Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-12
EASTERN NEWS.
Details Of the Brutal Fleet
wood Murder.
THE MURDERER sNATcHED FROM 4
CROWD OF LYNcHERs.
The Western Union Will Bid fol
Government Telegraphing.
ARTHUR LEADS THE DELEGA-
TON FROM MISSOURI.
Rich Men Confine an Insane
Brother 90 Years.
HEARTRENDINc FATAL OVER.
HEARTRENDINC FATAL OVER
SIGHT OF A FATHER.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Particulars OF the Fleetwood Afro

ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
Particulars of the Fleetwood Afro
city.
CHICAGO, April 1.-THE Daily News of
Matloon, ILL.,, gives the following addi-
tional details of the double murder of the
aged Fleetwood couple near Random. The
old folks slept on the first floor. A mar
ried daughter and a small child and a
hired man, James Winkleback, slept up
stairs. All retired early. The daughter
was walked later, hearing Winkleback going
down stairs, but dozed off and was again
walked by hearing q sound as Of blows be-
ing struck in the DON below, but went to
sleep again, and again was aroused by the
smell of smoke. She called to the hired
man that the house was on fire.. He told
her to jump out of the window. She ran
down stairs and found the bed in which
her mother and father lay on fire. Wrinkle
back at her request went reluctantly to
the house of q neighbor. She extinguished
the flames and found the aged couple with
their throats cut and their heads beaten in.
Winkleback was suspected. He had blood
on his trousers and wore a clean shirt,
though he had on a soiled one when he re-
tired at night. The we'll was pumped dry,
and his ak, covered with blood and hair,
was found at the bottom. Winklebsck
stoutly asserted his innocence. The Ooro-
ner's Jury held him for murder, and the
Sheriff started with him for Jail at Charles
ton. A crowd of 500, who had collected at
the scene, threatened to lynch him before
morning. The old couple had no money
in the house, and the reasons for the crime
are unknown.
CHARLESTON, April 1.-THE Sheriff sue
ceeded in getting Winklebaok, the sup.
posed murderer of the Fleetwood couple,
away from the crowd at the scene of the
tragedy and Landed him safe in Jail here.
The revolver which Winkleback acknowl-
edges is his was found with two chambers
empty. He is believed to have shot Mrs.
Fleetwood with it before crushing her head
with the ak.
DIR. Green on Government Tele-
graphing.
WASHINGTON, April 11.-Dr. Norvin
Green made an argument before the
| House Committee on Postofices and Post
roads to-day in opposition to the Postal
Telegraph. II, however, the Government
is determined to enter into the business,
lie thought it ought to buy out existing
| lines and manage the work exclusively in
its own way. He also said that, if the
Senate Committee bill became a law, the
| Western Union would become a bidder for
the contract for which that measure makes
provision.
Disastrous Wreck.
COLUMBUS, TO-, April ia disastrous
wreck occurred on the Panhandle at
Beaver Station, near Dayton, tonight.
By the spreading of the rails an engine
and tender were plunged into the creek
below, the passenger and baggage cars
turning over in a heap. The engineer,
Thomas, was killed; the fireman, Connel,
received probably fatal injuries. The bag
gage master, Crawford, was badly injured,
as was also Smith, supposed to be q postal
clerk. The passengers were all badly
| shaken.
WOman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety.
MILWAUKEE, April 1.-THE Woman's
Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the
West closed its three days convention to.
day. 1t selected Toledo as the point of
meeting in 1885. The officers elected for
the year are: President, Mrs. A. G..
Howe, Chicago; Vice Presidents, Mrs. E.
II. Emslee, Leadville, Col, and Mrs. W.
@. Hawley, Wyoming; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. A.. M. Bacon. Chicago.
The BeyntOn Charges.
WASHINGTON, April 11.-Hopkins, as a
privileged matter, called up the resolu-
ton declaring that the charges against Fl.
v. Boynton are lot sustained by the evil
dence and that there was no ground for
any action by the House. He stated that
the committee reporting the resolution did
not desire to debate it. Keller was present,
but did not see fit to make q speech and
the resolution was adopted without op-
position.
Disposition OF Missouri Delegates.
ST. LOUIS, April ia correspondent
Of the Globe Democrat gives the following
summary Of the Presidential preference by
the delegates of this State to the Republic
can National Convention: Blaine, IL;
Arthur, 8; Logan, Z; and Edmunds, 5.
None Of the delegates are strongly pro-
nounced in their preferences, however,
and they will doubtless be governed largely
by the views of the delegates from the Re-
| publican States.
Transcontinental Telephone T. TeIe-
graph Company.
New YORK, April 1.-THE certificate
of incorporation Of the McDonough Tele-
phone 4 Telegraph Company was filed to-
day. The company has a capital stock OF
$40, 600, which can be increased to SIS, 000,-
600. The Company's lines are to run
from New York to California. Florida and
Maine.
Greedy Expedition Appropriation.
WASHINGTON, April 10.-In the House.
Ellis, of the Committee on Appropriations,
reported back the Senate bill authorizing
the Secretary of the Navy to offer q reward
of SIS, 900 for rescuing or ascertaining the
fate of the Greeley Expedition. After a