The Nevada County picayune., 1907-03-15
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY AND TERSE.
 " NARRATED.
FROM EVERYWHERE
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma tion, and Particularly From the Great
 Southwest.

The minister of war of Mexico has replied to the offer of Pedro AI- varado, the mining king of ParraI. 10 give SIO.000,000 10 equip and maintain a regiment of IndlaE fighters 10 rid Mexico of the laqui Indians. The minister says Presl- dent Djaz will accept the offer upon conditions that all the officers of the command be selected from the Mexican army, and that none but MeXicans be enlisted in the cam paign. Fo this AIyarado does not fully agree. He wants some Amer jeans in the regiment. The Mexican cotton crop of 1906, now being prepared for the market, will not amount to more than 90.- GOO bales, a falling off of &5,ooo bales from the crop of 1905.
 It is announced in Washington that Gov. EIagerman of New Mexico will not be removed.
 Gossip in London is that new men with money have secured control of the London Times.
 A wave of trade reform is sweep ing England. The cry +: Wake up, and adopt American methods.
 The British army has abandoned the "pufiTed-out chest for its sol dicrs.
 The Danube river is at food, caus- ing great damage
 X mother and two children were burned to death in a New York ten ement.
 The New York Central has is- sued an order that hereafter trains within the electric zone must not be run over forty-fve miles an hour on straight track and not over thirty five miles an hour on curves.
 Tbe railroad commission of Texas has made a ruling tlelt railways may be compelled to furnish cars in the manner and to the extent pro- yidcd by the state laws, when prop erly requested to do so by shippers, regardless of the fact that in order to supply demands it may be neccs- sary for them to use ears not be longing to them. It further ruled that reconsignments of freight are under all circumstances permissible, but that additional charges for back haul may be allowed on diversions not ordered within forty-eight hours after the arrival of cars at junction points.
 At Evansville, Ind, the house of John Taylor was blown mp by dyna mite Taylor, who was sleeping next door, had to be awakened and told of the incident, although his house, only a few feet away was wrecked, and the noise aWoke every one in town except Taylor
 James T, Pugh. formerly United States senator from Alabama. died in Washington, aged &, Fer siA- teen years he was a member of the senate, being succeeded in 1S97 bv Edmund Winston Pcttus.
 The French line steamer La Sa- voie arrived at New York, and the captain reported that his vessel was struck during the tempest by wave fifty feet high, which flooded sa- looms and cabms 10 the depth of soy eral feet No lives were lost. There were over one thousand peo- pie on board
 While cutting a tree in the for est at his country home, near Ma rion. nd, Gilbert Jennings saw his son. six years of age, killed by the falling timber.
 B. W. Green, of Little Rock. Ark, has been appointed major general, commanding the Arkansas state guard, to succeed W. II. Haynes.
 Strother brothers freed in Virgin ia on mwritten law defense. Yer dict of jury indorsed by judge.
 Dr. J. M Benson, ocuhst, who had been in Magnolia, Miss, about a week, was found dead in bed at hotel
 John D. Rockefeller and other Standard Oil men must stand trial in St. Louis, was decree of four fed eral judges.