Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-09-17
Pacific Coast.

San Francisco, Sept. ia fire &C.
cured this morning in Parker bakery,
on Third street; loss, about $500.
There was another small fire on Clemen-
tina street; loss, about $500.
The case Of the 90 Chinese women
from the steamer japan, held on writ
of habeas corpus, is before the United
States Circuit Court to-day for argument.
The friends of Thomas Brown, who
shot himself yesterday, express great sur
prise at the act. as he was known to be q
man Of genial nature and very elastic
spirits. The funeral takes place to-day.
The Coroner held an inquest at his
that deceased took his Own lite Wits fheEsi 10:
boring under great mental depression.
The conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church opened to-day, presided
over by Bishop Merrill, of St. Paul,
MINI. There will be a discussion on the
temperance question this evening and
tomorrow evening another on education
Bishop Peck is not in the State, mol
has he been since his appointment to
that position.
The Mexican population of this city
will celebrate the sixty.fourth anniversary
of their national independence with liter.
AIRY exercises and a ball tonight at Union
Hall. Consular flags are displayed to-
day in honor Of the event.
Greenbacks, 91(a91I.
| PRINCETON, CAL, Sept. 1G. - This
morning about 4 o'clock, while some men
were playing rondo at saloon in this
place kept by man named Crothers, q
dispute arose between q man called
Spanish Frank and and another named
Thomas Lightner, of Colusa. 1t seems
that a quarrel arose over the game, the
Spaniard accusing Lightner of cheating,
which Lightner resented with blows, and
coming to clinch, the Spaniard being
the heaviest, got the upper hand OF
Lightner, when a friend and cousin OF
Lightner, named George Day, sprang up
and stabbed the Spaniard in the back
three times, wounding him MORALLY.
Day has been arrested, and his examina.
ton took place to-day, when bail was
set at $1,000. Not the slightest hopes
are entertained for the life of the Span.
lard, whose proper name is Frank Sorsa.
VIRGINIA, New, Sept. ia miner
named John Evans fell down the new
shaft Of the Sierra Nevada works this
morning, and was instantly killed. He
was native of Cornwall, England, and
aged % years.
Charles E. Delaney, President of the
Virginia Miners Union, who shot him
self with pistol on Friday last, died
last night at 10 o'clock He was o ma
tive of New York City, aged 81 years.
The Republican primaries took place
to-day. There being but little opposi-
ton to the regular ticket, everything
passed off quietly.
EUREKA, New, Sept. 16.-The Repub.
lican Convention met to-day and nomin-
ated Hon. Thomas Wren and Mathew
Howell for the Assembly, and full
county ticket. Resolutions were also
adopted opposing the unjust discrimina.
tons of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company in the matter of fares and
freights, and the representatives nomin.
ated were instructed to pledge themselves
to use all efforts to correct the same be-
fore having their names placed in nomin-
alton. A resolution instructing the dele
gates to the State Convention to support
Hon. w. II. Beatty for the long term of
the Supreme Court, and also pledging
the delegates to the support of Rev. S. p.
Kelly as State Superintendent of Public
Instruction, were also passed. The con-
veDtion passed off quietly.
SAN Francisco, Sept. 16.-Comerata,
an Italian residing on Dupont street, at
tempted to commit suicide this afternoon
by cutting his throat. He was taken to
the hospital and will probably survive.