Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-05

and that children were born to them with
unusual frequency, and that they mysteri.
ously disappeared, causing much remark
among the neighbors, but no direct steps were
taken until yesterday. After Holms' arrest
he confessed that during his eight years. res
idence here his wife had borne eight children,
all of whom died when very young. and that
whenever one died he put it in bag. carried
1t to the lake shore and buried it in the sand
and that the bodies of the eight were thus in
TERED bst~een Thirty first and Forty. third
streets. He says his wife consented to this
disposition of them. He admits that he
sometimes hit the babies, but denied that he
killed them. He states, moreover, that dur
ing short residence in Nebraska two chill
dren were born to them, and died in like
manner.
The President Denies the Charge and Re
senfs the Impufation.
WASHINGTON, August 4th.-It having been
stated by Senators and Representatives that
President Arthur secretly wished the river
and harbor bill to pass over his veto, and that
his veto was for political capital Only, the
President expresses the greatest surprise and
indignation. He could not OF first believe the
| statement, and to a gentleman who was cali.
ing upon him to-day he said that he had not
lntimated to mortal man desire that the
| bill should be passed over his veto, and he
had never supposed that it would be. He was
told alphabetically, however, that Senator'S
who are generally supposed TO be near him,
and who have the entree of the White
House at al hours, did say, in
substance: The President has made
all he wants by having vetoed the bill.
He viii not care if the bill should
now become a law. Il would really be kind
ness to him to pass it over his head" Gen.
eral Arthur sent for those who made these
false representations concerning him. Thsre
is good reason to think that he called them
sharply to account for SO gross an assumption
OF authority, and such willful perversion of
| the Presidents purposes. There can be no
possible doubt that the President was entirely
sincere IN his veto of the bill, and that he ex-
pecSed his signature to the veto message de-
feated the bill. lt is equally clear that some
VINO claim to be intimates of the President
have grossly misrepresented him.
That Troublesome GuatemaIau Question
Why the Minister Resigned.
WASHINGTON, August 4sh-It is learned
tonight that Senior A1ontufsr. Minister of
Guatemala to the United States, has notified
the State Department of his resignation of
the position he has held here. A queer story
IS told OF the circumstances that led TO this
| resignation. 1t is said that when President
Bsrrios YVES here, and was presented to
President Arthur by Senior Montufar, the
Guatemslan President Immediately, and
oluntly, proposed, through an interpre.
ter, that President Arthur should become
arbitrator for Guatemala in the settlement of
the boundary dispute between that country
and Mexico. The President expressed his
| willingness to exercise his good Offices for the
two countries, if both should express de.
sire for him to do SO. President Barrios is
reported to have said that it made 70 differ.
encs what Mexico desired; what he desired
was that President Arthur should be his ar.
hitrator. After this Barrios desired to talk
with Senior Romero, Mexican Minister, on
the subject, but that gentleman was not sat
| ished that Bsrrios was properly accredited,
and declined to confer with him. Senior
Montufsr was then sent to Senior
Romero to tell the Mexican Minister that
everybody knew Barrics to be President OF
Gustemala and he needed no credentials to
prove it. Senior Romero insisted that he
could not join with President Barrios in re.
gues:ing the good offices of the United States,
unless he was assured that the latter was
emp owefed by TIE Guatsmalan Government
to make such proposition. This message,
1t Is reported, angered Barrios, and he vented
his anger upon Senior Montufar, in such Ian,
guage as to lead that gentleman to resign his
position.
The Catholic fetal Abstinence Union.
ST. PAUL Mimi August ih.-The third
and last days session of the National Total
| Abstinence Union (Raman Cstholic) has been
! held. Several letters and papers from absent
| brethren were read this morning In the af-
ternoon resolutions were adopted thanking
| the hierarchy and priests who forwarded the
| temperance movement; deprecating the
spread of bad literature, and commencing
| the public action of the Society and the
Church urging Roman Catholics to organize
| Tor the sake OF the promotion of temperance
reform by prayer, moral instruction and other
| legitimate means. Officers were elected for
the ensuing year, as follows President, Ri.
Rev. John Ireland, of st. Paul Vice. Presi.
| dent, Rev. j. p. COLLEEN, of Winona Treas.
urer, Rev. j. d. Bowles, of Ohio Secretary,
Phillis A. Nolan, of Philadelphia. A recep.
tioa was given by the citizens in .he evening.
The Result OF Hum and immortality.
DENVER (Col.) }, August 4th-A Young man
named Charles Trout, while intoxicated this
morning, went TO house at which his former
| mistress, Lottie Barnard, was stopping, and
qnarreled with and fred shot from a re.
| yo!ver at her, producing q slight wound in
her arm. Thinking he had fatally injured
the woman he went to his home short dis
taDce away, and shot himself in the region of
the heart, dying in few moments.
The Yellow Plague.
AUSTIN Tex, August 4th.-The widest
rumors NIL the atmosphere about yellow fever
in Texas. Ia answer to kilograms from the
| Boards of Health Of New Orleans and Wash
ington City, asking if they were true. Gov
ernor Roberts to-day telegraphed that no
cases of fever are reported in Texas Browns
| vile is strictly qusrantined against Matamo
rss. Official Information was received to-day
| by the Governor of a fatal case of yellow
| fever in New Orleans, and he Immediately
notified the health authorities TO be in readi-
ness to quarantine the city at moments
notice.
Iswas Prize Fight.
| New YORK, August 4th. = CORPORATION
| Counsel WhitLey's decision regarding the l.
galisy of the Sullivan Wilson light st Mad.
son Square Garden July oath, has not been
officially made public but it is known that
after examining the law of 1857 he has COZ
Guided that hsrd-glove fight, where the
| principals try to knock each other insensbls,
ID nothing mora nor less than q prize fight,
and should be prohibited.
A Threatened Freight War.
BosroN. August 4th.-A dispatch from
| chicago to-day, foreshadowing a railroad
freight war between the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts, stirred up the people here. Business
Is obtained by taking the California trade at
! cheap rates, and that is regarded as a sufi-
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the pool agreement. All agreed that the
| threat OF the Southern lines TO bill on st.
Louis, and adopt similar improper tactics in
regard to billing, could hardly be considered
of any Importance at the same tirne il was
evidently thought that the request of the
COMMISSIONER that these practices be diseou-
tinued was insufficient to stop the evil, bul
what steps he would take to compel the in
tell.
The Corean RIot.
WASHINGTON, August 4th.-John Russell
Young, United States Minister to China,
telegrsphs that during the riot in Corea the
mob attacked the japanese Legation, and
two persons were killed and three wounded.
Rear Admiral City, commanding the Asiatic
station, was instructed to send the vessel 60
Corea to protec. treaty interests aud CON-
municste with Minister Young. Both ofii-
Gals we're notifisd that the treaty with Corea
was not ratified and to govern themselves
accordingly.