Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-09
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Special Dispatches to the Record
Union Condensed.

| Omaha is to have another large hotel.
Gladstone is improving, but he will go to
the country for short ress.
| Bogareius won 81, 900 match Saturday.
with w. ID. Mitchell of Virginia score, so
to rs!
Eads' ship railway contract has been unani.
mously approved by the Me,sican Chamber
of Deputies
The 0'Leary sixday pedestrian tourna.
ment opened In Chicago Saturday evening.
The first prize is 1000, second SEQ. third
$500, fourth 500. fifth S1OO.
In the Honse of Commons Saturday n mo.
ton was agreed to that the House thinks
something should be done to improve the
| dwellings of laberers in Ireland.
Mary Andersen, the actress, makes state
ment to the effect shat the report that her
agent, Dr. Griffin, has misappropriatei funds
belonging to her is unqualifedly false
The amount of six per cent. bonds received
at the Treasury Saturday for continuance at
three-and-a-half per cent. was SIS 5sE200.
The aggregate amounts to date are $IC5. 1885,
700.
An effort is being made, according to re-
port, to compromise the New York Collector
ship difficulty by having Robertson with
drawn and substituting ex-Vice-P resident
Wheeler.
A mad dog running wild in the streets Of
Springfield, Nova Scotia, Saturday, bit
seven children, three men and one woman
before being shot. 1t isfeared that most Of
the victims will die.
The Bay of Quinte Yacht Club has decided
on behalf of Captain Cathbert of Cobure, to-
challenge the New York Yacht Club. the
present holders of the America cup, to com
pete in September next.
The Conservatives in the House of Com
mons will resist the first reading of the bill1
for the amendment of the Parliamentary
Oath Act, and will also take division against
it on its second reading.
On the second reading of the Government
bill to increase various existing taxes, the
Reichstag Saturday unanimously rejected the :
hrst clause, thus throwing out the bill. The
bill was very unpopular.
The Reichstag has adopted the report of
the committee that the Reichstag meet year.
ly, and has rejected the Conservative mo-
tion for biennial budgets, but has sanctioned
Iuadrennial Parliaments.
At Conner's Bend, Arkansas, Saturday,
Isaac Green, colored desperado. being
knocked down in fight with John Richards.
white man, seized heavy maui and piled
it ON Richards head till he killed him.
The funeral of Ley Leep, Chinaman,
who was mortally stabbed by rowdy a few
days since, took place at the Twenty third
street Presbyterian Church in New York
Saturday, and attracted wide attention.
Postmaster-G General James says he will not
rest until every official implicated in the star
service frauds is dismissed. Sixth Auditor
McGraw and Disbursing Officer O'Connel
and their deputies will be removed to day.
The performance of the second part of
Wagner's " Nibelungen Trilogy," at Berlin,
was even more successful than the FIRST. The
Crown Prince and Princess of Germany sent
special message of coDgratulation TO Wag-
ner.
A Lancashire family named Siddon have
had wind-fall of property valued at e4,009,-
600, which has been in chancery since 1857.
The property was bequeathed to John Sid
don, who died in the workhouse. Ills heirs
inherit this vast fortune.
james b. Doyle, who acquired distinction
as forger of Government bonds, and whose
work was only distinguishable from the gen.
uine by being superior thereto, gave bail
in Chicago yesterday in the sum of $50, ,000.
and was released frcm custody.
At the session of the Monetary Conference
the delegates from Portugal, Russia Greece,
Austria, Sweden and Norway, and Switzer-
land reserved entire freedom of action. The
Norwegian delegate, al subsequent discus
sion, defended the gold standard.
a freight engine and ten cars went through
a bridge on the Green Bay and Minnesota
Railroad. between Elm Lake and Dexter
vile, Wis, Saturday /. morning The
bridge had been set on fire by some miscre-
ant. The engineer was seriously hurt.
a Conway, Ark, special of Saturday says
A young lawyer by the name of D. NJ.
Smith, living in this town, on last night took
advantage OF the absence of Mr. and Mrs. J.
G. Martin, who had gone on an excursion to
| New. Orleans, to inveigle their little daughter
Jesse, aged twelve years, cousin to the
| young man, to his room and there ravished
hey. Mayor Bolton, wishing to use the room
/ for some purpose, went to the door and tried
to enter; but failing, his suspicious were
aroused, and he watched the room and saw
the young man and girl come out. To-day
he told Colonel Lincoln, the girls uncle, and
upon an investigation the girl confessed
everything, and stated that Smith had threat
| ened to murder her if she told. Smith, End
ing that he was suspected. fed to the woods,
where he was found and captured by the in
dignant citizens. He is under strong guard,
but it is feared he will be lynched. The par
ties are of the best people in the community.