Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-05
Destruction by Fire.


from the principal chiefs.
Destruction by Fire.
HoPKISGroN Mass J, April 4th.-Thirteer
dwellings, a h)tel, church, Bridges & CO.
boot and shoe factory, employing coo hands
were burned to-day. Total loss, $3.50, ,00Q
of which Bridges loss is $3.50, 600; insurance
$3.50, 600.
SHARPsBuRG (Ps.), April 4th.-A large
tire is raging in the Standard OIL Works. /,
| is thought the entire works will be con
sumed.
PITTsBURG, April 4sh.-The Standard Oh
Refinery, No. l, on Butter street, covering
! an area of four blocks, experienced a fire to
night which originated in an explosion oil
chrysolite. and which destroyed $50 barrels OF
oil The three.story brick warehouse, 800 by
20 feet, with $4,000 barrels of refined oil,
19 coo empty barrels and 100. 600 pounds OF
glue, were burned. TIE total loss is Sl75,.
600. The fire will burn all night. but will
not spread
OTTER LAKE mich J. April 4th,-Twenty
buildings and 5000 600 feet of lumber be.
longing to S. j. Murphy were burned to. day.
Less, S75. coo.
The Case OF Sergeant Mason.
WASHINGTON, April 4th.-All the members
were present at the regular Cabinet meeting
to-day. After the disposition of the Chinese
question, the case of Sergeant Mason was
taken up, and the conclusion was reached
that the President would take no action in
the case until the question pending in the
United States Supreme Court bearing upon
the legality OF Mason's imprisonment is de.
cided. The Secretary of War made report
of the case, in which it is understood he sus.
tanned the view advanced by Judge Advocate
General Swain, that the sentence of the
Court-martial is invalid.
Children Buried Under Falling WALL
Wife Murder.
NEw YORK, April 4sh.-While workmen
were engaged in pulling down building on
james street to-day, the walls suddenly col.
lapsed, burying a number of children who
were playing in an adjoining yard Tarse
bodies have thus far been recovered.
Mrs. Ellen McFall, aged %, was shot aud
mortally wounded this afternoon by her hus.
band John, painter.
Easier stolen than Concealed.
CRAVING STATION, April 4th.-Of the
s., QUO IL an express package lost here last
November by the carelessness Of the Michi.
gan Central Railroad Company, So 000 was
found in the house of poor laborer, who
lately excited suspicious by branching out
luxuriously. He confesses the theft.
AaNANaSV VI AhlcTlfHUss
NV York, April 4tb.-A Washington
special to the Commercial Adeertiser says :
THE Secretary OF State is in lecejps of a
cable dispatch from Minister Lowell to the
effect that the British Government has re-
leased uaconditionally three of the inn ris-
oned Americans
swindler Captured.
CHICAGO, April 4.h-The Times special
from San Antonio says: A Deputy Sheriff
from Cheyenne made his appearance st a
ranch near here and captured G. A. Shear
burn, formerly Lieutenant in the British
army, who is charged with swinilina the
Cheyenne Bank out of s., 600 by giving his
check on the Bank of England, when he had
no funds on deposit there.
Serious Loss of Logs.
ST. PAUL April 4th.-Yesterday morni. 9
a log boom was broken at Minneapolis by a
sudden swell in the river. and several million
feet foatea down past ST. Paul. It is be-
lieved that not over 0O0, 600 test, valued at
$4,000. will be lost, and as the surplus is
100, coo, 000 this loss will not affect the mar
ket. The accident is the most serious for
yeara.
VanderblIt's Funeral.
New YORK. April 4sh.-The funeral of
Cornelius j. Vanderbilt took place this morn
ing All the family were present. A dele.
CATION Of the Associated Pioneers of Cali
forlia attended. TIE body was taken 10
Hartford.
Women Attorneys in Massachusetts,.
Boston. April 4th.-The Senate passed the
House bill to allow women attorneys to prac-
tice.
PGlice Commissioners Removed.
BosToN, April 4.h.-TAe Governor has re.
moved the Police Commissioners. They
claim that their removal is illegal, and the
Democrats sustain them.
Victim OF Unrt quilted Love.
CHICAGO, April 4th-August Kohne. a
young German, for uurequited affection shot
and killed himself this morning at the house
of bis employer, Phillip Son6eld, No. "a
Gurley street.
A Beast Hanged.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 4th.-Charles Gum
son, arrested at Kokomo for theft and rape
on three-year-old child, was taken from jail
by mob and hanged last night.
Trouble at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, April 4th.-Pat Jones,
policeman, was killed by negro last evening.
A mob coon after caught the negro and
hanged him.
CHICAGO, April 4sh.-It is reported that
there is riot in Kansas City over the lynch.
ing of negro. supposed at first to have been
guilty of shooting white man in the street,
but subsequently discovered to be the wrong
man. Tie negroes are said to have risen in
arms.