Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-10-28
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

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loaded freight cars awaiting trans
p~ortation has accumulated in the
railroad yards at Chicago.
Sir Thomas Upton. with the
Shamrock and Erin, will sail for
home next Tuesday. he says he will
build another CUP challenger.
1t is said that housewife Wild
man, United States Consul General
at Hongkong, will be recalled for
being on too friendly terms with
A~guinaldo.
The President has issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation. He
names Thursday, November 30, as
the day, and c~ongratulates the coun-
try on the bright outlook for the flu
ture.
The sailing Of the channel squad
ron this week for Gibraltar is nov
regarded by the keenest observers as
an indication that some unexpected
attack upon British interests is
possible.
Sir Thomas Lipton's failure to win
the Americas" cup has caused
scarcely more than a passing regret.
for the British triumph in South
Africa has robbed that defeat OF its
sting.
The War Department has given
the Idaho authorities until the first
of next month to make arrangements
for guarding the miners in the Occur
d'Alene bull pen, as the troops will
then be withdrawn.
The Government lately offered
Brigadier General Funston a Major
Generalship of Volunteers if he
cared for further active service. He
has accepted, but will visit his native
State, Kansas, for a short time before
returning to the field of his triumphs.
The United States transport Sena.
tor, whose safety was questioned last
week, arrived at San Francisco last
Sunday. The vessel was in q ty-
phoon and was tossed about for sev-
eral hours. The storm was so severe
that the men of the 51st Iowa volun-
teers were ordered below and the
matches battsned down.
At Richfeld, Utah, last Saturday,
Bishop Poulsen, Bishop Horne,
Hans Christensen, L. p. Christensen
and Ole Borg we're arraigned in the
District Court on the charge of I'M
lawful cohabitation, before Judge
McCarty, and all entered the plea of
guilty. They waived time and were
sentenced by Judge McOsrty. The
fines ranged from s25 to $3.50.
A New York dispatch of Oct. %
says a number Of prominent members
of the Mormon church are gathered
in that city this week and the infer
enc in the metropolis is that a
scheme is on foot to induce Congress
man elect Roberts, if possible, to re.
sign his seat so as to avoid the dam
ger of expulsion from the House.
Prominent Mormons say there is no
truth in the story.
The German press is just as unani-
mously anti British in the Transvaal
war as it was anti American in the
war between the United States and
Spain. Even the Liberal papers,
although politically and CONNER
cially they have all along sought and
found an ideal in England, now
strongly disapprove of England's
procedure 10 varied but never COM
plimsntary utterances. The speakers
in the British Parliament are char
acterized as "hypocritical," and the
British people and government are
described as devonred by land
hunger" and ''for greed for Trans
vaal gold"
A sensational meeting occurred in
Sacramento last Saturday between
DIR. G.. B. N. Glow and George W.
Jackson. The cause of the difficulty
is an affidavit, filed by Mrs. Jackson,
which charges Glow with trying to
get her to commit perjury in the
AUSTIN Wilcoxson suit. Glow had
denied the truth of the affidavit. The
men met in front of the Golden
Eagle Hotel, and Jackson says he
put his fist under CLOVIS chin, Offer
ed to fight him with guns, pistols or
knives, and told him that every time
he met him he would speak to him
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