Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-08
EASTERN NEWS.
Russell Goodwin Shoots and Kills
Thomas Dalton.
DEATH OF JAMES a. WALES. The
CELEBRATED CARTOON ARTIST.
John Rowe Sheets His Mistress and Then
Himself.
RABBI T.. RAppAPoRT ARRESTED As A
MEXICAN REv0LUTIoElsT.
Charles Bourton Arrested for
Selling Spurious Tickets.
THE HEALTH OF THE PRESIDENT SOMEWHAT
IMPROVED.
Charles Bourton Arrested TO-
Selling Spurious Tickets.
THE HEALTH OF THE PRESIDENT SOMEWHAT
IMPROVED.
ESPECIAL TO rHE s~ENrISEL.l
Shot and Killed.

Dalton, q young man well known IN
this city, was shot and killed this
afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock in the
rotunda OF the Peabody Hotel by
Russell Goodwin. Dalton was seated
when Goodwin appeared with a drawn
pistol and fired at him. The bullet
struck Dalton in the breast. AS he
staggered to his feet he fell to the
floor. Goodwin fired three more shots
into the PROSTATE form. After which
he cody laid his pistol on the cigar
stand of the hotel and walked to the
front door, where he was arrested.
Dalton died almost instantly. All OF
the four wounds he received were
mortal ones. Goodwin, who is only %
years of age, refuses to make any
statement. The alleged crime lead
ing to the tragedy was scandalous
| rumors circulated by Dalton and his
married sister. Young Goodwin is
we'll connected. Russell Goodwin is
the son of John r. Goodwin, IL the
most prominent cotton manufacturers
in Memphis. Dalton was % years
old, and leaves q widowed mother and
two young sisters. He has been absent
from Memphis Tor three months and
only returned last Friday.
A Tale of outrage.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. IA special from
Ell Paso to-day says: This morning a
man arrived on the Central railroad
from Chihuahua, who tells a tale OF
outrage in that city. The man is the
Rev. T. Rappaport, a Jewish Rabbi
and in i'll health. The Jewish people
of this city raised money to send him
to the City OF Mexico, where he says
he has brothers. He says he stopped
off at Chihuahua last Friday, and after
going about the streets for some time
with an American, they returned to
their hotel. Soon afterwards an
officer came in and arrested them,
charging them with being revolution
lists, and took them before a magistrate.
Rappaport says the officer went
through his pockets and took away
$4S. He showed his papers to the
magistrate, who thereupon discharged
him, but kept the $4S for costs. He
SAYS the American refused to pay any.
thing, and appealed to the American
Consul for protection, who said he had
no authority beyond commercial af.
fairs, SO the American went to Jail,
where he now is. Consul Brigham
will investigate the matter and report
to the State Department.
Death of ~ Celebrated Cartoon Art
New YORK, Dec. T. James A.
Wales, the cartoon artist OF Puck,
Judge, and other publications, died
to-day in the basement of restaurant
on Broadway. He had breakfasted
there between 10 and IL o'clock, after
which he went out for a potion Of
bromide of potash, which he drank
with liquor. He then stretched him
self on a sofa in the private office to
sleep, and some hours after he was
discovered to be dead. A doctor was
summoned, and announced his belief
that Wales died of syncope, from or
ganic cardiac disease, resulting from
an overdose of bromide. There were
some intimations of suicide, as he was
known to have been INDUCING in pro-
tracted excuses. but his friends scout
the idea. Deceased has a wife and
two children, but has lived alone. He
was born in 1850 ut Clyde, Ohio,
whence he was sent to London and
Paris to fit himself for the work he
has done. His body was removed to
the Fourth Precinct police station,
where it nov lies.
Arrest Of "a Swindler.
New YoRK, Dec. Z. = The enter
prising person who recently sold $780,
900 worth OF unauthorized tickets for
the Patti concert in the city of Mexico,
has been captured. 1t is believed by
the Mexico detectives, from dispatches
received at Harry Abbey's office,
in this city vest erday, that the sup
posed swindler has been found within
thirty miles OF the City OF Mexico.
The man is supposed to be n
Charles Bourbon, the alleged Partisan
journalist, who lived at No. 80 Clinton
place in this city, for a few weeks last
Fall. The information contained in
the dispatch was very meagre, and it
was not known positively by Abbey's
Representative in the city Yesterday
that Bourbon, or who ever he il, had
actually been arrested. 1t was known
to a certainty, however, that the man
was under police surveillance and
would not be allowed to leave the
country. 1t was thought there was a
very good chance Of recovering the
money.