The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-07-19
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cisco tonight for Glenn and against
Perkins. 1t is also said that he will
stump the State on that lay.
In London military circles the Zulu
war is considered over.
The Secretary of War, upon recon-
mendation. of General Schofield, COM
handing at West Point, has dismissed
six cadets for " hazing."
Governor Mcclellan, of New Jersey,
has reprieved. Covert Bennett and Mrs.
Smith, the convicted murderers, until
August 18th.
The contractors who have undertaken
to raise the German iron clad Grosser
Kurfurst, have placed 81 pontoons in
side of the vessel, and shield over the
breach. An attempt will be made to
raise the wreck on the oath instant.
The new brig Shasta, of New York,
from. Port au- Paix, st. Domingo, bound
to Chester, Pa, arrived in great dis
tress twelve miles below Philadelphia.
OF nine men on board seven were down
with the yellow sever. Four deaths
occurred, the captain being among the
number.
A decree of divorce has been granted
by the Court sitting at Fargo, Dakota,
in the suit instituted three months ago
by Rev. G. b. Vosburg, formerly pastor
of the Madison Baptist Church, Jersey
City,, and accused of wife poisoning.
He tried to get the divorce at Yankton,
but failed and then went to Fargo. 1t
is thought in Jersey City that efforts
will be made to induce him to return
to his old home.
Chastine Cox has been convicted Of
the murder of Mrs. Hull 10, New York
City, and the Judge sentenced him to
be hanged on. the 29th. of August next.
The Herald says: "There never was a
clearer case of guilt, never a crime
which more loudly demanded the en-
forcement of the death penalty. We
have recently had an epidemic of crime
i'll New York, and the example of this
criminals execution within three
months of the date of the murder he
committed will be public advantage"
A woman was found Thursday, in an
unoccupied mill at Upper Saltwater,
Maine, gagged, bound and unconscious.
She proved to be Mrs. Adelaide Sher-
man, domestic in the family of Ar
thur Sawyer. The perpetrator of the
outrage proved to be Edgar Remission,
who boarded at the house where she
was employed. After being restored to
consciousness she told who her assail-
ant was, and stated that he knocked
her down and subjected her to outrage,
after which he bound and gagged her,
and threw her into an old boat in the
basement of the mill. Remission has
been arrested. The excitement and in
dignation are very great, and there is
strong talk of lynching.
About II o'clock Thursday night
John Hodgson, alias, ''English Jack, :"
a hard character, shot and killed John
Brown, an employee of Charles Coffee,
whose cattle outfit is in camp near Sid
ney, Nebraska. While the officer was
in search of the murderer he went to a
livery stable where he had been en-
ployed and secured horse and escaped
in the darkness. This is his second
ofense of a similar character, having
killed man on Red Cloud road some
time ago.
A Montreal paper says young man
at present undergoing sentence of six
months in Jail, two OF which only have
expired, has fallen heir to $l65, 900 by
the death OF his uncle in San Francisco.
This uncle left a fortune of $f94, 900,
to be divided among his three nephews,
of whom the prisoner is one. It is
needless to say that he awaits his hber-
alton with impotence.