Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-24

bodies were taken out of the burning house,
though somewhat scorched. Winrick and
wife lived unhappily, on account of their
children, each by former marriages, and it is
supposed the old man shot his wife with q
shotgun, set fire to the house and then shot
himself with revolver, and failing, finished
himself by discharging the other barrel of the
shotgun into his own body. They have sew
eral grown children who live in the neighbor-
hood of the crime.
Arrested on a Serious Charge.
New YORK, August 24th.-The police to-
day arrested Mrs. Josephine Scheideler. who
keeps candy store at PA Christie street, and
Augusta Wolherab, midwife, of Ludlow
street, charged with burning the body of
stillborn child, whose birth was not reported
to the Health Board. 1t is alleged that the
child was born a week ago. and that it was
burned on Wednesday last.
Massachusetts Greenbackers.
BosroN, August 24th.-The Greenback
State Convention will be held at Worcester
September 22d.
Determined to Die.
New YORK. August 24th.-Loise Linden,
tbs actress of the Thalia Theater, who on
Sunday last attempted suicide by taking
morphine, and who was discharged this after
noon from Bellevue Hospital, again took NOR.
pulu6 GnlS evening. one WAS returned TO the
hospital, and it is thought will recover.
CareIessness Causes the Death OF a Mother
and Daughter.
PADUcAH (Ky.), August 24th-At Brew
er's mill, Marshall county, Friday night,
while Mrs. Lyles was filling lighted oil
lamp, the oil can ignited and exploded, set
ting fire to her clothing and that of her
daughter Mrs. Lyles and her little daughter
have since died. Mr.. Lyles, in attempting
to rescue them, was also badly burned.
In a Dying Condition.
BUFFALO, August 24th.-General Albert
J. Myers, Chief of the Signal Office, lies in
very precarious condition at the Palace
Hotel. The announcement of his death may
be expected at any moment
Chained to the Floor for Twenty.seven
Years.
READING fPa.l August 24th.-A great
sensation has been caused throughout Berks
Ter, lunatic, who has been confined in a
house in Albany township by his brother,
Jacob Zechler, for twenty-seven years He
was chained to the floor in small house
built especially for him, and in room about
eight feet square, with only one window for
ventilation.
Nominated for Congress.
PoTTsvILLE PAL August 24th.-The Dem
cratic Convention renominated John w.
Ryan for Congress.
MANSFIELD TO-, August 23d.-Colonel S.
b. Fink has been nominated for Congress by
the Republican Convention of the Four
teenth District
UnprOmising Indian outlook.
CHICAGO, August 2ith.-A dispatch has
been received from Fort Buford. under date
of the 10Th, at the military headquarters,
which reports the indications unfavorable. A
few days ago the Uncapapas, Sitting Bulls
tribe, prevented large body of hostiles from
crossing the Missouri to surrender themselves
at the Agency, and the number on the road
is very small. Rain-in-the-Face" is still at
the Agency, with forty warriors, silent and
sullen. The warriors are reported moving
south, while the women and children are
going north, which is bad sign.
Railroad Through Indian Lands-Ouray's
sickness.
CHICAGO, August 4th.-The Inter Ocean
says The Northwestern and Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad have now received
permission from the Indians to lay track
through their reservation in the Black Hills,
and in the race for that section the country
will see some of the fastest track-laying ever
witnessed. The Interior Department has
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the Indian country. for experience has shown
that railroads tend to make the Indians beg.
gars where they have been thrifty and good
citizens, and demoralize them in every way.
The Interior Department fears the sudden
illness of Ouray may result in foul play, and
is very apprehensive in case of his demise.
Shocking Tragedy at Chicago.
CHICAGO, August 23d-The bodies of
Simon Zimmerman and his wife were found
at $3.50 this evening, at their residence, 210
Clayborne avenue, with bullet holes iu their
heads. which had evidently been made by the
husband, as appeared by the statements of
neighbors, early in the morning. The two
children, aged three and one years, remained
in the room all da with the bodies in the
kitchen, and were first discovered tonight by
the brother, who lives in the house, but who
works nights and sleeps all day. He had been
unable to arouse then when he returned from
his work in the morning, and SO retired, be-
ieving them asleep. No cause for the act is
known, their marital life having been ordi-
narily happy. Zimmerman was a workman
in the Chicago Electrical Works.