The Nevada County picayune., 1909-05-20

Rudolph Nelson, aged 15 years, was murdered in the outskirts of Superior Wis, while returning from school | His body was thrown into a pool where it was later discovered. Rob bery is supposed to have been the motive, as a cheap watch and some small change was taken.
 The one real daughter" of the American revolution, who belonged to the Sioux City chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, and one of the three real daughters in that city, Miss Emily s. Nettleton, aged 91, died at the home of her son, Edgar NJ Nettleton.
 George Graham, the brilliant second baseman for the Omaha Western league team has been put out or baseball permanently. Hhe slipped Tn practicing. threw his knee out of place and his physician says he will never be able to play again.
 Fire in the business section Of Rock Island, Kas., destroyed four business blocks, including large fur niture store, a hardware store and sev- eral other business stocks. James Cott was severely injured while fight ing the flames
 The Allan line steamship Tunisian, Liverpool for Montreal, was reported by wireless as in the ice off Cape Race. 60 miles from St. Johns, N. F. One of the plates in her bow had been started and the ship was taking some water.
 The battleship Mississippi arrived at Donaldsonville, La, after a seven hours trip from New Orleans. The passage up the river was amid almost continuous greeting from either shore.
 Charles w Fairbanks, former vice president, who has been visiting points of interest in the Hawaiian islands dun Ing the past two weeks, has sailed for Japan.
 "The Ethical Aspects of Gambling was discussed at the session of the National Episcopal congress held in Boston. Rev St. Clair Hester of New York thought 1t would be no great exaggeration to say that the whole commercial life of our time IS infected with the taint of gambling.
 Florence Nightengale, who has just entered her ninetieth year, has re- ceived innumerable cOngratulatory messages and bouquets in London.
 The annual excursion to Jamestown island of the Association for the Pres ervation of Virginia Antiquities was signalized by the unyeiling of a mon- ument to Capt. John Smith on the very spot where he made history.
 Pedro Gonzales of Nicaragua, spe- ciaI commissioner bringing instruc- tions for Minister Espinosa for the settlement of the long-pending Emery claim. is at Washington.
 Richard l. sherman, son of Vice President Sherman, was Monday elected president of the Consolidated Water Co, of Utica. a three million dollar corporation, and immediately resigned his position as private sec retary to William Loeb, collector of the port of New York.
 Torty-one signal service men left Omaha under Master Signal Electri- clan Gunaurd for Alaska. These men have finished their course in teleg- raphy at Fort Omaha and are now 10 go to the several stations in Alaska 10 relieve men who have finished their time there and to make improvements under the present telegraph system now in use,
 Colorado Springs has adopted a new charter providing for a commission form of government. the abolition Of political parties in city affairs, the re call, initiatiee and referendum and municipal ownership of public utili- ties
 The chemical laboratory of the geo. logical survey at Washington was badly damaged by fire Sunday and only the prompt work of tiremen pre- vented the flames spreading to other departments. The fire was confined to the laboratory; but before 1t was extingulshed valuable minerals and chemicals were destroyed,
 Fifteen hundred Japanese laborers employed on the Honolulu sugar plan tations went on strike for higher wages Sunday and it is expected that the movement will spread to the oth' CT plantations where Japanese are employed The field laborers demand that they be paid dollar day, while those employed in the sugar mills and elsewhere are holding out for a pro- porticnate increase of the wage scale
 Unless a resolution extending the present session of the Arkansas leg islature is adopted by that body, little hope is held out for the passage ot the bill re.establishing racing at Hot