Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-12-09
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

Fifteen Independent window glass
manufactures were started in Pitts
burg Saturday in opposition to the
new trust.
On November 1st the last boat, the
"Albion," left Cape Nome and from
that time until next June the country
will be shut off from the outer world.
On the Great Northern railroad last
week train ran 105 miles in an hour
and thirty minutes. The same train
made 205 miles in four hours and
thirty minutes.
The tobacco trust has raised the
price Of plug tobacco. The Continental
Tobacco Company has sent out noti-
fication to all jobbers that there will
be an advance Of four cents per pound
after December /.
At Baker City, Oregon, last week,
Miss Florence V. Wells, recently from
Los Angeles, died in a dentists chair
while under the influence OF chloro-
form. A Coroner's jury returned
verdict Of accidental death.
The British Ambassador, Lord Paun-
cefote, was at the State Department
Saturday, and with Secretary Hay
went over the drafts of the treaty for
the partition OF Samoa. The treaty
was signed at the State Department
that afternoon.
N. +. Dawson, clerk in the Office
of General Miles, has been dropped
from the rolls on account Of letters he
has written to officials Of the Govern
ment rejecting upon the President.
He now intimates that he will shortly
furnish some interesting reading to the
public.
William j. Bryan has decided to
spend the Winter in Texas and Cali
fornia, seeking rest, Of which he feels
the need after the exhausting cam
paign he made in his own and other
States prior TO the late elections. He
has rented his Lincoln home and will
be absent at least six months.
The high duty on wooden manufact-
ured goods has been the result OF de-
termining several German mill owners
who have customers in the United
States to establish manufacturing
branches in this country. At least
three of the plants will be located in
Philadelphia, all OF which expect to
turn out cloth for the Spring trade.
The Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General, in his present report, asks
that fourth.class matter, merchandise,
which is now sent for / cent an ounce,
or l6 cents per pound. be allowed to
20 as third.clsss matter, the same as
books and papers, half cent an ounce,
or 8 cents per pound, and that the
present limit Of four pounds be
changed TO ten pounds.
The President has designated Albert
F. Hay to proceed at once to South
Africa as the representative OF the
State Department and take the place
OF Mr.. Macrum, the present United
States Consul at Pretoria. The State
Department has yielded to Mr.. Mac
runs repeated appeals to be relieved,
and he will not await the arrival OF
Mr.. Hay before quitting his post.
Mr.. Hay is the son Of the Secretary of
State.
The Associated Press special CORE
spondence from Yokohama, unde:
date OF November 16, says that the
bubonic plague has made its entry into
Japan, five undoubted cases having
been reported at Kobe, three already
proving fatal. The pest is traced to
cotton imported from China. the orig
inal buyer, the carrier and the pur-
chaser OF the stuff being the three vic
Tins. Much dismay prevails in the
infested city and the most drastic
measures are being taken by the
authorities.