Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-26

the road would prove of great value to the
Government as military highway, and pub
lie policy should encourage its completion.
The Whitaker Investigation.
WEST POINT, April 21st.-In the Whitta-
ker investigation to-day, B. G. Welch, sus
pended cadet, testified that student named
Palmer, who was a candidate for West Point,
told him he had heard that some cadets had
said Whitaker would be fixed Frank b.
Andrews, suspended for striking Whitaker.
testified that he struck him for persistently
falling in alongside of him in drills despite
his tAndrews) request that he abstain.
Townsend sharply asked where Whitaker
could fall in if not by the side of Andrews,
but received no satisfaction
Another expert will examine the handwrit-
ing which Gaylor suspected. General Scho-
field issued a general order, expressing un-
shaken faith In the corps of cadets, their
honor and integrity, and appreciation of their
manly bearing under the grevious wrong and
injustice which they recently suffered. Even
II the outrage was committed by one of them,
1t Is no excuse for the indiscriminate insults
and indignities heaped upon them. AS a
mark OF his appreciation, he removes all re-
strictions heretofore imposed upon their usual
privileges.
Death of General Joseph w. Revere.
New YORK, April 21st.-General Joseph
w. Revere, grandson of the famous Paul Re-
| we're, and attached to the Pacific SQUADRON
which took possession of California, died
yesterday, aged 6S, OF neuralgia of the heart
Revere was the officer who first raised the
American flag in California north of San
Francisco bay. He commanded brigade
during the late war, and was in several i'm
portant battles California pioneers here will
take part in the obsequies.
A Factory Burned.
RICHMOND (Mel April 21st.-A fire to-
day destroyed Hogan Bros shoe factory and
other buildings. Loss, 100000 half in
sured Two hundred people are thrown out
of employment.
Killed in a Saloon.
I CHICAGO, April 2lst.-At midnight Her
man Lienberg shot and killed William Nc
Garry, stranger, whom he met in saloon.
There was little provocation. The murderer
has been arrested.
Murder and Suicide.
NELsoNvILLE (O.) April 23d.-James Fen
nell, local policeman, shot and killed
Charles Cooley, who had made an objection
able remark about him, and then shot him
self, probably fatally.
Railroad Accident.
PETERSBURG IVA. J. April 23d.-A working
train on the Norfolk and Petersburg Rail
road was thrown from the track last night
near 1vers station, and Captain Baker and
| Spencer Jones were killed, and the engineer
and fireman injured.
Double Execution.
| ST. LOUIS, April 23d.-Edward Nugent
and Henry j. Redemier were hanged in the
city jail yesterday Nugent shot his wife in
August, 1876, while both were under the in
| fuence of liquor. Redemier's victim was
Franz Vosse, respectable old builder This
L.. l. al
Both made brief speeches.
An Entire Family Burned to Death.
NORFOLK (Va.) April 23d.-Tidings of the
| terrible work of fires, in the swamp region of
North Carolina last week, have reached here.
Life and property were destroyed and houses
and woods devastated Zacariah Owens, en-
gagged In getting shingles from the swamps
on Alligator river, lived there in a house sur
rounded by woods. Saturday he left home
on business, but had not gone far before he
saw the flames approaching so rapidly as to
imperil his house and family He fastened
back to save them hurried his wife and three
little children away, hoping to reach the main
road beyond danger. They were all over
taken by the flames in the swamp midway
between their home and place of safety,
| and the entire family burned to DEATH The
bodies were found the next day by neighbors,
the mother clasping an infant in her arms,
| the father and the other two children lying
| near.
| Train Thrown from the Track.
BosroN, April 23d.-By the giving way of
brake-rod of the express freight train on
the New York and New England Railroad.
two cars were thrown over bridge forty feet
high into Blackstone river, and three cars
tuInbled down 2 steep embankment. The
sleepers were torn up for rods, and telegraph
poles demolished. No one killed.
Ohio Republicans.
| COLUMBUS, April 2fth THE Republicans
of this county elected solid Sherman delega-
ton to-day.
CLEVELAND, April 24th.-The Republicans
of this county, which is the Twentieth Ohio
| District, had two exciting Conventions to-
day. The County Convention in the forenoon
elected % delegates to the State Convention,
supposed to stand % for Sherman and Is for
| Blaine, and adopted resolutions indorsing
Sherman without naming Blaine. The Dis
trict Convention met in the afternoon, and
elected as delegates to Chicago City Treasurer
| Everett and General James Barrett-who in
speeches pledged themselves for sherman
| by an average majority of Is in 172 votes, and
adopted resolutions indorsing Hayes admins
tration, favoring Sherman for Presidential
candidate, and instructing the delegates not
| to vote for third-term man unless necessary
vention unanimous.
| Arrival OF Immigrants at New York.
| New YoRK, April 24th.-The arrivals of
immigrants continue large, almost beyond
precedent. Five steamships yesterday
landed at Castle Garden with 1912 steerage
passengers, of whom ], $50 came from Bremen
by the steamships Hohenstaufer and Neckar.
| The arrivals for the week amounted to 16,-
252 and for the month to SO. 800. If the
arrivals should continue equally large next
week they would make the present months
| business the largest on record. The largest
previous month was about 10000. 1t was
said at Castle Garden yesterday that the i'm
migrants who have recently arrived have been
! of better class than usual. The most Of
them have been young and sturdy peasants
and artisans.
The Carson Mint-PrOpOsed Treaty with
the Crews.
WASHINGTON, April 24th-A majority of
the House Committee on Coinage, Weights
and Measures are strongly inclined to recon-
mend that the Carson Mint be abolished and
its machinery removed to some point in the
Mississippi valley.
| Delegate Maginuis of Montana and General
Miles. Just in from the Yellowstone, had an
interview with the Secretary of the Interior
to-day concerning the proposed treaty with
the Crows. They recommended the acquire
ment OF all that portion or the observation
west of Boulder river and all that portion
east of Pigeon creek, leaving the Crows about
100 miles of the center of the reservation;
this is to be taken in severalty. If the Indians
desire, the right of way for railroads, wagon
roads, and cattle-driving across the reserva-l
ton will also be treated for. This plan viii
leave the Crows large reservation, and open
to settlement the mines of the western portion
and the rich agricultural lands of the Big
Horn valley. Secretary Schurz agreed to
present these propositions to the Crow chiefs,
and it is thought they will be agreed to. 1t
was further recommended that the Conven-
tion Reservation created by the order of
President Grant between the Yellowstone
and Missouri rivers, and which was charged
at the time to have been made in the interests
of Orville Grant, then trader at Fort Peck,
be restored to the public domain. Secre-
tary Schurz agreed to this arrangement.
victory over the Indians in New Mexico.
| SANTA FE, April 24th.-Hatch surrounded
the McKalero Agency on April 18th, and
captured AGO warriors and over 200 mules
and horses. The Indians were then dis
armed. Thirty made break, and IA were
killed by the troops. Hatch then sent
Grierson and Morrow after the Apaches in
| the Sacramento and Guadaloupe mountains.
| They overlook the hand after a march of S5