The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-12-19
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

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A new wage scale of the United
States Steel Corporation goes into effect
on January 1. More than si2, 900, 900 is
cut from the Trusts payroll in one
sweep.
The torpedo boats Perry and Paul
Jones have been ordered to proceed
from the Mare Island, California, navy
yard, to Panama, to augment Admiral
Glass fleet.
DR.. F. B. Mallory of Harvard Univer-
sity has discovered the germ of scarlet
fever. Ths germ is an animal related
to malaria and lives in the coating of
the tongue and throat.
The merchants of Havana universally
assert that the passage of the reciproc-
ity treaty between the United States
and Cuba will result Immediately in an
extraordinary Cuban demand for Ameri-
can goods.
Congressman Hearst on Dec. IL intro
duced a bill in the House to establish a
parcels post. 1t provides for the. classi.
fcation Of mail matter, defining the
kind that shall be carried in the differ
ent classes.
At Telluride, Colorado. the Miners
Union has voted to continue the strike
in that district until a settlement ON an
eight hour basis is reported with niue
and mill managers. The managers say
they will not recognize the union or
grant its demands.
The royal courts of Europe are
shocked this week by the astonishing
report that Dowager Queen Margherita,
the widow of the ass estimated Hum
bert, has morganatically married IN en-
gineer, aged 80. The Queen is so. In a
later dispatch the Queen denies the
marriage.
The Utah Fuel Company
that it will resume work ON Dec. 81,
aud states that miners must choose be-
tween the company and the Miners
Union. Vice President Kramer says:
1--WE will not take back a single one of
the strikers SO long as they are unwill-
ing to surrender their union cards"
Between 81. 500, 900 and IS, 900 of
Chinese money is said to have been in
vested in Mexican plantations and
mines during the past four months by
the Eng Hok Fong syndicate of Hong
kong. About 10, 600 Chinese are to be
brought from the Orient to work on
these properties in the next two years.
A most drastic measure against a
number of religious orders has been
prepared at Paris by Premier Combes.
1t prohibits teaching by religious socie-
ties. The effect will be the closing of
$500 schools and will cost the French
EGovernment millions of francs. The
bill dissolves religious orders in France.
Burt Alvord and Billy Stiles. the no.
torious train robbers; Louis James, in.
pdicted for murder; Jim Bennett, a Chi
nese smuggler; Bob Depriest and Jack
O'Brien, highway robbers, and six Mex
lean prisoners cut through a wal of the
Jail at Tombstone, Arizona, on the
night Of December Is and made good
their escape.
The Royal Consolidated Mining Com
pany at Milton, California. has fled an
action in the United States Circuit
Court against the Independence Miners
Union for $25. 900 damages. The com.
plant ~recites hat the Union has de-
clared a strike at the mine, and has, by
intimidation, prevented the plaintiffs
from obtaining laborers.
II is said in Denver that the manage
ment of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company is unable to find on its books
. shortage Of IS, ZOO, 900. Experts have
ben working on the entries for some
tme. 1t is stated that this shortage
caused the suspension Of operations at
the steel works in Pueblo some weeks
ago. The works are still closed.
| JOSepu II. Or0tr VI rOIt Whyue,Iuu.
stepped ON a tack in a sleeping car while
en route to San Diego, CAL, where he
had been summoned to the bedside of
his wife, who had been stricken with
paralysis. Blood poisoning set in and
resulted in Mr.. Greer's death last Satur-
day soon after he arrived at San Diego.
He was about So years Of age.
The Holt Harvester and Manufacture
ing Company Of Stockton, CAL, on Dec.
10 locked out its blacksmiths. aud The
company declares its intentions of run.
ming an open shop hereafter. The
Federated Trades has declared the Holt
Company unfair. The Holt strike is
the commencement Of a bitter battle
between organized labor and organized
employers in California.
The Democrats won an overwhelming