Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-13
DOMESTIC NEWS.

WAsHIEGToN, February 18th. = Senator
Sherman publishes the following letter:
have seen a telegram to leading papers Of Ohio
of Friday morning, purporting to give the testi
mony OF Pitney before the Treasury Investigating
Committee. | have reaa the testimony given by
gram. No such test mofy was given; no such
scene occurred, and no letters OF Senator or Mrs
sherman produced as alluded to am au-
thorized ty Senator Hale, who is menti ned, and
whom showed the dispatch, to make the same de-
NAL The telegram is wholesale lie, as the testl-
JOHN SHERMAN.
Death or soteldO.
WAsHIxeToN, February 11th-A. M.-So-
teldo died at the Providence Hospital at 1925
o'clock o-night.
California Inventors.
WASHINGTON, February 1th.-The follow
ing patents were issued to California invent
ors this week: James Anderson, Bodie, body
brace Henry ID. Coggswell. San Francisco,
ornementation of grounds; Andrew j. Cul.
bertson, San Andreas. store-counter seat ;
Royal M. Davidson, Weaveryiile, gold min
| ing water wheel; Jeremiah w. Foard, San
Francisco; fish, hook extractor John q. Har-
rison, Dixon, sseder and cultivator; Henry
Richman, San Francisco. lathe attachment !;
Mortimer f. Woods, San Francisco, attach
| ment tor furnaces.
The mayor OF Adrian
CHICAGO, February 18th. = Navin. the
Mayor of Adrian City, Mich, who ia impli-
Gated in the bond fraud, has a bad face, and
the events which are just made known to
your correspondent show that his private life,
too, was unlovely. Some years ago he ruined
an estimable and highly-copnscted young girl
in 3 Detroit seminary, but was eventually
married to her. He brought her to Chicago,
where she lived secluded life, he coming
over from Adrian occasionally and passing az
her husband, but under an assumed name
Last month. child being born TO then,
Navin introduced her to some friends hero as
his wife, acknowledging to her friends also
his identity. The young woman was very
unhappy here under bondage. and has az
psared to be In decline.
Dyiag Murdcrer's Remorse.
NEW ALBANY Ind February 1th-There
is great excitement here over the announce
ment that an old German named Peter Hoff-
man, who died in Harrison county yesterday,
had made some startling disclosures regarding
two mysterious and brutal murders that had
been perpetrated near his home. It appears
that Hoffman was taken sick short tins ago,
and as he grew worse he evinced great mental
suffering. On being Informed thst he was
about to die, he cried out for priest. and in
despairing tones confessed that he had muir
dered three men. One of the crimes he had
committed in Germany. to escape punish
nent for which he fed to tbi, country. The
other two murders he said he committed in
Harrison couuty, and since he was taken sick
he had been overcome with remorse. His
mental torture became so unbearable that he
was compelled to confess his guilt. His
statements about the murders are fully cor.
roborated by evidence in the hands Of the
authorities.
A Mysterious Murder.
CHICAGO Fe bruary 11sh.-Luke Ransome,
an employee of the D. NJ. Osborne Reaper
Company for eighteen years, and manager OF
the Chicago Office for the last niue years, was
found dead in the suburb of Hensdale this
morning, halfway between his house and the
depot. Near him was a revolver with two
chambers empty, and there was a pistoI-shot
wound in the back of the head, from which
the brains oozed. There were evidences of .
struggle, but no traces of the murderer. The
clothes and wallet hed been rifl.d of their
c,ntents. Rsnsome leaves family in mod
crate circumstances.
Fire Record.
NEW YoRK, February 1lth.-The piano
csse factory Of G. f. Dielmarn & Co., on
West Twenty first street, burned to night
with the contents. Loss on stock is estimated
at 100000; on the building $4,000. The
insurance will not exceed $40, 1000.
David Stradenger, fireman, was fatally
injured by falling walls.
Tenne,see's Bonded Debt.
NASHVILLE, February 11th.-The opinion
of the Supreme Court, delivered this morn
ing, declares invalid and unconstitutional the
Act Of A pril,- 1881, to compromise the bonded
indebtedness of Tennessee at par and to make
the three-psr-cent interest coupons receivable
for taxes.
The Green.eyed Monster.
SYRACUSE. February 11th.-Wiliianl TedIe
this afternoon visited house of i'll repute
and shot two girls, one of whom win Gle. He
then killed himself. Jealousy was the cause.
The 81; s,ssippi Kissing.
NV ORLEANS, February 11th.-A Helena
special says: l'ha river is above the high
water mark OF 1867. and the levees arc break
ing fast.