The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-06-14
General News Summary

Edward s. Ferry, a wealthy attorney of Salt Lake, attempted
to commit suicide by shooting himself at his home on Brigham
street Tuesday.
Announcement was made in the New York financial district
last week of the resignation Of John Hays Hammond as director of
the Guggenheim Exploration Company. No explanation was given
for Mr.. Hsmmondis withdrawal He was succeeded In the director
ate by @. E. Perry. a consulting engineer for the company.
Emily Wilding Dawson, the martyr to the militant efforts OF
women to obtain the suffrage, died Sunday at the Epson hospital in
London as the result of a fracture of the skull sustained in an at
tempt to stop the kings horse, Anmer, during the running OF the
derby on Wednesday last. Only the matron of the hospital and
two nurse were present at the deathbed.
The giant steamship Imperator of the Hamburg-American
Line started on its maiden trip to New York at 4 o'clock this after
noon from an anchorage in the open roadstead, at Hamburg, being too
big to lie at the regular pier. The passengers embarked from
tenders, $50 first, $50 second and 2270 third class and steerage
The remainder will go on board at Southampton and Cherbourg.
instructions to postmasters were issued Wednesday for hand
ling of G o. D. parcel post packages. The regulations will be
effective July l. Charges on packages will be collected from ad-
dresses Oh and after that date provided the amount on a single
parcel does not exceed 500. The fee for collection will be 10 cents
in parcel post stamps, to be affixed by the sender. This fee also
will insure the package against loss.
Four young boys gathered at the grindstone on the farm of A
B. Ewers, at Readstown, Wis. They wanted to see what was in a
dynamite cap found in the hayloft. Biting the cap did not open it,
so Berlin Ewers held it against the dry grindstone, while the others
turned. When it became too hot too hold he gave it to his brother
Alvin. A few more turns and the cap exploded. Alvin lost the tips
of four fingers and may lose his right eye.
The San Francisco Examiner says: DIR. Gordon b. True, d.
rector of the Nevada Experiment Station at Reno, has been ap-
pointed to the professorship of animal husbandry in the College OF
Agriculture, University of California. DIR. True, who for ten years
was professor of animal ~husbandry at the Nevada University, and
for the last two years chief expert there, is the third man who bas
been secured by the university from leading positions in agicult-
ural schools of the country. The Importance of the stockralslng IN
dustry in California makes his position important here.
At Constantinople, June IL, Mahmoud Schefket Pasha, the
Turkish Grand Vizier and Minister of War, was shot and killed by
assassins. His aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Ibrahim Bey, also was
killed. The following official account was issued: "On leaving the
Ministry of War this morning the Grand Vizier entered a motor car
with the intention of proceeding to the Sublime Porte. But the
car was obliged to stop while going through Bayezid and Divan
YoIu squares because the road was torn up. Some persons In an
other car, whose identity has not been established, fired ten shots
at the car. The Grand Vizier, who was severely wounded, was
taken back to the Ministry of War, where he died half an hour
later. Lieutenant Ibrahim Bey. who was accompanying Mahmoud
Schefket Pasha, also was hit by some of the bullets and subsequent
ly died." A man named Topal Tewfk was arrested as a suspect
and had in his possession two revolvers and some cartridges.