Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-03-25
PACIE!c COAST DISPATCHES.
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SAN Francisco. March q

dEIt'iS tllshN tAiC Il - 1lot l llittiS
till Wednesday.
John Devine, under sentence of
death for the murder of August Ramp,
tried 10 cut his way out of the County
Jail. and made a hole through To all
adjoining cell. He then whipped the
lailor, who intertered with him. The
officers are very reticent about the
affair.
The funeral of the late Judge o. l..
Shatter, took place at Oakland yester-
day. and was attended largely.
1t is reported that the Board of
Education is To have Il little Credit
Mobilier investigation of its OWL this
week. on account of charges of bribery
and corruption in the matter of elect
ing teachers and the awarding of
contracts.
Grindstone, a Chinaman, arrested
for stealing tobacco, undertook to
lynch himself last night in the Har-
Dor Police station house. but was cut
down in time to save his life.
Stephen Mavbell, who calls himself
the Poet Iahorer, of Portland, lectured
ON himSeifhetore the Dashawavs last
night. Two cities claim him, Portland
and san Francisco.
Great preparations have been made
for the revival of Shakesperian drama
ut the California Theater tonight,
when "Coriolanus will be pre-
scented.
About 4 o'clock this afternoon. a
gas filter and plumber went into the
basement OF DIR. stones old church, at
the corner of California and Dupont
streets, to attend To- the meter. He
lit y match, when n terrific explosion
resulted, prostrating him and blow
ing o the doors and windows. The
mar was not badly hurt. An alarm
of fire vas sounded, but the services
OF the fircmen were not required.
Catherine Hess and Adam Mayer
were committed to Stockton to-day
for insanity.
The trial Of ex-Supervisor NJ. j.
Kelly, for assault to murder Is. j.,
Shay, WAS not concluded to-day.
Tie divorce case OF Ruth :. Card vs..
Russell Card was on trial in the
Twelfth District Court to-day. Cross
charges of adultery are made, and
the trial is conducted with closed
doors for that reason.
The libel case of Flubacher &
Kelly, shOemakprs, in which plain
tiff claims $4,000 damages, is pending
in the Fifteenth District Court. Kelly
published All advertising card, which
the plalntIiI asserts was a libel upon
him.
The officers Of the County Jail
deny the report that John Devine
tried to escape. Devine is kept in
irons for unruly conduct.
SAN DIEGO, March q.
Alexander J. Fenwick, under SEN
tence of death on Friday next for the
murder of Charles Wilson, died this
morning. For several days past
watch had been kept over him by
Sheriff Day. Soon after eight o'clock
last evening. he became droWsy and
doZed OF to sleep, waking at intervals
until the night watch came on at ten
o'clock. At halt-pa>t eleven the turn
keys attention was called to an
irregUlarity in his breathing. and the
Sheriff and County Physician We're
immediately summoned. All efforts
to wake him failed. lie commenced
to breathe hard and irregularly until
the time of his death this morning.
The indications OF death were similar
to those produced by narcotic poison.
lhe physician who attended him is Of
the opinion he died from exhaustion.
\. scaled bundle of papers addressed
to his sister, Mrs. \. j. Dennis, Dry
town, AmaiOr county, were opened,
but nOthiny found i'll it to indicate the
aus of death.
GRASS VALLEY, March q.
Wash kee, a Chinese doctor, was
stabbed in several placesthis evening.
by one of his countrvmen, with a
butchers knife. The wounds are
serious. though not necessarily fatal.
The difficulty was about q bill.
UTAH.
SALT LAKE, March q.
The Tribune correspondent reports
that a traveller going south from
Ilntic with lot of stock, was followed
and arrested by the people OF the town
at Oak Grove, OH a charge of having
stolen the stock. The accused was
confined in a G%rainery, and the next
morning the guard said he had
escaped. Two hunters, however,
thinking there had been foul play,
searched for the traveller, and as the
snow was deep and unbruken, salts
fled themselves no n had left the
locality before them. 1t is stated that
the ~larties who made the arrest have
SOLD the stock of the missing traveller
anG divided the proceeds.
"A dispatch from st. George, in the
southern part of the territory, saws
Thomas AIcElmell and John Moss. en-
route for San Francisco, passed there
tnlS morning With a large collection
OF rubies from Selachee District. one
hundred and seventy-five miles east,
and forty miles from the Utah line in
Arizona. The discoveries say thev
found different kinds Of rubies in
large quantities. Tie largest found
was a Balas ruby of forty-eight carats.
One oriental Of twenty-eight carats
was also found.
All the papers are giving serious
attention to the subject of smallpox,
and calling for the most stringent
quarantine regulations. In San Pete
county the disease still RACES to an
alarming extent.
There was a slight fall Of snow last
night, but the weather to-day is warm.
The snow is still deep in the mining
canons, though melting fast.