Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-08-31
Comstock Tunnel Company.


Comstock Tunnel Company.
ALBANY IN. Y. }, August 30th-The Com
stock Tunnel Company filed certificate of
Incorporation in the Secretary of States
Office to-day. The company has capital
of 81 900, 600, divided into shares of 50 each,
and is formed for general mining busi-
ness, accumulatipg, conducting, selling and
Supplying water for mining purposes.
The incorporators are Herman R. Rather,
Peter G. A. M. Vanweel, Eugene Seligman
and Otto Loewengned. Theodore Sutro,
Gordon Macdonald aud Henry E. Kava-
nagh are named as Trustees. The head
quarters of the company will be in New
York, and its operations will be carried on
in the town of Sutro, and the counties of
Lyon, Storey and Washoe, Nevada.
Bar Association.
CHICAGO, August 30th.-The American
Bar Association this morning elected the
following officers: President, Edward
Hitchcock, of st. Louis Secretary, Edward
Otis HinkleY, of Baltimore; Treasurer,
Francis Rawie, of Philadelphia Executive
Committee lin addition to the above)-
George c. Wright, of Iowa; George A.
Mercer, of Georgia; ]. Randolph. Tucker,
Of Virginia, and Charles G. Bonney, of Hi
nois. Three hundred and eight members
have been admitted during the present
meeting.
Thirty Mems Lives in Jeopardy.
CUMBERLAND (Md.) }, August 30th.-Water
from the old Etna mine of the Boston
Company broke in the Allegheny Mine
Consolidation Company at Frostburg this
morning. Thirty men are shut in the
mine. 1t is not known whether lives have
been lost.
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rescuing party found the imprisoned
miners in the flooded Etna mine safe, about
mile from the entrance, and brought
them to the surface uninjured amid cheers
Asphaltum Bed Discovered
LOUISVILLE, August 3Oth.-A deposit of
asphalt has been discovered near Clover
port, KY. 1t covers a large area and is
thirteen feet thick. 1t is just below the
surface and can be mined at very small
cost. The comparison of il with the as
phalt discovered in California and used on
the streets of San Francisco, shows the two
to be almost identical in quality. It is
claimed the California asphalt is more dur
able on street than is the Trinidad.
An Attorney Shot.
CLEVELAND, August 30th.-A. a. Ami
don, q leading attorney of Painsvile, Ohio,
was shot and killed to. o.night in his own
door-yard by Stanley c. Jones. Amidon
was the attorney of Jones wife in a suit
for divorce, and Mrs. Jones was staying at
Amidon's house. Mr.. and Mrs Amidon
and Mrs. Jones had just returned from 8
drive, when Jones, who was waiting for
them, fired the fatal shot.
supreme Officers.
CHICAGO, August 30th-The American
Legion of Honor to-day elected their Off
NnrNrv No., a. III
| Supreme Commander, Enoch S. Brown,
New York; Supreme e-Commander. f.
II. Robinson, New Orleans; Supreme Ora
| tor, J. Foster Bush, Boston; Supreme Sec
retary, Adam Warnock, New York: Su-
preme Treasurer, ]. W. Gwinnell, Newark,
n. j.; Supreme Warden, J. Newman, Hill
nois.
Preventing Hoodlumism.
CHICAGO, August 30th.-The enactment
of the last legislation making it compul-
sorry upon parents and guardians to send
children to school is 10 be brought into
service to rid the streets of Chicago of about
eight thousand children between the ages of
seven and fourteen. 1t is intended to
reach the Italian begging classes and other
undesirable street frequenters.
Swedish Counterfeits.
New YORK, August 30th-Zimmerman
d Foshay, of this city, claim to have dis
covered a large number of counterfeit
ffty-kspner notes of the Enskilda Bank of
Sundsvall, Sweden, dated 1875. The notes
now offered come from San Francisco. The
bills are fair imitation, and have been re-
| ceived in exchange. Bills amounting to
| O,OOO kroners have been traced.
nurderous Assault.
PHILADELPHIA, August 30lh-An un-
known man entered the laundry of Chi
namau named All Mon and requested him
to change S. note. This the laundryman
declined to do, and the man went out into
the street and picking up a large stone
hurled it through the open doorway, strik-
ing All Mon on the head, inflicting fatal
injuries. The assailant escaped.
FrightfuI Fall.
! PHILADELPHIA, August 30th.-A cable
attached to the elevator at the Philadelphia
| Lying-in Charity Hospital broke this after
noon, precipitatipg the car from the third
| floor to the basement. The elevator con-
| tanned five nurses and the elevator boy, all
of whom were more or less injured, one
nurse probably fatally.
Noted Divine Dead.
HAvERHILL Mass }, August 30th.-Rev.
| Charles Wingate, pastor of the Church of
St John the Evangelist, died this morning.
| He was born in Haverhill in 1915. He
was the son of Hon. Moses Wingate, who
died at the age of 101 years. He was a
schoolmate of John G. Whittier in the old
| Hayerhill Academy in 1927
a Californian in Trouble.
LAWRENCE (Mass), August 30th.-Con-
siderable CONSERVATION was caused among
the sports here tonight by the arrest of
George Bush, the California prize fighter,
by Sheriff Coffin Of Portsmouth. Bush
fought Harry Watson of Billyerica, last
Friday night just over the New Hampshire
line.
Baltimore Hanging.
| BALTIMORE, August 3oth. = Melvin C,
Garlitz, wife-murderer, was hanged this
morning. He ate hearty breakfast and
met death stolidly.
Last of the Stonewau Family.
CHARLOTTE IN. CO., August 3oth.-Mrs
W. E. Christian (nee Julia Jackson), the
only child of Stonewal jackson, died here
this morning.
Hanged in Louisiana.
PLAoUEAINE La.), August 30th.-Wilsor
Nockup, colored, was hanged here to-day
for the murder of Ben Fisher, eolored, las