Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-06
EASTERN ES.
BY OVERLAND TELEGRAPH.
ESPECIAL TO TEE SENTINEL
MASSACHUSETTS.
ROSTON- AnOuSj

A special from Montreal da,ed the
4th inst, says a umo was current
Sunday and to-day that Sir John Nc
Donald has attempted suicide. The
observation-disclosures deny the story.
1t is certain. however. that the pre-
mier has been in a low state.
Mr.. Beatty Jr. figures to-day in
connection with the p. Il. r. scandal
in letters over his w signatere in
the Herald. He circumstance ally and
infinitely relates arrangements fur
securing one hundred Thousand dol
lars from Americans for the USE of the
Government; goes into the particular.
OF his interviews with ministers, aid
shows their readiness to take and
make, come from where it might, so
long as it would enable them to re-
tain power. He asks for fifty thouS-
and now and fifty thousand again.
and says u have had about three
months correspondence, both bv let
ter and by personal interviews, of the
first importance to the Government.
and all this with the ultimate object
oc settling the Pacific loan" He
gives the following extract from a
letter from one of the ministry: The
Telegraph is trying to turn the concern
into joint stock. [ hope it will sue
coed. 1t will he the entering wedge.
and no capital will consolidate the
He again says: | will sub
side until action is deemed indispen-
sibly necessary.
NEW YORK.
New York. August 5.
A fire in SuInpter street. at Brook
lyn. this forenoon, burned Tuan Hall
and adjoining houses. Loss, $50, 900 ;
partly insured.
Commissioner Won Mort thinks the
person who forced open the safe in
his department vas 'ami,iar with the
office, but in search of something else
than it contained. Among its CON
tents were vouchers OF bills paid bv
the Department, but as these are made
in public no harm would have been
donethe city had all found been taken.
The only papers in the safe of inpor-
lance to Commissioner Van Mort
We're the records of the connection of
Robert Jordin with the Department
of Public Works.
A Washington special says the
council at Fort Sill upon the question
of the release OF Satanta and Big Tree
has been postponed till October. owing
To h absence of the Commission
er of Indian Affairs among the tribes
Of the Northwest. Meantime, SATAN
Ia and Big Tree will Inc taken to Fort
Sill, there to await the result of he
council. to satisfy the Kiowas that
their distinguished chiefs are still.
living, Of which they now insinuate
grave doubts.
ILLINOIS.
CHICAGO, Aug 5.
Daisy Breeze killed his brother
Dan with a club, near HaZelwood.
Alexandria county, Illinois, Satur-
day. because the latter was about
backing out of an expedition they
had planned to rob and murder a
ne'ghhor.
Two deaths from cholera are re-
ported in Indianapolis to-day.
PENNSYLVANIA.
PITTsBURG, August, S.
A terrible accident occurred at But
Ter on Saturday evening, on the farm
of VIM. Preston. by which three men
were burned to death. They were
boring for oil and were in the well at
the time oil WAS struck. 1t scarcely
reached the surface before takinc
fire, blazing 100 feet or more, and
screening the two men t. death. The
bodies were not recovered till TODAY.