Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-01-04
General News.
UNITED STATE

Patrick Egan sailed Tor ASplnwall,
Dec. 20, on his way to Chile.
A barbed wire trust has been
formed with capital of $1,000, 600.
The report that President Harri-
son intended to give II series of lee
lures at the Leland Stanford Jr.
University has no foundation.
According to information brought
by the Philadelphia ship Jacob E.
Ridgeway from South Africa, Gideon
w. Marsh, the fugitive Keystone
Bank president, was in Cape Town
last October, and soon left for Ran
COON.
Kansas City has a clause in it's
charter fixing penalty of 81. 80 per
capita ON all who do not vote. Suit
has been brought against u promi-
nent capitalist, which will be followed
by others, to include every delin
quent non-voter ON the books.
A. II. Andrews q Co., dealers in
school'and Office supplies, at Chicago
Dee. p filed a bill against Edwin d.
Weary, a former salesman, claiming
that he had defrauded them of 800, .
600 in connection with the letting of
various contracts. He denies the
allegation.
A Fort WAYNE special says that
Henry Smith eleven -year-old son of
Samuel Smith of New Haven, pointed
a shotgun in play at his younger
brothers and pulled the trigger.
The gun, as usual, was loaded.
One boy was instantly killed, and the
other fatally wounded.
JuanC astellar, u well-known mer-
chant of Wilmington street, Los An
geles, was on trial Dec %, charged
with keeping fence. During the
raids of the notorious burglar, Wilt
ans, many of the articles stolen by
Williams were found in Castellar's
place of business.
Dec. q, an unknown negro entered
the residence of Joseph Braumer,
a German farmer living near Burton,
Tex, beat Braumer, and assaulted the
farmers daughter The fiend then
robbed the house and escaped. The
young lady and the old man are both
seriously injured.
The $75, 600 paid by the Chilean
Government in settlement of claims
arising out of the Baltimore affair at
Valparaiso has been placed in the
sub treasury at New York. Ar
rangements will be made as soon as
possible for it's equitable distribution
to the people for whom it is intended.
M. j. Foerstel the lately deposed
City Treasurer of ST. Louis, made an
assignment Dec. %. The assets
amount to 1927, 900. The liabilities
are less than half as much. The as
signment was made because small
creditors were placing attachments
on the property, getting an advan
tage over others.
Statistics of railway construction
during 1892 in the Railway Age
show that during the post twelve
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were laid on 2S9 lines in forty-three
States and Territories, slightly less
than the total for 1891. The total
railway mileage of the country is
now ia, 663.
Mrs. Eleanor Fletcher Bishop, the
mother of the dead mindreader has
been found in very Strengthened cir
cumstances in New York City. Mrs.
Bishops step-daughter is the wife of
a millionaire banker at San Antonia
Tex, and she has millionaire sisters
in California. She adopted and
raised eight children. When called
on she had just finished her break
fast, consisting of piece of dry
bread and tea.
Rufus E. Graves was Dec. q SEN
tenced in the United States Court at
Dubuque, Iowa, to five years in the
State penitentiary, for having, while
president of the defunct Commercial
National Bank, made false reports to
Comptroller of the Currency. He
took an appeal to the United STAGES
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der bond of $4,000 Graves is now
connected with a bank at Arizona.
AT Columbus (O.,) ]. A. Brown,
the detective, is suing Julia c. and
Charles S. Bell, parents OF Sidney
Bell, for 81, ,701, for work performed
and expenses incurred in the Bell
murder case at San Francisco.
Brown says that it was represented
to him that H. c. Rev, a retired
millionaire of Chicago and uncle of
Sidney Bell, was to pay all expenses,
but that Rev declined to pay the
bill, saying that the case had already
cost him over $4,000
A man named Laundry of Detroit,
Micl. has been just made to dis
gorge IL stolen shoe store. He ac-
compishcd the whole theft between
May 10th and Nov. goth. The goods
were stolen from c. r. Richardson