Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-23

commute the sentence to imprisonment for
life. This is the fifth time Kring has been
tried for this crime. snd the second time he
has been found suiity.
9he ste OF old Fort Dearborn. at Chicago,
vas Saturday perpetcate6 by the erection OF
memorial tablet hy A. NJ. Hoyt, owner of
the building which now stands there, under
the auspices Of the Chicago Historical So
ciety. The fort, which for Iosny years was n
landmark, vas established in 1904 evacuated
in 1923, recccupied in 1928. The troops with
drew finally IL 1886. and in 1889 it was sold.
Information has been received from
Poplar Bluff. Missouri 10 the effect that
Hamilton, Meyers and Brown, the OUT
laws who shot Sheriff Davis and Col
lector Halter Friday near Greenville, were
cverhaued near Mill Springs by searching
party, under Captain w. L. Leeper, early
Saturday morning, and Hamilton killed,
Meyers mortally wounded and Brown cap
tured.
The steamship Ganos, from Matanzas, for
Boston, with a cargo of sugar, sunk twenty
miles east OF Boston Friday night The loss
on the cargo is $3.50, 600, and on the steamer
Sl60 coo. The Ganos collided with the War
ren Line steamer Pembroke, bound for Liver
pool. The latter vessel was not seriously in
jured, but put back for repairs. The crew
were all saved, with the exception Of one
seaman.
The Sheriff OF Rio Grande county, Col.
Friday night captured three members of
gang OF highwaymen near Lake City
among them the notorious criminal Billy
Leroy, who escaped some time ago from
Deputy United Marshal on the Kansas Pa
cifc train while being taken to Detroit PEN
itentiary. Leroy resisted capture, and was
wounded in the leg by ball from the Sher-
iff 8 revolver.
At 8 o'clock on Saturday morning the Chi
cago-bound train over the Kankakee line
struck drove of cattle near Templeton, In
diana. The engine was ditched and turned
on its side. The engineer jumped and es-
capped, but the fireman (Tsddy Rogan) was
caught under the water.tank and pinned TO
the ground. For two hours he was roasted
and scalded by the hot boiler, and when final
ly released was dying.
A mass meeting of painters was held at
New York on Saturday night to consider
grievances against A. Il. Stewart & Co., who
hire experienced painters and other mechsu-
les to do work, and when there is no work at
their trade for them to do, employ them to
do porters' and other work in the store. 1t
was stated that unless the practice was ended
the matter would be laid before the Anal
gamated Trades Union, and the firm viii be
boycotted.
The conference of Senator Conkling's
friends did not take place at New York Sat
urday night as expected. The Senator had
reception in his parlor at the hotel, however.
and although representatives of the press
were neither admitted nor granted inter-
views, it was learned the Senator refused to
say very much regarding the matter of his
candidacy for reelection. The lobby of the
hotel was crowded during the evening with
politicians of every class
A Galveston (Tex.) Nelcs Eagle Pass
special says that several days ago three
armed Mexicans crossed the river at Shell
don's ranch, thirty-five miles below there, dur
ing the absence of Sheldon, and kidnapped a
young woman in his employ, forcibly drag
ging her across the river into Mexico. The
reason given for the outrage was that the
woman's husband was indebted to the Mexi-
cans. The citizens are highly indignant at
this invasion, and the kidnapping on Ameri-
can soil Of defenseless woman.