Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-22

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CONDENSED PROM SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO TIE
RECORD-UNIoN.l
DOMESTIC.
Frank james and his gang are said to be
located in North Texas.
An explosion of sulphur near Shamokin,
Pa, Saturday. killed four men.
The decision Of the Court in bank on Cult
eau's case will be announced to-day.
The compulsory army retirement bill is
expected to pass without much opposition.
st. Louis has sold some four percent ten
and twenty-year bonds at a little above par.
The stesmer Peruvian was spoken Thurs
day off st. PauPs, under canvas. All are
well.
Daniel P. Long shielded ct Tie Camp,
twenty miles west of Laramie City, on
Friday.
Extensive robberies of the Government
stores at the lower Brule Indian Agency
have been unearthed.
At Phelps, N. Y, Friday night, Wells
new comet was visible to the naked eye in
the constellation Cassiopes.
A number of persons engaged in selling
Louisiana and Havana lottery tickets at
Washington have been sent to jail.
A Wsxahachie, Tex, special says: a FIRE
last night destroyed twenty-five buildings.
The loss is estimated at 100000. Insurance,
sos. 600.
Among the subscriptions received at Wash
ington by Treasurer Gilfllan for the Garfield
Memorial Hospital was So, S52, contributed
Ia London and Paris.
Al. IL
visiting Japan in July. OF all parts OF the
United States, Colorado and California
pleased him most.
In the chess tournament at Cincinnati,
Saturday, Mckenzie and Morris, Americans,
had drawn game. The score of the former
at present is slightly the best
The Woman's Convention in session at In
dianapelis has sent telegram to the nited
States Senate thanking it for its action on
the Woman's Suffrage question.
The Postmaster General leaves Washing
ton to-day for brief visit to Wisconsin.
While West he will arrange for putting on a
fast mail train from Chicago west.
Au unsuccessful attempt was made to adj
iourn the House of Representatives over
Saturday, most of the Democrats voting for
adjournment. The President attends the
races daily.
Mrs. Robinson, an active worker among
the Chinese in Chicago, says that there are
about $50 Chinese in that city. The msjority
are laundrymen and some others are cigar.
makers. Others sell fancy goods.
The Presbyterian General Assembly, in
session at Springfield, ILL.,, did only routine
business Saturday, heard the report Of the
Standing Committee on Ministers Relief
and adjourned to to-day.
The committee which has been investigat-
ing the books of the State Trea5urer, now
Governor Churchill, of Arkansas, for the past
fourteen months, filed report Saturday
morning. The deficit foots up STA, S29.
The coal companies at Cumberland, Pa,
propose to end the strike by putting new men
in the mines. AS 5000 OF the old miners
have been idle ten months they are not likely
to submit to this without serious trouble.
The rear levee on P B. Cash's place, be-
low Shreveport, La, broke Saturday, and
several adjoining places were partially sub
merged from backwater. The planters are
all hard at work siren gthening the levees
Energetic efforts are making by an uncle
of the notorious Younger brothers, three OF
whom are now confined in the Saltwater,
Mimi, penitentiary on life sentence for
complicity in the Northfeld bank robbery, to
secure their pardon.
Private reports say that the loss of life at
the Leadville, COL, fire has been exaggerated:
Only one body has so far been recovered, and
it is supposed to be that OF Arthur bAilou'
who leaves a family at Colorado Springs.
The number of missing men is reduced to
three.
John McMenon, o farmer, 60 years old,
ouarreled with his 15.year.old daughter, at
Muscatine, Ia, who, instigated by her
brother. aged Is, shot him dead. 1t is sup
posed that the children wanted to get control
of the property. The mother is in the insane
asylum.
The Manager of Chicago and Quincy Rail
road says the last spike in the Denver extern
sion will be driven next Thursday. The
company will begin operating freight trains
between Chicago ann Denver about June LIST.
Passenger service will probably not be in
augurated for q month or six weeks later.
The Grand Jury at Washington has re-
turned new presentments against General
Thomas Brady, John w. Dorsey, Stephen
w. Dorsey. Montfort G. Rerdell, Henry Nj.
Turner, J. r. Minor, J. NJ. Peck and Harry
nj. Vail, charging them with conspiracy to
defraud the United States in connection with
the award of star route contracts.
One hundred and ten Canadians arrived at
Muskegon, Mich, Saturday, and will go to
work on the booms to-day, protected by
eighty of Pinkersons force. Nevertheless
collision is feared, as the strikers have been
idle 50 long that they have become destitute
and correspondingly desperate. A collision
did occur Friday, and several broken heads
were the result.
Some railroad coal miners in the Pittsburg
district recently struck against reduction OF
wages, and colored miners were imported In
their places The miners in thirty three pits
on Saturday resolved TO continue the strike
and stop all work if the negroes are not dis
charged by June LIST. At present the strike
affects 1000 miners, but if it extends to all
the mines, az threatened, Il. 600 men will be
thrown out of employment.
An attempt is being made lately to change
the present management OF the chicago
Inter Ocean, under pretense OF q contract,
which would result in the transfer OF the
paper to Gil A. Pierce and Others, who are
supposed to be Senator Logan and friends
Judge Barnum, in the Circuit Court, has de-
cided that there is no case, and throws the
matter out of the Court. giving the present
management, the Nixons, the control.
Shipherd has issued card to the public,
which is intended to express his opinion OF
Blaine and of the commission investigating
the affairs of the Peruvian Company. II
concludes as follows: I'm answer to the re-
quests already received from nearly every
State in the Union, am considering the ex-
psdiency of continuing the narrative. The
necessary data are all ready, and if the pub
lie wants the facts and documents, l am
Iather not inclined to refuse Them"
FOREIGN.
Foxhan will not run at the EPSON meet
ing.
Jean Gustava Walton, the French philoso-
pher, is Dead
Talk of Minister Lowells removal is re-
vived in London.
The British and French squadrons have ar
rived at Alexandria.
Four hundred houses have bsen burned at
Boyabat, Asia Minor.
The survivors of the wrecked ship Western
Belle have reached Quebec.
The steamship Scotland, from London to
Quebec, had perilous trip.
Toe main points of the Suez canal are now
guarded by French gunboats.
Grape has been affixed to the door of Arch
bishop McCsbe's residence in Dublin.
The recent debates in the House Of Com
mons have been characterized by extreme
bitterness.
The opponents of Gladstone's repression of
crime bill viii nsglect no effort to retard the
passage of the measure.
A man named Mccarthy has been arrested
in Glasgow on suspicion of being concerned
in the Phoenix Park murders.
The Mansion House Jewish Relief Fund
amounts to e52, 900. The committee dispatch
600 refugees to America weekly at cost of
e1,500.
In the House of Commons Saturday, Faw-
cett, Postmaster-Genefal,a announced that the
Cyovarnment had no intention of purchasing