Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-23


year-old son about midnight. The boy was
! found this morning, and lived but a few min
utes. Lewis was found on his wife's grave in
a coalatose condition, and died this morning.
He had evidently taken similar dose to that
I administered to his son. Lewis for some time
! had shown symptoms OF insanity, caused by
the death of his wife.
! Another Elevated Railroad Accident.
New YORK, March 22d.-A collision oc.
Cured this evening on the Ninth Avenue
Elevated Railroad at Rector-street The
down train stopped at that station. An en-
CINE with two empty cars, called the extra
train was following. The engineer of the
extra did not observe that the other train had
come to a stand-still until too late to stop his
train before it struck the last car of the one
ahead with a crash. None of the cars
left tie track, but the platform of the rear car
of the passenger train ahead and the cab Of the
extra were smashed. a hackman named
Van Orden had a shoulder dislocated. A
piece of iron coupling, detached from one of
the trains, fell to the street below, and struck
John Sullivan on the head, fracturing his
skull. He will die.
Result OF an Attempt to Solve the ''Fif-
teen Puzzle
ERIE pa J. March 22d.-A stone-cutter of
this city named Daniel Comay has become
insane from attempting to solve the fifteen
puzzle. After working at it for several sue
cessive days and nights he this morning de-
veloped unmistakable evidence of mental
arrangement. 1t required four policemen to
take him to jail, where he is now confined.
He is so violent that he is manacled, but
notwithstanding has torn offlall his clothing,
and refuses food. On the wall of his cell he
has scratched o diagram OF the puzzle, to
which he devotes attention in his calmer
moments.
1 Delegation OF Crow Indians 80 Visit
- washington.
WASHINGTON, March 22d.-Mineral lands
having been discovered in the Crow Indian
reservation, upon which an invasion is threat
ened, Secretary Schurz has arranged for a
delegation of the tribe to visit Washington,
with view to amicably arranging the matter.
Report Pronounced False.
/ WASHINGTON, March 22d-The report tele-
graphed from here few evenings since to the
effect that Minister Seward had succeeded in
negotiating a treaty with the Chinese is pro-
nounced false by Secretary Evarts.
Release Desired.
ALBANY IN. ", March 22d-John F.
Smyth, Superintendent Of the Insurance De-
partment, has asked Governor Cornell to re-
lieve him from the cares of Office
Steamer Missing.
PHILADELPHIA, March 22d.-Some I'M
easiness is felt here at the non-arrival OF the
steamship Switzerland, which left Antwerp
for Philadelphia twenty three days ago. The
Belgehland, which left Antwerp six, days
after the Switzerland. has arrived at New
York. The Switzerland had 316 Storage
passengers,
Supreme Court Decision I'm an Insurance
Case.
WASHINGTON, March 22d.-The Supreme
Court, in the case of an insurance policy, has
decided that the insured, who enormously
stated that there was no faint of hereditary
disease in his family, did not thereby invali-
date his policy, because it is not proven that
he knew of such hereditary faint, and be-
cause his answers were restricted to what he
himself knew of the matter.
Solid for Blaine.
Dies MeINEs (Ia.) March 22d.-The first
Republican County Convention in this State
to elect delegates to the State Convention on
the 14th of April was held in Davis county,
at Bloomfield, Saturday, and elected dele
CATION solid for Blaine for President. f,-