Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-01-04
STAT E, COAST AND ELSEWHERE

The miners IN the EUREKA mine,
Plumas county, are on strike.
P. J. MaguIre has been commission
ed acting Postmaster at Bonneville.
Water in San Jose is as dear as
bread, according to the newspapers
there.
Red Bluff likes the Oroville fair SO
we'll that it talks of holding similar
one.
Kearney's Hotel, in Boston Ravine,
Nevada county, was burned yesterday,
The Iroquois is expected at the
Mare Island Navy Yard on the last of
January.
The residence of Mrs. S. J. Daven-
port and j. Burgess at Red Bluff were
burned Yesterday.
Mayor Shippee Of Stockton was
thrown from a buggy yesterday
though he was not seriously wounded.
Pleading in the case of L. A. Powull
who shot Editor Smith at Redwood
City, will take place tomorrow.
A new Constitution has been pro
claimed in Malta, making the Council
OF Government consist of fourteen oi-
ected and six official members, instead
of eight elected and nine official mem.
bers, as before.
Paul Boden was convicted yesterday
of smuggling jewelry, and will be sen,
fenced today in New York. The
jewelry, he claims, was given to him
by friend in France for person In
San Francisco,
For the eighty.second time the body
of the gentlemen who compose the
New England Society of New York
city sat down to their annual dinner
last night at Delmonico's with 200
members and gueets at ihe banquet
board,
A telegram from Clonmel, Ireland
says that Mr. Sheebg, M. P. who was
sentenced Wednesday to Imprisonment
for melting resistance to eviction, was
yesterday thrown to the floor by the
Warden, who then tied his hands and
removed his clothes.
1t is stated that Senator Sherman,
feeling satisfied that Blaine would Sc.
cure the nomination tor the Presidency
had determined not to permit his
name to go before the Chicago con-
vention. Although such a rumor is
in Washington it is not given full cred
it.
The Grand Jury at Hartford, Conn.
last night returned an indictment
against James S. Parsons, President;
Robt. e. Beecher, the Secretary; and
Isaac W. Hakes, clerk, of the Conti-
mental Life Insurance, charged with
making false entries and returns.
Ed. johnson, colored, placed some
dynamite cartridges in she oven of his
stove TO thaw, at Cincinnati yesterday
Soon after a terrific explasion took
place, nearly destroying his house,
killing his 18year old daughter and
infant and seriously injuring johnson
and his wife.
Harvey MeKinna won the BILLIARD
match with Fred Eames at Boston.
McKinna commenced the game last
night with the balls in the position
where they bad been left the previous
night and made run of seventy. five
making altogether run of 2,572 and
1,042 more than Vigneaux's big run.
Representative Moffatt, who dieG
yesterday, had an excellent seat on the
floor Of the House in the midst of the
Republicans. When it was known
that he was sick, several applications
from Representatives less favored as to
locality were made for the sick mans
seat in case death followed the illness
Charles A. McCarty, eighty-one years
of age and one of the most prominent
men in Rockaway, N. j. died last
night after an illness of several weeks
lie was a Forty miner having gone
to California when the gold fever
broke out. He returned in 1854 aud
purchased from his father the Rock
way Hotel.
An explosion at the NNUnited Gas
Improvement Company's Norks on
Sixth Street Jersey City, yesterday
afternoon wrecked small BRICK suiid.
lug, injured two men and boy and
caused great excitement In the neigh