Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-12
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Special Z ispatches to the Record
Union" Condensed.

A heavy snew-storm prevailed Saturday at
Virginia, New.
The South Brooklyn Oil Works were burned
Saturday. Loss, S25, eco.
The Utah Mormons decline to contribute
to the Democratic campaign fund.
Three hundred and fifty bills and FIVE joint
resolutions we're introduced into the Senate
last week.
In the French Senate Saturday an indeu-
nifty was voted to the families of the victims
of the coup d etat in 1851.
Snow commenced falling at Burlington,
IT,. at II q. NJ. Saturday, and showed hard,
with indications of fall of some inches.
Secretary Hunt left Washington Saturday
night for Boston, where he has been sum-
moned by the sudden illness Of his father-in-
law
In the Circuit Court at Washington Satur.
day the motion was denied to quash the at
tachment in the proceedings against How
gate.
The Guiteau trial is expected to last until
Christmas. Mr. Scoville intends to deliver
lecture IA Washington to aid in defraying his
expenses.
The Budget Committee Of the italian
Chamber Of Deputies has declared that the
subject of q Secret Service Fund is not within
It's
By collision at Canonsburg, on the North
London Railway, in England, Saturday,
seven persons were killed and more than sixty
were severely injured.
At Providence r. l., yesterday, Judge
Potter, on application of Mrs. Sprague's
counsel, assigned the second Monday in JAN
uary for hearing the Sprague divorce case.
The Russian Minister of Finance contenl-
plates assigning during the year 1882 the sum
of 1913, 776, 600 rouoles for the redemption of
the State debts and payment of the interest
on the loans.
On Saturday morning jury was secured
in the Wetmore murder trisl at Nevada City,
and in the afternoon the taking of evidence
was begun. The case will occupy two or
three days time.
A Chicago dispatch says there have been
eleven convictions Of murder in the Criminal
Court this session. Three were confined for
life, one was sentenced TO death, and the rest
for various terms.
The hearing in relation TO the contempt of
hive mining companies defendant, in the suit
OF Marysviile vs. the North Bloomfield Com
psny ct al set for Saturday, has been con-
tinued to the 22d inst.
The wellknown stallion Kentucky Wilkes,
bought by his present owner q year ago for
$40, 200, received injuries while running
away at Boston Saturday which, it is feared,
viii render him useless.
The November returns of crime in Ireland
show sci offenses last year. against 500 this
gear, with the Coercion Act. The decrease
is chiefly in threatening letters, as the actual
outrages are about 80 more.
Gertrude Dykes, aged thirty-nine, was
waylaid by Ellsworth Crenning, who COM
mitted criminal assault on her, at Midtown,
New Jersey. Some time after, her brother
met Crenning and killed him.
In regard to the burning of the Ring The
alter at Vienna, the report that the number
Of missing persons is l, 800 is certainly exsg-
gerated. The tbeater Was only capable of
holding 1,760, and some portions were empty.
The Secretary of State, with the approval
OF the President, will very soon make public
all instructions sent by the Department TO
Ministers Hurlbut and Fitzpatrick in regard
to the difficulties between Chile, Peru and
Bolivia.
The President Saturday evening signed a
convention for money order exchanges between
Victoria, B. c., and the United States. The
day before he signed conventions for ex-
changes between New South Wales and New
Zsaland.
John Lloyd. who had the end of large
file he was carrying in his right hand thrust
into his right breast Thursday by coming in
contact with car in drift of the Union
Consolidated mine at Virginia, New, died
suddenly Friday night.
The man held in custody at Eureka, New,
as Tom Lawton is in all probability not the
man sought for. He gives his age as 20, and
locks so. He is about five feet six inches
tall is decided blonde. having white hair
and white eyelaahes and large blue eyes.
A dispatch has been received at the Ad-
miralty Office, London, from Zanzibar, which
states that the men of the British man-of-
war London, who were wounded in at attempt
TO capture a slave dhow flying French colors
and loaded with slaves, are progressing favor
ably.
General Il. B. Banning, ex member Of
Congress from the Second District of Ohio,
died suddenly at his residence in Cincinnati
Saturday morning. He had bsen suffering
from ill-heeith for several weeks, but had been
cut doors daily. Tbs cause of his death is
unknown, and it was terrible shock to his
family.
Isbel Almes, the noted political magnste at
Chamsmero, Mexico, has Just committed
wholesale butchery. Going to ranch, he
commenced to beat the women there saw
agely, and one Guadalupe Sohati who inter.
fered, was killed by the Infatuated desperate.
AT the next ranch he visited, Almes shot and
wounded no less than sex enteen persons.
The Little Rock ark, Gazettes Texarkana
special says: The two men found five miles
from the city, en- the Richmond road, muir
dered, proved to be two brothers named
Adiock, of Little River county. Both were
shot through the head. 1t is supposed the
murderers are friends Of the man who was
cent to the Peuitentiary from that county,
against whom the Adiock brothers were wit.
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