Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-04
EASTERN DISPATC HE'S.
8y Overland Telegraph.
ESPECIAL TO THE DAILY SENTINEL.
Fatal ARRAY i'm Kansas.

On Monday evening at Appleton,
a small town twelve miles from this
city, during An alteration in a black
smith shop, between TWO brothers
named Samuel and Fayette Harry and
a desperate named Davis, Davis
drew a revolver on Samuel Harry,
threatening to shoot him, when Fay
etc, going ~stealthily behind Davis,
seized a hammer and struck him a
blow OH the head, killing him instant
ly. Davis fell with his head i'll the
forge and his face was burned to "A
crisp. While in this posi-. ion Harry
again struck him several times with
the hammer, mangling his head ter
ribiy. Just as Harry struck Davis the
first time the Latter fired at Samuel,
the ball taking effect in his right arm
and passing entirely through.
Confession and Death of u NOtes
RObber.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 3.
j. S. Fermer, the Quincy Bank rob-
Der, died on Tuesday night OF con
sumption. He maintained the truth
of his story and gave the names of his
a~ccoInplices, Hilsey, "a thief, OF SYRIA
cuse, New York, English Tom. \ cock
new DuTGIdIt anu a. Illdiy III VII
known, at present in the st. Louis hos.
pital, with 4 bullet wound IN his thigh.
He tried t o tell of "A diamond robbery
in st. Joseph, Missouri. in March, 1879,
but died before the particulars were
given. He said 100000 worth of dia-
mond and jewelry were buried on the
vile, Missouri. An effort viii he made
to ferret out the matter.
stage Lime to the Black Hills.
YORKTOWN, Dakota, Feb. 2.
John B. Dillon, of Standing Rock,
Dakota, has entered into a contract to
establish a stage line FROM Fort Pierce
To Custer City and Hills City, III the
vicinity Of the Black Hills mines.
Accident Om the Northwestern
RailrOad.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2.
Early this morning All accident oc-
Cured on the Northw e,tern Railroad
between I%sphaning and Negaumee, on
the northern peninsula OF Michigan, by
which Reynolds, a trackmaSter, was
crushed to death beneath the safe in the
LAY car. The conductor, brakeman
and clerk were slightly bruised. The
accident was occasioned by the I'M
coupling of the pay car, which was
thrown into a ravine.
shipping Herring TO sweden.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.
Something heretofore unheard OF is
the shipment of herring to Sweden, yet
a leading shipping firm OF this city,
which sent a vessel Ia Gloucester,
N4-... i,a ,nlaf.l IN .l,n RIO
for eight hundred and eighty eight bar
rels OF herring for Goitenbury, Sweden,
the vessel being the Swedish schooner
Eskimo. The rate of freight paid was
three shillings, sterling, per barrel.
Attempted Robbery Of n Bank.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 2.
A special received from Weston,
Platte county. Missouri, says that a
gang Of men made Al effort to rob the
bank of Bailey 60, at that place Sun
day night, but failed.
p . Railroad Accident.
MiDDLErowN, Feb. 3.
While clearing the snow from the
Midland Railroad yesterday, the pillow
left the track and crashing into the
bridge over the Willmsnac River,
smashed it down, and the bridge,
pillow aud engine tuinbled into the
river, with nine men on the pillow and
cab. Those on the plow We're all more
or less bruised and cut; while those in
the cab, in addition to other wounds,
were severely scalded. II or W ia
tally. The mail and passenger train
WAS tagged by a man who extricated
himself from the debris, in time to pre-,
vent it from plunging into the wreck.
w. W. Murphy on Consular Matters.
CHICAGO. Feb. 3.
A Tribune Washington special says
the House Committee on Expenditures
of the State Department has examined
w. w. Murphy, of New York, who,
for eight years previous to 1869, was
United States Consulate at Frankfort
on-the. Main, and was at that time re-
moved to make place for the brother
in-law Of Gen. Butler. He did not
complain, as he expected at some time
or another to be the victim OF a sys-
tenn under which political appoint
ments are made. He said the salary
which he received was he thought an
pie, but his successor, besides this, WAS
allowed a clerk ut 81 900 per year, and
.-.-o.ol - avnauA houidAc this for