The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-07-11
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

lnyo county, California, are $4 900 short.
California Superior Judges declare the
new divorce law unconstitutional and
are ignoring it.
The smelling plant at Silver City, N.
NJ, has been totally destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
Building in Salt Lake is at stand
still. A strike ordered by the Union
affects 1900 men.
The official estimate Of the deficit In
the Postoffice Department for the fiscal
year just closed is s4,6l7, ,2O3.
Santa Ana, Cal. is prohibition town
now. and Fresno limits the number of
saloons to fifty, at 5000 each per year.
The smelter men and miners at Butte,
Montana, will have a lay-of for six
weeks, pending repairs. The lay-ofF
affects 1000 men.
Alex Beaubien, who was the first
white child born in Chicago, was retired
from the Police force of that city July l,
on account Of age.
All private insane asylums in Cali
fornia, under the new law, are directly
under the supervision Of the State Com
mission in Lunacy.
Statements have recei we'd currency in
English newspapers that the United
States Government is fermenting a revo-
luton in Colombia.
OF the vast population of $500, 900 OF
the city Of Greater New York. but 49,
900 are possessed of any realty, or 5000
less than ten years ago.
Thomas ]. Clunie, prominent lawyer
and capitalist and former Representa-
tive in Congress, died at San Francisco,
July /, from Bright's disease.
Eight hundred and ninety-six new
rural free delivery routes were put in
operation July l. The total number Of
routes operated approximates $1,000.
The Austrian Cabinet has resigned in
a body and the political situation is near
ing crisis in Vienna owing to the dis
contented ministers surrendering their
portfolios.
A Sierra county California, Indian killed
his mother-in-law last week. The San
Francisco News Letter sarcastically COM
ments: "Our aborigines are fast becom-
ing civilized"
August w. Machen, against whom
three indictments have been found for
accepting bribes in connection with Gov
ernment contracts has pleaded not guilty
and been given until July 20 to file q
demurrer.
The Assessors OF San Francisco and
Alameda counties, California, have
agreed to assess the ferry rights on
San Francisco bay for $2,000.0O0. The
Southern Pacific Company will contest
by resort to the courts.
United States Senator Pettus sent to
the Secretary of State Of Alabama the
sum of 81 to cover the entire expenses
OF his recent unanimous election. This
sum represented the fee of the Secretary
OF State for his services.
The Mississippi State Board of Elec-
tion Commissioners has ordered State
primary election to be held August g.
This action means that the next United
States Senator from Mississippi will be
nominated by popular ballot.
The system Of prohibition as provided
by the Watts law is now operative in
North Carolina. The new law provides
that liquor cannot be manufactured or
sold except in towns, and they have the
privilege of voting on the question.
The Finance Committee OF the United
States Steel Corporation has appointed
for its acting President William Z. Corey.
President of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany, vice Charles NJ. Schwab, whose
resignation is assigned to i'll health.
The Trustees of Rush Medical College
have succeeded in raising fund OF ST.
900. 900, thus assuring the gift of 6,000,.
900 promised by John D. Rockefeller, and
the construction in Chicago of the most
magnificent medical institution in the
world.
The Department of Justice is prepar-
ing to prosecute criminslly Edward +.
McSweeney, late Deputy Commissioners
of Immigration at Ellis Island, for re-
moving from the files and taking unlaw-
ful private possession OF certain papers
belonging to the Government"
Mosquitoes have put stop to the Gov
ernment survey of the Louisiana oyster
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