Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-06-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

THE Secretary of the Treasury has decided
D that imported sheep skins, dressed with the
: wool on, must pay 25 per cent ad valorem.
GOVERNOR JACOBS Of West Virginia has
issued a proclamation declaring the seat Of
Government of the State removed from
Charlcstown TO Wheeling.
GENERAL CIssEY, French Minister of War;
asks for credit of 81 100000 francs to con-
tinue work on the Notifications of his country
and for the supply of war material.
A BATTLE between Carlists and Govern
ment troops is reported at Alsosa, wherein
the Carlsts lost 20 killed and 200 wounded.
General Dorregary is reported wounded.
THE Grand Jury of the United States Cir
cult Court in New York has presented eigh-
teen indictments against Charles L. Lawrence,
former Secretary of the Americas Club, charg
ing him with smuggling.
VrscoMPTE DE MAux, the French Minister
of Agriculture, has asked for a credit of 600-
900 francs to defray the expenses of the French
Commission to the American Centennial at
Philadelphia.
THE revival meetings of Messrs. Moody and
Sankey in London continue to attract thou
sands of persons and great numbers are con-
verted The movement is regarded as most
remarkable.
A BERLIN dispatch says: Judicial nvesti-
CATION shows that the offer of Messenger to
assassinate Bismarck was merely part of an
attempt to extort money, and that the man
had no accomplices.
THE labor strike in Wales has been settled,
the miners agreeing to accept reduction in
their wages of 1213 cents, and the masters
agreeing to adjust all future alteration of
wages by arbitration.
ABRAHAM JACKSON, the lawyer, charged
with forgery and defalcation to the extent of
$4,000, arrived at Boston in charge of de-
tective. He denies his guilt. He was held to
bail in the sum. of $4,000
THE Darien Surveying party has returned
to Washington. The early estimate of $4,000
900 for the work is not sufficient The Napipi-
Atrato route is the shortest, but will require
five miles and half of tunneling.
The Sioux Indians called again at the Int
rior Department on Friday, and related their
grievances in regard to rations and blankets.
Commissioner Smith informed them that in
future they would have better ratons and
blankets, and they withdrew
THE Masonic Hall, post office, printing Of
fee, wagon shop, two dwellings, two banks
and ten stores, comprising the entire bust
ness part of Great Bend, Pa, were destroyed
by fire on Friday night. Loss 100000; nsur-
ance, 100000
A DISPATCH from London says: "Paul Boy
ton, who started to cross the Channel from
Guernsey, France, to Dover, in a lfe-saving
suit landed between Dover and South Fore
land on Saturday morning, having been in the
water continuously for 90 hours and 40 min
utes."
THE Sioux Indians have been counseling
among themselves, trying to decide upon q
plan for dividing their reservation so as to let
the Government have the Black Hills, with the
right of way through their lands, and reserve
a good piece for themselves. They are still
determined not to go to Indian Territory.
LATEST advces from Holyoke, Massachu-
sets, say the number known to be dead, from
the church disaster, is II; fatally burned, 22
otherwise burned and wounded, q. Of the
II dead, So are females and 16 males. Louis
Des Jerdin, "a years of age, whose wife and
daughter were both burned to death, became
insane from grief
AN attempt was made to rob the National
Mohair Bank at Great Darlington, Mass. Sew
eral masked burglars entered the house of
T. n. Delano, cashier, and having gagged and
landcuffed him, compelled him to go with
hem to the bank, where they tried to get him
o open the vault. Being unsuccessful, they
ook revenge by robbing Delano's house of all
is valua bles, and then decamped.
A DISPATCH from Sioux City, Iowa, says
hat on Friday last some soldiers under Cap |
ain Walker, entered camp at Gordon City, |
Nebraska, burned fourteen wagons, laden with |
supplies and arms, and destroyed everything |
company, except some baggage, which they
oaded into six remaining wagons, and started
or Fort Randall, making the men 90 on foot
The most destructive fire that ever occurred
n Springfield, Mass, broke out at half-past
wo Sunday afternoon, destroying nearly 40
buildings, including lumber and business
blocks, and causing a loss of a quarter of
nil lion of dollars. A high wind prevailed all
hn off 90 ~
business part of the city was seriously threat
med, but the Fire Department, with assistance
rom Chcopee, Holyoke, Westfeld, and Hart
ord, succeeded in getting the fire under con-
rol.
DR.. LINDERMAN, Director of MINIS, expects
o be able by the ffteenthof July to refine and
part all the bullion produced in the country,
instead of having half at least sent
abroad for that purpose, as has been neces-
'ary heretofore on account of insufficient re-
lining capacities in the United States The
new refinery at San Francisco, it is thought,
VIII be ready by that time The refining ca
pacity of the United States Assay Office in
New York will be trebled, and that of the
Mint greatly enlarged
GENERAL FORREST in note to the Com
nittee in charge of the ceremonies at the Ma
onal Cemetery, Memphis, in accepting an
invitation to participate, says: II appreciate
md am in full sympathy with the spirit of
friendship and reconciliation prompting the
interchange of many courtesies among those
VINO, with equal courage, met as foeman so
often on the field of battle, and trust that the
Tune Is not far distant when the soldiers Of