Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
GENERAL NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD.
UNION.
THE PRESIDENTS IMPROVEMENT.
Belief that He Will Be Out of Danger IN
Ten Days.
THE LATE TRAIN ROBBERY IN MISSOURI.
Additional Particulars of the Terrible
Disaster in Michigan.
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.
Heavy Engagement in Tunis Between the
French and Arabs.
DOMESTIC.


WASHINGTON, September 9th.-Secretary
Kirkwood returned from Long Branch to.
day. He says the President is doing splen-
didly, has gained more in the last twenty
| four hours than In any two weeks in Wash
| ington. At first the excessive heat told on
him fearfully; old residents never saw it
hotter and the physicians were very anxious.
Yesterdays cool breeze had an almost instant
effect, and the doctors said if the cool weather
continues, and if no new complications arise,
he will be out of danger in ten days. The
weather prospect is fine, and the surgeons are
confident for the future. The President rel
ishes solid food Had the hot weather lasted
few days more it would have killed the
President The surgeons deny that his lungs
are affected by blood poison. His lungs are
sound and healthy. The Secretary says
everybody is full of hope. and the President
is delighted and sure OF recovery.
The Evening Bulletin.
WASHINGTON, September 9th.-The follow
ing official bulletin was issued at 6:40 P. NJ. ::
ELBERoN, September 9th.-At the examination of
the President at II N. to-day the temperature was
9s pulse 100, respiration II. AT the evening dress
ing, at 1:30, the temperature 9S.S pulse 100
respiration ls 1t is believed, without referring to
the record that this is the first day since the deve
opment of the traumatic fever, that the tempera-
ture pulse and respiration have been nearly
| NAL and uniform throughout the entire day.
Blaine's Report to Lowell.
LONG BRANCH, September 9th.-Blaine at
| 10 o'clock this evening cabled Lowell, Minis
ter at London: 1.-THE medical reports are
all favorable to-day, morning, noon and night.
| The President has not for many weeks done
SO well for so many consecutive hours. He
has had very little fever. His respiration
has been normal, and his pulse has not ex-
ceeded 100. He slept without an opiate, and
gained strength without stimulants. His
nights are not as restful as could be desired,
| but in twenty-four hours he gets sufficient
sleep. The weather, though not excessively
| warm, continues sultry and oppressive.
Much is hoped for from the clear bracing air
which may be expected here at this season."
The Best Day OF the Season.
LONG BRANCH, September 9th.-To-day
was conceded by the attending surgeons and
the Presidents attendants to be one of the
best days he has had since he was shot.
During the morning the surgeons, while ex-
the spot on the body supposed to be directly
| over the ball. The patient did not expert
ence any discomfort from the slight pressure.
| 1t is not thought that the ball in its present
| location will cause inconvenience to the
| President in the use of his limbs. He is now
able to raise his right leg, which is near the
supposed location of the ball, as easily as he
| does the left.
Hot Springs Water Does the Business.
Hot SPRINGS (Ark.), September 9th.-The
| Sentinel claims that the Presidents stomach
was relieved and toned up by water sent from
| here, on the recommendation of Secretary
| Blaine, who had used it.
GuIteaU, the Assassin.
WASHINGTON, September 9th-The ossas.
sin Guiteau passed his 10th birthday in jail
Ha col1a1 tba Oft Of fba
Warden and guards to the fact, and sug
gested that person sometimes received pres
ents on such occasions. No response was
given him. However, it was suggested by
some that the best present would be spider
in his dumping. Guiteau is in remarkably
good health, slightly heavier than when COM
mitted, and i'll better spirits than few days
| days ago. He has by some means learned
that the President has been taken to Long
Branch. When he sees or hears anything that
| indicates that the President is getting better,
he states that he is praying for his recovery
but when the reverse is heard he intimates
that the inspiration he had to kill the Presi-
| dent is right, and that if he 1.-THE President)
dies it will be because it was desired by Provi-
| dence. Recently he has spent much time in
studying his case, and evidently, from his
questions, he will try the insanity plea. He
is asking what will be the effect of the YER
guilty by reason of insanity whether on
such verdict he would be sent to the
insane asylum for an indefinite period,
or until the officers should pro-
nounce him Insane, or whether the
verdict could not be as above, with the addi-
| ton of the words " at the time of the COM
mission of the crime" and in the event of
such verdict whether he would not be en-
titled to his freedom. Every day the lower
~ /. Ill - =
given him to exercise in and yesterday morn
ing for half an hour he gave the guards eyi-
dence that he was in good condition for
walking. Wearing wooden shirt and black
pants, the latter rolled above his knees, dis
playing legs with muscles so large as to look
unnatural, he rapidly trotted up and down
the floor. Although rather short in the legs,
he stepped off twenty-eight or thirty inches
at stride, and excited the wonder of some
of those who had never seen him exercise.
The Michigan HorrOr-Additional Details.
DETROIT, September 9th.-Details continue
to come in respecting the fire in Huron and
of the fire was heralded by the dense atmos
phere, entirely obscuring the light in the
middle of the afternoon on Monday. People
carried lanterns in the streets until o'clock
| Wednesday morning. In the woods were
| many dead of all ages, presenting revolving
| sight. The bodies were scorched and charred.
| The high winds had spread the fire, and every
avenue had been closed TO the fleeing, home
less ones, leaving nothing but death by fire.
| Large burning masses of intiammables were
| lifted bodily and carried through the air.
| The skill and courage of man seemed impo-
| tent, and men and cattle were roasted to-
gether in natural fre.traps. One farmer
blowing with oxen few miles from Sand
Beach, started home on the approach of
darkness, and found his wife gone to neigh
boris. He took two children and escaped,
but his three other children and his oldest
| daughter, who took another path, were found
heaped together. Up to Wednesday night As
bodies were found within mile in Paris
| township. Many more are missing nearly
all Polish people. The whole settlement,
| crops and houses. was swept away.
In Delaware township, in all the country
| south of Forestville, from the lake seven
miles back, everything has been swept clean.
| These new settlers owed for their farms, and
lose everything. Men and cattle fed to the
| lake, where there is the utmost confusion. A
man who lost all was blind and crazy. The
fire surprised every one in that region by its
| sudden descent, and only for the lake there
| would have been a holocaust. One man laid
| in mud puddle and rolled over and over all
| night A large force have gone out to bury
| the dead animals. Many have been rendered
| blind, and they have to be led. Many are
hungry, i'll clad and sick. More help must
come soon. George Furgason, of White
Rock, says since Monday he has seen 116
| burned bodies on the road Wagon loads of
collins were common sight.
The latest reports say that the back town
ships are burned over, with large loss of
| life. The fires were extinguished by rains in
the section between Sand Beach and Dickes-
vile.
lSEC0ND DISPATCH.1
DETROIT, September 9sh-The fires seem
to be abating. A Port Austin dispatch says
the loss of lives on the top of the burned
peninsula by Monday and Tuesdays fires is
estimated at 200 to 300. The following vii
lages were burned: Badaxe, Vernon, Forest
Bay, Richmondville. Charleston, Anderson,
Dickersonville, Harrisonville and Sandusky.
The following were partly burned: Fort
Hope, Minden and Ubley. The country