Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-06-03
NEWS NOTES.

CITY OF Paris from foundefing on sne En-
elish coast is practically abandoned.
Exaggerated reports continue to come
from Ensenads, Lower California, gold
plscers and Q stampede for that region Is
In progress.
Near Fullerton, GAL, Q wonderful oil
we'll has been struck. The well is now
spouting four hundred barrels Of oil . day
with no signs Of q diminution OF the how.
Admiral schley's conquest Of Salt Lake
Sunday was absolute. There were not as
many ships sunken ss ct Santiago. but
there were more schooners.-Tribune.
The Public Prosecutor Of London has
announced that he would nosproceed with
the prosecution Of Ernest Terah Hooley.
promoter and Spectator. upon the charge
Of fraud.
An electric car containing twenty-five
persons was run into 81 Seattle. Wssh.,
Monday by 9 Northern Pacific train. kill
ing one man and injuring fourteen others.
some fatally.
The Studebaker Bros Manufacturing
company o. South Bend, Ind. has closed
contracts for the construction Of auto
mobiles aggregating in the neighborhood
OF 81. 600, 900.
Howard K. Reitz, q student Of the
Academy Of Design, New York. has de.
veloped into 3 bridge jumper. He lesped
from ihe Brooklyn Bridge Sunday and
came out OF the river uninjured.
The court-msrtial Of Captain j.. M.
Neall, Of the Fourth Calavalry, calls for
his dis misal from The service. General
Shafter asks for clemenoy. as does also
John W. Mscksy. 9 friend Of Nesll's.
The automobile containing Alexander
wynton and Mr.. spinks arrived at the city
hall, New York, from Cleveland. o., at
5:45 p. m. Saturday. Distance, 7O7.4
miles; time. 4 days II hours As minutes.
:. An order has been made re-establishing
the Philippine courts. which have been
closed since the American occupation. II
revives all the Spanish system not conflict
ing with the sovereignty Of the United
States.
President Mckinley last Monday issued
] the amendment to the Civil Service rules
q which he has had under consideration for
: about q year. II releases from the opera
e tions OF the Civil Service rules about 1900
| offices.
:. The Seventh Regiment Of New York
National Guard was Kissed while passing
. the reviewing stand during the Memorial
Day parade. The Seventh refused 10 re-
spond to the call for volunteers during the
Spanish war.
Angus Mcleod and Antoine Fernando,
Q working in the Diamond mine, at Butte,
Montana, while drilling in a hole where
: the blast had not been fired, were blown
Q to pieces by the explosion Of the powder
early Sunday morning.
. Adele M. Shortridge has brought suit
Q for divorce in the Superior Court OF Sar
, Francisco against her husband. Chss. NJ
q Shortridge, State Senator from SAINTS
Clara county. She alleges wilful deser'
d tion. She asks the custody Of her two
children and q division Of the community
property.
Sporting men have obtained q copy o.
the record of the birth Of Robert Fitzsim-
mons, filed at Helston, Cornwall, England
y According to the record the pugilist wal
born May 26, 1868. and consequently ht
has just passed his thirty-sixth birthday
0 Fitzsimmons has stated his age as a yeal
: more and has never contrsdicted state
ments that made him several years older
The most important recent develop
ment in California railroad circles is tht
announcement of the proposed extension
Of the Santa Fe system 70 Sacramento and
on up the Sacramento Valley. An Official
. Of that company informs the Sacramento
o Bee that be hopes TO see trains Of the
= Santa Fe road running into Sacramento
% within eighteen months.
Probably the most destructive tornado
that ever visited Nebraska passed through
q the northern part Of Hamilton county
U Sunday night, at 7 o'clock, destroying
from ST., 900 to 500, 900 worth Of property,
including fifteen dwellings, one church,
two iron bridges across the Blue river. one
schoolhouse, barns, corncribs, outbuild'
Q ings, orchards. fences and stock.
The Foreign Office officials confirm the
statement that the negotiations with the
Canadian government on the subject Of
Alaska have reached an almost hopeless
stage, owing to the in%sistence Of the Can
adams that they receive a slice of Alaska,
which apparently precludes any agree
I ment being reached on the subject be-
tween the American and Canadian Com
, missioners.
Great Britain has again refused the re.
. quest Of the United States that Mrs. May.
brick be pardoned. This is the result Of
another application made for her release
by ambassador Choate. who oabled to SEQ
rotary Hay the answer he has received
from the British Foreign Office. In July.
Mrs. Maybrick will have been ten years In