Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-10-22
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES

| the COrDett murder case, 1WeItu
! District Court. Trial will be resum-
| ed tomorrow.
Arrangements have been made for
the construction of a new tug-boat,
to take the place of the Rescue
Contract calling for completion OF
the boat in sixty days from next
Monday. The boat is to be called
Rescue, and is to be 100 feet long,
one wider and one deeper than the
old one, and to carry four boilers.
San Buenaventura, 81. - Joseph
Roberts laborer, employed by d.
Roudebush, farmer ten miles east
of here, committed suicide last night
by cutting his throat.
Los Angeles, 2l.-Mr. Larabee
and party leave here at nine in the
| morning for the North, they expect
reaching San Francisco by Friday
| noon. The late rains did not reach
! as far down as San Bernardino.
A laborer known as Micky Free,
was injured to-day by falling bank
on Olivia street. The Alden fruit
drying factory started up to-day; it
will manufacture raisins fer the
present.
New York, Oct. 2l.- The oppo-
nents of Tammany Hall in mass
meeting last night nominated Os-
valid Ottendarfer for Mayor and
Patrick II. Jones, late postmaster of
this city, for Register.
Council Bluffs, Oct. 21.-The Og-
den House of this city was burned
this morning. Loss, $50, 900; insur-
ance, S35, 900.
Milwaukee, Oct. 2l.-S. Rends-
kopf, Democratic candidate'f Con-
gress in the Fourth District, has
withdrawn, and the Committee has
substituted VIM. p. Lynde.
New York, Oct. 81 .-Immediately
after morning prayer to-day, the
General Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church went into secret
session. A startling rumor pre-
vailed among Deputies of the Lower
House to the effect that the desk in
the meeting room of the House of
Bishops had been forced open and
papers relating to the Bishop elect,
Seymour, We're distracted. Mem
bers of the House of Bishops main
tain the strictest silence with regard
to the matter. The church wardens
and sexton are of the epihion that
the papers have been mislaid by
some of the pages.
New York, Oct. 21.-Rio de ia
metro advices from Buenos Ayres
state, in an engagement between the
troops and insurgents, the latter
were defeated and their commander,
Blaca, taken prisoner. Large re-
wards are offered for the capture of
rebels. Steamers have left Monte
vedeo towing vessels laden with
arms and ammunition for Uruguay.
The government intends to issue
S4,000,000 paper money. The bank
of Rio has suspended.
Berlin, Oct. 2l.-The Representa-
tives of the Assembly proposed for
Alsace and Lorraine will at first pos
sess only deliberative character.
Their functions will be to advise the
Government on all subjects OF local
legislation and examine the budget
for the proviace.
London, Oct. 2l.-Advices from
Berlin represent increasing public
sympathy for Count Won Arnim, on
account of the harshness with which
he is treated and the rigor of Donu-
ciliary searches.
San Francisco, Oct. 21.- Uyeno
Kagenori is appointed Japanese Min
lister to. England; Yoshida Kiyou-
ari, to Washington; Awoki Gengo,
to Berlin.
Cables have been successfully laid
between Yesso and the mainland.
The Hongkong and Yokohama
rifle teams will shoot the Shanghai
team. Declined.
Chiarini's circus troupe was doing
good business at Yokohama.
Great numbers of foreigners have
been appointed as military instruc-
tors for the Chinese within few
weeks past.
Public interest in the great
$4,000 running race to be given No
vember 14th, under the auspices of
the Pacific Jockey Club, increases as
the time approaches. There was an
immense crowd present at the Lick
House last night to witness the final
entries. There were eight nominal
tions as follows: Thad Stevens, Kate
Lease, Hubbard, Henry, Joe DAN
iels, Alpha, Hockhocking and Hard
wood. The officers of the club have
received dispatches that other par
ties had forwarded entries by mail
and express which will come in due
time. Three thousand dollars was
offered for the privilege of selling
pools on the race, and wagers have
been already made. The race bids
fair to be even more exciting than
the great running race of last year,
when Thad Stevens came out victor.
The steamer Japan brings Yoko-
hama dates to Sept. 20. Following
is summary:
The French Government is max
| ing demand for the opening of the
entire Empire to foreigners. The
correspondence shows disposition
to wrest this concession from Japan
in spite of all remonstrances.
The Mikado had given an enter
tainment to the entire foreign diplo-
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