Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-02-15
The Extra Session.

S00atOkB Sre discussing JIG pUseAOAlIy
Of avoiding IN extra session of the Sen
ate st the expiration Of the present
Congress. IfMr. Davis remains in thu
chair until the 4th Of March, an extr.
session is inevitable, - the President
pro tenn. must be elected to provide .
successors to the President in the event
of his death, resignation or inability.
It is Believed, however, by many Sen.
ators that Judge Davis will resign the
chair few days before the expiration
of the session, if he is assured
that his successor can be- cleo.
ted without difficulty. and an
extra session will be averted. A prom.
inent Republican Senator expressed the
opinion yesterday that the presiding
officer would be elected before the 4.h
of March, although the caucus commit.
tee having in charge the order Of busl-
ness had not yet considered the ques.
ton. The two parties in the Senate
are SO evenly divided that the vote of
Malone is vital factor in the choice
of new President pro tenn, providing
the Democrats were disposed to contest
with the Republicans the choice of this
office. There are indications that the
Democrats will not oppose the election
of Republican presiding officer, parti-
cularly if by so doing they can wipe
out Mr.. Mahone's Importance in the
Republican camp.
Not 50 Bad Us Reported.
CINCINNATI, Feb. Ia. - There is
strong ground for hope that the disaster
at the Southern railroad depot is not at
tended with go great a loss Of lives as
was reported. The matter has been
very carefully investigated, and but for
the positive statements of one man, it
would be difficult to say that any lives
werelost. That man, the baggage.master,
says a great number Of people we're on
the platform of the depot, and he thinks
at least twenty-five went down in the
water. All other persons present say
they saw one in the water, and they
was great alarm and hurried flight, SO
that people might have been enguifed
and not have been seen by those tee
ing. Lathmap, the cashier, had sufti-
Gent warning to enable him
to secure $1,000 in cash, but
not enough to save all the money in
the safe. Two or three hundred
dollars were lost With the exception
of the members of Coup's circus, who
are reported missing, there is nothing
like definite statement as to any loss.
No employees of the railroad company
are missing. The company shows
enough confidence in the stability of the
remaining portion OF the depot to use
it. Trains arrive and depart regularly,
but access to the freight depot is cut of.
Hammered to Death.
DEADwooD, Dakota, Feb. l4.-H. c.
Clark, an auctioneer of this city, and
formerly a prominen. business nan,
died yesterday from injuries received
at the hands of Thomas Rollins, a clerk
in the store of J. F. Edmonds. Monday
morning Clark had trouble with Rollins
over saddle borrowed from the store,
which he subsequently, sold and re.
fused to pay for. He broke into the
store carly Monday morning, and when
Rollins appeared attacked the latter
with an ax.handle. Rollins knocked
him down and inflicted fatal injuries
with hammer. Clark was a former
partner of Elmonds, but at the time of
the tragedy was not considered to be in
his right mind.
New YORK, Feb. III. w. Wilson,
Examiner of Foreign Mails, attached to
Special Agent Brackets staff, yester.
day seizsd suspicious. looking package
from Switzerland, addressed to Miss
Matilda Gansuan, Sacramento, Cal.
fornia, which was found to con.
tain large religious book,
having thick leather binding. About
the middle of the inside of one of the
covers, diamond ring, valued at $50,
was found imbedded in a neatly.cut
space, so that the book, when closed,
excited no suspicion. 49,.
AUSTIN, Tex, Feb. 1.-THE City
11OSpLbdt was DuiuSu LC-uIgHL AZ .
O'Clock. The negro cook set lamp on
a five-gallon can of coal oil, and the
wind blew the blaze to the can, which
exploded, setting fire to the cook and
her child. The cook was seriously
burned and the child burned to a crisp.
The patients were rescued and most of
the furniture was saved.
HELENA. (Montana) Feb. 1.-THE
heaviest sale OF mining property ever
made 10 this vicinity was completed
yesterday, the Drum Lummon mine be-
ing sold by Thomas Craze to an English
syndicate for quar- ter of million
down and 81 $4,000 to be paid in
April and June.
UTICA, Feb. I3.-Wiliam Whelan,
ex President of the Whelan Consoli.
dated Copper Company of Chicago, ap-
peared in the City Court to-day to an.
swer the complaint OF ". F. Fish Of
Utica, for alleged false pretenses on
copper mining bu,iness. No CON plain-
ant appearing, Whelan was discharged.