Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-01-02

lsrsclAL DsrArcnss TO TIE GoLD uuL
DAILY Naval
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
How the Wicked and Careless Help
TO Make Items for the Newspa.
pers-l Startling Record.

How the Wicked and Careless Help
10 Make Items Tor the Newspa.
pers-A Startling Record.
STOCKTON, Cal. Dec. 30.-Lsst even
ing at 8 o'clock a boy named John Bark
horn. aged nineteen years. was shot and
instantly killed by George speckman, q
youth aged fourteen years. It appears
that the boys. with three others, were !
the vicinity OF the Female Asylum, and
had two shotguns in their possession.
They were passing the time away by
loading the guns with powder aud firing
at each other. They say that they were
..ashting duels." and that by the caro-.
lessness Of one Whiting the boy was
killed. Speckman handed one Of tho
guns to Whiting. who loaded both bar
rsls with shot and powder and discharged
n barrel Immediately. Returning the
Gun to Speckman, who was unaware Of
its being loaded. he put caps on the gun
aud pointing II at Barkhorn discharged
IL, the contents entering the right shout.
der, making a hole through the body.
Barkhorn died instantly. He was but
ten feet distant from Speckman at the
time Of the shooting. The Coroner took
charge Of the Remains and the slayer was
taken into custody by the officers.
NEW YoRK. Dec. 3l.-Tho Grand Jury
Of Brooklyn has indicted the commits
sioners Of the city works. John w. Fla
herty aud George G. Bennett. and two
subordinate officers for conspiring to
defraud the city out OF $4,000.
San FRAScIsco. Dec. 3l.-Three Chi
namen were burned lone fatality by the
explosion OF sulphur and phosphorus
in q match factory to-day.
William Bowman was brought here
last Saturday from Siskiyou county.
charged with counterfsiting. He says
the false coin was given him in payment
for prospecting work which he had done
for two men in the mountains. lie de-
clares that he did not know the money
was counterfeit. and does not know
where the W men are.
San BuESAyESruRA, Cal, Dec. IL
To-day Jesse. the principal witness Tor
the prosecution in the More murder
cases, voluntarily went before IL. g.
Carlton, Notary Public. and wore to an
affidavit. in his W handwriting. 10 the
effect that he does not know anything
aboutthe murder. but that his testimony
had been wrung from him by the detect.
ives threatening to hang him unless ho
told tho story they made mp for him.
RICHMOND, Quebec. Dec. 3l.-Atea
crossing on the ice between Richmond
and Melbourne broke through to-day.
and was carried under by the rapid cur
rent. The occupants, Messrs. Rowe
and Kemp. Of Kingsbury, and Mrs. Sad.
Ter. Of Melbourne. were drowned.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 3l.--Last
Saturday. at Sparta. two Mcpherson
brothers attacked Joe Dib;ell. son OF
Congressman Dibrell. when he killed
one instantly with . shotgun and dam
~gerously wounded the other.
La SALE. ILL.,, Dec. 3l.-Jas. Young.
aged fourteen. an employe ut the Union
coal shaft, fell this afternoon in some
unexplained manner from the second
level to the bottom Of the shaft, a dis.
lance Of 100 feet, and was instantly
killed.
NORWICH, Conn. Dec. 3l.-The Su.
perior Court opened this morning for
the trial OF Kate NJ. Cobb and Wesley
". Bishop. charged with the double
poisoning OF Bishops wife and Mrs.
Cobb's husband. Il was decided to try
the case Of Mrs. Cobb first. A jury was
impaneled. and taking evidence was
commenced.
NORWICH. Conn, Jan. 1.-The trial OF
Mrs. Kate Cobb for poisoning her hus-
band was resumed this morning. Pro-
lessor Charles A. Doremus IA placed
on the stand. His examination lasted
all day and Is not vet completed. He
testified that in all he had examined 10
or 20 pounds Of Cobb's body. In IL no
hae found enough white arsenic 10 indi.
cate that q quantity had been given SUI
iicient TO cause death.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Dec. a.
The exciting murder trial OF William
Chase, for the murder Of Frank Good.
hue. December IL, resulted in n verdict
against the prisoner. and the sentence
was imprisonment for life. Chase mar.
rowly escaped lynching lately.
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Jan. IAN az
plosion OF three boilers occurred this
afternoon at the Long distillery Of HUI
mann K Fairbank. The engine-housc
was demolished and William Day lcol.
ored fireman) and Frank Hughes, a boy
fourteen years old. were instantly killed.
Damage, about ; 5000. The three boil.
ers were torn to fragments. A piece OF
one Of them was thrown across the Wa
bash river. Canse OF explosion un.
known.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-The sudden thnw
has caused numerous floods In England
aud Scotland. At Nottingham the Hood
was the greatest for fourteen years. The
country around Darlington and WeIam
Is flooded for miles. Much damage Is
reported at Berwick and Aberdeen.
NEw YoRK. Jan. IA Herald Rich
mond (va.) special says: A strange
story comes from Raleigh tonight TO the
effect that Mr.. O'Brien. brother OF the
Bonanza O'Brien OF California. vas
visited there by q lawyer from New
York two weeks ago. The lawyer re-
NAMED one day and then left for New
York. O'Brisn. Who 10 understood TO
be in the last stages OF consumption.
was advised to settle his affairs. On
the 18th two women came TO Raleigh,
remained = week, and, 1t is said. filled
O'Brien with stimulants, and under i'm
mense pressure left at once, their bag.
gage being labeled for Washington. II
is thought by o'Brien's physician that
he was premaiurely carried of. and the
opinion prevails that while drugged he
was compelled to sign documents per-
verting the will OF his brother. who has
been dead some time. The parties have
not been heard from. and O'Brien Is
believed to DO dead by this time.
DunuQuE. Iowa. Jan. l.-Early this
morning the Touring mill at Rockdale.
near this city. was burned TO the ground.
probably from an explosion Of gas in
the patent flour apparatus. Loss, $685.
900; insurance. $4,000.
C~HARLEsroS, s, c., Jan. 1.-At ,
o'clock this morning the large cotton.
press warehouse OF the Union Cotton.