Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-23

II. INEfBUhN.
Paper ailiz Euraed.
LocKHAyEN pa. July 22i.-The Penn
sylvania pulp and paper mills were burned
to,day. Loss, Sl60000; insurance, $50 0G0
to $4,000 Armstrong & Dixon. of Phila-
delphia, were the owners.
The Albany Strv9SIc.
ALBANY, July 22d.-The ballot in Joint
convention this forenoon resulted Lapham
6S. Potter 40, Conkling 2SS Woodford l.
Necessary to choice, 81.
Senator Jacobs moved that the Convention
take recess until half-past l o'clock. Car
ried.
The Chair announced that the Democratic
members would hold conference immedi
ately also that the Republicans would hold
a conference immediately.
The Convention then took reeess.
Plot 30 wreck Passenger Trala Frus-
traiea.
KANSAS CRY. July 22d.-The wreck of
wild freight train on the Santa Fe road near
Lawrence discloses bold plot TO rob pas
senger train on which the express messenger
had $50, 900 or $40, 000 in his safe from Pueblo,
A shop near the track had been broken into
and tools obtained with which to tear I'D the
rails. The wild freight train went into the
break, wreclling sevea cars.
RasiroaI Accident Freaks OF lightning.
CHICAGO, July 22j.-A freight train ON the
Milwaukee division OF the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad ran into washeut
this morning, oiteaing the engine and seven
cars, and killing a brakeman, Ed. Hughes
The wreck delays traffic greatly.
Several cases are reported this morning OF
lightning striking in the city, but there was
no great damage. Reports come in from all
!
was intensely hot in most places and that the
storm when it came was one of the most Sc
we're ever experienced, being combination of
lightning, thunder and heavy rain. Many
cases OF strokes of lightning are mentioned,
some of them disastrous Two telegroph op-
orators died at their keys.
Lightning In New England.
BosFoN. July 22l.-Dispatches indicate
that a heavy thunderstorm yesterday did
considerable damage in east Massachusetts
lightning struck in many places, burning a
number Of barns, killing several horses, shat
tering hagstsFs, telegraph poles, trees, etc.
a large quantity of window-gass was broken
by flying missiles aud hailstones. Half
dozen prostratio1s of people are reported,
but no fatal cases. At New Bedford
schooner was struck and her mizzen topmast
spintered. John Shandy, the steward was
Knocked senseless, and the mate injured.
The Next House OF Representatives.
New YoRK, July 22I-Speakiug of the
possibility of the Democrats organizing the
next House, the Times Washington special
states that the election returns show that
there was elected 60 the Forty-seventh Con
gress as distinctive Republicans 151 members
Democrats, l3l; Greenhaekers. 8 +; Read
justers 2. Since the election tha Republi-
cans have lost including Lapham, men,
bers, namely: Conger of Michigan, FRYE of
Maine. and Morton, Miller and Lapham Of
New York, and gained one in the election of
a successor to Conger, thus leaving a Re-
publican net loss Of 4. This would leave the
present Republican membership l47, or the
exact number necessary to constitute quo
rum over 3 full House of 293 members.
Since the election the Democrats have lost
two members by desth-Wood of New York
and OConner of South Carolina. O'Con-
nor's election Is disputed by his Republican
competitor, Mackey, and all the testimony
III the contest was completed before O'Con-
nor's death.
Frighfful FaIl.
ST. LOUIS, July 22d--A horrible accident
occurred at the shot tower, corner Main and
Bates streets, yesterday afternoon. There is
an elevator on the outside Of the tower used
to take fuel and pig lead to the top, where
the iatCsT IS meIted ana dropped down
through the con6rjvances for making
shot. Henry Deckhoener assembled the
elevator Yesterday afternoon to the hight
OF 15G feet. and while he was removing
some lead TO the platform at that point the
elevator fell, carrying Deckhoener, lead and
fuel down In mass together, and with ter
rible crash. Every bone ia the ans body
was broken, and his remains had to be gath
eced up in pieces, they being torn almost into
shreds.