Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-14

ooms satisfied that Rivers acted in self-de-
fsnse. Consul Porch has found several
i'm nortsnt Witnesses. The action of Con-
ami Porch is commended by resident Amer.
leans. Rivers is q Californian. and was at
one time a County Commissioner OF San
Francisco.
A Mining Man Suicides.
New YORK, March 13.-Henry ]. Hall,
p Years old, committed suicide to-day at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He was q profes.
sional mining engineer, and is said TO have
sunk the first shaft in California at the
time the gold discoveries began. He
became interested in several paying mines
and lived handsomely. Mr.. Hall had been
suffering Of liver trouble and dyspepsia In
an aggravated form. His wife was in an
adjoining room when Hall killed himself
by shooting a ball through the right tenn
pie. He is said TO have been q millionaire.
senator MIIIer's Remains Coming
West.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The body Of
the late Senator Miller will be taken from
the Cspitol about 2 P. NJ. to-day and es-
corted 10 the depot of the Baltimore and
Potomac railroad. The remains will be
placed in a special car provided for them,
and will be guarded by eight members OF
the Loysl Legion until the departure OF
the train st f:I5 P. NJ. The route Of The
funeral train will be via the Pennsylvania
Central, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
and the Union and Central Pacific roads.
1t is due in San Francisco at IL A. NJ. on
Friday morning next.
e. Labor Matters I'm st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, March 13.-Employes on all
street-car lines but the Broadway ard Cas-
Avenue will assemble tomorrow night to
consider the propriety of striking for 81
per day for IL hours work. That amount
ia now paid by the Broadway line.
Superintendent Dickinson. who has
charge OF all terminal facilities here, in
Guiding the bridge and tunnel and The Mis-
souri, Pacific yards, has offered his men,
who are on a strike, a material increase in
wages, but they have refused to return to
work uptil permitted to do so by the
Knights of Labor.
Granted Their Demands.
CINCINNATI, March 13.-Ali the street.
cars in this city, excepting those on the
Mt. Auburn line, and those running from
Covington to Newport, stopped running at
noon to-day on ccount of the various
companies refusing 10 comply with the
mems demands for 50 per day for ~ hours
work.
LATER-One line has granted the strik-
ers' demands, and it is likely that all will
before night.
BOycOttinS Cinnamon in New Jer.
xey.
NEW YORK, March 13.-The Union Work
ingmen's Club Of Elizabeth, n. j., a man
ufscturing city, 10 miles from here. has dis
tribnted thousands Of circulars among the
citizens of that place, asking them in the
name Of united labor to discontinue pat
ronizingtChinese lsundries in that city and
give their work to deserving widows OF
workmen.
An Alleged FOrger Arrested.
DENVER, March 13.-G. W. Helm, at one
time q grain merchant at Danville, H.,
was arrested near Longmont yesterday by
the Rocky Mountain Detective Association,
charged with forging his brothers name
to a check of 50, 500 three years ago, since
which time he has been a fugitive. The
officers Of Danville have been notified, and
have started after the prisoner.
A Foot Race.
DENVER, March ia Pueblo special to
the Republican says: Agreements have
been signed to-day between N. X. Kittle-
man, the celebrated Kansas Splinter, and
John knight. of Monmouth, for . 100
yard race on March 90 for SO. 900, 81 900
forfeit. knight has q record Of 10A, but
it is the general opinion that Kittleman ia
the best man.
Mrs. Parnell Dangerously HI.
New YORK, March 13.-Mrs. Della Par
nell, mother of Charles Stewart Parnell, ia
lying dangerously i'll in this city from
rheumatic govt. She has been growing
steadily worse for some time, and the
grsvest fears for the result are entertained.
Unless she improves soon Mr.. Parnell will
be called for.
Horribly and Fatally Burned.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 13.-At Logansport
last night, while Sarah Hassett, cook at q
restaurant, was filling q tank on q gaso-
line stove with gasoline, the fluid took fire
and thNgas exploded. The Hasset woman
and a bystander named Joseph Heffner
were horribly and fatally burned.
A Daring Suicide.
CHIPPEWA, Ont, March 13.-An un-
known mar committed suicide at the falls
this morning by jumping into the river
from a small platform at the north end Of
Cedar Island, and boldly swimming right
over the cataract.