The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-04-24
THE NEWS IN
NUTSHELL
DOings OF the Day Reflected
and Condensed for Busy
Readers
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Told in Short Psragraphs--The e
Latest Intelligence om
All Sources.

King Edward sailed from Sicily for
Naples, via Messina, yesterday.
Five Kansas City packers have paid
fines to the amount of $4,000 into
the Missouri treasury.
A negro has won a historic Yale
prize with an assay in which he con-
tended that the negro was incapable
of governing Haiti.
The President arrived at Fort Yel-
lowstone Wednesday. He reviewed the
troops Thursday and then started on
his eastward journey.
A special dispatch from Melilla.
Morocco, says Muley Mohammed. the
Sultan's brother has been proclaimed
Emperor of Morocco at Fee.
Stephen H. Mallory was elected for
another term in the United States
Senate Wednesday by the two
Houses of the Florida legislature in
separate session.
On Wednesday night at Detroit.
Jack Root gave KID Mccoy terrible
beating and was given the decision at
the end of ten rounds. Mccoy was
out half dozen times. but was saved
by the gong
Wilson r, Howard, the negro who
shot and killed Andrew Souer, the
aged Frenchman at San Jose, for the
purpose of robbery, was found guilty
in the first degree. This carries the
death penalty Sentence, Friday, May
1st.
The rigging of the cup defender was
completed yesterday at Bristol, r. L.
and as soon as the paint is dry on
the gaff and boom the great mainsai'
will be bent on in preparation for the
builders trial, which is expected to
take place on Saturday.
Another new low record in coffee
prices was established in New York
Wednesday when April sold at 9.75
against 8 so. the previously low point.
| Speculation was only moderately ac-
tive and the market was devoid of
! sensational features.
James Fox. arrested in connection
with the Chinese smuggling frauds,
confessed in Buffalo before the court.
He said that organized companies in
Canada brought Chinese across the
ocean, and, taking them to eastern
Canadian cities, shipped them across
into the United States.
Official advices received by the nav
department from the Philippines re-
cord the discovery of valuable isl
ands in the southern part of the ar
chipelago, which are not on the chart.
Secretary Moody has taken steps to
have the islands property of the Unit
ed States.
At Bloomington, H., Annie Cotton
has just been arrested for the muir
/ der of her husband six years ago. The
crime was the most sensational in
/ the history of the city and search for
the woman has been kept up ever
/ since. Hundreds of clews have been
secured, but none proved satisfactory.
In his speech at the Jeffersonian
/ banquet of the New York editors OF
Albany. Ex-senator Hill predicted
that the next national issue will be
tariff revision. Appealing for har-
mony Mr.. Hill declared that New
York will lead where Democrats will
follow: or New York will follow
where Democrats lead"
At Cumberland, Wis, Tuesday night
John Neymeisser shot and killed his
wife, chopped up the remains with an
axe and set fire to his barn. He burn
ed the structure and all the stock
Two months ago the husband and
wife separated, and the husband left
town. He returned Tuesday, broke
into the house and committed the
murder. They leave a large family
OF small children. Neymeiser escaped
but was surrounded by a posse in the
woods near Clayton. and after holding
the crowd at bay for nearly an hour
he shot and killed himself
]. Lewis, of Truekee, Cal, who has
been seriously in with an affection OF
the stomach, vas taken suddenly
much worse Wednesday. He realized