Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-01

continent. | think we will do even better
financially there than in this country In
London, especially, | expect to get large re-
turns"
"Will the people of the United States
want to see such a spectacle"
"Well, / rather guess they will, was the
reply. Il haven't the slightest doubt of
success from that point of view. Why, in
this very city expect to engage the largest
and most prominent place of amusement for
the exhibition. and am confident of being
completely satisfied with the financial result
to myself. expect TO make an outlay of at
least S25, 900 in fitting up the exhibition case
and refrigerating car ; so you can realize the
scale on which / propose to conduct this
enterprise. / wrote to Guiteau soon after
his trial began, making similar proposition
to him. He wrote a reply, saying that he
was disposed to regard my proposition with
favor, but would have to refer me to his
| counsel. / have no feeling for Guiteau
| one way or the other. He is simply
| a condemned criminal. This is purely bust.
ness matter with me. 1 don't know what
Guiteau's relatives think about it, but they
are poor, and it seems to me that after all the
| abuse they have received from him during the
| trial, and all they have had to suffer IN con-
sequence of his act, they ought to have some
recompense. Now, I haven't the slightest
| doubt that their share of the proceeds from
! this enterntise will amount to between say
$40 GOO and $50 600 This will be some con-
ISOLATION to them after all they have suffered.
| / am conducting this enterprise alone, but
there is plenty of capital to back ii"
California Girl in Trouble.
CHICAGO, January 31st.-The Times says:
Miss Belle Metzger, OF Oakland, Cal. told
sensational story at tho police headquarters
to-day of some curious adventures. She lett
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tending to visit friends at Tucson, Arizona.
On the train she met handsome young fell
low. who gave the name of Walter b. Chase,
and who succeeded in capturing her &tfec-
tons. He Induced her to come on with
him to Chicago, promising to marry her
| Immediately on their arrival. They arrived
here abous the end of last week, registering
| at the fremont House as W. B. Hart and
, wife. Chase suggested that they should
| spend Sunday in seeing the sights about town,
| and thew would get married the next day.
He had deposited hsr satche', containing
| 81 400 worth of jewely aud Sl43 in money, in
| the .fe of the hotel. At an early hour Mon
day, however, he left his affianced wife quietly
| sleeping, and going to the clerk asked for the
satchel He got it, and they looked upon bis
| face no more Miss Metzger is a light-haired,
interesting girl, about % years old. Her
lover left her absolutely penniless, and her
baggage was seized by the hotel authorizes
on account of her unpaid board bill. After
her wild escapade, she is naturally shy about
appealing to friends in California.
The AniI.Polygamy Agitation.
| CHICAGO, January 3lst.-The committee
| appointed last week at the anti-polygany
meeting met to-day and organized move
| meut for communicating with prominent men
| in various States and Territories regarding
| the matter.
COLUMBUS (O.), January S1st.-A large
anti-polyeamy meeting was held here to-
night Governor Neal, OF Idaho, delivered
stirring address. Resolutions were adopted
memoralizing Congress.
Destruction by Fire.
HAVANA (Ill.). January 3lst.-The Mason
| County Courthouse was burned Sunday
night. Loss, 5000; insurance. $1,000.
QUINCY Oily, January 31st.-The loss by
the brewery fire yesterday was only about
Sc. 600.
GALVESTON TEX January S1st.-All the
wires leading out of the city were Frustrated
| by the fire at Houston, in the building occu-
pied by the Postofice, Texas Bank and West
ern Union Company. No further particu,
lars are obtsinsble.
Houston Tex, January 31st,-The fire
| in Telegraph Block last night resulted In
| $50, 600 damages. Some mail matter was
destroyed.
Serious Railroad Accidenf-Three Men
Killed and Others Injured.
CHEYENnE (Wyo), January 3lst AN &C.
| cident near Fort Steele, Wyoming, last
nizht, on the Union Pacific Railroad, re.
suited in the death of three men, named
BENJAMIN Hobart, freight conductor. J.
Seeley, brakeman, and P. Smith, fire.
man, and the injury of four others. The pay
car, running as a special, ran into the rear of
the freight train. The car was badly dam.
aged. Being on its return trip it contained
no money. The freight train was just enter
ing a side track when the pay car special
swung around curve and telescoped the
caboose.
DtabslicaI Outrage Promptly Avenged.
LoGANsPoRT lind January 31st.-Wm.
Steele, tramp, Saturday night stopped at a
farm house and asked for supper. Finding
the woman, Mrs. Buell., alone, he outraged
her and fed. The neighbors caught The fend,
hung him, then piled brush about bis BODY,
and setting it on fire, burned it past recog-
milton.
A FIendish Pair.
STEBLING QlI) }, January S1st-The village
Of Rockfais is in somewhat of an uoro2r be-
cause of a man and woman named Seymour
having beaten, skinned and otherwise bruta,ly
misused the seven-year.old daughter of Mrs
Boiler, whose husband is in the insare asy-
lum. The little girl was working for the
SEYMOUR, but now has been taken away. and
is under physicians care. Twenty or thirty
persons last night visited Seymour for the
purpose of lynching him, but he escaped
with his wife, and dligent search failed to
discover them. The methods of cruelty en-
ployed upon the innocent child are too dia-
| bolical for mention.
Murdered with Pltchforks.
WINoNA (Minn.), January 31st,-Robert
and John Carroll brutally murdered with
pitchforks Titus Hoyt, respected farmer,
with whom their father was in dispute. The
three CAROLS, who are hard set, have been
arrested.
Charged with Murder.
New ORLEANS, January 3lst.-Two white
men, Mckee and Singlebarre, have been ar
rested for the murder of Marshal Smith, a
colored preacher, at Clinton, La.
Eigh.tcInpered wife.
DISCO Qll.(, January 31st.-Sanday night
Mrs. D. w. Miller, becoming involved in a
difficulty with her husband, seized an ak and
attempted to kill him. Failing in this, she
retired 10 another room, saturated her cloth
ing with kerosene and set fire to her dress.
She was burned to death.
Ba,dwin's Sentence.
TRENTON IN. j. January st.-Oscar L.
Baldwin, late Cashier of the Mechanics Ma
tional Bank Of Newark, appeared before the
United States Court to-day, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to fifteen years in State
Prison.
Stolen Silks Recovered.
JACKSON Mich January S1st.-The So,
600 worth of silks stolen from Camp, Merrill
& Camp, at jackson last Wednesday night.
have been found lodged in the office of j. NJ.
WEIGH, lawyer situated few feet from
where they were taken, from a fellow named
Thomas, who had an Office with WEIGH, who
sold three pieces of silk last Saturday at AL
bion, which were identified. This set the off
GERS at work, and they captured the goods.
Thomas has fed, and Welch is in Jail.
Collision OF Trains.
| CINCINNATI, January 31st.-The Ga,ettes
Hanging Rock special says: A freight col
lidsd with a construction train to-day on the
Scioto Valley Railroad. Two men were
killed outright, and Eve badly injured. 1t is
said the freight conductor was running with
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