Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-27

has been formed to Kill him before the y a
tional Democratic Convention meets. HI
says he has some facts to relate when tina
body meets that certain Democrats of promi
nence are determined shall not be related
| Statistics Concerning the Precious Metals
New YORK, April 26th. = The I'ribun
says: General Walker has assigned to Clar
ence King the work of collecting statistics
concerning the precious metals in this coun
! try for incorporation in the next census
King is organizing a corps of assistants anc
twelve experts, and intends to make thor
ough and exhaustive compilation. One vol
ume OF the census report will be devoted to the
information obtained, which will be not only
statistical, but historical and descriptive. II
is intended to make the census of the mining
industry the best ever compiled in any
| country.
Serious Disturbance In Illinois Coal
Miners on the Warpath.
| ST. LOUIS, April 26th.-A serious disturb
ance took place at the Donk coal mines, neal
| Belleville, fourteen miles from here about
midnight last night. The recent introduc.
tion of new machinery, by which the number
| of miners employed was reduced, caused
great dissatisfaction among the men, and
about 400 of them made an unexpected de-
scent on the mines, fired the works, and it is
said killed one of the men in charge. The
works and machinery were destroyed. Henry
| Donk, one of the owners of the mine, resides
here, and called upon Governor Cullom foI
assistance. Later advices are looked for with
| much anxiety.
| SECOND DISPATCH.J
| ST. LOUIS April 26tb.--Later advices say
there was no destruction of property by the
miners. a
Tornado in Mississippi.
MEMPHIS, April 26th.-A destructive tor
nado swept over the country in the vicinity
of Macon, Miss, last night. Telegraphic
communication is interrupted, but the
meager reports bring intelligence of the loss
of several lives. Fuller details are hourly
expected.
MERIDIAN, April 26th-A heavy storm
passed over Macon, Miss, last night, blowing
away twenty two houses, including the
NJ. and o. r. R. machine shops, round
house, depot, telegraph Office and Master Me-
chanics office. Sixteen cars were blown from
track. Seventeen persons were killed and
twenty two wounded. The loss in property
is estimated at not less than 100000. Meri-
dian was called on to send physicians, and six
or eight have gone from here to attend the
sufferers.
The Storm in IlIinOis-Furiller Particu-
| CHICAGO, April 26th-The following are
additional particulars of Saturday nights
| storm
AT Ashland, Ill, several thousand dollars
worth of property was destroyed. Heavy hail
alternated with rain, which continued all
night, Hooded the streets and permeated eel
lars and Easements.
At Farmer City, ILL.,, the creekf and
| sloughs are higher than ever known before.
Fences, culverts, bridges, walks etc., were
carried off. Chas. Strausburg was drowned
while trying to cross the creek on horseback
At Karkakee an almost unprecedented
amount of water fell The river rose five
feet, farm lands were flooded, and work will
| be delayed two weeks. Much of the lately
sown grain will be drowned out.
| Near Taylorville the cyclone was terrific.
Many houses were demolished and the in
mates crippled, killed or carried away, and
are still missing. Many were rendered home
| less by the storm, which lasted from P. NJ.
to midnight. Alonzo Culler's house was
blown to atoms and one of his children killed
| outright and another carried away and found
dead in the morning. Mrs. Il. j. Langley
was killed. John Gessner had his skull frac-
tured and will die. A man named Watts and
his wife were blown a quarter of mile locked
in each others arms, and were found badly
SU1, pluicCd anu lusclslDlc w. .
Bertz, Mr.. Elliott, wife and two
children, the little daughter of Ed Ligh, and
Thomas Hill were badly hurt Hundreds of
| cattle, sheep and hogs were crippled and
killed, and fowls were found in the line Of
| the cyclone dead and divested of their plum
| age.
Reports of damage are constantly being re-
ceived at Taylorville, and relief measures for
the destitute are being taken.
1t seems that the storms of last week, in
their exsent, violence and destructiveness.
have never been equaled in this part of the
country.
New York Observation-Disclosures Jacobs
Anti-Tilden PrOnunciamentO.
New YORK, April 26th-An Albany cor
respondent of the Times says: Senator
| Jacobs anti-Tilden pronunciamento con-
tinues to be the lealing topic of conversation
here. 1t is quite evident now that Jacobs
was not only in earnest, but his speech was
premeditated. and that he sought the oppor.
tunity to make it. The next anxious query
| of the Tilden men is, Did he speak his own
sentiments only, or is he backed
up in his utterances by the party
managers in Kings county. Jacobs
well-known intimate relations with
Boss Mclaughlin make it all important to
know whether his anti Tilden views are
shared by that eminent Democratic wire
puller. The Times correspondent is in a
position to answer this question, and to
assure anxious Iilden men that Jacobs and
the Boss are in perfect accord in this matter
and that the speech of the Senator is fully
approved, even if it was not originally sug-
gested by the Brooklyn manipulation.
Fremont in New Eorh-suddea Death.
New YORK, April 26th.-Governor and
Mrs Fremont ra nou tyisifyYcr Vor.l-
Joseph Seligman, the senior member of the
firm of j. and w. Seligman & Co., bankers,
died suddenly of heart disease yesterday.
DIR. Dix's Tormentor.
New YORK, April 26th.-Eugene Fairfax
Williamson, DIR. Dix's tormentor, pleaded
gully to-day of defrauding a jewelry firm
out of S35 by forged check. He was re.
manded at the request of counsel.
The Legislative Bribers' Sentences.
HARRISBURG (Pa.), April 26th. Judge
Crawford and Rumberger each 81 900 fine
and year at hard labor in the Penitentiary
Desperate Shot and Captured.
SAYBRooK GIL April 26th-John Dyer, a
notorious desperate, who has caused much
trouble to people in this section, appeared in
town yesterday afternoon, whereupon an
alarm was given, and LOO citizens turned out
to hunt him. He was followed into the
woods, and refusing to halt was shot num-
ber of times and captured. He may survive.
iceberg Six Hundred Feet High.
New YORK. April 26th. = The steamer
Brittanic, from Hull, reports passing through
field of ice, and on April 10Th seeing an ice
berg 600 feet high.
FOREIGN NEWS.