Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-03
Set His Wife on Fire.

lives We're lost. IL WAS valued a
$4,000; insured for $50, 900 against ire.
Set His Wife on Fire.
NEW York, Dec. 2.
Patrick Toney last night saturated
the clothes CT his wife with kerosen-
and then set them on fac. The
creams of the woman brought the in
mates of the house 10 her rescue and
lie flames we're extin2ui~hed. she VA
terribly burned, however, aud is n1i
ex pecled TO live.
A Fitifni Story OF the SuRerin-s OF
n HerxesOviaian Refugees.
New YORK, Dec. 2.
A private letter from Rdgusa, BAL
malta, Austria, from a lady who Is AN
eye witness Of the SUIT rings of the
HerZOgeviniaD refugees, contains the
following: "Very many of the child
bad only one garment tied together
and principally composed OF patches,
still one mass of rags seemed 10 make
their nakedness more pitlful and yet OF
all the refugees, those at RAgu~a are
the most fortunate, the best ied anu
clothed. There are nov present in the
the district of Ra.u>a alone aboul
twelve thousand refugees, nearly al,
women, children and old men. In
Montenegro there are fifty thousand;
ia Gro tia and Servia thousands again;
the whole numder oI fusitives
ing TO nearly one hdndred and fifty
thousand. With the means received
| up 10 the present time, 1900 or 1900
| people might be projected TO the ex
tent of "a blanket a piece rom the VIM
ter's cold, but there are remaining one
hundred thousand or more without
food or roof to cover them-to say
nothing of the wounded men brought
in from battle sick on dying, the child
bearing women and the pest-strickeD u
people" The lady makes an earnest
appeal for help to keep from death by
cold and starvation a whole populati u
wn,>e SIN is that they are Christian,
and adds: My husband was on the
frontier OF Bosnia where the river
Save divides Turkey from Austria.
He was entr' ated by the people OF
Austrian villages not to cross the river
and enter a Tukish town as he would
certainly lose his life, but by allowing
him self To be introduced a. a merchant
from Triest be was unniole>ied and
walked through III street con family.
The headles> bodies of Christians lay all
about the streets, and on the river he
hal seen boats full of refugees striving
for dear life to reach the Austrian
shore. The Turks fired into them and
one of the boats sunk, the other
reached the shore covered with blood
from the wounds OF The fugi ives. The
headIess bodies of women we're fioat-
ing on the water, and in the streets oi
the town the swine were feeding ON the
cOrpses OF Christian women"
Rhe Presidents Forthcoming
Message.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2.
The Presidents message will he
much longer than usual. 1t will con
tain upwards of eighteen thousand
words and on account Of it's great
length will not be ready to send int,
| Congress until Tuesday, even If the
House should elect a Speaker on Mon
day.
The War (Ioud.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2.
A Washington special says there
| seems 10 be IN apprehension that the
| country il 10 be plunged into a war
with Spain by the unsatisfactory ter
| mination of the negotiations which
Secretary Fish and Minister Gushing
have been conducting with the Span
ish Government during the past two
months. All Information that can be
Obtained leads To the belief that these
negotiations are proceeding fAvorably
and the result more likely than not TO