Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-06-13

ing forty barrels a day.
Mrs. Fassler, the woman assault
eddy unknown assassins in the sub.
urbs of Sacramento a few nights ago,
has died of her injuries.
True bills have been found by the
Walla Walla Grand Jury against
seven soldiers who were engaged in
the Hunt lynching affair.
During the recent gale at Del
Norte the waves dashed spray over
the tower of the Seal-rock Light
house, 100 feet above the rock.
A fire in a grain-feld near Bing-
hamton, Solano county, last Satur-
day destroyed 1000 grain sacks and
about fourteen tons of new hay, the
property of the Below Brothers.
A child of five years old at Eu-
gene, Or, grows faster on one side
than on the other without apparent
cause, and the case is exciting the
interest of Lane county physicians.
A church was being moved across
the railroad track at Oakdale, Wash.
Monday, when special train came
along, and before the engineer could
stop his engine it struck the church
square amidships, cutting it in two.
Mrs Gussie Streib and Mrs. Lena
Welnanderof Ballard, near Seattle,
who deserted their husbands are in
Tacoma. They claim their hus-
bands ill-treated them and their act
is intended to establish grounds for
q divorce.
A boy dropped a lighted cigarette
in the field of John Owen of Big
Dry Creek, Fresno county, Sunday,
and in less than thirty minutes 240
acres of barley was burned, beside
a clubhouse valued at several hun
dred dollars.
A large number of Indians at the
different Indian agencies in Arizona
have applied to the Commissioners
of the Columbian Exposition at
Chicago for space in which to ex-
hibit their curios and articles of
their own manufacture.
John Enos Silva Perry shot
Mamie, Frates at Sacramento and
then himself Monday. The wounds
of the girl are dangerous, though
not necessarily fatal. Perry died a
few hours after he shot himself. He
was a cousin of the girl and wanted
her to marry him, but she would not
do SO. The parties were Portuguese.
A petition is in circulation at Los
Angeles to secure the pardon of w.
F. Roselle, who was convicted in
1887, of being the accomplice of his
wife in the vitriol-throwing episode
which created quite sensation at
the time. The woman who threw
the vitriol was allowed to go, while
her husband was sentenced to nine
years at San Quentin.
There is strong feeling at Cuffy's
Cove, Mendocino county, against
jackson Rhoades, who killed d. e.
Shull, a school superintendent, be-
cause he (Rhoades) believed Shull
influenced a young lady to refuse
the prefer of marriage made to her
by Rhoades. There is chance that
lynch law will yet be resorted to.
The grasshopper pest are in sec
tions for over eight miles north and
south in Calaveras county. They
have destroyed fruit, corn, beans,
melons and gardens wherever they
are or have been; also the olive and
fruit trees. Saturday they reached
Milton, and there is not bush or
flower left in the cemetery, and they
are travelling northwest through the
town, sweeping every green thing
before them as they go.
Charles Lee was sent from ber-
evolent aid society at San Francisco
to a ranch near San Luis Obispo,
owned by the Andrews brothers.
Wednesday when the brothers came
in to dinner from the field, the boy
began shooting at them with a Win
chester, but without effect. The
bow then took a shotgun and while