Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-21
The Speaker Rises to Explain.
4 PROMPT CONTRADICTION.
CHARGES AGAINST OUR MIN
ISTER TO CHINA.

WASHINGTON, April ~.
When the House met last evening to
consider the District business, the
Speaker called Vance TO the chair.
The Speaker then said: II rise, for the
first time in life, | think, in this House,
to a personal explanation. l find in
the Star, this evening, a statement that
/ have verbally requested Mr.. clover,
Chairman Of the Committee on tx
penditures in the Treasury Depart
ment. to investigate the office OF Ser
geant-of Arms Of this House. There is
not u syllable of truth in the state
meat, nor a CLEAN OF warrant for 1t.
First, l know nothing whatever OF the
action OF the Sergeant alarms, in the
discharge of his duties, that needs
investigation. Secondly, l have never
bad any conference whatever with Mr..
Glover on the subject, nor have I, di.
rectly or indirectly, had any commu
nicatiOn VIII him. l think it Is due
the Sergeant at Arms to state this. II
I myself were the only one involved,
/ never would have noticed it, but as
the nj statement reflects, perhaps. on the
honesty, fidelity and honor of another.
I at once and promptly give this con-
tradictiOn."
0s II0v WcitSs ihto SOuSul NS0uOIhd
at shanghai. was to-day further exam
ined by the House Committee on Elk.
penditures in the State Department.
with reference TO charges against 9. F.
Seward, Minister to China. Wells
showed that illegal fees were charged
to the Government, and illegal fees
were exacted from prisoners. In one
EN- bezzlement case of $500 the fees
amounted TO $1,000.
Kills His wife u Cuts His Own
Threat,
TROY, O., April 20.
Leonard Stroud, q farmer. aged IS
years, fatally stabbed his wife on Thurs.
day last, and then cut his own throat.
dying in a few moments. Mrs. Stroud
died at noon yesterday. The trouble
was caused by Q dispute about prop
erty.
The Horrible Tragedy 1T Troy.
Ohio.
CHICAGO, April 20.
A Tribune Cleveland special SAYS:
The tragedy at Troy, Ohio, was the
most horrible which ever occurred in
that locality. Stroud had left his wife
because they disagreed about the chill
drsn, but coming back to the house,
demanded something to eat, and when
his wife brought it, he plunged a
butcher.knife into her abdomen twice,
turning it around ia the wound, max
ing a cash over five inches loug. She
broke loose and al screaming mur
der, until she fell with her bowels pro-
truding. Stroud then deliberately cut
his throat and windpipe, severing the
jugular vein. The e~xciteinant was in
tense, and only Stroud's impending
death prevented his being lynched by
the Infatuated noighbors. He died in
terrible agony.
Bishop Clarkson's OpiniOn Of Blsh.
OPP McCrosky.
OMAHA, April 20.
Bishop Clarkson, of the Episcopal
Diocese of Nebraska, in an interv view
concerning the charges of adultery
made against Bishop McCrosky, OF
Michigan, says the affair is sad and
deplorable, but that the evidence so
far adduced does not convince him OF
Bishop McCrosky's guilt. He says
that Bishop McCrosky has been esti-
mated too highly by the press, as he
was never considered as a profound
thinker, scholar, or theologian, a.
Bishop Coke OF Huntington, but he
was most estimated tor his geniality
aud warm heartedness. Bishop Clark
son admits that he has heard, recently
slight intimalious of the trouble. II
Bishop McCrosky is guilty, nothing
can save him from the verdict to that
effect upon trial by the House of Bish
ops in June, where there will be no
covering up of anything. The whole
matter, he SAYS, seems to be incomprs
hensibie, that such men, at the aye OF
"a years, should be accused of such
things.
Death of Colwnel Kleeman.
LARAMIE CITY, April 20.
Colonel Rad Kieeman, formerly OF
Chicago. and engaged here in com
pany with some Cincinnati men In
opening and operating the Sunrise
mine, was instantly killed last even.
ing by falling down the shaft of the
mine. He was being drawn up from
the shaft, and when near the top was
seized with vertigo, and crying oul
that he was falling, he slid out of the
bucket and fell to the bottom, a dis.
lance OF l40 feet. The body was
brought here this morning.
Jealousy Cause OF rwO Deaths.
NEW YORK, April 20.
Henry NJ. Waters. 80 Stanton street
cut wife's his throat from ear to cal
with a razor last evening, and then
severed his own windpipe. Both will
die; cause. jealousy.
PARsoN K extended tho box tc
Bill. and he slowly shook his head