The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-02-08

By an explosion in the Hondo mine,
Mexico. LOG miners lost their lives. The
majority of the victims were Mexicans
and Chinese. The mine is the property
of the Coahuita Coal company.
The death is announced ct West New
ton, Mass, of Rear Admiral Lewis A.
Kimberly, United States navy, retired.
ne entered the navy in lS46, when ne
was 16 years old.
Charles NJ. Schwab, president of the
teel trust, strenuously denies the stories
published hat he gambled while at
Monte Carlo. "When q man has spent
20 years in building up o reputation
says Mr.. Schwab, sit is hard ito have
newspapers smash it in one day." 41a
J. Pierpont Morgan's painting. "The
Holy Family" attributed to Titan, for
which Mr.. Morgan gave $4,000, Is
now being exhibited at the Royal Acad-
envy show of old masters in London.
1t is fatty declared by all the leading
art connoisseurs to be an egregious Tor.
gerry.
From ocean to ocean in three days Is
the time the Canadian Pacific expects
to make early in the spring. Equip
ment for the new service will cost the
system nearly 81, ZOO, 600, and will be
supplied by builders in the United
States. The new train will be tri-
weekly, making q 72-hour schedule be-
tween Montreal and Vancouver.
Edward and John Biddle, awaiting
execution in the county Jail at Pitts
burg for the murder of Thomas d.
Kahney of Mount Washington, over
powered the guards at 4 o'clock in the
morning and escaped. With them went
the warden's wife, Mrs. Soffel, who.
because of her i~nfatuation for Edward
Biddle, aided the brothers in their
escape. She supplied them with saws
and revolvers, and, it is said, admins
tered chloroform to her husband. OFF,
GERS wentin pursuit and came up with
the fugitives neal Prospect, Butler
county, and opened fire. Both mel
are dead from their wounds, but the
woman, after having had a bullet ex-
tracted, is likely to recover. When
they saw that their capture was inevi-
table, all three attempted to take their
own lives.
Charles Hallberg, a Chicago jaDitor
and an u-ninstructed student in art, has
had three of his works accepted by the
Judges of the art institute at Chicago,
and they will remain on exhibition until
March Q. 1t is remarkable that these
pictures, painted in a dimly lighted
basement between shifts of shoveling
coal into a furnace and removing ashes,
should be considered so meritorious.
All of the paintings are marines in oil.
The largest is entitled 1.-THE Dawn OF
Day as Sea-" while the others bear the
title of "Sunrise on Lake Michigan
and "a Summer Day on Lake Michi'
gan" The last mentioned work was
accepted by reclamation.
Sister Mary Constance B~entivoglio,
mother superior of the Omaha convent
of st. Glare, and cousin of Pope Leo,
died recently at the convent. For 81
years the mother superior did not sci
foot outside Of the walls of the convent,
but she had been able nevertheless t.
direct the administration Of extensive
charities. She was born ga years age
in the castle of st. Angelo, at Rome
while her father was governor of the
Italian capital.
Signor Marconi, on board the Ameri
can line steamer Philadelphia. from New
York for Southampton, began his wire
less communication with the Lizart
when the steamer Philadelphia was 12l
miles distant, and continued his mes
sages for several hours. American new
items of interest to Richard Croker ant
the other passengers on board the Phila
delphia were received. Marconi say
he intends to establish wireless tele
graphy stations in England and else
where for transatlantic communication
Mary Christensen secured a verdic
for 5000 in a breach of promise sui
against q dead man, says an Onawa Ga.
dispatch. She sued the estate Of Franz
Crum, who died last summer, for $1,000
claiming he had postponed the date o
their marriage, and finally died befor
the new date arrived without wedding
her. 1t was proved ~conclusively tina
he intended t. marry her, and the sui
was brought as the best legal way t.
recover a part Of the property left b.
him.
A board of arbitration, composed o
Baptist clergymen, says a Norfolk Eva.
dispatch. decided that the Norfolk an
Western railroad must pay the Rev. W
p. Hines Of the Baptist church at Ports
mouth $3.50 for 300 sermons lost b.
agents and employees of the company
The company declined to pay DIR. Hine
$50 apiece for the sermons, and sue
gested that the matter be settled b.
arbitration, which was done.
Miss Nellie White has begun sui
against Joseph Zeigler of Wilkesbarre
Pa, in which she charges him witt
squeezing her SO hard that one OF he