The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-12-10
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He was taken before a Court and adj
judged insane, and placed in charge of
two guards to he taken to the asylum
at Jacksonville. At hotel he threw a
basin in his guard face, dashed through
to the country with blood streaming
from cuts made in his hands by the
broken glass. He stripped himself
naked, and entered house occupied by
an old man, named. Ryan, and his wild
owed daughter and her two children,
one a girl twelve years old and the
other boy still younger. He ordered
the. inmates to kneel, saying they had
but fifteen minutes to live, and all
obeyed but the boy. who escaped from
ths house and gave the alarm. When
the neighbors arrived they found Ryan
and Mrs. Smith dead, with their skulls
crushed in with an ak. aud the body of
the girl lying headless on the floor.
Having finished his bloody work, he
seized the girls head.by its long haxen
hair and swinging it over his shoulder,
he dashed down the road again He
entered the house of DIR. Gordon, and
ordered its. only inmate, servant girl,
to kneel and pray She screamed, and
her screams brought hired man from
the stable, and DR.. Gordon who was in
the vicinity; and after desperate
struggle they overpOweFed the mad
man, and bound him with ropes. Lock
stein was formerly Catholic
farmer, but was recently converted
to some other. faith, and became
insane on. religion. His mania
ran on making persons pray for
and with him. He said the world was
coming to an end in a few days.
The Land League is conducting the
campaign in the North OF Ireland with
considerable skill, modifying. its pro-
gramme and proceedings toavoid Offend
ing the prejudices OF the people of u
ster. In that province there is quite
different tone. in ther speeches from
that prevailing in other parts of the
country, with the view Of conciliating
the Presbyteriaps, Liberals and Orange
men. The system OF Boycotting has
been applied to six detachnaenrs OF con-
stabulary in different parts Of the
country.
A Tribune New York special says:
One of the latest stories circulated in
political circles is that Ex-Governor
Sprague has taken hand IN the contest
against Conkling, and personally called
ON Garfield when the latter was in
Washington and laid before the Presi-
dentelect his grievances, and that hesis
to follow this by the publication OF
book, in which it is asserted that the
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characters.
I A disastrous fire occurred yesterday
in the heart of the manufacturing CEN
/ ter. in the large block of the WATSON
Manufacturing Company at Springfield,
Mass. Losses estimated at 100000,
distributed among number of firms,
mostly insured. The Chief Engineer
and several firemen were more or less
injured.
!, In Committee on. Ways and Means
long discussion took place upon the
proposition to. remove the Internal
Revenue tax from bank checks, friction
matches, patent medicines, etc. The
matter was finally refesred to a sub
committee on Internal, Revenue with
instructions to consider and report upon
the same at future meeting.
The Sheriff of San Francisco boarded
the Mexican gun-boat. Democratic, to-
arrest the commander and the prisoner
Gotta. The commander refused to sur
render himself or Gotta. but the Mexi--
can Consul took the latter to the City
Prison.
Z The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has
written a,letter to Chief Justice May
OF the Irish Queens Bench censuriRg