Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-07-14
PACIFIC COAST DISPATCHES.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
WOrkinEmens' COuventfOn-DcfeRf
of Water Schemes-FRilure Of q
PrOminen Merchant.

SAN FRANCISCO, July ID.
The Workingmen's Convention met.
last night and made a permanent or
g%aniza;ion. A platform was reported
by the committee but was voted down.
Adjourned until Wednesday evening.
The Board of Supervisors voted
down four propositions looking re-
spectively to the purchase of Clear
Lake, Blue Lakes, Lake MERGED, and
Pescadero Creek water privileges.
The failure OF Abram Black, a prom
inent Battery-street merchant, is an
nounced. Liabilities, 500. non. The
failure does not affect the Odd Fellows
Bank, of which he Is president. 1t is
hoped he may he able to arrange with
his creditors To continue business.
A Fire i'm Georgetown.
GEORGETOWN, CAL, July IL.
A fire occurred this morning, de-
stroying the entire portion of China
town. The vigorous efforts nf the citi-
zens saved the Town. No lives lost.
The Mountain Meadows Massacre.
BEAVER, Utah, July ID.
The trial of John ID. Lee, for con.
nection with the Mountain Meadows
massacre OF 1857, in Southern Utah,
at which time l40 emigrants, men,
women and children, were murdered.
will probably come up on the 10th. A
great many witnesses are in town,
twenty of whom addressed a commun-
ication to Marshal Maxwell asking for
means of subsistence, and that after
an examination in Chambers they
,x.;,tk nf,r hnnan VIn tlSxynrQ6 that
mileage and fees were all he could pay,
and that the District Attorney would
take his own course in taking the tes-
timony.
Fatal Accident.
MODESTO, CAL, July l3.
A threshing machine engine, owned
by Mr.. Huusacker, exploded Today
near Atlanta, on the Stanislaus river,
killing three men and wounding six.
One or the the killed is n son OF the
Rev. Mr.. Cookson, Of this place.
Colonel Steinberger's New Covers.
ment.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.
The Bulletin this evening publishes
a letter from the Navigator Islands.
Col. Steinberger, who went there AZ
United States Commissioner, vas
warmly received by the natives. The
Colonel framed u constitution tor the
Islands, making the Government an
elective monarchy, the King to serve
four years, to be chosen alternately
from the two royal families, who have
previously been rulers OF the Islands.
Steinberger was elected Prime Minis
ter for life.
The silver Age Murderer Confessca
Bullion Shipment-A Prosper.
Ous OutlOOk -SnsOiderinx Fires.
AUSTIN, New, July ID.
Badaracca, the Silver Age murderer
who so persistently asserted his limo
cence at the recent examination, and
whose trial was post pcned until the
October term, yesterday signified his
wish to be taken e tho Courtroom,
and there confessed his guilt. Al
though this event creates considerable
establishment, it is regarded as the
most satisfactory manner in which III
otherwise inevitable lengthy and ex-
pensive trial could be shortened and
the DULY way in which legal proof o.
the mans guilt coald be Obtained.
The Manhattan Silver Mining Com.
pany shipped by Wells, Fargo & to
to-day bullion valued at So. 4s9 IS,
making total shipments for July &C
count, S53,s26 50.
The city is crow ded with strangers
and there are probably more men EN-
ployed here now than at any time
: since the first excitement. There are