Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-17
TEL.ECRAPHlC.
SPECIAL TO THE RECORD UNION
DOMESTIC MEMS
Fhahtfal Anair-A Young Girl Assassin.
aees Her Father.


Rock RAPIDS Qowsl February 16.b.-
Before the Coroners jury, who sre investi-
eating the murder of John Lanahan, who
was killed while sitting near window Satur.
day night, Maggie, his eldest daughter, con-
fessed that she did the shooting. She also
implicated her mother, her sister Anna and
the latter's lover, young man named Birch.
The girl testified that it had been agreed be-
tween them some time ago to put the old
man out of the way" at the earliest oppor.
tunity. Birch furnished the pistol, and
Farmers' Club meeting, and was about
to sit down, she stepped up behind
him and fred. killing him instantly. The
three arranged the body so as to appear as il
some one had shot him through the window,
while her sister Anna went Oat and broke
the glass As to the motive for the crime,
Maggie testified that Birch wanted to marry
Anna, and her father refused. He also did
not provide for them. The mother and
other daughter corroborated this testimony.
Birch at one time lived with the family, and
was driven from the house by Lanahan, who
suspected him OF criminal intimacy with his
wife and daughter. All the parties impi-
Gated are under arrest, and the greatest ex-
element prevails.
kipe Old Age-A Good Days Business.
New YoRK. February 1eth.-Mrs. Eliza
beth Gould Rapallo, the aged mother of
Judge Rapalla. of the Court of Appeals, died
recently. She was about 80 years Of age.
Mrs. Rapallo was the daughter of an officer
of the revolutionary war. At her burial in
Greenwood seven OF her grandsons acted rs
pail bearers.
There were 5S2. 900 postage stamps sold by
the general Postoffice in this city Tuesday,
S.. Valentines day.
by the Southern Route.
KANSAS CITY MOL. February 18TH
Passed Topeka, Ks, to-day, TO arrive In San
Francisco February 20.h: S. Ball and fam
ily, Racine, Wis.; L. Q. Fulton. Deadwood.
d. T.; n. G. Perkins, Ottawa. I'll o. w.
Beatty. Nj. B. Dunham, A. J. Hszlstine,
Warren Pa: D. S Hady and wife, Colo
RADIO; J. III. Brock, Portland, o.
Cereal Crops.
WASHINGTON, February 16th-The cereal
estimates of the Department of Agriculture
OF the crops of 1881, as compared with those
of 1880, show reduction of 81 per cent. in
corn, % in wheat, y in rye, and bin barley.
The product of oats is about l. 400, ,000 bush
els less than the previous year.
The Dead Mandarin.
BosroN, February 16sh-Tne bier of the
Iate Professor Ko KuH Hue, Chinese Profess
sor at Harvard University, has been sur
rounded all day with burning brown paper,
according to Chinese customs In the case of
the death OF a Mandarin. The remains will
not be embalmed, bu. will be bermetically
sealed in lead casket and returned at once
to China, in care of the widow and children.
Return OF Minister AEge,L
NEW YORK, February 1G5b.-Among the
passengers on board the Catalonia, which
arrived yesterday, was JAMES b. Angel, ex-
Minister to China. He left for Washington
this morning.
Destruction by Fire.
LYNN Mass J, February 16.h.-Kelly's
morocco manufactory, several stores iu the
same building, and adjoining Dwellings, were
burned last night Loss, $4,000; partially
insured.