Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-27
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The Social Event OF
the Season.
OVER TWELVE HUNDRED IN
vITATIONS ISSUED.
The Nobbiest Affair that has Ever
Occurred in New York.
FUNERALS OF THE BRAID
WOOD MINERS.
Twenty-six Bodies Taken from
the Shaft.
THE FIRST WOMAN EXECUTED IN NEW
EHGl AND.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.

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and show the social event of the season
will be at Vanderbiltis tonight. The
flowers alone are estimated to cost S2O,-
900. Over l, 200 invitations have been is
sued. The evening papers say the hostess,
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, will be ar
rayed in a $40, 900 dress and jewelry worth
over 800, 900. Many other ladies will
even excel her in richness Of costume.
The display of diamonds will be simply
dazzling. Special dances have been pre-
pared, and rehearsals have been going on
for q week. The orchestra will be con-
cealed in a grove of orange trees in full
bloom. The grand reception room will
be the great hall, which is fitted up after
the style of a castle of several centuries
ago. Wooden logs will blaze and crackle
on the hearth, and the portraits of their
ancestors will look dow On the visitors.
The dancing hall will be the great dining
room, 81 feet long by 50 feet wide. The
supper will be on the scale OF regal splen-
dor, and the costumes to be worn have
been in preparation for months. Fifty po-
licsmen will be on hand to see that the
carriages of distinguished guests arrive
and depart in regular order.
The BraidwoOd Mine victims.
BRA1DwooD, HIS, March 26.-Great
crowds Of miners, women and children
remained throughout the night and the
greater part of the day to witness the re-
moval of the bodies of the drowned miners
from the fatal Diamond mine, and some
Of the scenes were very distressing. From
midnight up to noon &c bodies we're taken
from the shaft, Ind from these the follow
ing could be recognized: Patrick Wall,
Jos. Smith, Jos. Carroll, Frank klop,
Michael Bannon, John Johnson, Mathew
Redmond, John Cullough, Arson Dren-
borky, August Palensis, Frank Murry,
Daniel Mcbride, John Brakeman, Herman
Ninber, John Boyd and John Atkins.
Seven remained unidentified. The bodies
were generally in a very advanced state OF
decomposition. At I o'clock this morn
ing a funeral train left the city for the
Diamond mine to remove the bodies to the
cemetery. By 9 o'clock, Is bodies i'll cof-
l fins were transferred by two fiat cars, and
the train moved out. AS it vas passing
the edge of the village Of diamond, Mrs.
Raymond signaled the train to stop, and
was allowed to take the coffin in which
her boy was placed, she declaring that she
: would give him proper burial at Braid
' wood. Many sad scenes occurred.
1 Women and children crying about the
train, demanding that the collins be taken
from the cars and the lids removed, which
> in many eases was done. The remains
were then placed in the hearses aud after
r wards given burial with slight ceremony.
Preparing for An Execution.
!, WINDSOR, Vermont, March 26.-Mrs.
:. Meaker, who is to be hanged on Friday,
realizes the certainty Of her doom. She
= knits and sews all the time. She is strict
ly guarded by an officer, but keeps her own
counsel, and is anxious to see the gallows
before she goes out fox the last time. She
says she will walk alone, for her conscience
is clear, and adds that her murderers will
Il repent some day. She evinces no sorrow
for her past deeds, and has no desire for
religious consolation. Being very deaf, it
is extremely hard to converse with her,
IA and to-day she was calmly and busily at
work. She has not yet seen her son AL
{ mon, who is at work making shoes, and
e who seems to manifest ne anxiety for his
q mother or her doom. This being the first
woman executed in New England, much
interest is felt to see how she will go
through the scene, and many applications
have been made to see the execution. which
- will be conducted as privately as the law
demands. The woman is Al years old.
e A Fine Painting Spoiled.
o CINCINNATI. O., March 26.-The excel
lent painting of st. Paul in chains, by
e Murillo, which was placed in St. Paul's
Cathedral in this city many years ago, at
a cost OF S25, 900. has been ruined. The
& sexton, in trying to place a screen over it
on Saturday, slipped from the scaffolding
which he had erected and fell through the
= picture to the floor, Is feet below. The
e accident was kept a secret until last night,
t in the hope that the horrible rent could in
j, some way be patched up. That hope is
= still held by Bishop Elder, but he admits
e that he has serious doubts as to whether it
n can be done. The painting was covered
by a screen yesterday, and thousands who
= attended the different services of Easter
Sunday were not aware that it had been
@ ruined.
A Governors Reprieve.
P1rrsBURo, March 26.-Six years ago a
Mrs. McCready of this place disappeared.
Abou. five years later Silas Gray was ar
rested on the testimony OF an ex-convict,
upon that and the finding Of a woman's
skull in the river. Gray was convicted
OF numbering her, and Gov. Pattison
signed his death warrant on Wednesday,
fixing May "a for the execution. Yesterday
a reporter found a woodchopper, living at
! the foot OF South Mountain, near Shippens-
) burg, who makes affidavit that a man
> named Jack Pettis confessed TO him that he
had killed the woman. Pettis was a con-
Wet in the penitentiary, and committed
suicide soon after making the confession.
The Governor will reprieve Gray.
Death OF POstmaster.GeneraI Howe.
wAsHISaroS, March 26.-The President
received last evening Geographic informa.
ton Of the sudden death at his home in
Wisconsin Of Postmaster G General Howe.
!, He died at Kenosha at 2:20 yesterday after
noon. at the residence of his nephew, Col.
Jas. Il. Howe. He contracted q severe
cold q week ago at Green Bay. and re-
turned to Kenosha. He was very i'll until
Saturday. when he seemed to improve.
The physicians pronounced it pneumonia.
He was taken worse on Saturday night.
and sank rapidly, passing away peacefully.
Alleging 0rsst Corruption.
NORTH ADAMS. March 2a.-Mnch excite-
ment WAS occasioned tonight by the dis
tribution in the church vestibule Of circu-
lars, alleging great corruption in town
affairs, and giving reasons why the Board
Of Selectmen should not be re- rejected. 1t
presents q list Of names Of the proprietors
Of bagnios and unlicensed liquor saloons,
with the sum Of money each pays monthly
to the police for hush money.
Dukes Notified to Leave.
Us1oSTowN, Pa, March 26.-Dukes ar
rived here from his step-father's last