Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-01-16

Especial 10 the SENTiNELsl
SAN Francisco, Jan. 15.-In the United
States District Court to-day Alex. Sweeney
was convicted of counterfeiting standard
dollars. The offense was committed in this
city some months ago. Sweeney plead
guilty as an accessory. His conviction
was obtained through the testimony Of
Michael Cullen, a partner Of Sweeney, who
turned States evidence. Sentence will be
pronounced on both next Monday.
The first Chinese divorce case on record
in this city was decided by Judge Ed
monds of the Superior Court, who granted
All Ho o divorce from Ho Geong, on the
ground of desertion. The parties were
joined in wedlock by Q justice Of the peace
about q year ago.
In Department No. 2 Of the Superior
Court the city and county to-day obtained
o judgment against VIM. Sharon, E. j.
Baldwin and j.. G. Flood, for delinquent
city, county and State taxes for the fiscal
years of '76 and III, and III and '78, in
amounts ranging from $4,000 to $22, 900.
The taxes we're on personal property, con-
8 sting mostly Of mining stocks. The
cases were submitted without argument, on
an agreed statement Of facts.
Twenty informations were filed in the
United States District Court to-day against
parties charged with fraudulent registra-
ton and illegal voting at the last Congress
sional election. Others will follow. No
arrests as yet.
The Workingmen reorganized this even
ing, to the extent Of adopting a platform
and address to voters.
Dispatches from Tucson and Deming re-
port that the stage from Mesilla to Fort
Cumming was attacked by Indians last
evening, about fourteen miles from Fort
Cumming. The bodies Of the driver and
three men and one woman, passengers,
we're found mutilated and burned. The
bodies were removed to Cumming. Troops
are in pursuit. The Indians are supposed
to have numbered about forty.
Charles Winhoff wal found dead in his
room, 321 Taylor street, this morning,
having taken cyanide of potassium. He
left a note a~ttributing his suicide to ruined
hopes and prospects.
Eureka Con. to-day declared another
dividend Of 80 cents.
Another Murder at Bodfe.
BoDIE, January 14.-About 2 o'clock
this morning Thomas Trelvar, a miner, was
assassinated by . Frenchman, named Jos.
DE Roche. Trelvaris wife was attending a
ball, and he had ordered her not to
dance with De Roche. She did so, how
ever, to his great annoyance. At the hour
mentioned the two men met and De Roche
shot Trelvar through the head, the ball en-
teriug just below the left ear. A crowd
gathered and the murderer was arrested. At
this moment T~relvar's wife came along. in
company with q gentleman and his wife,
when DE Roche shouted MRS, Trelyar.
l have killed your husband" He was
to Jail, but upon q pretext that the
Vigiiantes intended to hang him before
morning, Deputy Sheriff Jos. Farnsworth
took the prisoner to his own boarding house
handcuffed. During the night De Roche
mysteIiously. disappeared while Farnsworsh
was asleep. There il great Indignation here
over the murder Of Trelvar and De Roche's
escape. and there is talk Of lynching Farms
worth. De Roche has q wife and three
children in Chicago. He has beeu ac-
quainted with Mrs. Trelvar in the East.
and there is believed to have been criminal
Intimacy between them, and that that was
the cause Of Trelvar's jealousy. The latter
came here from the Comstock.
A Vigilance Committee at work.
BoDIE, Jan. 15.-Thomas b. Treloar,
who wal murdered by Joseph De Roche on
Friday morning. was buried to-day, the
Fire Department and Miners Union at
tending as an organization. The vigi-
lance Committee were all over town last
night. searching for De Roche, and went
through several houses, as we'll as the Jail,
but he could not be found. Great indig-
nation il felt against Deputy Sheriff Farms
worth, through whose negligence, or
worse, the escape was effected, and the
Vigilance Committee were after him last
night to make him produce the prisoner or
take thec consequences. There Is less ex-
element tonight.
Murder---Mininx Properties Pur-
chased.
Tucson, January l4.-A Star special
from Charleston says; P. Schneider,
Chief Engineer Of the Tombstone Mill and
Mining Company. was to-day shot and in
stantly killed by q man called Johnny Be-
hind the Deuce. The murderer tried to
force a quarrel at the dinner table. Failing
N this be went out, secreted himself behind
the wall OF q corral, and when Schneider
was passing up to the mill sprang out and
shot him through the head. The villain
tried TO escape, but was shortly arrested.