The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-08-01
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

The International Wireless Telegraph
Convention will assemble in Berlin,
Germany, neSs Tuesday.
The Cuban Senate has ratified all the
trea ties with the United States except
the Platt amendment treaty.
J. r. Sovereign, formerly a we'll
known labor leader, is now editor of the
State Tribune at Wallace. Idaho.
E. J., better known as Lucky"
Baldwin, narrowly escaped death in a
runaway at Pasadena, Cal, last week.
The new battleship, King Edward
VII, the largest in the world, was
launched last week. The vessel cost
$7,500,0O0.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
at Tacoma, Wash, passed resolutions
against root beer, and wine at the Com
munion service.
San Francisco's new Jail will be six
stories in height, and will contain 210|
cells constructed Of steel plates. 1t is
to cost 1926, 900.
Fire has destroyed the famous castle
ON Telegraph Hill. San Francisco
Years ago the castle was built by the
late Adolph Sutro
About 140 members of the United
Brotherhood Railway Employees were
discharged last Saturday from the rail
road shops at Sacramento. Cal.
1t is the intention Of the Pacific Com
mercial Gable Company to link Asia
with this Continent by extending the
cable from Manila to Shanghai.
About ninety boys at the State Re-
form School at Whittier. CAL, were last
week attacked by violent illness, which
has been attributed to ptomaine in
meat
1t is announced that genuine anthra-
cite coal has been discovered in Routt
county, Colorado The fields are said
to be as extensive as those Of Pennsyl-
vania.
When Speaker Thomas Reed left
Congress he was reputed to be worth
less than $4,000. When his estate
was settled up it was found to be worth
s43l, 900 net.
Controller Grout of New York last
week sold three and half million of
81 tax-exempt gold bonds, payable i'll
fifty years. at 1929. There We're fifty
nine bidders.
The General Land Office has with
drawn from entry under the reclama-
tion act 69C, 900 acres Of land ill con-
nection with the Mud Lake irrigation
projec in Idaho. -
The prospects are favorable for the
shipment East from California, this
season, of 1872. .000 900 pounds Of all
sorts of green fruits. This is equiva-
lent to 5000 carloads.
Charles Hedges, Superintendent of
the City Free Delivery of Washington,
ID. O.. has been dismissed from his office
for falsifying his diary and loaning his
travelling commission.
The San Francisco Grand Jury has
indicted Herman Eppinger. brother of
Jacob Eppinger, who was indicted
week ago, both men being members OF
the firm of Eppinger g. Co., grain brok.
ers
Cassius M. Clay, the sage of White
Hall, formerly Minister to Russia, and
widely known Kentuckian, died at
his home near Richmond, on July %,
at the age of 90. Death was due to a
general exhaustion.
News of the death of the Pope was
received in London by way of New
York. A temporary clog in the wires
from the European continent to Eng
land gave time to fash the news by the
French cable, and New York was first
served.
The most prominent woman in Wash
ington has just had her face washed
for the first time in ten years. 1t took
seven strong men week to do 1t,
aud they got s40o for the job, but it
was worth it. Tho woman was on the
top OF the dome of the Capitol
John Anderson, naturalize ID citiz n,
has petitioned the Superior Court OF
Seattle to change his name. He states
that he is the son of Frederick VII of
Denmark; that he came to this country
when he was young man, and that in
the Civil War he served as commander
under the name of Karl O. Vascen.