The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1919-07-19
History of
Past Week
The News Happenings of
Seven Days Photographed
NTERMoUNTAlN

INTERMoUNTH1N.
Two men are dead following a triple
wreck which blocked the main line OF
the Union Pacific near Granite can
yon, seventeen miles west of Cheyenne
this morning. One is Fireman j. Il.
Mccarthy of Denver. He was caught
beneath an overturned locomotive ana
s~uffocated. Peter lessen, of Cheyenne,
engineer of a wrecking crane that
overturned while working on the wreck
was so badly scalded that he died
later.
Government agents continued the in
vestigation Of circumstances surround
ing the death of f. A. Dowsey of the
federal secret service, whose body was
found May 2 in a Mushroom in a local
office building shortly before he was
expected to report upon results of an
investigation he had been making In
Seattle. Persons familiar with the
general nature of Dowsey's mission de-
clared it involved a gigantic fraud
against the government.
ID. b. Renear of the Nevada state
Police left Ogden early Sunday morn
ing for Anaconda, Mont, to get Rob-
ert Gibson, an escaped convict from
Reno, and in custody of the Montana
officers.
That the late Werner z. Reed, Colo
RADIO capitalist, and federal mediator,
left an estate of nearly $14,OOO,OOO, be-
came known Wednesday following the
opening of a safety deposit box.
DOMESTIC.
Joseph f. Tumulty, secretary to
President Wilson, denied a report Mon
day, published In a New York news
paper that he was to have a place in
the cabinet, succeeding Postmaster
General Burles0n.
Mrs. Vera Trepagnier, 90 years old,
q widow, of New Orleans, On trial in
the criminal court, charged with the
murder of Paul Frederick Vollard, a
publisher, was found guilty of
slaughter.
Mrs. George Virgil and three Of her
children and administer named Ken
nedy, all of GAIA, Iowa, were killed
Sunday, when an Illinois Central rail
road train struck the automobile in
which they were riding.
Ralph B. Harris alleged bank rob-
Der, who let himself out of the county
Jail at Los Angeles Monday with a key
said to have been stolen from a jailer,
was captured here and placed In Jail
after he had slashed a patrolman with
a razor.
The third month Of Henry Ford's
S1,000.O00 libel suit against the Chi
cago Daily Tribune got under way in
Judge fuckers court Monday at Mt.
Clemens, Mich, with Mr.. Ford on the
stand as a witness called by the Trib-
une.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, was
among the passengers Friday ON board
the Mauretania. He will represent the
American labor organizations at an in
ternational congress of the trade I'M
ions at Amsterdam, Holland. The con-
gress is a revival of similar meetings
held before the war.
The Protestant church of this coun-
try represented in the Federal Council
Of Churches of Christ in America has
issued a declaration that the state of
New York should attempt to secure
to the worker an income sufficient to
maintain his family at a standard of
living which the community can ap-
prove.
Seven firemen are reported killed
and at least fourteen others were in
jured in a blaze that destroyed the
five-story warehouse of Jacob Potash
and Brothers in the northeast section
Of Philadelphia Saturday.
Martial law was declared Sunday in
Longview, Texas, and the rest of
Gregg county as a result of race
trouble here, precipitated by a fight
Friday morning between white men
and negroes and marked by the STAY
Ing of n negro early Sunday after he
had resisted arrest.
Hanging In the branches of a tree on
the Sacramento river the skeleton of
a man was found by dredger work
men near Calusa, Cal. 1t is supposed
the man was drowned during high
water and his body washed into the
tree.
Representatives of twenty-four affil-
lated international unions in the steel
Industries Friday adopted a resolu-
ton recommending that a strike vote
be taken among their membership.
The transports Valacia, Saxonia and