The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-07-20
News Summary

Taft aud Colonel Roosevelt at the head
Of the Republican ticket were declared
Tuesday by Medill Mccormick. head of
the Roosevelt forces, to have been aban-
doned.
Senator Bailey attacked President
Taft on the floor of the Senate Tuesday
for his attitude on the Lorimer case.
which the Texan characterized rs ''of.
icious and meddlesome." He was re-
ferring to the Presidents expressions
on the case in pre-convention speeches
and letters to Colonel Roosevelt.
Judge Robert w. Archibald of the Com.
merce Court, the ninth man 10 the his-
tory Of the United States to be i'm
peached for ''high crimes and misde-
meanors." was summoned Tuesday be.
fore the Senate to stand trial upon
charges made by the House. 1t is not
thought the trial will take place during
the present session.
Miss Jennie Croker, wealthiest Of
California heiresses, was married at
high noon Tuesday to Malcolm Douglas
Whitman of Brookline. Mass, in st.
Matthew's Church, a quaint stone edi-
fee at San Mateo, Cal. The ceremony
was performed in the presence of 800
guests. many of whom had come from
the East and from Europe.
A Paris dispatch announces that Hu-
bert Latham, the famous Anglo. French
airnan, q pioneer of heavier.than- air
aviation. was killed by a wild buffalo
during a hunt in the French Congo on
June Z. Latham was out with natives
in the forest when he shot and wounded
a buffalo. which Immediately charged
and gored and trampled him to death.
He was 30 years of age.
Sweeping reductions in express rates
averaging. in general, approximately 10
per cent, drastic reforms in regulations
and practices. and comprehensive
changes in the methods Of operation.
are prescribed in a report made public
Monday by the Interstate Commerce
Commission of its investigation into the
business of the Is great express com-
panies of the United States.
William P. McCombs of New York.
Governor Woodrow Wilson's choice. has
been elected Chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee and was en-
powered to appoint a committee of not
less than nine to take active charge Of
the Democratic campaign. The ques-
ton OF raising campaign funds was
brought up and the members of the COM
mittee we're urged to adopt a policy of q
popular subscription to be procured by
appeals through the newspapers.
Herman Rosenthal, proprietor of a
gambling house in New York City,
whose sensational charges that the
police were guilty Of grating aud OPP
preston were to be Investigated Tuesday
by the Grand Jury. was shot and killed
in front of Hotel Metropole by one of
five men who escaped in a large gray
touring car. Rosenthal was murdered
only a few hours before he was to ap-
pear before District Attorney Whitman
and give further statements in an effort
to s~ubstantiate the police grating
charges.
Late reports from Denver, Colorado,
are TO the effect hat the damage done
by the ~cloudburst Sunday night. which
poured a solid wall of water down the
shallow bed of Cherry Greek. hat runs
through the city. is far more severe than
at first sent out. The damage is now
placed in excess of g. o 600. Fifteen
Thousand men are at work righting the
damage, and within ten days it is ex.
pected to have the debris all cleared mp.
Over 500 people were rendered home.
less by the food that swept through
the city.
Thirteen persons were killed and IL
to 30 injured in a wreck on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad al
Western Springs. q suburb of Chicago
at $3.50 a. m. Monday. Mrs. II. A,
Wilsox. who was in charge Of the
tower from which the block signals
were controlled, said she was certain
the block was thrown against both
trains. The engine Of No. 8 plowed
through the car. halving it. and crush
ing out the lives of passengers. many Of
whom still were in their berths. On into
the second coach the engine then sped
Half way through the car it veered e
the left, derailing the sleeper. The en-
CINE was entirely stripped when il
stopped. Fire, starting from the gas
lights in the sleepers. Immediately broke
out. Many victims. pinioned down by
the heavy timbers and iron that had