Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-16
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Eastern Politics.

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Eastern Politics.
GREENBACK-DEMocRATF FUSION.
OMAHA, August 14th.-It is reliably re.
ported that the Democrats and Greenbackers
of Nebraska are forming fusion combination,
and will make a united effort to defeat the
Republicans this Fall This agreement is
that the electoral ticket shall consist of four
Democratic and three Greenback candidates.
The Greenbackers are allowed to name the
candidates for Governor and Auditor, and the
Democrats are to have the remaining positions
on the ticket. TheSenatorial and Represent
ative candidates for the Legislature are to
come from both parties, the places to be dis
tributed as equitably as possible. The Green
hackers State Convention, which was to meet
at Wahoo on the first Wednesday in Septem-
Der, has been postponed to meet at the same
time and place with the Democratic State
Convention.
A CONGRESSIONAL DEADLOCK.
OMAHA, August 14th.-The Republican
Congressional Convention for the Eighth Dis
trict of Iowa. after two days session at
Council Bluffs, and after casting 10 ballots
without making nomination, adjourned this
afternoon until 2 P. NJ. next Tuesday. Colonel
w. F. Sapp, OF Council Bluffs, the present in-
cumbent, received 81 votes all through, re-
quiring only three more to be nominated.
Major Anderson received 363, w. p. Hepburn
13h, and John Y. Stone g.
THE TAsMANY DEMOCRATS.
New YORK, August 14.h.-The Tammany
Democratic State Committee, of which John
II. Colby is Chairman, shas issued an address
to the Democracy and called Convention of
the party to assemble at Albany on Septem-
Oh h., oe n.
ocratic State ticket.
THE INDIANA CAMPAIGN.
INDIANAPOLIS (Ind.), August 14th.-The
Democratic State Central Committee opened
the campaign to-day. Over two hundred
speakers will deliver addresses in the various
cities and towns Of the State.
Crooked Census Returns.
CHICAGO, August 14th The Tribune's
Washington special. respecting Southern CEN
sus frauds, says: The editor of the Washing
ton Republican, who was banisbed from South
Carolina, on account of his Republicanism,
and who is familiar with every county in the
State, in analyzing the returns from counties
which show an Increase, says: Take, for
instance, the county of kershaw. Its in
crease from 1870 to 1880 is 9, 427, or about so
per cent. in ten years. Only one railroad
touches this county, and that until recently
ran one passenger coach every day. There
is no factory or mine in the county. 1t is
purely agricultural in its industries, and its
largest town, Camden, is place of about
1000 inhabitants, half of them white. Il is.
perhaps, the sleepiest place on the continent
The growth Of the county In the past fifty
years has been backward instead of forward
In 1929 it contained 3,645 persons, and in
1870, fifty years after, it had but 11,754-a
loss of l,791. But from 1870 to 1880 it
springs so 21, ISL. Ii these figures do not ex-
cite General Walkers suspicious, they will
certainly excite those of the country. We
would like to rest our case upon Kershaw
county. If General Walker will furnish the
men and means, we will undertake to prove
that the census of Kershaw is fraud within
ten days. Ii this was Western State, this
phenomenal increase could easily be ex-
planned by the influx of emigrants from the
Older States and from abroad but in South
Carolina no such explanations are applicable.
There are not probably / 200 more foreigners
In the State than there were in 1S60 and she
has lost more than she has gained by the
movement of her native popu!ation."'
Colorado Railroad Station Blown 10
Spiinfers.
DENVER (Col.), August 14th-A Times
special from Como gives brief account of
an accident which occurred at Red Hill, q
small station on the South Park Road, last
night. About II o'clock a fire broke out in
the depot, which caused the explosion of
about l, 900 pounds of powder, which blew
the depot and every building in the place to
atoms. The agent, F. f. Collyer, was badly
injured by burns and cuts. and is not expect
ed to live. His assistant, Charley Hilton,
was killed, and two other men badly injured.
Further particulars Of the explosion are to
the effect that Frank E. Collyer, agent; T.
J. Conway, assistant agent, and Chas Glenn.
freighter, were sitting in the depot awaiting
the down train when the explosion occurred.
When the Fair Play coach reached the scene
of the disaster soon after, the passengers
found Charles Hilton, an employe, feartully
mangled, not a stitch of clothing save one
sock being found on him. Collyer was
feared his skull is broken. Conway was in
ternally injured bit not fatally. Glenn was
wounded about the body, but not seriously
His coat was split from the neck down. The
ground on which the depot, freight house,
eating house, saloon and forwarding house
stood, is now bare. The buildings were
blown into splinters from the size of a tooth
pick to that Of fine kindling wood Not one
stick on another remains of the FIVE buildings.
1t is said that twelve cases of giant powder
were in the freight house, but this is mere
affair Agent Collyer, who has recovered
consciousness, says that there was no powder
about the place. The wounded were re.
moved to Fairplay. 1t is said that the stage
driver caught scounarel breaking in the
safe after the explosion.
Mex'ean Border Affairs.
WASHINGTON, August 14th.-A thorough
investigation of the recent violation of the
neutrality laws by Mexico, in giving protec-
ton to prisoners escaped from New Laredo,
Texas, has been begun by the State Depart
ment. The first thing was to call upon the
United States Consul at New Laredo to in
vestigate the matter and report, and also to
obtain from the War Department any reports
which army officers may have made. The
Secretary of War gave the necessary instruc.
tions, and the military report is expected in
few days. 1t is known that the Mexican
Government has assured United States Minis
ter Morgan that the protection given to the
escaped prisoners was not by the Mexican
authorities, nor with their sanction, and the
Mexican Government had nothing to do with
the matter. The American officials are in
clined to adopt this view, and to believe that
there is nothing in the facts to indicate that
the Mexican Government has violated the
Guadalupe Hidalgo treaty. The State De-
partment officials says there is no i'll feeling
nationalities. and that there is not likely to
be any trouble.
Accident on a Wharf.
FALL RIVER lMass.) August I4th.-The
wharf at Mount Hope, upon which was
large crowd of excursionists, broke down at
twenty minutes before nine o'clock this even
ing. There must have been a number lost,
but it is impossible to ascertain tonight how
many. The affair is exaggerated, but, owing
to the darkness, there being no lights on the
wharf, it cannot be ascertained tonight
whether or not any person was drowned
The wharf parted in the middle, precipitat-
ing from fifty to seventy FIVE persons into
the trough Many of them clung to the
wharf, and others plunged into the water
Many were taken out unconscious and almost
lifeless, but were resuscitated. The news of
the accident to portion of the spinners ex-
cursion party at Mount Hope occssioned
great anxiety in the city, and hundreds of
anxious ones at once rushed to the landing to
learn the news of their friends. At midnight