Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1901-01-31
NEWS Of THE WORLD
Taken From The Weeks
Dispatches.


mers went to serve "A search warrent on
Woolf, who was accused of breaking
into some cabins in that neighborhood.
II seems Woolf saw the sheriff coming
and shot him without warning. Woolf
is IS years of age. He escaped after
the killing.
FIRE in a fiye-story building at State
and Lake streets, Chicago. occupied by
Pitsin q Brooks, wholesale and retail
chinaware merchants, caused loss OF
from half to throe-quarters of a million
dollars early one recent morning.
Before daylight Police Sergeant James
Hickman of the mounted division OF
st. Louis, had pistol duel with a horse
thief that he encountered in the west
srn city limits, and was severely in.
jured The robber escaped, though it
is thought that he was badly wounded
\ destructive fire occurred at Montreal
last week in which property worth s5.'
/ 900, 900 was destroyed.
Giuseppe Verdi, the great musical
composer, Is dead
j. I. b. Arnold, the English solicitor
who was arrested in San Francisco last
summer for embezzling funds from his
clients in England, and returned to
+ London for trial, has been sentenced to
ten years impr. .sonment.
A strike of coal miners has occurred
at Schoheld, Utah, and is spreading
rapidly TO other districts.
Thomas Kearns has been elected
/ United States senator from Utah. The
/ Salt Lake Tribune declares that he pnr.
chased his election.
General John =. G. Shanks. aged 10,
who commanded brigade at the battle
of Bull Run. and who for years was
prominent in Indiana state and national
politics, died at Portland, Ind, after a
short illnesh.
+ In his annual report to the Mine
Workers convention President Mitch
ell, discussing the machine output,
] said: 'In 1899 there were approx
mately A, ,oo0, 900 tons of coal won out
/ by mining machiner; this is l20OO,o 900
+ tons in excess of the amount produced
/ In machine mines in 1898 OF the total
Dutp put Of bituminous coal in the United
States in 1899, 23 per cent was produced
/ in machine mines. Ii this rapid in
/ crease is continued IA few years longer
/ the skill now required by those en-
gagged in mining coal will be no longer
necessary, aud instead of being body
OF tratlesmen and skilled worklnen we
will become simply coal shoyelers. "
+ In battle with moonshiners on Elk
/ horn creek. Ky, United States Marshal
/ rom Hollietield and Simon Combs of
/ his posse were killed and Blaine Combs
was captured by the moonshiners
Ru.us Wcotan and Ambrose Amburgy
wounded.
A desperate battle between safe-blow-
ers and posse of citizens occurred re-
Gently near Flippen. Tenn, resulting
/ in the killing of one Of the robbers and
/ one of the posse, the fatal wounding of
another member of the pursuing party,
and the capture of two robbers. The
name of the dead robber is not known.
The member of the posse who was kill
ed was the Rsya Mr.. Densey, minister
of the Methodist church. The wound
ed member OF the posse is n son of Mr..
Densey. The robbers had plundered
and burned general merchandise store.
A party started in pursuit and in battle
that followed resulted as above related.
The Josiah Morris bank mt Mont
gomery, one of the oldest private bank
ing institutions in Alabama, did not
open its doors for business ON n recent
morning The capital stock of the
bank is 800, 600. Deposits are believed
to be heavy. The assets and liabilities
are not yet known. Large crowds as
sembled around the bank and much ex-
element prevailed.
Kenneth Hughes, "A college student,
recently got out of sick bed, dressed
himself and walked through deep snow
to his home 20 miles distant aud went
to bed in his fathers barn. When
reused he knew absolutely nothing OF
the trip.
The smallpox epidemic i'll Glasgow Is
somewhat alarming. Twenty nine fresll
cases were reported in one day, and
hundreds of cases are in the hospital.
Baron Wilhelm Won Rothschild, uncl,
of three of the London Rothchilds, died
at the age of rs Ut his home in Frank
fort.
There was threatened outbreaks
among the Indians of Indian Territory
last week. The redskins had on theil
war paint and were holding war dances
The arrest of their chief, "Crazy
snake" has probably put an end to thu
aprisng.
There were number of battles be
tween the government troops and the
Insurgents in Venezuela last week
Hundreds Of men We're killed Gener
ally the government forces were de
feated.
sites at Laveaga heights, Santa Cruz
have been selected for the Odd Fellows
Home.