The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-06-14
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST FEW
DAYS FROM ALL QUARTERS.
ssindier Ballet Found Guilty-verdict
For Heavy Damages Against street Car
Company Practical Use of Electricity
From the Atmo osphere.

Plentiful rains in portions of South
Australia and New South Wales have
relieved the drought, and the outlook is
nowynore hopeful.
It is announced that Miss Jeanne
Iangtry, daughter of Mrs. Langtry, will
shortly be married to Ian 2. Malcolm,
NJ p. Malcolm was private secretary
to Lord Salisbury. He was born in
Canada and educated at Oxford, and has
been attached to the Berlin, Paris and
St. Petersburg embassies He is very
wealthy.
Robert Jefferson Ferral, son of Judge
Ferral Of San Francisco, committed sui
eide at Philadelphia by swallowing car
bolic acid. He was employed as press
agent in the theatrical business, and 1t
is said that some disagreement with
Manager Keith was the cause Of his
taking the poison
Hall McAllister, nephew of the late
Ward McAllister of San Francisco, has
adopted the stage as a profession, and
is now playing in a stock company at
Richmond, w. Va. IL is said that he is
engaged to marry Miss Margaret e.
lington, the leading woman of the or
ganization of which he is a member.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
attended special thanksgiving service
in st. Paul's cathedral, London. The
Prince and Princess of Wales and many
other distinguished personages were
also present. The bishop of Stepney
preached from the effective text. "The
blessings Of peace"
Three animal trainers attached to
show had thrilling experiences at Cleve-
land with their savage pets, and as a re-
suit one man, the lion tanner, Joseph
Morris, Is fatally injured. The others
injured are Herman Wedder, right leg
badly crushed by a bear, and Mime. Mo-
relli. right arm and side lacerated by a
leopard. The animals were being trans
forred from the railroad cars to their
cages when the casualties happened.
A cable to the New York Sun from
London says: The South African syndi-
cate, consisting of former associates Of
the late Cecil Rhodes, has taken some
properties in Alaska, near the Klondike
boundary, where the members of the
syndicate intend TO invest 10000
William Fitzhugh Of San Francisco will
go out to inspect the properties. He will
receive fee Of $4,000. This is prob
ably the largest fee of this kind ever
offered.
Mrs Kingdom, mother Of Mrs. George
Gould, was robbed Of jewels valued at
10000 by thieves who entered her
apartments in the Waldorf. Astoria in
New York. When Mrs. Kingdom re-
turned from the theater In the evening
she gave the jewels she wore to maid.
who locked them in q case, which was
then concealed in place known only to
the maid and Mrs. Kingdom. In the
morning il was discovered that the case
in which the jewels had been placed
was broken open and the articles in the
drawer were in confusion.
Two hundred thousand people. includ-
ing the king and queen Of England. saw
Ard Patrick win the English Derby,
superbly ridden by "Skeets" Martin, an
American jockey. Martin. on being
lifted from his horse, was the center of
cheering throng, and congratulations
were hurled at him from every quarter.
Ard Patrick. against which the betting
was 100 to IA. is owned by J. O. Gubbin.
Colonel II. McCalmont's Rising Glass
was second and the duke of Portland's
Friar Tuck third.
A cable to the New York Herald from
London says that Senior Clemente FL
gueras, engineer of woods and forests
in the Canary islands, and for many
years professor Of physics at st. Angus
tines college at Las Palmas, has for
some time been working silently at
method Of directly utilizing atmospheric
electricity-that is to say, without
chemicals or dynamos-and making
practical application of it without the
need of employing any motive force.
He says its effect will be tremendous
economic and industrial revolution. He
intends shortly going to Madrid and
Berlin to patent his inventions.
Letson Ballet was found guilty in
the federal court at Des Moines Of using
the mails to defraud investors in stock
in the White Swan Mining company,
whose property is situated near Baker
City, Or. He was charged with having
received 1920, 900 from purchasers OF
stock and with having invested not to
exceed s25, 900 in the property, and this
was expended largely in acquiring title
to it after he had begun to sell stock.
1t was proved that Ballet had expended
$50. 900 in buying newspaper at Baker
City. and about $35. 900 in advertising
the mine and himself as the Cecil Rhodes
OF America. Ballet is 30 years of age,
and son Of Judge S. f. Ballet, re-
Gently Of the Polk county district bench,