF
certain British industries OH account OF
! American competition. The Duke OF
Devonshire predicts that the competi'
ton in the iron and steel industries vii
be still more acute. Sir Christophei
Furness, MP. in q speech at Newcastle,
said the American locomotive trade had
increased 450 per cent, while the same
trade in Great Britain had decreased q
per cent
Catherine Davis, q comely looking
woman, ~ years, went to DIR. j. r.
| Doyles drug store on East Fifteenth
street, Kansas city, and shot Fay Doyle
the proprietor son. causing dangerous
wound. The relatives of the wounded
man say that the woman attempted to
shoot Doyle about week ago and that
they will prosecute her. They had been
keeping company and quarreled.
The Salem (Or.) Flour Mills company
Is to erect q mill on the site Of the one
destroyed by fire some time ago. The
new mill will have a daily capacity OF
200 barrels.
The spread of the plague is increasing
at Bombay. There were over 20Oo
deaths during the past week. 9a3 are
are known to have been due to the
plague, The government is devotine
its attention to preventing the spread
Of the disease
DR.. Dowie, the Zionite leader, defies
the Illinois legislature to investigate the
affairs of the Zion bank. At the Zion
tabernacle Sunday he said that the
policies he had laid down were not to
be departed from even il he had to stay
year in prison to maintain the right tc
do as he pleased with his private affairs