The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-04-22
THE NEWS IN
A NUTSHELL
Doings of the Day Reflected
and Condensed for Busy
Readers
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Told in Short Paragraphs--The
Latest Intelligence from
All Sources.

John D. Rockefeller has offered the
University of Nebraska two-thirds Of
$100, 900, provided friends of the in
stitution give the remaining third
The withdrawal of the military
guards on the railroads has commenc-
ed in the northern and southern prov
inces of Holland, but the guards will
be maintained in the central provinces
and at Amsterdam.
The famine in Kwang-Si province
of China is killing tens of thousands
of persons, and women there are sell
ing themselves into slavery to escape
starvation. The American Consul at
Canton has inaugurated relief fund.
Dispatches received from Cumber-
land, B. c., state that a strike has
been ordered at the mines there by
the Western Federation of Miners
as the result of the refusal of James
Dunsmuir, the owner to recognize the
union.
Reuben R. Donnelly, president OF
the Chicago stock exchange and a
member of the firm of Knight, Don
nelly & Co. underwent an operation
az the TIahnemann hospital for appen-
dicitis. with which he was attacked
Monday.
A dispatch from Manila states that
Judge Lyman P. Carlock of the First
district is dead from dreaded cholera.
He contracted the disease three days
ago. He was a native of Illinois, his
home being at Bloomington. The cpl
demic is practically over. there being
but few cases in the southern ISL
ands.
Seven-year-old Lawrence McFee of
West Highland, about seven miles out
from San Bernardino, Calf, is alive
with a bullet hole through his brain.
But his right side is completely par
alyzed and he is unconscious. Ply
sicians hold out no hope of his re-
covery. The boy was accidentally
shot yesterday by his uncle, Carl
Minkin, himself youth.
/ Stunt. Austin of the Utah sugar COM
many announces that 125 Japanese will
be brought from California from the
Oxnard fields about the middle of May
and that they will be put to work in
the fields around the Bear river fac
tory. The importation of Japs is
necessitated by the inability to get
white labor to do the work.
! Bonilla is now President of Hon
dufaS, ArldS oiei4d 10 AN9i'A'
Nicaragua. having fed to that country
/ for safety when the handful of govern
ment troops deserted him in Neeaomo
on April 9th, when the rebels, under
General Barhona and Maldonado, made
an attack on the Government forces
under command of General Sierra and
then marched on the capital where
! Arias was made prisoner.
Postmaster General Payne has re-
scinded the orders given by Mr.. Bea-
vers six or seven years ago which de-
tailed clerks, at salaries ranging from
81 800, to 1000 per annum, to look
after the repairing of stamp-cancel-
ing machines which he rented for
the Postoffice Department at annual
rentals ranging all the way from
/ $500 to $1,000 apiece per annum.
Latest advices from the city of San
! ia Domingo state that in a battle
\ fought there Saturday over 1000 gov
ernment soldiers were killed or wound
ed. General Cordero, Minister of the
Interior, General Alvarez, Governor
of Puerto Plata, and General Quesada