Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-16
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scores of gold seekers daily.
Mob Demonstration.
CLEVELAND, Feb. II.
Adm, the triple murderer, whose
trial VAS to have commenced this
morning, but was postponed II week
on account of a technical error in the
venlre, WAS with difficulty transferred
from the Jail to the court hous, and
back, on cou of the crowd who fol-
lowed. Expressions of lynching him
were INDUCED in, but he was safely
locked up.
Court Decision.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA.
In an Adams Express suit to day,
United States Circuit Judge Wallace
ruled that express comDanvs' receipts
and printed conditions constitute bind
ing contracts, and that where a shipper
fails to state the value Of his package,
he can only 10Y the fit dollar limit
of liability stated il the receipt.
Not Insane Now.
BRIGHTON, y. j., Feb. II.
Chas. r. Loudls, recently acquitted
on the ground OF insanity, of the muir
der of Carruth, the Vineland e iitOr,
has been pronounced zane by Judge
Read after the examination of Wit
ness, and discharged from arrest.
Prairie Fires.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS. Feb. IA.
re tructive prairie fires have done an
unusual amount Of damage in various
parts of the State within the past few
days. In one instance west of here a
mother and child persisted in the
flames.
Death on distinguished Person.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
T. j. ID. Fuller died yesterday in
Virginia He was four times elected to
Congress, and in 1857 was appointed
Second Auditor of the Treasury by
President Buchanan.
An Escaped Prisoners story,
New York, Feb. Is.
Frederick A. Dockray, whose case
was the cause of Minister Cushing's
demand on Spain for The former gen.
~ileinan,s release, and the observance of
the treaty of 1874 and 1873, tells the
following story OF his escape. He says
on Nov. 10, he was informed that
the Spanish authorities had reinanded
him 10 the old prison in the convent;
reporting to local officials he was old
lIidI lutl udtt IO inlOt tiihtlOi VII ms
subject. Freed from his parole, and
not yet imprisoned, he thought now or
never WIS his opportunity TO escape,
and by the next morning he was on
| board an American brig lying i'll the
harbor. That night he was carried to
a French steamer bound for Marseilles,
but WAS informed that no passengers
would be taken. The following eve
ming WAS dark and rainy, and be tried
to board a British m While
! rowing toward her. an open boat shot
| close tn him, and some ma said ''that
must be the American who escaped"
| The next night he got on board the
British steamer, but on arriving at
| Denia, fifty miles south of Valencia,
the captain becoming alarmed, insisted
on landing him. The captain of a
f.Iucc, came on board, and persuaded
by ten dollars and a hottie Of brandy,
COZ 8 ,nted to take Dockray on board
the folucra, which sailed Tor Gibraltar
and @ antered a severe gale which
blew for eight days. Blown over to
| Il 9 African coast. the feluc,a put in
Mt ranglers in sight of Galley's Centa.
the nearest approach he was destined
to make to his prison house. Thence
he went to Gibraltar, where he put him
self under the protection of the British
flag. From Gibraltar he went TO Lon
don; thence to this city.
military Gathering.
CHICAGO, Feb. Is.
A Times Washington special says
that General Ord was b>fore the
| Military Committee in regard to th9
transfer of Indian affairs to the Wa
Department and was inclined 10 think
the prospect was not advisable Gen.
eral Sheridan is going before the COM
mittee to-day, having been requested to
come to Washington and have a
ell Of war with the Colonels and Gen
erals of the Military Committee.
Sherman and Hancock are also coming
and quite a reunion will be held in
the city.
The Constitutional Amendments.
DENVER, COL, Feb. Is.
The Constitutional Convention, after
two days of earnest discussion. adopt
ed tn . chapter on elective franchise,
which requires, first, the State Legis-
lature to provide by enactment for h
submission of the women suffrage
question to a vote Of the people. This
i regarded as favorable by the advo-
Gates of the measure, who claim a pow
erful constituency in Colorado, whilst
the ex experiment. in Wyoming, in the
north, has justified the privilege. In
Kansas women suffrage exists as 10 all
school offices.