Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-15

Cnairlhdn. WHICH SHOWS Grants strength to
be IN the ascendant. The speeches favoring
Grant were loudly applauded.
| A scene of wild disorder ensued upon a
motion to enforce the unit rule. but it was
| finally adopted amid loud protests.
After recess JAS. Speed was made perma-
nent Chairman.
| The report of the Committee on Creden-
tails was adopted, excluding the anti-Grant
delegates from the Louisville district.
| More excitement ensued when the Com.
mittee on Resolutions presented a majority
report favoring Grant instructions, and q
minority report favoring no Instructions
| The majority report was adopted by about
| 200 majority, so the delegates go instructed
to vote as unit for Grant.
Missouri Republican state Convention.
SEDALIA, April 18th. The Republican
State Convention met to-day. Judge David
| Wagner was chosen Chairman.
The Convention organized and recess was
| taken.
| A Grant caucus, called by C. j. Tilley. is
sitting.
Several congressional delegations have
| elected delegates to the Chicago Convention.
| The Grant caucus agreed on full list Of
| delegates, and passed resolutions favoring in
structions for solid Grant vote at Chicago
| Several colored members urged that they
might be represented at Chicago, but were
| disregarded, and held caucus with the
Blaine men, but nothing definite was done.
| After electing delegates to the National
Convention resolution was adopted reaf-
| frming the principles of the Republican
party, indorsing the administration of U. S.
Grant when President and instructing the
| delegates to Chicago to vote as q unit on all
questions and for said U. S. Grant as candi.
date for President.
Massachusetts, Republicans.
WORCESTER, April 14th.-The Republican
State Convention for the choice of four dele
gates to Chicago meets here tomorrow. 1t
is evident that Edmunds friends have a ma
jority of the Convention, and the delegates
will undoubtedly be in favor of him, although
the Grant and Blaine men have united. The
ticket favored by the Edmunds men consists
of George F. Hoar, John w. Barker, w.
w. Craps and Charles r. Cadmium The
Grant-Blaine ticket is Alexander Rice, E. r.
Nudge, l.. L. Brown and Charles A. Stott.
Grants Movements.
MEMPHIS, April 14th-Grant will arrive at
Little Rock this evening and return to Galena.
via Cairo. on Friday.
Forest Fires in New Jersey.
SEAGIRr IN. j., April 14th-A district of
dense pine forest and cedar swamp, fifty
miles long and ten miles wide, has been
burned over. The fire continued to rage late
last night. Thousands of game birds and
many cattle have been suffocated The
smoke is so dense that the sun has not been
seen for two days. The district burned over
is sparsely populated The flames are ex-
tending through Cumberland and Atlantic
counties, and unless heavy rain comes will
| only be extlnguished when they reach the sea-
FoRKED RIVER, April 14th.-The entire
| country about here is nemass of blaze. One
hundred square miles of cedar and pine forest
| is consumed. The greatest alarm is felt by
the villagers who are out fighting the flames.
Two houses have been burned.
MANCHESTER, April 14th.-There seems to
be no abatement to the terrible forest fire
| which surrounds us. The fire has spent its
force here, but is burning toward Barnegat.
The trains on the New Jersey Southern Rail-
road to-day ran the fire gauntlet with closed
windows, which were blanketed. But few
passengers understood the dangerous ride.
The heat was intense and the cars were badly
Scared
TOMS RIVER, April 14th.-The great forest
| fire has crossed the river and is speeding to-
ward Good Luck Point and Island Beach.
Fears are felt that it will reach the town.
The people are fighting the fire. Ormitt's
mills, in the suburbs of the town, are reported
destroyed.
The Telegraph DihicuIiy-victory for the
Western Union.
DENVER Coll, April 14th.-Between mid
night and daylight on the 2Sth of last Febru-
airy the wires of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company along the Kansas Pacific
Railway, the Denver Pacific Railway and
the Colorado Central Railway were discon-
pactaA fro,, no Il
offices thereon of the Western Union Com
pany, and violently held against them, there
being in this city alone 100 armed men on
duty for a week or ten days to prevent their
restoration. The Western Union Company
refrained from any form OF violent resist
lance, but filed its petition in the United
States Court for relief. By order of the
United States Circuit Court the Colorado
Central wires were restored March 9th, and
to-day, by similar order, the wires on the
Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific Railways
are restored. This completely reinstates the
Western Union Company in all its lines, and
fully vindicates its claims and conduct in the
premises.
Eastward. bound Passengers.
OMAHA, April 18th. - The following
through passengers were on to-day's train.
leaving at 1880 P. NJ. to arrive in Sac
ramento April 18th II. J. Forney, R. N.
Chapman Boston; Miss Bakewell, Hamil-
ton, o.; Mrs. E. l.. Platt. Burlington, Vt.
A. j. Vanduzee, Mrs. j. B. Smith, Dubuque,
Iowa Charles Smith, Beatrice, Neb.; Mrs.
j. L. Crane and two children, Oakland j.
r. Reigart and family, E. S. Marsh, Wis
consin Mrs. 4. +. Marsh, Brandon, n. Y;
Major l.. S. Babbitt, U. S. A.; X. Temple
and wife, VIM. Lamb and wife, New York
| A. o. Larkin, San Francisco.
OMAHA, April 14th.-The following through
passengers were ON to-day's train, leaving
at 1890 P. NJ, to arrive in Sacramento April
18th: N. j. Foxwell, Verde, New; w. M.
Stone. w. A. Stone, Knoxville, Iowa; DIR.
! K. D. Schue, Mrs. Schue, U. S. A.; j. M.
Croft, New York; Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert,
| Paris; Miss Lille Mitchell, New Y FORK Mrs.
J. W. Barrett. Miss Annie Barrett, Sedalia
Mo; Mrs. J. B. Findlay, Mrs. Samuel Viii
son, Lexington. Mo-; Mrs. ID. j. Knapp and
child, Sioux Falls, Dakota J. w. Parsons,
Baltimore Lizzie Elliott, Mount Vernon,
! Ohio S. b. Whitehead, San Francisco H.
q. Curtis, Atlantic, Iowa Isaac Held, West
| Liberty, Iowa.
One hundred and eighteen through emf
grants left on last nights emgrant's train, to
arrive in Sacramento April Dist.
Business Firm in Trouble.
NEW YORK, April 14th.-At the Cotton
Exchange to-day, Potter & Co. notified the
Board that in consequence of the decline in
cotton and the delay of their customers in
putting up margins, they were compelled to
ask the indulgence of their creditors for a fe W
days.
Nominated for Congress.
LANCASTER pa April 14th.-The Demo-
cratic Convention to-day nominated j. l..
Steinmetz for Congress in this district.
Dra Dasy Inn
WASHINGTON, April 14th.-Maxey intro
duced in the Senate to-day bill appropriat-
| ing So, 900 to reimburse Captain Payne and
other officers, and several privates, for the
loss of personal property captured and
destroyed by the Ute Indians in the fight
with Captain Thornburgh's command at Milk
River, Col, in September, 1879.
The Case of the POnca Indians.
| WASHINGTON, April 14th.-Rev. S. d.
Hinman, before the Poncas Committee to-
day, stated that he believed the Poncas were
misunderstood in the agreement they made
January 9th. He did not believe the Indi-
ans were Intentionally defrauded to secure
their removal to the Indian Territory GER
tainly not by Inspector Kemble, as he was a
man of immovable integrity, SO straight that
he sometimes leans backward.
Death OF a Hero.
CINCINNATI, April 14th.-Alexander Will
son. who was attempting to rescue little chill
dren from a burning house, was himself
caught in the flames and burned to death, last
night at Covington, Ky.
StIvar and SfOcks