The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-07-05
TELEcRAPHEp BRIEFS.
Five hundred Union Pacific machin.
lists at Omaha are on strike.

James William has been found
guilty of manslaughter for killing
George Hicks at Portland, Or.
A New York Judge has just decided
that $1,000 a year is necessary for the
maintenance Of a society girl Is years
old.
Strong pressure Is being brought on
senate amendments to the Philippine
| bill.
Fire Wednesday night destroyed an
entire block of frame buildings at
Portland. Or. Thirty-hve horses were
burned to death.
Articles Of Incorporation have been
fled In Jersey City by the Occidental
Construction company, which is capt.
allied at 100000.
Yesterday afternoon tornado
struck q Bohemian settlement near
Wallis Texas. killing several persons
and injuring many others.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit.
ed Nine Workers. is in Chicago for
the purpose Of holding a conference
with national labor leaders.
The senate committee on territories
met Saturday to hear the delegates
from the territories named tn the ON
nibus statehood bill present argu-
ments on the subject OF admission.
DR.. Juan Francisco Pazos, a we'll
known statesman of Lima, Peru, is
dead. He had served as minister Of
state and was twice elected a member
I. 8. Hsrschfield. former president of
the suspended Merchants national
bank Of Helena. has been adjudged
bankrupt in the federal court. His liza
buities are $49S.469. and assets s2115.
Of consxess.
The boilermakers of Topeka, Kas.,
are diutded In sentiment regarding the
probability Of a general boilermakers'
strike on the Santa Fe system. It is
believed a general strike will be ord
cred within a week.
All the unskilled of the Carnegie
Steel cempany's employees. nearly 49,
600. have had their wages voluntarily
Increased 10 per cent This win make
the wages Of the lowest laborer $1.65
: day.
The omnibus trial of alleged jury
bribera. which has been in progress in
Chicago for three weeks. has terminal
ed In the conviction of all the de-
fendants. seven in number. being con.
victed.
Wilbur B. Minds has been nomin-
ated for congress by the Democrats OF
Iae Nineteenth Illinois district. The
Democrats OF the Fifth Illinois dis
c-ict have nominated Jonas Olsen for
congress.
The government gunboat Chucuito
has returned from Aqua Dulles, where
she was sent with large sum of
money to pay the troops and with i'm
portant papers for the military COM
manders.
A. A. Robertson, paying teller Of
Wells. Fargo a Co.'S bank of Salt
Lake. Is missing and various rumors
are In circulation as to the cause. He
has been paying teller ten years and
bore an excellent reputation.
Bids have been opened by the port
Of Portland for the construction of the
drydock. The lowest bidder was Jos.
PacQuet Of Portland at $195.0O0. The
bids all specified that the work was to
be completed within twelve months.
At Minneapolis Christopher C. Nor
beck. whose fight in the midst of his
trial for bribery and whose recapture
are matters Of recent history, befors
the grand jury made a clean breast OF
all he knew about police corruption
in that city.
Colonel Sir Thomas Holdrich has re-
turned from trip through Patagonia,
where he has been studying the ques-
tion Of the disputed boundary between
| Argentina and Chile. He declared
that he is convinced that the matter
will be settled without delay
News has been received from Ven
ezuela of the death in Maturin. in the
state of Bermudez. from dysentery. of
General Domingo Monagas, who was
q leading personality in the present
Matos revolution against President
| Castro.
The foreign office at Lima, Peru, is
authority for the statement that the
statement that negotiations are on
foot between Chile and Peru to solve
the question Of the ownership of the
provinces of Tacna and africa by
treaty of alliance are untrue.
A dispatch from Peking states that
the emperor and empress dowager
have received In audience Rear Ad-
miral Frederick Rodgers. U. s. NJ,
commander-in-chief of the Asiatic
squadron, and his staff and the staff
Of the United States legation of
| Peking.
The forest fires up Lightner creek,
near Durango, Colo. are still raging,
and the flames are working northward