Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-11-04
PACIFIC COAST.
SAN FRANCISCO.
-Four Suicides at the Bay.
TWO CHARGES AGAINST PIN.
NEY DISMISSED.
A Big Wood-Pile Destroyed BY Fire
Near Carson.
OTHER COAST ITEMS or INTEREST.
OTHER COAST ITEMS OF INTEREST.

SAN FRAScIsCo, Nov. 2.
G. f. Brooks, alleged To be treasurer
OF the pool recently made in Ex-
chequer, WAS arrested to day ut san
Rafael, brought to this city aud locked
up to take his chances with the psrties
Previously arrested for the mmnipula-
ton ~ that affair. John Leighton,
oiie OF the previously arrested parties
TO the fraud. WAS to day hold in
tail in the sum of $14 .0O0 In the civil
suit brought against him in the Nine
tsenth District Court.
Thomas Cook, from Sherman
Island, Sacramento county, shot him
sell in the stomach this evening, al the
corner OF Market street and Van Ness
avenue. The wound IL fatal. He was
a deposition tn the ri $500 in
the defunct Pioneer savings bank. aud
the loss of his funds so preyed upon
his mind that he resorted tai suicide.
A man known as Thomas Price. a
waiter Ia a restaurant, jumped over
hoard from the Oakland ferry boat
FL Captain this evening and WAS
drowned. His real name il John Bur
leigh. and he il said to be highly con
nected in England.
Rain ceased early this evening, and
II 10 now clear with northeast wind.
Later.
SAN Francisco. Nov. g..
In the Municipal Court to day two
charges OF forgery OF naval certificates
against g. NJ. Piupey were dismissed
on motion of Assistant District AItor
my Darwin, who stated that thee Wal
no proof that Spalding's signature was
forged, but that on the contrary it was
put there by direction.
The Republican Stale Central Com
mittee met IN day and appointed
Chairman A. G.. Abel and Secretary
NJ. ID. Boruck u committee to drafl
resolutions expressing the sense o.
the Stale COMMITTEE regarding the
death Of Senator Morton, = copy to bs
forwarded to the family Ut deceased.
Mrs. Annie Susanna Pope. wife Of
Cord Pope, who died yesterday in The
City Prison Hospital, committed sui.
cide last night In her room. ~ the cor.
ner Of Francisco and Fillmore streets
by taking strychnine. A neighboI
says deceased told her last evening
that she Was going to jon her hus.
band, and there Is NJ doubt She then
mediuated suicide. She was . German,
forty years OF age, and leaves three
children.
Patterson Crozisr, about so years Of
age and . plasierer by trade. was
found dead in his bod this morning
with the iugulzr vein cut. BY his aide
lay an open razor covered with blood,
The surrounding circumstances leave
no doubt that he committed suicide
The cause for the deed has not beer
discovered.
The six Chinese companies have ad'
dressed . communication to Mayor
Bryant, reciting threats which have
been made against the persons and
property OF their countrymen by the
Kesrney boys and their crowd. anc
asking that the authorities afford them
the protection To which they are en-
titled. There II also an intimatior
that an attack upon the Chinese quar-
ter will ind the occupants armed and
ready for reststapce.
A FIRE in tho wood pile Of tho Vir
GINA aud Truckse railroad, near Car
son. last night. destroyed about Is. OK
cords of wood. Loss, so 1000. Insured
for about two-thirds of It's value. In
cendiary.
The first complete sewing machin'
was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., II
1876.