The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-11-28
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

w. J. O'Connor raises six crops Of
alfalfa on his farm near Chico, Cal,
without irrigation.
Prof. John TiltoD, owner of fifteen
gold properties near Nevada City. Cal,
pays his men % a day. board, whisky
aud tobacco.
The Indiana National Bank at Elk.
La-t, Ind, has been closed by order Of
National officials. also the Farmers
Bank at Henrietta, Texas.
The Columbia, the sailing boat 19 feet
long, in which Capt. Esenbraum left
Boston August II alone for Marseiles.
arrived at Gibraltar on Nov. 20.
Claus Spreckels. the wealthiest nan
on the Pacific Coast. is reported to have
suffered two strokes of paralysis last
week, and his condition is said to be
serious.
California, with 29s. SOS acres plant
ed to alfalfa. is the second most import
ant State in point of alfalfa acreage in
the Union, 5eing only exceeded by
Colorado.
The White Star Line steamer Baltic,
the largest steamer in the world, was
successfully launched at Belfast, Ire
land, last Saturday. Her displacement
is 80, 900 tons.
In the last thirty years the population
of Germany has increased 40 per cent,
that of France 2 per cent, that of the
United Kingdom 80 per cent and that
of the United States 100 per cent.
The American Federation of Labor
voted to hold its convention in 1904 in
San Francisco. Samuel Gompers has
been elected President Of the organiza-
ton. He received ~, 524 votes, and his
opponent. Kreft, 1874.
In a boxing contest in San Mateo
County, Cal, on Nov. 81, Britt gained
a decision over Candle in the 18th round
of the hardest fighting ever wit
messed on the Coast. Britt received the
beating of his life and Candle wa clev-
erer, and game during the entire con
test.
1t is claimed that if a person will in
sulate his bedstead by placing a glass
insulator under each bedpost, so as to
cut off the current between the sleeper
and the earth, insomnia will be an I'M
known item, and the sleeper will sleep
the sleep of the just, or words to that
effect.
William Vanderbilt Nissan, cousin
to William K. Vanderbilt, ST., was
found dead from alcoholism in a cheap
lodging house in Newark, N. j., Nov
ember 81. Death had come as the clos
ing chapter Of I. life that had alieniated
him from rich relatives and made him
an outcast.
At Cripple Creek, Colorado, on Nov
ember 81, Charles Mccormick, superin-
tendent, and Melvin II. Beck, a miner
were killed by an explosion in the sixth
level of the Vindicator mine. 1t is pos
itively asserted by the officers of the
company that the explosion was caused
by an internal machine. The machine
was exploded by a revolver set in the
shaft which was struck by the descend
ing cage.
A recent dispatch from Boston says:
"At a result of a movement started
ONE years ago., a change in the method
of assessment from the fiat rate, a meet
ing OF the Grand Lodge of Massachu-
setts of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen here to-day ended in the
adoption after a heated discussion of a
resolution to sever all connection with
the Supreme Lodge of the United States.
The New Hampshire and Vermont
lodges are under the jurisdiction of the
Massachusetts Grand Lodge.
A pool of water into which a live
electric wire had fallen, sent 1000 volts
through the body of Charles Yerrick.
assistant superintendent of the Oakland,
San Francisco & San Jose Railroad, on
the evening of Nov. 81, and killed him
instantly. B. Bertz, who ran to the as
sistance of Yerrick as he fell, was
thrown to the ground by the force of
the current, and lay burned and uncon-
scious until he was pulled out of dan
ger. The accident occurred within a
short distance of Yerrick's home at Oak
land, Cal.