Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1892-09-03
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Pasadena, Cal.
H. B. Harris, a Grass Valley
miner, was killed in the Diamond
d mine Monday.
Sidney Bell was convicted in nine
minutes in San Francisco on the
charge of burglary.
Five thousand tons of tea from
China was the cargo of ship re-
Gently landing at Victoria.
In San Francisco there is sa
loon for every ninety-six of the pop
ulation or every seventeen voters.
Detectives have found 81 1900
taken in the Fresno train robbery.
1t wss dug up in Evans barn at
Visalia.
Rev. McCallum of Elk Grove,
Cal, has "mysteriously" disappear
ed with $400 belonging to his be-
loved brethren.
A vigilance committee compris-
ing many prominent citizens has
been formed in Fresno to rid that
town of the tough element.
The Greggans-Costello fight in
San Francisco was stopped by the
police at the end of the fiftieth
round. Costello would have lost.
Rev. F. U. Liljegren of Oakland
has been granted a divorce from
his wife, the Swedish Nightin-
gale" The trial was long and sem
aational.
McNulty, who escaped hanging
last week in San Francisco, has
been called up before the court
again. and will probably be re-sen-
fenced early next week.
The Great Northern has with
drawn from the Transcontinenta
Association, and is to cut rates.
1t proposes to fix rates according
to mileage, irrespective of ocean
competition at terminals.
Mrs. Mary Lamb and her daugh-
ter Cora have each brought suits for
$4,000 damages against seventeen
of the most influential citizens of
San Diego, whom they charge with
making threats against their lives.
The Transcontinental Association
has forbidden the Northern Pacific
railroad to carry the State of Wash
ington's Worlds Fair Exhibit free.
This will cost the State $4,000
freight. There will be 104 carloads
of building material alone, to say
nothing of the exhibit proper.
P. J. Ashford, of San Francisco,
has sued the Southern Pacific and
the Pullman companies for 800, 700
damages because of pistol shot re-
ceived while on board a train near
Kelton last year. The shot was
supposed to have been fired by the
porter while searching for valuables.
Louis B. McWhirter, a prominent
lawyer of Fresno, was assassinated
at 3 o'clock Monday morning in the
rear of his residence by two I'M
known men who called him out in
to an ambush. There is no clew as
to who committed the crime, though
it is believed that his death is the
result of political animosities he had
aroused. The citizens have raised
$4,000 reward for the arrest of
the assassin.
In Sacramento two boys, interest
ed in erecting private telegraph
line, fastened wire to the upper
story of one residence and then, to
stretch it across the street, attached
brick to the other end of the wire
and threw it across the wire of the
electric railway company. The
lads had started for the wire when
Charlie Barton came bowling along
behind his fine bay horse. The an
imal ran against the wire and
dropped dead in his tracks.
A daring attempt to rob the bank
at Cayucos, Cal, Wednesday, re-
suited in a failure. The robbers
called at the cashiers house early
in the morning to get him to 90 to
the bank and open the safe. He
had been warned, and posse had
been concealed in the bank to re-
ceive the robbers. One of the gang
was fatally wounded; four others
escaped without auy booty.