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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1902
Page
4
Eastern Washington, Idaho, and eastern Oregon reported a heavy rainfall dubbed by farmers as a million dollar rain. The storm, impacting wheat belts across multiple states, raised expectations for crop prospects in a season marked by volatile weather.
United States Senate and House debate Philippine government measures and related Indian policy. Highlights include opposition to General Jacob H. Smith for Samar campaigns, calls to maintain Geary law, and a Senate inquiry into Samar orders. Also notes rail right of way, anti-conspiracy bill passage, and large immigration counts at Ellis Island amid ongoing war cost estimates.
In the Philippines a major assault on Mare Fort led by General Chaffee and Colonel Baldwin culminates in a decisive victory over Sultan Bayan and allied Moro forces. Casualties included one officer and seven enlisted men killed, thirty wounded, with 470 rifles in the advancing line. Roosevelt sent congratulations. A Manila court martial for General Jacob H. Smith concluded, with expectation of acquittal.
Crises sweep through California Iowa and Nevada with fires windstorms and structural collapses. Paragon hotel in Redding reportedly destroyed with about 27000 in damage and 12000 insured. Bayard and Van Wert suffer wind damage injuring residents. Ruthven sees farmhouses demolished and two Boxholm sons killed or fatally wounded. Keystone dryhouse near Sierra City burns. eight workers escape by jumping from upper floors. Local figures including former sheriff and state senator Mike Head sustain severe injuries.
A Calcutta dispatch reports a tornado wrecking Dacca and nearby towns with 416 dead and widespread crop destruction. German iron works form a giant empire defense and export-boosting cartel. The Vienna paper notes 8,000 Jewish families totaling 13,000 leaving Roumania for New York via Rotterdam due to persecution. London observers see improved South African tensions as Boer leaders prepare for May 15 peace terms. Princess Beatrice de Barrone attempted suicide by drowning in the Tiber, rescued amid jealousy over her husband Prince Massimo.
Mrs Susan Sandera Dovis widow of Lloyd T ywin dies at 71 from Brights disease in San Francisco leaving a $10,000,000 estate. Potter Palmer prominent Chicago businessman dies at Lake Shore Drive home. Congressman Amos J Cummings of New York dies at 61 in Baltimore of pneumonia. Beets sugar industry expansion: five new California factories planned at Hemet Hueneme Tehama Los Angeles, total $94 million. Sugar beets praised for quality. irrigation expansion urged to reach additional states. Naples Vesuvius central cone collapses signaling possible volcanic activity and new cone toward Naples. residents alarmed.
No valid claims due to garbled OCR. The notice indicates Ernest Sobender filed on February in Nye County Nevada an application for patent covering an air shaft and mineral deposits, with detailed bearings and monuments described but largely unreadable. The document lists post corners, distances, and mound of rocks, referencing a tunnel mouth and mineral monuments, but the exact measurements and legal boundaries are indecipherable.
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