Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-05-23

CINCINNATI, May 22.-At the morning
session Of the Presbyterian Assembly the
Standing Committee announced that con-
adorable Of a sensation was produced By
the offer Of a resolution by Judge Drake,
of Philadelphia, declaring the Roman
Catholic Church apostolical, its priest
hood, usurpers and it's baptism invalid.
He smoke in favor of his resolution.
Sneeches we're made by Doctors Wells and
Butler, Of Brooklyn, opposing the spirit of
the resolution, and Directing to it's con-
alteration, now when the judicial case was
pendipg involving the same matter. The
resolution was laid ON the table for the
time being.
Desperate Encounter with Thieves.
CLEVELAND, May pa special from
Burton City, Wayne county. gives the de-
tails of q fatal fight with burglars at an
early hour this morning. The clerk who
slept in the store of James Conner was
awakened and saw several men working at
the safe. He aroused his employer, who,
with his son, FASTENED to the store. An
attempt was made to arrest the burglars,
but they made a desperate fight. Several
pistol shots were fred by Conner at the
thieves. Four of the men escaped. One
was killed. Conner was fatally wounded.
The dead man had papers on his person
bearing the name OF Il. J. Adams. The
thieves secured $1,000.
Refuses to Observation-Disclosures.
WASHINGTON, May 22.-Secretary Man
ming has called for the resignation Of
Major s.. willard Sexton, Of Massachu-
sets, Chief of the Division of First
Comptroller's office. 1t is stated that Sex
ton will refuse to resign on the ground
that there are no charges whatever against
him, either OF ineficiency or offensive
partisanship.
The President to-day appointed the fol-
lowing Collectors Of Internal Revenue:
William T. Bishop, for the First District
Of Ohio; Asa Ellis, for the First District OF
California.
Alleged Cause of Frelinghuysen's
Death.
New YORK, May 22.-The family OF the
late Secretary Frelinghuysen makes no
secret Of the fact that the first serious
illness Of Judge Frelinghuysen was due to
aconite that, in some u~naccountable maD-
ner, was bottled with mineral water he
used, and DR.. Lincoln, Of Washington,
says there was enough left in the bottle
to kill four men.
A Peculiar and Fatal Disease.
PITTsBURG, May pa strange disease,
battling the skill Of physicians, broke out
in Paris Roads, a small station on the Pan
handle railroad, IS miles from Pittsburg,
a few days ago. In one family there were
five deaths, and the mother is insane.
Eight persons have died and eight more
are sick. The local physician refused to
attend the patients, and Steubenville
physicians are there. The disease is spread
ing rapidly, and all cases prove fatal.
End of a Religious Fanatic.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, May 22.-Samuel
Mutt, who began a forty-day fast on the
9Th instant, saying he was commanded to
do 80 by the Lord, died ct l O'Clock yester-
day. He was somewhat widely known as q
publisher of a curious religious paper, en-
titled the esprit of Truth"
Murderer Hanged.
CLARENDON, Ark, May 22.-Goodwin
Jackson, (colored,) who, in November last,
beat Sandy Redmond (colored) to death
with q fence rail, was hanged to-day in the
presence of a very large crowd. He died
protesting he did not intend killing Sandy,
but struck him for threatening to strike
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