The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-05-17
NEWS OF THEWORLD.
HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST FEW
DAYS FROM ALL QUARTERS.
Consumers Association ~Formed-Paul
Leicester Ford Killed by His Brother,
Who Commits suicide-Omaha Judge
q Christian Scientist.

II. W. Barrows, the disbursing officer
of the census bureau at Washington,
was arrested on the charge of embez-
zling 81. o in government funds.
The remains of Bret Harte, who died
near London recently, were buried at
Brimley, Surrey, in the presence of his
widow, son, daughter and a few friends.
Many beautiful wreaths were placed
upon the coffin.
A cable to the New York Sun from
Rome says: Atrooper writes from Abys-
sinia that he and 30 other Italians are
still prisoners of Negus Menelek. II
was supposed that these men were killed
at the battle of Adowa in 1896.
The Pennsylvania road will shortly
place in service a daily train that will
make the distance Of 902 miles between
Chicago and New York in exactly II
hours. This will be by long odds the
fastest long-distance train in the world,
and is made possible by the expenditure
of upward of $50. 00O, 900 by the Penn.
sylvania company in improving its track
between the two cities. The average
speed of the train, including stops, will
be 90. 81 miles an hour, and, exclusive OF
stops, about 81 miles an hour.
Paul Leicester Ford, the novelist, was
shot through the heart in the library OF
his home by his brother, Malcolm Web
ster Ford, who then turned the weapon
upon himself and gave himself a similar
wound, says a New York dispatch. The
two brothers died within a few feet OF
each other. Malcolm was the disin.
herited son of a millionaire father, and
there had been years of family quarrel.
ing over money matters. Malcolm Ford
at one time was a noted athlete. The
dead novelist was married only two
years ago to a daughter of Edward II.
Kidder of Brooklyn.
The Colorado supreme court has up
held the city ordinance of Denver for
the regulation of winerooms, reversing
the decision of the district court given
by Judge Palmer, who held that women
have the same right to enter winerooms
or saloons that men have. "If q dis.
elimination is made against women
solely on account Of their SEX" says the
supreme court, sit would not be good;
but if it is because of the immortality
that would be likely to result if the
regulation was not made, the regulation
that injury to public morality would re-
suit if women were, without restriction,
permitted to frequent winerooms.
The Consumers Commercial and In
dustrial association has formed a $685.
600, 900 combine Of the retail merchants
and of the country. says a
Chicago dispatch. The object is to give
the retailers the advantage of large
capital, and the that of dis
counts. The new company has been
Incorporated in Chicago and Arizona.
Life membership fee is to be s., and
this Will entitle the member
to a 5 per cent discount in his purchases
from the merchant members, regardless
of the location of the latter.
The airship belonging to Senior Au-
guste Sevros, the Brazilian aeronaut,
made au ascension at Paris, when the
o1saAP CApAodOos OCNlOS, VIC aClO4dub,
and one of his assistants, were killed.
Sevros's airship, La Paix, was not un-
like Santos-D umont's airships in APP
pearance, but it differed from them in
many details. The gas capacity Of La
Paix was nearly -four times greater than
that of Santos Dumont's balloons. 1t
had three main propellers and two
smaller ones, used for steering and in
ascending and descending.
Coroner Bradley impaneled a jury at
Omaha and, accompanied by the sheriff,
proceeded to the home of Judge Eller,
and demanded that he be permitted to
hold an inquest over the remains Of
Donald Eller, the judges son, who died
while under the care Of the Christian
Science healers. Judge Eller opened a
window and informed the sheriff that
in order to hold the inquest he would
have to break down three doors, tear the
American flag from the coffin and break