Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-03-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

Baxter Liquor law and passed the L'cen'' Ia"
in its stead.
TIE iourneymcn painters in New fork
.truck against an increase in the hours Oh ID
bor from eight to ten hours daily; pay rom
s. to 50 50.
tn, Local Option repeal bill, with license
law attached, after being amended by inc Con
ference Committee, passed both Houses OF Inc
Pennsylvania Legislature
Al THOMAS, a Chicago merchant, who was
Locally short on wheat, and heavy loser at
tempted suicide on Tuesday, by shootlng hi'h-
Golf in the abdomen. 1t is thought he cannot
recover.
GovpRxoR BooTH's maiden speech IN the
Senate is highly complimented by the CORES
nondents who think he will be the most pop
nlar orator in that body, and the successor oil
Matt Carpenter in capturing the galleries
IT Is stated BY the friends of ex Senator
Chandler that he had been rendered anu
would probably accept the mission to Russia
George Baker, recently appointed, is, 1t is
said about to decline.
THE Germans Of New York held a large
meeting Thursday evening, at Cooper lhsti-
tute. TO protest against the proposal IN the
Board of Education to expunge instruction IN
the German language from the public schools
PETITIONS of women have been presented
to the Governor, some praying for paroon
of Jesse Pomeroy the Boston boy-murderer,
and others for his execution, as measure OF
safety to society
THE full vote in New Hampshire for Che
ney is 1925; for Roberts, 80, 1853; for White
754. The Democrats elect their Congressman
In the First and Second Districts, and the Re-
pubicans their Congressman in the Third
SENATORS Sargent and Jones called on the
Commissioner of the General Land Office, and
made a strong protest against Sutro's applica-
ton to have his tunnel royalty clause inserted
in patents for all mines in districts near the
Comstock lode
THE Senate has postponed further consider
alton OF Pinchback's case till the second Mon
day in December. The vote stood-ayes 80;
noes 80. Jones and Sargent voting in favor
of postponement, with the Republicans, and
Booth against it, with the Democrats.
THE twenty mile walking match, between
Dan OIeary of Chicago, and Wilson R.
Reid, New York, for $1,000, was won by
OLeary in three hours, twenty -four minutes,
fifteen seconds; Reid left the track exhausted
on the sixteenth mile.
THE President has nominated ex-Congress-
man Lowe, of Kansas, as Chief Justice OF
Utah, vice Mexican. Parker, of Missouri,
whose name was first proposed, has been nom-
mated United States District Judge for West
ern Arkansas.
The Chicago Tribune says Eph. Witcher and
Charley Collins who arrived there few days
ago to organize company for the Black Hills
left unexpectedly on Monday evening, after
having secured IS each from between 500 and
600 persons eager to 60 to the new FL Dorado
THE attendance and enthusiasm at the re
vival meetings of Moody and sankey, in Lon
don, continues. On Wednesday night thou
sands of persons were turned away from the
doors. The newspaper and other criticisms o
the missionaries are generally hostile.
THE bill introduced in the New York Legis
lature allowing wives to testify against thei
husbands, has been defeated by the adoption
of the adverse report of the Judiciary Com
mittee. The bill is supposed to have been in
tended to allow Mrs. Tilton to testify in tn
Beecher case
The question of arranging for the remoya
OF the Indians in the Black Hills was discusse
IN the Cabinet, but no action was agreed upor
other than that until the Indians agree to di.
pose OF their lands to the Government the
must be protected from invasion, and order
to that effect have been forwarded to Gener,
Sherman.
A DISPATCH from Corinth, Mississippi, date
the 18th, says A severe rain and hail stor
passed over this section last night. The tow
Of Rienzi was nearly destroyed. Four person
were killed ard several dangerously and mar
slightly wounded. The waters are fast sui
siding.
In a st. Louis court on Monday, while co
ored boy named Woodson was being tried 70
killing boy named Boatwright with a bricl
brother Of Boatwright approached Woodso
and saying: You killed my brother; l vii
Kill you" drove butcher knife to the hilt il
Woodson's abdomen, inflicting frightfu
wound. Boatwright was arrested.
THERE is abundant testimony that the sui
fering in Nebraska by grasshoppers has bee
greatly exaggerated and the appeals for re
lief In large measure are impositions. Tn
Omaha Herald and other journals have ex
posed the movement, repeatedly showing tha
public charity was simply enriching many
whose crops were abundant.
1T is the determination of the Government
70 secure 10 the Sioux Indians all their treaty
rights with reference to the Black Hill coun-
Try; therefore all persons will be prohibited
from going there, and all now there will be
required to remove until the Indian title be
extlnguished, which the Government will en-.
aeavor 10 secure at the earliest practicable
moment
lNthe Senate on Monday, Ingalls, introduced
resolution requesting the President to trans.
NIT to the Senate, if not incompatible with the
puolic interest, any information he is in DOS.
session OF with regard to the promised emf.
grafton to the Black Hills country, whether
such emigration was with the consent of the
INDIANS, and what measures will be taken with
reference to the same. Agreed to.
MILE LEON JoUvAINE, the female snug.
gier, who was sentenced to two months i'm. |
prisonment and fined $4,000 for smuggling,
was discharged on Monday her term of i'm. |
prisonment having expired. The Marshal de.