Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-06

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of forty-eight It did great damage. Many
chimneys, fences, signs and trees were blown
down. A brick wall two feet thick, on
Broadway, was blown over, and several small
frame buildings were wrecked. The $500
plate.glass front in Odd Fellows block, on
| Pearl street. was ruined The Cleveland
Female Seminary, on Woodland avenue, was
half unroofed and part of the upper west wall
torn off. About seventy young ladies were
sleeping in the institution. The root OF the
new brick wire-mill of the Cleveland Rolling
Mill Company, in the Eighteenth Ward, was
uplifted and one end of the wall blown III on
the workmen, killing Julius Brown and Sc
verely injuring several others.
INDIANAPOLIS.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 5th.-A terrific tor
natio passed over this city last night. A large
number of houses were unroofed, chimneys
blown down and trees uprooted. The Cen
| trail Avenue Methodist Church was almost
entirely demolished. One dwelling house
was lifted from its foundation and carried five
| or six feet. The inmates of the house es-
capped with slight injury. Two or three per-
sons were seriously injured. but so far as
known no lives were lost. The damage can
not be fully estimated, but is quite large IN
the aggregate.
LOUISVILLE.
LOUISVILLE, March 5th.-A violent storm
of wind and hail prevailed early this morning.
At 800 the speed of the wind was As miles an
hour-the highest ever reached at this station.
From 500 to o'clock the rain and thunder
continued, but the wind quoted down gradu-
ally from 20 to II miles an hour. So far as
heard no serious damage was done.
TOLEDO.
TOLEDO. March 5th.-Duriug the preva-
| lence of heavy storm of wind and rain early
this morning the chimney of the Buckeye
Brewery was blown down, falling on and
crushing the engine house, in which police
man and three men at the brewery had taken
refuge. Two were killed and one seriously
injured The wind attained a velocity of y
miles an hour, doing considerable damage to
roofs, freight-sheds, etc., and Frustrating tele-
graph lines in all directions.
The Chinese Exodus.
CHICAGO, March 5th.-The Chinese colony
in Chicago is noticeably increasing. Among
the late arrivals are a number of women, the
first who have located here.
THE SITUATION AT NEW YORK.
New York, March 5th.-The papers con-
tinue harping ON the latest sensation afforded
by the Chinese arrivals here. The Herald
saws Still the Chinese come, and California
is made poorer by every one she loses.
A FEMALE Go-BETwEEN.
The same paper publishes highly spiced
column of an alleged interview between re-
porter and Mrs. Timothy Sergeant, claiming
to be daughter of Juan Alvarado, formerly
Mexican Governor Of California. Following
is an extract While the reporter fingered at
the door of Woo KEGS hotel an elegant equi-
page arrived and lady was assisted out by
an obseuuious footman. Ascending the stoop
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the Chinese language with Woo Kee. She
was visited at her residence, in Twenty-ffth
street, where she spoke as follows 8" am
| lust now engaged in making arrangements for
| fine reception and settlement of all the Chinese
who may be driven from California by Kear-
new and Kalloch / am not arranging
apy of the details, but will assist In their
general movements. | arrived here about
week ago from Montana, where | have been
branding some cattle. When [ left San
! Francisco the city was in terrible state.
! The threats of Kearney and his followers
have stopped up the channels of business, and
hundreds of business men are preparing to
leave. When l left San Francisco ! de-
termined to see what could be done for the
Chinese in New York. | find that
there is an ample field for their
labor here. and l have sent back
word to that effect This morning l re-
ceived a telegram from Colonel Bee, Chinese
| Vice Consul in California. 1t contained a
request that / should visit the Chinese head
quarters and ask the companies and mer-
chants to move to the west side of the city.
The Consul is afraid that if the Mongolians
STAY among the low classes in the five Points
a riot may be precipitated by any of Kear-
news agents who may come to New York, in
the event of general exodus of the Chinese
from San Francisco. Woo Kee and his
neighbors are very uneasy at the hostile
attitude which owners of real estate in their
locality have assumed. They say they will
not be able to stay long in Mott street unless
something is done in an official way to pro
tect them. There ought to be Chinese
Washington knows nothing of the condition
of his countrymen here. l tried this morning
to rent two large buildings near Mott street.
The owner is an Irishman, and was just finish.
ing the bargain when | dropped hint that the
property would be tenanted by respectable
Cinnamon. The owner gave a jump and
said I'll not take $1,000 month for the
property. I'd sooner pull it down piece by
piece. This is the main difficulty in settling
the people who come here. 1t is not lack Of
employment, but a scarcity of dwelling
ladies who arrived in this city with me
They intend to fit up their establishments
entirely with Chinese help, and there is nj
doubt that the ladies throughout the metrop
oils will be glad to employ Monaghan domes
tics. There are several vessels on their way
here with cargoes of Orientals. Hundred
are coming, and within very few days | ex
peet their numbers will reach thousands"
The Star Mail Service.
5 CHICAGO. March 5th-The Times Wash
r ington special says: The testimony of Mon
roe Salisbury, star-service contractor il
California, was examined by the House Sta
Route Investigation Committee to-day. Hi
testimony related to letter written by hin
| to the Senate committee, in which he state
that the passage of the bill making an apprc
: priation to continue the star service for tn
. last quarter of the current year was accom-
4 plished under extraordinary circumstance
and by improper influences, and asked tina
committee to give hearing, which he sal
n had been refused by the House committee
His testimony before the Senate CON
mittee was taken last week. Saul'
/; bury had also charged personal interfel
!. ence to sustain a newspaper combins
e ton, by which the contractors had refuse
a to be blackmailed which had contribute
4 towards securing the passage of the bill. II
5 was examined by Blackburn, Blount an
!. other members of the investigating commi
$ tee. He acknowledged that he had no pc
sonal knowledge whatever of the existence
any such newspaper combination, or of an
p other improper influence having operated
g secure the passage of the bill. The onl
II foundation he was able to give for the chars
of ATTEMPTED blackmail was that one NJ
Reside had told him that he had better {
le and see certain newspaper correspondent
a At the conclusion of Saulsbury's examinatic
Reside was called, and testified that it w
Salisbury himself who had expressed desi
8, to have an interview with the newspaper CO
= respondent, and that Reeside had never a