Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-07-22
EASTERN intelligence.
THE PRESIDENT CONTINUES
TO IMPROVE.
EDISON PUSHING HIS PREPARATIONS FOR
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT IN NEW YORK.
Raum Notified of Murders by u
licit Distiliers.
REBUILDING ON THE RUINS AT
NEW uLM.
STATE CONVENTION Of the TEMPERANCE
REFORM SOCIETY.
ISLANDER SUIT AGAINST THE
DENVER TRIBUNE.
FATAL MINING ACCIDENT AT
Raum Notified of Murders by u
licit Distiliers.
REBUILDING ON THE RUINS AT
NEW uLM.
STATE CONVENTION OF the TEMPERANCE
REFORM SOCIETY.
ISLANDER SUIT AGAINST THE
DENVER TRIBUNE.
FATAL MINING ACCIDENT At
DENVER.
.Special to the SENTINEL

WASHINGTON, July 21.-The following
bulletin has been sent this morning to
each of the Cabinet officers by the Presi-
dents private secretary
The improvement in the Presidents
condition continues to be steady and I'M
interrupted. His pulse this morning is
IS, with normal temperature and respira-
ton. He is bright and cheerful, has an
excellent appetite, and expresses a desire
for more substantial n~ourishment. There
is no better indication of his progress than
the disposition which he is now manifest
ing to think and talk of outside matters.
The surgeons express themselves satisfied
with the progress of the case.
Aid for the Sufferers.
ST. PAUL Mimi, July 2l.-The work
of rebuilding on the ruins at New Ulm is
actively progressing. The dead have been
buried and the wounded are being cared
for by the Sisters Of Charity, who have
served as ministering angels to the unfor-
Inmates from the first. Contributions still
continue to come in. A dispatch has been
received from Henry Willard, dated at AL
toona, authorizing a draft on him at New
York for 81 200 on account of the Trans
continental Railroad, and $500 on his own
account. St. Paul and Minneapolis have
pledged 5000 each, and other cities and
towns in the State and adjoining Territory
are contributing as literally. The Herald,
a German paper at Milwaukee, has raised
81 ZOO. Donations Of roofing material and
other supplies have been sent in from Min
neapolis and other points.
Temperance Reform Convention.
COLUMBUS (O.), July 21.-The State
Convention of the Temperance Reform So
ciety yesterday decided to oppose any can
didate who opposed local option, and. to
give support to whoever favors the sup
preston of the liquor traffic. Letters
were received from Governor Foster and
Attorney General Nash in answer TO in
quiries. Foster denied that he opposed
the cause of temperance, but believed, un-
der the present Constitution, local option,
as TO the license and taxation Of liquor
selling, was unconstitutional. The best
and only way seemed TO be to submit the
whole question to the people, as the Re-
publican platform advised. Nash wrote
similarly 10 the Convention, and to nom
mate a full State ticket, headed by A. r.
Lutlow for Governor.
Fatal Accident at the Caledonia
Mine.
DEADwooD d. t., July 21.-The Gale
donia mine at Terraville caved in last
night, burying seven miners. VIM. Gill,
Daniel Cameron and Andrew Harsen were
taken out alive. John Costello, James
Roach, Pat Hawkins and l.. H. Hamilton
are supposed to be killed. A Times special
says Roach is known to be dead, though
his body has not yet been found. L. S.
Goodman, foreman Of the De Smet mine,
instantly killed by the arch on which
he was standing, near the shaft, giving
precipitating him a distance of 200
The Electric Light in New York.
New YORK, July 21.-Edison is still
pushing on his preparations for lighting
the district bounded by Spruce and Wall
streets and Nassau street and East River.
wires have been put in nearly 500
houses, and the district will probably be
by October /. The work is all
completed, with the exception of the cree
tlO4 VI AGdFN CdSlaCs AZ lAS SSll d. STA
ton. The contract made with the sub
scribers is that the light shall cost the
same amount as gas. The lighting Of the
district, Edison thinks, will reduce the
of gas to 81 per 1000 cubic feet.
ClamOring for a Caucus.
ALBANY. July 20.-The prospects for an
election tomorrow are no better than last
The stalwarts still clamor for a eau.
Gus, and say they ale willing to sign a paper
they will unite in q caucus call for a
Lapham and the supporters
of the Administration. however, declare
it is now too late to even entertain the
proposition for a caucus; as to hold one now
would place Senator-elect Miller in an
equivocal position. The situation now is
one simply of obstruction on the part of
the Conklingites.
Denver Tribune sued for
SANDER.
DENVER, July 21.-The attorneys Of the
Denver d New Orleans Railroad Company
and Governor Evans, its President, have
commenced two suits against the Denver
Tribune Company, on the charge Of pub
slanderous attacks to injure the
company. 1t is thought the articles were
luop1Itu ny LAe OChfCI q IlO dEduuc
Railroad Company. The suits are for
sl00, 900 each.
Surrender of Sitting Bull.
ST. PAUL, July 20.-Ths Pioneer press
aas the following from Fort Buford at 4 P.
NJ: Sitting Bull and 200 people arrived at
II o'clock to-day, and surrendered their
and ponies to Major Brotherton. No
speeches have yet been made, as Sitting
Bull and his orators are fatigued aud hun
cry. They were placed in compartments
the post and Bowlanding and, are
N as close security of Major Brothsrton as
{ in irons.
Threatening Revenue Officers.
WASHINGTON, July 21.-Commissioner
Raum has been notified Of the killing, by
illicit distillers, Of District Collector Bray
ner in Pickers county, South Carolina.
The distillers defy first, and threaten to
kill any revenue officer who approaches.
The Commissioners has instructed the
Deputy Collectors to procure assistance
and arrest them.
A Dastardly Murder.
ST. LOUIS. July 20.-Col. John G.
Woods, a rich old man. living alone in
Franklin county, Mo-, was mysteriously
murdered on Monday. His throat was cut
and he was stabbed in several places,
dragged from his bed and left thirty feet
from his house. There is no clue to the
murderers or their motives.
A Railroad Accident.
WHITEHALL IN. ", July 21.-The night
express from New York over the Delaware
& Hudson Canal Company's railroad
- -1ou n-nol1-
ton of the train plunged into the lake.
Engineer Charles Carswell was instantly
killed and the fireman injured. No passen-
gers were hurt. The road was blocked for
seven hours.