The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-10-21
News Summary

Governor West Of Oregon has put q
stop to the use Of contract prison labor
in that State.
1t will cost sI2s. 900, 900 to maintain
the navy next year. This lie the amount
asked for by Secretary Meyer.
Captain John Broder. giving an exhi-
bition as Triton, Georgia, fell 700 feet
from his balloon and was killed.
Theodore Roosevelt will go to Long
Beach, California, soou for " weeks.
to shoot whales of Catalina Island.
John D. Rockefeller lie said to be tired
of his plan to rest and to be going to
take up the reins Of business again.
"Aiias Jimmy Valentine" q convict
play. was given in the yard OF San
Quentin prison and all the convicts
there attended.
The Rev. Daniel Woodward. who lost
his pulpit at Omro, Wis, because OF
politics. has been appointed warden OF
the Wisconsin penitentiary.
Criminal courts in New York City
have adopted steel cages for prisoners.
The idea was taken from the cage used
ct the Oamorra trial in Italy.
Jay Gould, the son OF George Gould,
has bought a s250.O00 residence on
Fifth avenue, New York, as q present
for his bride, formerly Miss Anne
Douglas Graham.
Fred E. Burnell Of Bakersfield, Cali
fornia. tasted 80 days to cure stomach
trouble. He apparently was improving,
but he had an attack Of heart failure
and died.
William H. Prizes. millionaire man
facturer of Arlington, N. j., and 60
years old, is defendant in q suit for
separate maintenance brought by his
IS year-old wife.
Cromwell Dixon, 19.year-o old aviator,
who few across the Rockies from
Helena, Montana, to Spokane, Wash.
ington, was killed in the latter city
when his aeroplane fell from q height of
100 feet.
The widow of John A. Singer, mil
~lionaire and head of the Singer Sewing
Machine Company, will contest his
will. He left her nothing. giving most
of his enormous estate to his house,
keeper.
The burden Of carrying around $50
pounds of his own flesh caused the
death in Jersey City. N. j., of George
8. Schober. 30 years old. Schober was
believed to be the heaviest man in the
world.
Album Lippit Of Chicago taught his
wife to box. As soon as she learned, she
turned in and whipped him because he
objected to the food she served him.
Now each has sued the other for di.
vorce.
To save a lean, scraggly kitten from
death under the wheels Of a locomotive,
|. j. Soper. a baggageman. dashed in
front of q train at Kansas City. He
was instantly killed and so was the
kitten.
A full copy Of the German health de-
cision upholding the findings of DIR.
Wiley that benzoate of soda and ben
zoaic acid are harmful in foods, has
been received al the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington.
Dispatches from Paris that
two Frenchmen have succeeded in
making pure whisky from bananas.
For the new process they claim two
qualities, which will appeal to all
whisky drinkers-cheapness and a de-
licious odor.
Poison from the handling Of money
caused the death Of George Farnham
treasurer of Q Waltham, Mass, bank
He scratched a pimple and blood poison
ing set In. Physicians said germs mus
have come from the bank notes HI
handled.
Before he married Gertrude Ellis II
Chicago, Edward Matt filed with thu
County Recorder a pledge that hi
would give her all his earnings as Ions
as she fed him well and would not b,
jealous. He also promised to let her &c
. divorce unless he behaved himself
John Henry Smith, q member of tn,
first presidency of the Mormon church
being second counselor to the president
Joseph F. Smith. died at Salt Lake City
October Is. aged So years. He retiret
in his usual health, and about midnigh
was seized with o ~hemorrhsge Of tn
lungs, dying 80 minutes later.
Associate Justice John Marshal
Harlan, who, near the close Of his al
ready noted career as q member OF tn
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