Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-29
PACIFIC A ST.
CALIFORNIA.
sREcIAL 20 THE EUREKA DAILY SENTINEL.
ARRIVAL or THE STEAMER COtIMA.
THE STEAMER GEoRGIA's PAsSEN-
GERS
The California Rife Association.
AtfemDfeI SuiciIe OF ITr. McCarfhY.
The California Rife Association.
Attempted suiciIe or DR.. Mccarthy
SAN Francisco. October 2s..


San Francisco, October 49,,
The barkentine Casharine. which ar
rived last night from Port Gamble, re-
ports that on October goth, W. f. Irving,
the first officer, was lost overheard and
drowned.
The Colima, which arrived yesterday
from Panama, brought the passengers Of
the steamer Georgia, which were wrecked
near Punta Arenas. Costa Rica. They re-
port that the officers of the ship failed to
exercise a proper com mand over the crew,
and that the latt r. after a landing was
effected. returned to the steamer and got
into the spirit-room. and had q drunken
orgie, during which they helped them
selves tnthe baggage and other property Of
the passengers, and acted like a crew of
pirates.
At the fall meeting of the California
Rifle Association, yesterday, the weather
was favorable and the shooting good. The
military short range was won by Lieut..
F. Robertson, making a score OF 81 out OF
a possible So. The Kellogg challenge cup
was won by e. N. Shook. making a score
of "a out of 25. The military mid-range
match was won by Sergeant Warren-score
"a ont of 35. The match for the PacJfc
Life challenge cup was partly shot for, and
will be completed to-day.
Shortly before IL o'clock, last night. an
officer found a man lying at the corner Of
Union and Powell streets, bleeding pro-
fusely from o knife wound in his left side.
The man was taken to the City Receiving
Hospital for treatment, where it was found
that his name was Rice, a boot-black en-
ployed in the stand on Kearney street, near
Clay. The wound is probably fatal; no
clue to the assassin.
The case of j. G Duncan, Of tho defunct
Pioneer Bank, was called in the Municipal
Criminal Court this morning, but after
some discussion it went over for the term.
on the ground that Eugene Casserly, an
important witnpss, is absent, attending the
Constitutional Convention.
About noon, to-day. Stewart NJ. Taylor,
County Recorder, assaulted Supervisor
Danforth near the entrance Of the room Of
the Board Of Supervisors. striking him in
the face with his fist. Danforth returned
the blow, but just as hostilities were we'll
under way. the Sergeant-at-Arms and
Others interfered and stopped the fight.
No arrests. The canse Of the trouble was
from remarks made by Danforth in the
Board regarding Taylor.
DR.. Mccarthy, having an Office at 81 and
SO Third street, attempted to commit sui
eide last night by taking morphine and
shooting himself three times in the head.
Infemperance was the cause. The neigh
bors frustrated his design. His recovery
is probable.
Those officers Of the wrecked steamer
Georgia who arrived here yesterday on the
Colima. deny the statements Of the passen-
gers concerning the III conduct of the crew
and want OF control over them by the Of
ficers.
Thu depositors Of the French Bank as
sembied at Platt's Hall this afternoon to
act Upon the resignation of the old Board
OF Trustees and elect a new BOARD. Judge
Stanley addressed the meeting. assuring
those present that the acceptance OF the
designations would not relieve the old Di-
rectors from their obligations to the
bank. The resignati) ms were then ac-
cepted. and the polls opened for the
election IT a new board. Only one ticket
was in the field. which was comprised OF
the following names: Gustave Touchard,
Alexander WE'LL. Paul Rouset. Theodore
Leroy, Henry Casanova. Francis Perrin,
Emile Grissar, Norbert Lundry. and
james Godchaux. The meeting was quiet
and orderly.
About noon to-day an unknown man
went in swimming at the bath-house on
North Beach. Soon after entering the
water he was found floating face downward
and dead.
John Norton, an Irish laborer employed
in grading in the Market street cut was
caved or and killed this afternoon. A
huge boulder, weighing several tons. fell
and crushed him.