Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-26
GENERAL. NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES Tc THE RECORD
UNION
DOMESTIC.
Proposed Postal Savings Ranks.

sentatives OF every sum deposited in accord
ance with the provisions Of the Act fourth,
the rate of interest to the depositors shall be
two per cent. per annum, the one per cent
difference to be for the payment of all the ex-
| peuses of whatever nature upder the system,
and the surplus, if any. to be turned into the
general fund of the Postoffiee Department.
| This bill will further provide for the safe
keeping of money deposited until it can be
turned over to the central depository at
| Washington for investment /; for protection
| against fraud on the part of the depositors
for the early withdrawal of deposits at option
| of depositors, and for the detail of necessary
| inspectors and clerks. As at present agreed
| upon, each person can deposit no more than
| $500 in one year. Nor can he have on de-
| posit at any one time more than 81, 800.
| Abram S. Hewitt, who has been spending
the summer in Europe. has paid special atten.
| tion to the Postal Savings Bank System, and
will be warm supporter of it.
One Cowboy Shoots Another.
CHEYENNE ivy. T). November 25th.-A
Lea ief special from Sydney. Neb, says
I Hank Coyne, cowboy, fatally shot an un-
night, while in a saloon. Ne provocation for
the act is known, and it was cool and de-
iberate. Three wounds were produced. He
will die, AMI, being insensible, his name hiss
not been learned. Coyne escaped, but is pur-
sued by a large party.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
OMAHA, November 25th-At Sidney, Neb.,
| last night. about half-past 10, James Jane.
son and Henry Coyne. cowboys, were wrest.
| lirg in saloon, and Jameson getting the worst
of it, ran for lis revolver, and said he would
kill Coyne on sight. Coyne, however, got
the drop on him and shot him, tie bullet en-.
tering the bladder and lodging in the pelvis.
Coyne ran out of the saloon, and jumping on
| q horse escaped. A posse is in pursuit hav.
ing startsd after him this morning. Jameson
died this evening,
| Cholera ana Plague.
New YORK, November 25th-Dr. Jones,
of tie Board of Health, says Of the cholera
old world '' I do not think there is reason
| to fear any outbreak OF the plague here. The
National Board of Health has known for
some time that cholera was raging in many
places in Europe and Asa, and made arrange
mems with the health authorities of other
nations to prevent its spread. What they
| will do with this other disease-bubonic
plague-which l judge resembles the black
death of tie middle ages, don't know but
they will undoubtedly act as promptly as
they have heretofore as soon as The nature of
|
The First Execution.
BARNETT (Ga J, November 5sh.-Taliaferro
county had i5s first execution to-day. Sang
Armor (colored) was hanged in Crawfords-
vile, near the scens OF the murder OF Amos
Ellington. an old white man, in April last.
The prisoner was respited one month, in ex-
pectation of the implication of several others
The case against the other parties was not
made ost. just before the drop fell to-day
futile efforts were made by the crowd TO in-
duce him To tell all he knew of the murder.
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.
New YORK, November 25th.-Tbe Atlantic
and Pacific Railroad Company, at g meeting
of its Directors held here, resolved that the
construction, by the most practicable route,
of all that portion of the road situated be.
tween San Francisco and the Colorado river
st or near the Needles, be prosecuted vigor
ously until the whole line from the Ric
Grande to the Pacific is put in operation.
Explosion OF Sulphur.
KANSAS CITY MOL November 25ta-Ar
explosion of sulphur in an elevator which fel
with it's load in Meyer Bros drug store
caused loss of S4 0O0, and slightly injured
VIM. Chickard.
strikers Causing Trouble.
BELLEvILLE Iil.), November 25th.-Ther;
is a good deal of feeling here among tht
strikers, who threaten violence to the work
men. At the Dirkner mine this morning
some 80 Estrikers, with drawn revoivers, wht
menaced the working force, were dispersed
by the police.
Destruction by Fire.
PITTsBURG, November 25sh.-Tbis morn
ing Keifer, S3eifel & Co.'s extensive tanner,
caught fire in the finishing department, ant
was soon in ruins. The loss is estimated a
S125, goo; insurance, S75,000 II is believed
that an incendiary was at the bottom of it
This tannery has been twice burned this year
Invalid Patents.
CHICAGO, November 25th.-In the Federal
Court this morning Judge Drummond de
cided that the patent for preserving meat
reissued in 1875 to William J. Wilson. auc
the John A. Wilson patent for the con
struction of can in which to pack and pre-.
serve meat, reissued in 1877, are both in
valid. The amount involved is said to b,
about 81, 900, ,000
A Rough Passage.
NEW York, November 25th.-The Cunarc
steamship Gaelic arrived this morning, fv,
days behind time, after one of the stormiest
passages of which any record exists. Cap
tain Haines remembered no such passage
one storm beginning before another left off
All the days were characterized by ferc;
gales and high seas. The ship behaved
beautifully, and not screw is loose in tbs
machinery.
Murdered and Robbed.
RALEIGH IN. c., November 25th.-Thos
M. Lynch, an old and respected citizen, being
missed from home, his sons found his body
with the head crushed in, lying in the road,
and under bridge near by found two negroes
| dividing the money and property taken from
the murdered man. The negroes are in Jail
and the people are greatly incensed z
Hanged for Murder.
SUMTER Is. C.), November 25sh.-Henry
johnson was hanged to-day for the murder oi
John Davis. The execution was private
He had made full confession during his
trial, saying conjurer had given him 6
charm to shoot Davis to win his wife and
avert the penalty. He only succeeded in
winning the wife. The other charm failed
him.
RoGERsvILLE (Tenn.), November 25th.-
Joe Harris was hanged here this afternoon
for the murder of two men-Brown and
| Heck-whom he butchered in bed, and then
robbed ayear ago. His death was quick, and
| there was good order among the large crowd
present.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln.
CHICAGO, November 25th.-So far from
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln beirg short of funds,
as alleged in recent New York dispatches,
her friends in Springfield say she has had an
| income of S., GOO, arising from her pension OF
$4,000 and her Government bonds.
Mrs. Garfield.
CLEVELAND, November 25ah.-Mrs. Gar.
field has placed her late husbands literary
estate in the hands of Colonel Rockwell.
General Swain has been appointed her ad.
ministrative attorney. Mrs. Garfield i:
overwhelmed with begging letters, many eI
them absolutely shameless and impertinent.
The Cotton Exposition.
ATLANTA lGa.), November 25sh.-The In.
ternational Exposition here has designated
December 10Th as Mayors day. The Mayor,
or his representative, from every leading city
is expected here.
Murder in Georgia.
TOWNSVILLE (Ga.), November 25th.-The
/, wife and three-year-old daughter Of M.
| Clewis were murdered Thanksgiving day and