The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-06-02

line,. was burned Se'the waters edge at
Martins Landing, about thirty miles
above Alton, Illinois, yesterday An
explosion caused the vessel to be run
ashore, and the passengers were landed.
A strong wind aided the flares, and in
ten minutes the entire upper works
were gone. There was great excite
mcnt among the passengers, but owing
to the splendid discipline of the crew
and the cool ana steadyconduct of Cap
tain Asbury and his officers, they we've
safely landed.
Five Kern county, California, officers
and ex-off;cers have been arrested for
embezzle.efit and forgery, causing
quite an excitement. r. Z. Donnell,
late County Assessor, is in Jail; A. T.
Lightner, Clerk; G.. A. Bossford and j.
Fountain, ex-Deputy Shesiffs and Tax
Collectors, and +. w. Craig, ex-Audi-
tor, are out on bail. Other arrests are
probable. County expert William f.
Robinson of San Francisco and Colonel
Geo. Flourney of San Francisco will
assist In the prosecution, having been
employed by the Board of Supervisors
A party of Indians attacked a mail
hack on Saturday night near Fort Cum
mings, Arizona, killed the driver and
four passengers, and then burned their
bodies beyond recognition. They took
the horses and burned the hack. A
battalion of the Ninth Cavalry and 81
party of Indian scouts, which have
been on the trail of these hostiles for a
month past, rode past Fort Cummings
on Monday morning, and may overtake
them befse they reach the Mexican
line.
Captain Edward r. Warsaw, we'll
known in yeals past as commander il
the service of the Pacific Mail. and
later as prominent stock operator,
committed suicide yesterday in San
Francisco, by shooting himself in the
head. He was o native of Vermont, 50
years of age. He had been suffering
from heart Disease for long time past,
and has recently been supposed'to be
out of his mind.
Jack Floats of England and Seorge
Turnbull OF Mckeesport, Pennsylvania,
fought a prize fight near that place yes.
tcrday for $3.50 a side. Sixty-six
rounds were fought, resulting in vic
tory for Turnbull. The fight lasted an
hour and a half, and was a most brutal
one. Floats is fifty-four years Of agn,
has fought twenty-five battles, and was
never whipped before. Turnbull Is
thirty three No arrests.
1t ig the opinion at Chicago that II
Grant is defeated Blaine VIII go with
him. The resolution of the committee
! excluding veterans from seats in the
convention is telling against Blaine, in
whose interest it was made. The vote
OF Massachusetts goes for Sherman, as
Edmunds refuses to let his name 20 be.
fore the convention.
The New York World asserts that
Tilden and Speaker Randall have quar-
relied, and that the latter will seek the
Cincinnati nomination FOR himself. AS
the World sees Tilden in every bush,
nobody pays much attention to its nu-
merous stories concerning that gentle
man, Of which this latest is one Of the
least sensational.
Conkling made long speech before
the New York delegation supporting
the unit rule, and carried resolution
directing him to cast the seventy votes
solid for Grant, despite the protest of
twenty-three delegates who voted
against the resolution, and will so vote
| in the Convention, to which the whole
question will be referred.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has commenced suits in the Supe-
rior Court of Tulare county, California,
against 10 Mussel Slough settlers ON
the company's land, each suit being for
SIS, 600 back rents and profits and for
5000 damages for unlawful holding