Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-11
Cadets Dismissed for Hazing Not
Eligible for disappointment
THE COMMERCIAL SITUATION
CRITICAL AT HAVANA.
A Young Lady Gagged and
Bound by a Negro.
coLoRED MEN WORKING SEVERAL
MASONIC LODGES.
Miss Kirklaf, While crazed with Fever,
Burned to Death.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.
HOuse of representatives.

HOUSE Oh Heprtsen ebtktcDs
WASHINGTON, March 10.-In the House,
Keifer, of the Committee on Appropria-
tions, reported back the Military Academy
Appropriation bill with Senate amend
ments, recommending concurrence in the
amendment providing that any cadet dis
missed for hazing be not eligible for re-
appointment, and Inconvenience in
| other amendments. The recommends
ton was agreed to.
Hewitt of New York proposed the fol-
lowing constitutional amendment: That
Congress shall not have the power to
make anything but gold and silver coin
legal tender in payment Of debts.
A bill was introduced by Rosecrans in
cooperating the Yellowstone Park Rail-
road Company; by Glasscock, for the cree
ton of public buildings in oakland, CAL,
to cost 500, 900; by Townshend, for the
relief of pilots who served in the rebellion.
A Crisis at Havana.
HAVANA, March 5.--The commercial
situation is very critical. The low prices
in sugar, the tightness of the money
market, and general distrust, are a~cceler-
| ating a crisis that may involve all branches
of business. At Sagua, Rodriguez q Co.,
sugar exporters, have failed, their liabili-
ties exceeding $4,000, 900. At Cardinas,
Myares, q banking and commission mer-
| chant, also engaged in sugar exporting,
has suspended, being heavily involved in
the failure of Rodriguez & Co. Mac
Killar Il Luling are in difficulties Of long
standing. The sugar market is suppressed
by society sugar exporters, so many Of
whom nave failed during the last few
years. One or WI other banks in Havana
are regarded with distrust.
A House Ransacked and Robbed.
NEW YORK, March 10.-During the alb
sence of Mr.. and Mrs. George Sloan, a
wealthy and prominent couple, last night
Jesse Williams, a colored coachman, en-
tered the rooms Of Miss Maggie Harvey,
sister of Mrs. Sloan, and demanded the
keys of the place where the money was
kept. Failing to get them, he gagged and
bound the young lady and ransacked the
house. He was subsequently found under
the bed Of Gertrude Ash, a colored SER
want, in whose pillow 5000 was found.
Both were arrested.
Burned TO heath.
UPPER ~PoTTsGRovE, Pa, March 10.-At
midnight Miss Woodward Kirklaff, crazed
with malarial fever, left her bed and de-
liberately set hers clothing afre. She
fought desperately with those who tried to
extinguish the flames and was burned
slowly to death.
The Drive Well Patent.
WASHINGTON, March 10.-Tbe Supreme
Court has denied the motion to advance a
number Of cases known as the Drive Well
cases, which involve the validity Of the
Drive Well patent, and are of interest to
several hundred thousand owners of drive
wells in the Western States.
COlOred Mas0ns.
BUFFALO, March 10.-The Masonic fra
ternity were agitated upon learning that
the colored men Of this city have seven
lodges working under q charter issued by
Henry Frederick, the Duke Of Cumber-
land, Of Sept. %, 1874.
An Oneida Saint Turns Up His
Toes.
UTICA, N. Y, March 1D.-Yesterday
George Cragin. who, with John Humphrey
Noyes, founded the Oneida community In
1649. was found dead In his bed. Heart
disease.
The Copyright Bill.
WASHINGTON, Marca 10.-The Joint
Committee on the Library on Friday next
will hear anyone who desires to speak for
or against the Newspaper Copyright Bill.
Minister to Russia.
DETROIT, March 10.-The Republican
congressman of Michigan will ask Presi-
dent Arthur to appoint ex-senator Ferry
Minister TO Russia.
Received threatening Letters.
OTTAWA, March 10.-A rumor IL current
that the Governor General has received
threatening letters from the Fenian
Brotherhood.