Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-05-20
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY

II is said that much OF President
McKinley's ailments are due from
nicotine poison. He is an inveterste
smoker.
The heaviest passenger engine ever
built has just been put into service on
the Burlington road, running out OF
Chicago. II weighs 127 tons.
General Greeley OF the United States
signal corps has made statement
that wireless telegrapy is too uncertain
and is unlikely to supercede the pres
ent method.
The Russian Government has for
hidden Jews 20 reside in st. Peters
burg. Several French Jews are among
those who will be compelled to leave.
The rush to Buffalo Hump district,
Idaho, continues unabated, stages
arriving daily from railroad points
loaded 10 the guards with fortune
seekers.
Force the fighting. Penetrate far
into the interior and capture or
destroy every warning Filipino. That
is the pith OF long cipher message
President Mckinley sent to General
Otis in Manila.
Samuel L. Findley, the absconding
Tax Collector OF San Luis Obispo
county. California. now in Peru, has
waived extradition proceedings and
declares that he will return to Califor-
MIA voluntarily. He hopes thereby to
obtain greater clemency.
G. Il. Brit, chairman and managing
director of the viii Wall Dock Com
pany, who disappeared in February
last, leaving deficit OF over 81 900, 900
in the affairs OF the concern, was SEN
fenced to nine months imprisonment.
He is seventy years old and the father
OF thirteen children.
Anna T.. George delivered her first
lecture at the Olympia Theatre in
Stenbensville, Ohio, last week. The
house seated 1900. but there were
only fourteen people who paid the
admission fee to hear her. She de-
livered, however, the lecture, which
was practically a sketch of her life.
J. w. Graves OF Lathrop, Cal, has
discovered on his place a remarkable
freak in the grain line. 1t is a plant
which stooled out into twenty stalks,
each OF which has head composed OF
rye, oats and barley. Mr.. Graves in
tends to let the seed mature and
experiment with it.-Stockton Mail.
The jury in the case OF Abe Majors,
alias James Morgan, on trial at Brig
ham, Utah, for the murder Of Police
Captain William Brown, brought in
verdict OF murder in the first degree.
No recommendation was made, which
leaves the Judge no option but to SEN
tence the murderous bandit to death.
The Treasury Department has fixed
the status OF Admiral Schley above
that OF Sampson. He draws, from
June 80, the pay of his rank, 81 800,
with certain other privileges, ranking
in the first eight, while Sampson does
not. Sampson draws 81. 500 q gear on
the basis OF rank of a Brigadier-tien-
eral, while Schley's is that OF Major
General. The Navy Department, how
ever, keeps Sampson ahead of Schley
on the Naval Register.
A plan, yet in embryo, but con-
sidered feasible and attractive by the
owners and managers OF the Palace
Hotel. is the creation OF the finest
theatre in San Francisco on the ground
floor OF the Palace Hotel by converting
what is now the ladies' grill room,
together with several adjoining rooms
and all the second story rooms inn
mediately above them, into one large
auditorium with a seating capacity
greater than that OF the Columbia