The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-07-18


been leading an out door life on the
hills for several years. He has a re.
ceding forehead and face, and his body,
when brought into jail, was covered
with heavy growth OF hair, and when
the hair was cut from his person it
filed half.bushel measure. On some
parts Of his breast aud back the hair
was from five to seven inches in length.
He is unable to talk, and responds with
a short and bestial grunt.
The New York Herald, which has
professed lofty skepticism regarding the
Pail Mall Gazettes exposures, prints a
cable special announcing the whole
thing an advertising clap trap. 1t says
it turns out to he skillful rehash from
old reports Of the society for the pre-
vention Of juvenile prostitution, princi.
pally worked up faucifuily from chap
tiers of an elaborate history Of London
prostitutioH and interviews, to be found
in am extra volume of Henry Msyhew's
''London Poor" printed in 1861.
John Bostin, while engaged on the
building of Hobbs, Wall 4 Co, Main
street, near Market, San Francisco,
attempted to pass from the scaifold on
which he was to a window sill little
above him. He grasped the window
casing on each side. The paint being
still fresh on them, his hands slipped
and he fell backward to the stone side.
walk, sixty feet below. He struck on
his head. Death was instantaneous.
He was an Englishman, so years of
age, and leaves wife but no children.
Russia counts with certainty on the
help OF France in any contest which
the Gar may have with England in
Asia. France, it is declared, will be
compelled to establish protectorate
over Tonquin. and the English in India
will then be between two fires and
their interest is to avoid any policy liza.
bile to lead TO Franco. Russian ALI.
ance. This is set-off to the inereas.
ing friendliness between Germany and
England.
There is panic on the Paris Bourse,
and heavy fall has occurred in prices
OF most securities, owing TO reports
that crisis between Russia AMI En-.
gland was imminent. It is said that
Russia is negotiating a war loan. The
abundance of official news from Afghan.
istan is considered omnous. The
Temps says that officers of the Russian
army now on furlough have been or.
dered to rejoin their regiments at once.
The London Daily Telegraph says:
Negotiations between England and
Russia regarding the Afghan frontier
question have become serious. Russia |
is preferring new claims and refuses to |
yield to Lord Salisbury, whose tone,
although studiously friendly, is firm"
A special from the Cheyenne Agency |
says: A dispatch received from Fort |
Supply speaks of the arrival of courier |
who reports the finding of the bodies of |
two cowboys on the range on the Chero. |
kee strip, who had been murdered. and
their bodies staked to the ground by |
Indians.
A large number of Russian re.enforce.
ments have arrived at Merv and Pull. |
khisti during the past fortnight. -Four
regiments from Cabul, the capital of |
Afghanistan, have reached Herat.
Four regiments are on their way from
Hazora.
A fight with Polish and Bohemian
strikers and the police took place at the |
plate mill at Newburg, Ohio, Thurs.
day. Many strikers were badly |
dubbed. Their wives carried them off |