Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-19
ELECTRIC Lights.

seys: IRE officers Of the Brush Inc3ndescsnt
illuminating Company snnouncs that they
are row ready to manufacture storage bat
teries at the rste of seventy a cay, the works
ia Cleveland, o., being flashed. Brush says
| he has greatly improved his batteries since
thu exhibition of their power last autumn,
| and now has no hesitation 10 competing with
gas or any system IF electric lighting. Con-
tracts for Lighting by this system have been
made with numerous houses here, and batter
! les are promised within she neU5 three weeks.
| Among pihsr places, the Central National
Bank, some OF the stores along Broadway
and the Madison Square Theater have been
wired by the company. Suits will be insti.
| tused for ar Infringement of the Edison lamp
patent and of the Fevre storage battery
patents. About every expert lawyer of
prominecca in the country is engaged upon
one side or the other Of the coming contest,
which promises to be the most Important
evsr brought over a patent right.
Flood in Wisconsin.
DUBUQUE ia J, April 18Th Dispatches
received here from Menominee, Wis, say
| ;hat the rise in the Menominee river is IN.
preCedented, ard that much damage has been
| done. The river is two feet above the high.
est previous water mark. At Mepominee,
owing to the stability Of the dam and the
mills, Less damage has been dons than else
where. The watsr is four feet deep in the
| big mill, and IL viii be two weeks before the
mills can be put il running shape. at Cedar
| Fails, six miles above Menominee, the dam
and mills are badly damaged, and the logs in
| the dam have all broken away. 1t viii take
! 6vs or six weeks to repair damages there.
| Al Prairie Farm, 40 miles abova Meno1ninee,
the water cut its way around the dam, doing
good deal Of damage to the mill and store.
SCOTS dam, On Lightning creek, aud Browns
dam, on Hey river, are washed away. At
Rics Lake, go miles above, the whole coun-
Try is flooded, and great damage has been
done. The middle dam on the Moose Ear is
partially washed away. At Downaville, II
miles below Menominee, the dam is partly
washed away, and the old and new store and
boarding. have gone down the river.
The devastation there is the greatest Of shy
point en- the river. The Chippewa River
Railroad is badly damaged the whole length
Of it, and it is thought it viii be two months
before trains are again raining. The flood
seriously affects large portion Of the lum'
bering district of Wisconsin.
The ApOllOs Determined 10 60 TO Europe.
CHICAGO, April 18th.-Tbe Apollo Com
mandsfy has asked the Grand Commandery
of Illinois for q dispensation to leave the
| State, also the Grand Master cf the United
| States to leave the United States, in contem.
plation of European trip, in place of at
tending the Conclave at San Francisco.
| Their decision in this matter was caused By
the action taken by the San Francisco hotel.
keepers. as published in q San Francisco
paper of March 28;h, relative TO hotel rates.
Upon receiving this published Information
the Commentary st once issued decision TO
abandon the contemplated western trip, with
out waiting for the report of Dr.. Collister,
their representative.
Herr Host at The Capital of the Nation.
WASHINGTON, april 1Sih.- Herr Most de-
liEered 8 speech TO. night to the workingmep,
the greater part of which was devoted to
defense of himself against the newspapers,
which he said had charged him with advising
murder, robbery, burning and destruction to
labor-saving machinery, and the dividing Of
all capital among the poor. He said They
call me murderer. because | said it would be
impossible for me to lament that q monster
like the late Gar of Russia was executed by
the hands Of an oppressed people. They call
me robber, because | showed my people
how they were being robbed by the capitalist
class. Because [ said it WAS necessary to bring
forward revolution by which the workingmen
could ENJOY the results of thsir industry,
these writers became very much excited, and
denounced me as robber. They misrepre-
sented me in the highest degree when they
said that I advised a division of all capital
among the people. All / asked for was the
abolition of the present unjust division Of the
fruits Of the industry of the workmen among
capitalists. With regard to labor-saying ma
chinery, claim that we are entitled TO our
share in every new invention. He who de.
clares that the results Of science should belong
exclusively to some privileged clsss talks
nonsense, and is o robber. l want to see the
formation of another system, in which ma.
chinery, like all other productions, should
bsloug TO the several societies, and not to
few Iich men. The pits for the miners, land
for farmers, manufactures for operatives, and
nothing for idlers. That's what want.
Speaking of the condition of the laboriDg
glasses iu Europe, he said GAN legal means
for getting any reform or progress have been
taken away from US. Nothing is left US but
force" Ee advised the workingrnen in Amer.
lea to orgsnizs "a yell and quickly as posi-
bic, SO as to bring political power into the
hands of the people. The capitalists In this
country, he said would rot give up their
privileges and their power and "tyrannous
influences" without the exercise of force to
compel them to do go.
Butler and the Aimsheuse Investigation.
Boston, April 1Stb.-At the close of the
Tewksbury Almehouse examination to-day,
Butler said this investigation would interest
the entire country where there were institu-
tons like Tewksbury, and ought TO go before
it. Already it had aroused examinations in
other States. He had never had political
thought in connection with it. but the opposing
counsel took that narrow visw Of it-of which
he was capable. The Chairman said that the
Governors remsrka-that another five to four
vote would hand this committee down as an
other committee was handed down to toe
country by its eight to seven yote-was highly
improper, and he hoped no more political
illusions would be made by any one of the
counsel. The Governor said he had as little
respect for the Chairman's opinion as the lat
ter lad for his, and he had 10 respect what
ever for the Chairmans decisions.
Miss Bowen refused to give the name by
which she was known in New York, when
sci demanded it for the purpose of in
curing into her character for veracity. Be-
ing asked if Miss Bowen would be present
te-morrow, Governor Butler said if she was
not present her testimony could be stricken
from the record.
Buffers Veto Sustained.
BosroN, April 1Ssh-Upon the question of
passing over the Governors veto the bill ap-
propriating money for the expenses of the
various State charitable and reformatory in
situations, the measure failed to receive the
necessary two-thirds in the affi rmatiye to-day,
and the veto was suSLalU6us tive INopuDL-
cans voted in the negative with the Demo
Gratis, and one Democrat voted in the affirma-
tive.
The Executive Council confirmed Governor
Buffers appointments of j. Tarbox as In
sursnce Commissioner, and j. II. Chadwick
as Railroad Commissioner.
The stalWarI 1896" Medals.
PHILADELPHIA, April 1Ssh.-The '306 :"
medals have reached here as last and been
distributed to those entitled to receive them.
They have been at Senator Don Cameron's
house at Hamburg for nearly a year. One or
two Of the stalwart phalanx who were at
Cameron's house when the bronze trophies
arrived, were given their medals with an in
junction of secrecy. The others were put
away until the campaign should be over
Cameron, IN overbsuling his rubbish before
going abroad, found these medals, and con
Guided that this was good tins to distribute
them. The boys are exhibiting them as curl
osities.
The Pres dent.
JACKSONVILLE (fla), April 1Sth.-Presi-
dent Arthur left st. Augustine at daybreak
on the steamer Tallapoosa for Savannah,
where he will make brief stay.
The Star Route Case.
WASHINGTON, April 1Sth.-John A. Walsh
was on the stand in the star route trial to-
| day. ALI the testimony fer the prosecution
and defense is now in, and the arguments will
probably begin tomorrow.