Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-17
The whisky Trials.


The whisky Trials.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is.
A telegram was received at the De
partment OF Justice to day from Unit
cd Slater District Attorney Dyer, OF
ST. Louis, announcing that more inn
portant trials in the whisky cases
would occur before January.
Congressional.
HoUsE
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is.
In the House, bills and resolutions
we're further introduced and referred,
as follows:
By Rainey,to abolish the House Com
mittee on Freedman's affairs: by
Cook, to refund the cotton tax collect
ed between 1853 and 1868; also, to au
thoriZe the payment for all cotton
seized 10y the United States after May
20, 1865; by Bauring. to establish a
branch mint al Cincinnati; by Law
renee, in%structing the Committee on
Foreign Affairs TO inquire into the ex-
pediency of restoring to the Japanese
Clover ment so much of the Japanese
Indemnity Fund as may be necessary
to meet a just claim Tor damage and
expenses properly chargeable on that
fund as adopted; also, declaring it to
he the sense of the House that the pol
icy OF finance shall be strictly pursued
which, without the unnecessary check
to business. will ultimately equa,ize
the purchasing power of gold AID
paper dollar.
Holmxn moved its reference to the
Committee on Banking and Currency,
and ii WAS so referred.
Holman also offered the following
resolutions:
Resotred, That in the judgment of
this House. in the present condition OF
the financial affairs of the Government.
no subsidies in money. bonds, public
lands, Inducements or by pledge OF
public credit, should be granted by
Congress TO associations or incorpora
lions engaged or proposing to engage
in private or public enterprises, and ali
appropriations from the public treas
ury ought to lie limited at this time to
snch amounts only as shall be imper-
at lively demanded by The public ser
vice.
PendIetOn Serena6ed.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Dec. Is.
Hon. George IL. P~endleton, of Ohio,
was ~serenadei at The Planters Hotel to-
night, and, in re,pons ~, delivered a
hriof address. lie spoke OF the evi
deuce> of prosperity all around; coii-
graduated the people Of Georgia upon
the good order everywhere prevailing,
and declared that the men who IN
deavor to force a s-ciarisn feeling in
politics deserved the rowiis OF all good
citizens.
The fIend r'lomm. Arrested for
Murder.
New YORK. Dec. Is.
According to Bremen dispatches,
Thomas,a passenger on the Mosel. u
owner of the casK of dynamic which
caused the terrible disaster at Bremen
haven. has confessed his guilt, saying
he had accomplices at New York. The
motive for this diatiolical scheme APP
pears to have been To procure exagger-
ated and fictitious insurance, he TO
share with the others. Thomas is qnite
conscious, and all questions.
The bullets have not, AS yet, been ex
tracled from his head. From uhat is
known the barrel for this shameful
work was made strongly by a Bremen
cooper, and partitioued, one part con-
tanning the dynamite and the other tue
apparatus for exploding It.. He in
tended to place his heili>h machine on
the Deutschland, but Was not ready.
The Weisey ZeitaHg adds: In sober
words we communicate il, and with a
certainty, that the number ot victims
killed and wounded, amount to lao.
William X. Thomas is the full name,
and has since ATTEMPTED suicide. lie
has made u full confession. lie was
born in New York; WAS married to Il
New Orleans lady, and has four chill
dren. the youngest, a baby. He lived
in Virginia during the war, and en-
gagged in the business OF a blocade run
ner, Whereby he became rich. Since
1866 he has resided here and at Leipsic,
and last at S~trelhleu, near Dresden.
He appears to- have lost his money and
became embarrassed. lie was twice IN
America during the past Summers; the
last time he went without the knowl.
edge of his family, and when he re
turned he wrote his tanker here that
he had teen making arrangements en-
aiding him to pay his d. hts. In Dicbu
he wa, highly esteemed by the people.
In Germany, his house has been
searched, bui nothing was ound con-
nected with the disaster. Thomas has
attempted suicide again by tearing of
the dressings from his wound.
Nathan kubenstein has been arrested
on "A charge oil being the murderer OF
Sarah Alexander. the young Jewess.
whose body WAS found in the field on
the outskirts OF Brooklyn tuesday AT
ternoon.
RAilaond Con ventiOn.
CHICAGO. Dec. 10.
The American Board of Transports.
ton and Commerce began its sessions
IN this city yesterday. After complet-
ing an organization, a number OF eiab.
crate and lengthy reports upon the i'm
portant problem of rail and wafer
transportation, aud the best means OF
systematizing and shaping them were
read and appropriately referred to the
committees.
The convention comprises delegates
from more than n half of the States
of the Union, and there are representa-
tives present from Canada.
Mr.. Harris, of Kentucky, presented
a string of resolutions recommending
the following measures: The com.
pletion or the improvement of the foul