Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-08-11
EASTERN DISPATC HE'S.
BY Overland Telegraph.
ESPECIAL TO THE DAILY SENTINEL
A Gentleman and Young Lady
Drowned.

A Gentleman and Young Lady
Drowned.
NIAGARA, Aug. 9.
To day six citizens visited the cave
of winds without guides, as they had
frequently done before. After passing
through the cave, two OF the party,
Mr.. Elhebert Parsons, aged 20 years,
and Miss Lottie c. Philipott, aged Is
years, descended to an eddy, which is
never visited by the guides. The lady
lost her foothold and was caught by
the gentleman, but the current carried
both into the river below, where they
were drowned.
A Failure.
NEW YORK, Aug. Q.
Albert l.. Dodge, wine and cigar
merchant, and successor to Chamber
lain Il Dodge, has made an assignment
for the benefit of his creditors without
preference. His liabilities are $40, 900
and assets $4,000.
District Of Columbia Bonds-Memo-
rial Meeting,
WASHINGTON, Aug. q.
The State Superintendent of Banking
has forbidden the Savings Bank from
investing in the 3-65 per cen bonds of
the District of Columbia, as they are
held to be neither State nor United
States obligations.
The Liberal Club will have a Hans
Christian Anderson memorial meeting
ON Friday evening next.
Rolling Mills Destroyed.
PIrTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 9.
A fire about 7 o'clock this evening
in the Phoenix Rolling Works, of Jas.
Is. Young Il Co., at the foot OF Forty
second street, totally destroyed the
building aud a large stock OF patterns.
There was considerable damage done
to machinery. Loss, $3.50, 900; insured
for go, 900 in foreign companies.
Probable Murder.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10.
The lifeless body of Catherine Max
we'll, aged 30 years, was found yester.
day on tho floor of her apartment in
a tenement house, No. 209 Nevins
street, Brooklyn, where she lived with
her husband, JAS. b. Maxwell, aged 81
years, and two children, aged Z years
and Fl months respectively. Her eyes
were b~lackened, face bruised and swol-
len, and n of her arms, which was
severely bruised, WAS bandaged. The
husband has been arrested, but denies
| that he murdered his wife.
Termer.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10.
A special from Washington says the
Attorney General has discovered gross
frauds, perpetrated by the Federal off,
Gals Of Colorado Territory. The Unit
ed States District Judge for that Terri
tory and ex-Marshal Shaffenberg seem
to have been systematically robbing
the Government for years. They made
up bogus cost bill tor mileage and the
board OF prisoners, which only re-
quired the approval of the Judge.
Shaffenberg is said to have realized
about $4,000 from these populations,
and from a bartender he has advanced
to a leading position among the most
opulent Of the citizens OF Denver City.
A warrant has been issued for his ar
rest.
The Overflow fm Tennessee.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 10.
The AUalDnche this morning has a
lengthy review Of the situation along
the river in Memphis district, sum-
ming up the amount of cotton already
in the water at two thousand acres.
While the writer regards the situation
as more hopeful than a few days since,
he urges constant and ~.sleepless vigil
ance on the part of those whose lands
are threatened. He says the danger to
the five plantations in Walnut Bend,
sixty miles below here, is from back
water in the st. Francis, which last
week extended up to Wilkssbu re-, .
distance OF eighty miles.