Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-03

9Th: Mrs. E. S. White, Boston ; Arthur
Govern, W. w. Gray, Glasgow, Scotland j.
Dahl, Sweden /; james I'll. Williamson, Lou
isyille, KY; W. II. Rheinhold, Milwaukee;
Henry McEwan, Buffalo; George L. Com
stock. Long Island.
sympathy for Kearney in the East.
NEW YORK, May 1st.-Arrangements have
been completed for the monster meeting to
be held at the hall of the Cooper Institute on
Friday evening, May 9TH, to express indig-
nation at Denis Kearney's sentence, which Is
looked upon as being directed against free
speech Many who have never expressed SYM
pathy with Kearneys views denounce the &C.
ton of the California Courts as tneonstitution-
al. Among thespeakers announced are Patrick
Ford, editor of the Irish World; Professor
Henry Appleton, John Swinton of the New
York Sun Judge Hoxesy, of New Jersey
and Adolph Doual, editor of the VoLkS lett
una. Similar demonstrations will also be
made in Brooklyn, Boston, philadelphia
and Baltimore.
Public Debt statement.
WASHINGTON, May 1st.-The decrease of
the public debt during April was SO ,078, 070;
cash in the Treasury, $3.50, AGA, 1893; gold GER
tifcates. IS, $50, 600; silver certificates, S12,-
O43. 20 certificates of deposit outstanding,
IS, 760, 600 refunding certificates. 81, 524 $50;
legal tenders outstanding, S346, 5S1, 046 frac-
tional currency outstanding, S15, 6O4, 5S7.
why Counties arc Unpaid.
WASHINGTON. May 1st-Secretary Sher-
man. answering q House resolution, says
Back pay and bounties are not paid because
Congress has failed to act on the official es-
Inmates of the amounts required to pay such
claims.
Colonel Tom Scott Resigns.
PHILADELPHIA, May 1st.-At a special
meeting of the Directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad to-day semi-annual dividend of
three per cent. was declared. The resigna-
ton of Colonel Thomas A. Scott, who for the
past six years has been President of the COM
pany, was received, to take effect on the LIST
of June The resignation was referred to
committee for consideration, to report at
meeting to be held next week. SCOTS health
caused him to resign.
Brushes Wanted for Pennsylvania.
New YORK, May 1st.-The Tribune, re-
ferring to the pardon of the Pennsylvania
bribers, SAYS The whole business is disgrace
full. Peaceful and prosperous Pennsylvania
must need blush in the presence of distracted
California. Denis Kearney has been sent to
Jail for six months, merely for making incen-
diary speeches.
Hopes of a Better Market.
New YORK, May 1st.-The World says of
Yesterdays Mining Stock Exchange: There
was little change in the amount of business
to-day, the sales aggregating 1880 shares,
against 51,665 yesterday. Prices opened
generally higher, and the market has been a
strong one, showing at the close considerable
advance for most of the stocks. The feeling
has so much improved that there was a
pretty general hope that the worst was over
and that next week might see a better mar
ket
Pedestrianisn.
BUFFALO. May 1st.-The score of the six
DAYS pedestrian matches is as follows: Pan
chot, 406 miles; Faber, 405; Fitzgerald,
3S6: Herty, 1863; Campana, $40; Bluett,
| 312. Panchot evidently taxed his strength
to the utmost, staggering around the track
the last mile, and falling from sheer exhaus-
! ton. His face was bruised and cut. Faber
had much-swollen knee; Fitzgerald was
used up. The crowd was immense, 5000
tickets being sold to-day, and about q, 900
during the week. The six days heel-and-toe
contest, under the management of OLeary,
begins May 31st.
! PHILADELPHIA, May 1st.-The score in the
six days go-as-you-please was as follows ::
Albert, 412; Redding, S87; Dufrane, 325 !;
Mchee, ZoU hughes, 4Ot udIrlIldH 900 J,
| Collyer, 295; Arnold, $50.
Emigration Extraordinary.
NEW YORK, May 1st.-Five steamships
arrived to-day from Europe. bringing 1891
emigrants The French papers state that
there are $50, 600 persons in France waiting
means for transportation to this country.
Two thousand are waiting berths in Havre.
! Three trains were dispatched to-day, and
three extra trains of twenty-one cars each
will be sent out tomorrow via the Erie, Penn
sylvania and New York Central Railroad.
Bogardus Beats the Best Score.
ST. LOUIS, May 1st.-A. H. Bogardus won
the demonstrating match with Fred Erb, Jr.,
of st. Joe, for 500 a side, to-day. The
score, Sc to SO, is the best ever made under
English rules.
Murder and Attempted Suicide.
New YORK, May 1st.-Mrs. William
Stokes, living apart from her husband with
an aunt in Brooklyn. East District, was shot
dead tonight by Edward Kennedy, who
boarded in the same house. Mrs. Stokes re-
fused to marry Kennedy Kennedy also shot
himself, but not fatally. He had shot him
self on previous occasion when rejected by
Mrs. Stokes.
Shot Dead.
PHILADELPHIA. May 1st.-Frank Burke
was shot dead last night by policeman Will
lam Shields. Burke was hurting stones at
the officer, having been ordered off the
corner.
Three Years OF RepOse.
BoRDENTowN On. j. J, May 1st.-Frederick
A. Kelley, defaulter of the National Bank
of Mount Holly, to the amount of S33, 600,
has been sentenced to the State Prison for