Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-01
EASTERN intelligence.
A ORPHAN
AGE BURNED.
Seventeen Children Burned to
Death.
PETITION FOR THE MussEL SLOUGH pRIs-
0hERs' PARDON.
Application for Chinese Natur-
alization Denied.
THE WINTER CHOLERA DIS
EASE.
A MOST UNNATURAL SON.
Application for Chinese hatur-
aiization Denied.
WINTER CHOLERA DIS
EASE.
A MOST UNNATURAL SON.
special to the Sentinel

SCRANTON (Pa.), Feb. %. The Catholic
Orphanage at Hyde Park, Scranton, was
burned early last night. Seventeen chill
dren were burned to death, fourteen boys
and three girls. The building was st.
Patrick's Orphan Asylum, situated on the
corner of Jackson street and Lincoln ave-
nue., about one mile from the center OF the
city. 1t was occupied by a number OF the
Sisters of Charity, and under their charge
were forty children. from 6 TO IL years of
age, boys and girls, who occupied separate
d~ormitories on the third floor. Athalf-past
s o'clock a Sister took them TO their rooms
as usual and locked the doors. On de-
scending the stairs she discovered smoke
issuing from a room On the second story.
On opening the door she was driven back
BY a cloud OF smoke. A fire was raging
along the ceiling, making its way to the
upper floor. The Sister darted up stairs
and found the girls room full of smoke.
She ran to the lower floor and then started
back to get the boys. The smoke was
pouring into the hall in binding clouds,
and when about half way up the stairs the
Sister met q stranger. She made an effort
TO pass, but he refused to allow her, saying
the boys had been rescued and that it
would be dangerous for her to go for them,
and she reluctantly went back. The alarm
brought four fire companies. The flames
were raging iercely when the iremen went
to work. They we're informed of the be-
lief among the Sisters that some of the
children were still in the building, and
they made an effort to reach the upper
floor. In a short time the flames were
beaten back and the floor Of the dormitory
burst open. The victims of the fire were
beneath the cots. Only two were touched
by the fire, but all had evidently been dead
some time. There is intense excitement.
The MusseI slough Settlers and
Hayes.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-Senators Farley
and Booth and Representative Berry,
called on R. b. Hayes yesterday and laid
before him the petition signed by upwards
of 80, 900 citizens of California, praying
that the Mussel Slough prisoners be par
doned. Mr.. Hayes suggested that the pc
tition should be filed in the At~torney-Gen-
erals Office. but promised hat he will pass
upon the case before his term of Office ex-
pired. Heintimatedt that he would like pre-
viously to have an expression OF opinion on
the subject from Judges Hoffman and
Sawyer and District Attorney Latimer, to
which Berry replied that an expression of
their views had already been indirectly So
licited by telegraph, and that they would
doubtless be heard from within a very few
days. Booth, Farley and Berry each earn
estly commended the petition to Mr..
Hayes most favorable consideration. In
the course Of their remarks, calling atten-
ton to the strength Of the petitions, they
informed Mr.. Hayes that one of them,
bearing only eighty signatures, represented
at least 500. 600 900 of property. They
were not particularly encouraged by Mr..
Hayes inquiries and manner, but of
course, If ne declines to act ~favorably. the
effort can be renewed with his successor.
Opposed to Chinese Naturalization.
CHICAGO, Feb. 2~S.-Judge Moran, in the
District Court this morning, denied the
application Of Moy Sam, a Chinaman, for
naturalization. The Judge said As the
necessary proof of the good moral charac-
ter and residence in the State, and the
United States, etc., was sufficient. the sole
question was whether q native of China, or
a Monaghan, might be naturalized under
the laws Of the United States. The law
originally stood, that any alien being q
white person might become q citizen, and
this was subsequently made to applications
OF African nativity and persons Of African
descent. He cited the language Of Judge
Sawyer, in a similar application to the
United States Circuit Court Of California,
who denied the application, saying, 81 am,
therefore. of the opinion that a native Of
China, Of the Monaghan race, is not a
white person within the meaning Of the
Act of Congress-" Judge Choates of New
York was cited as reaching the same opin-
ion. as there was q period when Chinese
might have been lawfully naturalized be-
tween the passage OF the revision Of the
United States statutes and the act correct
ing errors and omissions in that revision
February, 1S75-the word white" hav-
ing been omitted in that revision.
B~utterfne, and Its Eneets.
) CHICAGO, Feb. ga number Of promi-
nent physicians having been interviewed,
the Tribune gives it as their opinion that
the disease known as Winter cholera, |
which has been prevailing to an alarming
VIE CltJ ohAtA6 thV WlutcTs Is
traceable to the extensive use of butterine, |
in the composition Of which hog products
largely enter. They say that the process
OF making the compound does not require
the high temperature which Unnecessary in |
refining lard, and that the germ Of the dis
ease might pass through the process with
out being killed.
Murders His Mother.
AUGUSTA. Feb. 28.-In a China village |
near here, Charles Merrill killed his mother
in q barn. He concealed the body in a hay
NOW until it was frozen, and then cut It
into pieces. Part he burned, throwing the
charred remains into a manure heap, while
the other portion he buried in the snow in
the woods. On the following Monday. the
woman being missed, suspicion fastened
on the son. He was arrested and con-
fessed. detailing coolly the circumstances
He witnessed the disinterment of the por-
ton Of the remains in the woods to-day,
directing the officers where to search for