Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
Special to the Tri-Weekly Times
IBY WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH LISE.l

San Francisco, Dec. 20.-Tele-
graphic dispatches from Hongkong
announce the burning of the steam
err Japan at sea, and the loss of a
great many lives. kilograms from
Rufus Hatch, manager of the Paci-
fic Mail Steamship Company of New
York, in regard to the matter, are
also indefinite. 1t is believed by
many to be a canard, and gotten up
by Jay Gould and other Wall street
operators, who, 1t is reported, have
been selling Pacific Mail stock short.
There is steamer called the Japan,
owned by the firm of Sassoon 81 Co.,
Hon9kong, which others believe is
possible might be the burned steamer
Particulars are anXiously awaited.
The Ocean View Water Company
filed Incorporation papers yesterday,
the object being to supply the city
with water.
The examination of Colonel Won
Schmidt upon charge of perjury
was resumed in the Police Court
yesterday. The testimony was to the
effect that the accused did not have
possession of a certain piece of land
which he, in an affidavit upon which
the charge of perjury is predicted,
set forth he held possession of for
years. The case was postponed for
| further examination.
Boston, Dec. 19.-The daughter of
United States Judge, aged II years,
while returning home from skating
to-day, was brutally assaulted and
mutilated by an unknown negro.
The child is thought to be fatally
injured.
New York, Dec. 19.-The steamer
fares to California have again been
reduced to 800 for first-class and
$50 for steerage.
San Francisco, Dec. 21.-Late last
night a Frenchman, butcher, at
South San Francisco, was dangerous
ly stabbed by some unknown per-
son. The wound is in the small of
the back, and there are slight hopes
of his recovery. He was taken from
the street and removed to a house.
Owing to the late hour and the eX-
element of friends, little information
was elected beyond the impression
that a Chinaman committed the
deed.
Kelton, Utah, Dec. 21.-On the
evening of the 18th, ranchman
named Quinn and a man Joe, who
was formerly a stock tender for the
North Western Stage Company, had
a fight at Rock Creek, station on
the stage road, 12O miles north of
here, which resulted in the instant
death of Quinn by three balls per-
forating his body and Joe receiving
a stab in the abdomen, from which
he cannot recover. Too much Ben
zine aboard is the only cause as
signed.
New York, Dec. 21.-The creditors
of II. n. Morgan, the suspended
produce DEALER have begun bank
ruptcy proceedings against Morgan,
as alleged, Morgan's capital having
been depleted. He has purchased
from various dealers, and when these
began to apply for their money they
were informed he had failed and late
last week he had made an assign
ment of his property to relative.
A New civil suit has been com
menced against VIM. NJ. Tweed, in
which Edward Mariner is joined as
defendant on behalf of the city to
recover from both $550,000 alleged
to have been traudulently charged
by Mariner for supplies to the
Street Department, and fraudulently
certified by Tweed, as Deputy Street
Commissioner, for payment. There
are thirty-one bills of Mariners
alleged in the complaint to be in
this category.