Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-08-19
NEWS.
The Defense that Maxwell, the Muir
dGrGr, Will Make.
JOHN MccuLLouaH'S CONDITION STILL
VERY CRITICAL.
The Mammoth Railroad Strike
Commenced.
the INDIAN NATION CATTLE NOT WANTED
IN NEW MEXICO.
Senator Edmunds On the Business De-
preston in England.
MORMON COLONIZATION IN
CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO.
Senator Edmunds On the Business DE-
preston in England.
MORMON COLONIZATION IN
CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.
Maxwell's Defense.

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MaxwelI's Defense.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1S.-A letter is pub
lished here to-day dated Sunnybank,
Hyde. Cheshire, England, July Is, 1885,
and signed Samuel N. Brooks, which
speaks of his son, Fl. M. Brooks, having
left home last January on a business
trip to Ireland, and that no word has been
received from him since. It had been
learned, however, that he had a curate OF
an adjoining parish for q companion, and
that they had INDUCED in various extrav-
agencies, and that Brooks name had got
mixed up with the st. Louis trunk tragedy,
and also got mixed up with DR.. Maxwell.
The letter shows great distress on the part
of the writer, and makes an urgent appeal
for information in regard to the person
concerned in the murder. A part OF this
letter was shown to Maxwell, and he recog-
nized the signature as that OF his father,
and desired possession OF the letter to
write bis father and tell hin that he
(MaxwelU was innocent Of the murder OF
Preller, and that he had Q perfectly good
defense. In the course OF conversation
Maxwell, or as he is now pretty definitely
Unidentified as Brooks, said that Preller
was troubled with insomnia and he has
prescribed chloroform for him on several
| occasions, and with benefit. Preller, how
| ever, had heart disease, he said, and in
timated that he had taken or had admin
| istered TO him on this occasion IN over
| dose with q fatal result. This will be
Brooks defense when he comes TO trial.
A Big Strike Commenced.
ST.. Louis, Aug. 18.-At a meeting of the
Executive Board of the Knights of Labor
and committees representing the lockedout
men on the Wabash road, and the Knights
of Labor employed on the Wabash south
west system. had this morning resolutions
adopted. %denouncing the officials for at
| tempting to break the Knights of Labor,
and for causing the arrest OF members Of
the organizations by United States
Marshals. 1t Is probable that an order
calling ont men on the Gould roads will
be issued shortly.
LATER-The order to strike on the
Wabash road was observed at Moberly.
Mo-, Springfield, ILL.,, Decatur, Ill.,, Fort
Wayne, Ind, and Toledo, But very few
men went out at 8 P. NJ. The Executive
Board ordered a general strike on all the
Gould roads west of the Mississippi river.
S%TANBERY, Mo-, Aug. 18.-At noon to-
day all the men in the Wabash shops went
out. Everything is quiet, and no demon
STATIONS.
MoBERLY, Mo-, Aug. 18.-Twenty-fve
men employed on the Wabash road went
out to-day. No trouble.
John McCnllOugh's Condition.
New YORK, Aug. 18.-The Tribune this
morning says that John Mccullough, in
the Bloomingdsle Asylum. is gradually
losing all remembrance OF his old days on
the stage. Capt. Conner, Of the St. James
Hotel, his old Business Manager, goes reg.
ularly to the asylum to see Mccullough.
The Captain thinks the actor is losing
ground, physically. as we'll as mentally.
He has come to think that he owns Bloom
ingdale as a gift from those of his friends
who are interested in seeing him happy in
his old age. He no longer slludes in any
way to the stage as he used to do to en-
gagements, which he must start away TO
fill. Occasionally he wants all his baggage
packed up to go TO Chicago or Cleveland,
but shortly forgets all about it, and is not
surprised or angry If he finds his orders
have not been executed. Some times Nc
Cullough, when lying in his room, will
burst out in q recitation of poems or bits
| Of plays in which he has at different times
| appeared, but this Is the only feature of
his present condition to connect him with
his old triumphs..
Not Wanted I'm New Mexico.
| GAJrA En An1 10 Maano~ - S-.k
worthy advioes from Dry Cimarron, 25
miles east OF Ration, on the line between
New Mexico and Indian Territory, state
that $500 head of cattle moving out OF
the Indian Nation by order Of the Presi-
dent, were driven into this Territory, and
the foreman OF the outfit was killed In q
fight with the employees of the Prairie
Cattle Company, who united to oppose
their entrance. The report that 100, 900
hoe reservations were heading for New
Mexico was published here yesterday, and
created q profound sensation among the
cattlemen. many OF whom declare openly
that those cattle will not be allowed to en-
ter the Territory. Governor Ross saws
there is room enough in New Mexico for
five times as many cattle as are here at
present, and all the stock is healthy
enough to pass In. Quarantine points
will be admitted and protected.
A Terrible and Fatal Accident.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. ia terrible 40
cident is reported from Little Gallon,
Terrebonne Parish. A few days ago. while
Emil Liretle was engaged in moulding
bullets for his gun, he asked his wife TO
FIJI his powder horn for him. She was
some ten or twelve feet from the fireplace,
where a few Goals we're s~mouldering. Her
task was but half completed when q gust
Of wind. suddenly blowing through an
open door. sent q spark straight at the
powder. which ignited and a terrific explo-
sion followed. The roof OF the dwelling
WAS torn off, three children we're instantly
killed, the mother received such injuries
that before many hours she too was dead,
while the husband and father and the two