Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-13
GENERAL NEWS.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD.
UNION
Proceedings in the senate.

ment respecting the alleged arrest and i'm
| prisonment of Michael Boyton, claiming to
| be citizen of the United States, by Great
! Britain.
| Filibustering was then resumed.
Beck said the Republicans had held that
the Senate should not go into executive ses-
! sion because their caucus had determined to
turn out the present officers and install
| Others, and that the Democrats were guilty
| OF treason and revolution unless they ac-
| quiesced in everything. The Democrats had
| acquiesced in the organization, but when the
name was presented for office of Virginian
| who was then the head and front of repudia-
| tion, they would go no further He would
not say that the Republicans did this because
OF corrupt bargain. because he did not in
tend to make the Senate beer garden but
the country had strong suspicious that the
alliance was foul one. The leading Repub-
ican press hat!.chsrged it in offensive terms
as indicating bargain. Malone had been
put on committees which would give him
the greatest influence with the people of Vir-
ginia. As he would not violate the courtesy
of the Senate, and could not therefore speak
decorouslv of these things, he would in 0cto.
ber go to Virginia, having paired with Dawes,
who proposed to keep the Senate here until
December, and say what he thought was the
meaning and intent of all this action
At the conclusion of Beck's speech, Sauu-
ders took the floor, and in brief speech ar
gued in support of the doctrine that the ma
jority should rule.
Adjourned.
The California ApporfIOnment Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 12th-The Democrats
of California have been in correspondence
with Senator Farley on the subject of the
| apportionment bill, pending before the Cali.
| fornia Legislature. TIE Democrats assert
| that it is unfair, and Farley telegraphed to-
| night to Democratic members>of the Legis
lature to resist it, and resort to flibustering
| if necessary.
A steamer Blown lip and Sunk.
ST. LOUIS, April 12th.-Word has just
| reached the city that the little steamer Daisy,
| belonging to the Missouri Furnace Company
| in South st. Louis. while crossing the river
at that point at 2:25 this afternoon, blew out
| her cylinder head. This seems to have ca
| reened the boat, and her boiler burst, when
| she capsized and sank. Some fifteen to
twenty workmen were on the boat, being
conveyed to the company's works on the east
side of the river, two of whom were drowned.
The remainder were picked up by ferry
boat and the railroad transfer boat. The
names of the drowned men are not reported,
and no particulars ara obtainable.
Startling Revelations In the History of
Al
DENVER (Col. J, April 12th-This mornings
NeEs contains startling revelations concern
ing the history of the President and Board
of Directors of the Commercial Bank OF this
city, which was incorporated on the 21st of
last February, with capital Of Sl00, 900 and
a suppositious reserve fund of an equal
amount. The Board of Directors consists of
James L. Van Woert, President; Ellen NJ
Van Woert, Cashier; Pliny s. Rice, Horace
W. Cotton and P. 7. Smith, Directors. The
Ne,rs says that these people evidently had
plans well advanced towards perpetrating
gigantic swindle, and continues substantially
as follows: Van Woert, the President, served
six years in the Penitentiary at Charlestown,
Mass, for passing counterfeit money in
1860. He subsequently started bogus
bank at Winsted Conn, with himself as
President and his wife Cashier He disap-
peared, leaving many debts, and swindling
hundreds of people. Indictments for bigamy
are pending over his head. and he is accused
of many other crimes. His associates are.
with the exception of Cotton and Smith, of
the same stripe. Rice is well known to the
police, and there is an indictment against
him at Leadville for obtaining money under
false Dretenses. Van Woert was to
leave .,-day for New York to place S500,O0
of stock belonging to the Longmont, Middle
Park and Pacific Railroad.
Ytgilantes at WOrlS-Death.
DENVER (Col.), April 13th.-The Republi
cans Durango special says Early on the
morning of the 10th, Charles Mormon,
Leadviile stage-driver, with two companions,
entered theater and gambling house. Nor
mon drew revolver as he entered and, with
an oath, fred twice, killing Polk Prindle, a
peaceable citizen and stranger to Mormon.
and woundiug o young man in the arm, and
fled, but was overtaken and jailed. Late at
night unmasked Vigilantes took the prisoner
from the jail and hanged him to tree in the
presence of several hundred citizens. Notice
was given that it would be death to the man
who cut him down before morning.
| E. 2. jacobson, State Senator and a prom
inent State politician, died last night of con-
gestion of the brain.
The Missouri River.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, April 12th.-The river
is now within its banks. No damage has
occurred in the city.
YANKToN (Dakota6 April 12th.-The over
flowed water Of the Missouri is gradually
subsiding though the ice is piled to hight
of ten to thirty feet along the bank and, on
the bars and bottoms. Yankton is filling
with refugees from the lowlands, and the
people are doing their best to care for them,
but outside help is needed.
Winter stnl Lingering.
PouGHKFEPsIE IN. W April 12sh.-A
heavy snow storm prevails along the Hudson.
Several inches of snow has already fallen.
MILFORD PAL April 12th.-A heavy
snow-storm prevails here. The forest fires
will be checked Snow and hail has been
falling since o'clock.
ST. LOUIS, April 12th.-The Republicans
Duquoin, ILL.,, special says A shower of sui
phur fell here during the rainstorm last
night.
MEMPHIS, April 12th.-rhe appeals Her
nando, Miss, special says: A severe wind
storm passed over the country north of Her
nando this afternoon. DR.. Landerdale and
wife were severely injured, and several
negroes are reported killed but owing to the
swollen condition of the creeks it is impos-
sible to obtain fuller particulars. fernando
is twenty miles south of Memphis.
End Of Hattie Deuers Fast.
Iowa CITY Ia), April 12tb-During the
twenty.four hours preceding her death Miss
Deuel. drank no water, it seeming to sicken
her. Her pulse in the morning was imper-
ceptible, and her respiration thirty-fve per
| minute. She was able to communicate with
her friends by means of her fingers. She said
she was not hungry. Her last moments were
very peaceful, and her mind clear.
Iowa CITY, April 12th-Hattie Deuel.,
| who died at noon yesterday, was buried this
afternoon. Immediately after her death
post mortem examination was made by DIR.
Cowperthwaite, Dean Of the Homeopathy
| Department of the University. Not drop
| of blood was found in the body. The body
weighed 45 pounds. The stomach was also
void of any substance. No further analysis
has yet been made public.
The Refunding Question.
WASHINGTON, April 18th. = Prominent
Treasury officials express confidence that
holders of fully three fourths Of the matur-
| ing 6 per cent. bonds will accept the pro.
posed extension at 81 per cent. in preference
| to demanding their payment, and it is esti-
mated that the adoption of the programme
announced yesterday was based upon a def
mite assurance to this effect from the owners
and controllers of upwards of s40,000,000 of
per cent. bonds.
The Christiancy Divorce Case.
WASHINGTON, April 12th.-The taking of
| testimony on behalf of Mrs Christiancy, in
the divorce suit brought against her by her
husband, was commenced before the exam.
iner this afternoon. Mrs. Christiancy, her
mother and another lady were present.
Miss Lille Meloy testified that by invitation
she went to the house of Mrs. Christianey on
the afternoon of December "a, 1878. to re.
main over Christmas. That day she received