Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1901-02-21
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.
A Negro Murderer Lynchsd In Lous-
lana Mask of Napoleon Found In An
Old Ash Barrel Big Deposits In
New York Banks.

Old Ash barrel Big deposits In
/ New York Banks.
Gilbert A. Pierce formerly a promin.
ent politician of North Dakota, died IN
Chicago a few days ago.
The Daily Mail publishes the follow
ing from it ST. Peterburg correspondents
"Serious reports are in circulation here
regarding the outbreak of what was
first called hunger typhus," but is
now officially admitted to be bubonic
plague. In the steppes of Western 81.
IBERIA many thousands have died. The
government is sending out large quaint
ties of wheat to be distributed among
the starving population, and is organic.
ing travelling medical services to local
the outbreak"
President Mckinley said to persons
who spoke to him about the prospects
of an extra session of congress that II
the conclusion of the work of the con.
stitutional convention of Cuba was
reached and the documents communi.
Gated to this government wherein the
next two weeks or so, he would call all
extra session Of congress to convene Oh
March 10. Though the opposition to
an extra session is still strong among
the members of the house aud nate
the belief that it cannot be averted Is
quite general.
A fire at Deming, N NJ, last week
destroyed $25, 900 worth of property.
Springfield, ILL.,. is to have u magnifi
cent Lincoln memorial monument Ii
brary, presented to the city by Andrew
Carnegie. In communication receiv
ed by E. s. Walker of Springfield, Car
negie expressed himself as favorable te
the proposition to build a library foi
that city, and it is certain that the usua
terms imposed by the philanthropisi
will be readily met.
Congressman consider it certain thai
the president will have to call an extra
session of congress.
Colonel Peter s. Niche, professor oi
the department of natural and expert
mental philosophy at the United States
military academy at West Point. New
Y, died after short illness of pneu
monia.
Every silk mill in the Lackawanna
valley, Pa, is now idle by reason ol
strikes, excepting the Klotz mill at Car
bondale, where the employees continue
working pending the arbitration of diff
ficulties. The strike affects $500 mel
aud girls.
The fight which was to take plac,
last week at CINCINNATI between JET
ferries and Rubin was declared off
The law would not allow the match tt
be pulled of
Marcuse Thompson. the poet and
novelist, died at Charlottesville, Ind.
few days ago.
William l.. Buckley, colored man
is to be appointed principal of publ,
school in New York city. He will b,
the first of his race to fill such a posi-
ton.
The deposits of the associated bank
of New York Saturday exceeded 81,
900, 900, 900 for the first time on record
The days statement showed them to bs
| $1,015, ,329 900. The loans again showed
an increase, the exact amount of whiel
was 10, 333. 600. making them S9l4. .623.
600, the largest ever known.
Judge Jacob b. Blair, surveyor gen
eral of Utah. and man widely known
in public life, died suddenly at Sal
Lake, Utah, aged so years. The Gauss
of his death was heart failure.
From an ash barrel that had beei
consigned to dump in Plaintield, N
j., has been rescued mask of Napoleon
taken after his death a. St. Helena
Colonel Julian Scott, the artist, who
found the mask, says it is a duplicat.
! of the one now in the Metropolitan
Museum of art in New York, having
| been taken at the same time. How the
mask came into the ash barrel is /,
mystery.
The estate left by Coils p. Hunting
ton is now worth $50, 100000.
Thomas jackson, negro was lynch
cd recently at st. Peter, La, for ser
les of crimes. He visited the home Of
Alexander Bourgeois, the engineer Of
the drainage machine on Hellesponi
| plantation, some distance from the plan
tation quarters He told Bourgeois. the
manager wanted him and the engineer
mounted the tricycle. with the negro
jackson stabbed the engineer in the
back and threw the body into a ditch
He then returned to the house and
butchered Mrs. Bourgeois and her two
babies aud ransacked the house. Tive
boys visiting the family hid in ths
woods. After the negro's departur,
the boys went to st. Peter and gave the
alarm. returning with mob of seyera
hundred men. The negro was tracked
10 his home and fully identified by tn.
boys He was hanged and his body
riddled with bullets before the sheriff
@rpived