Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-15
CONVERSATION PROM SPECIAL DISPATCHES,

CONDENSATION PROM SPECIAL DIsPArCHEs.l
General Sherman will retire on November LIST.
Professor william Denton, geologist of some
| note, is dead.
The Evangelical Conference has closed its session
| at Allentown, Pa.
The fishing schooner NJ o. Andrews is lost with a
| crew OF seven men
| H A.FHerrick, of Grand Junction, COL, shot and
| killed his divorced wife.
Lieutenant Charles E. Hargois is to be tried by q
| Court-martial at Fort Keogh.
| At Helena, Ark, a constable was shot dead by q
negro he was trying to arrest.
At Boonville, No., prisoner was burned to death
/ while confined in the town jail
| bogus dispatch from Bradford, Pa caused q
disastrous tumble in the Eastern oil market.
| The men who swindled the booksellers at Pitts
| burg extended their operations to Baltimore.
| The President has relieved Lieutenant Robert
son from arrest and reinstated him in command.
Charles Seaman has been arrested at Blooming
| ton, Ind, charged with the murder of his wife.
Notice is given that the Parnell fund will close on
| November Goth at Worcester, Mass, the residence
of Rev. T. j. ConalY, the Treasurer.
The Brewton, Ala. epidemic is to be investigated
There is now yellow fever at the Pensacola Navy
] Yard.
The Geographic reports of the racing events at
! Jerome Park Saturday were manipulated by some
means, and caused the booksellers at Pittsburg to
| pay out large amount to the wrong parties.
John Kelly, OF New York, again calls attention to
the necessity Of harmony and united action among
| New York Democrats
At Scranton, Pa, riot was caused by the John
| L. Sullivan combination not showing up at the
| Driving Park according to announcement.
The Lyceum Theater at Chicago was burned
arIry sniff
Gated.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company is still
trying ge: its land claim referred to the Attorney
General.
Tho United States Steamship Company, with a
capital of SO 000 has been incorporated in New
York.
Aiheavy fog prevailed in New York Saturday, pre-.
venting the arrival and departure OF vessels.
Half dozen stables of race horses, including
Dryers and j. r. Keene's, will winter at Sleeps.
head Bay.
The President has appointed Edmund Stanley
agent for Indians at the Ponca Pawnee and Otoc
agency in Indian Territory.
A singular railroad accident occurred near Union
town, Pa. Saturday, in which several passengers
were injured, but none killed.
The newsdealers in mass meeting in Brooklys Fri
day night reiterated their determination not to sell
the Herald at less than three cents.
The Mining Record defends its estimate OF the
output of gold last year in California at 900 goo
against the report of the Mint, which makes 1t
81 500, 600 more.
At South Bend, Ind, Friday, an iron statue of
the Virgin Mary, weighing two tons and standing
eighteen feet high, was placed on the dome OF the
N0tre Dame University.
In Trenton, N J., Saturday, Minnie Gordon, aged
a. reprimanded at school for circulating improper
ballads, and told that her parents would be in
formed drowned herself
n u, Gba Naur Vnrlr
Water Registers bureau, is alleged to have ds-
fcauded the city out of various sums, gave bail
Saturday to to two indictments found against
him.
In Boston, Saturday. Edwin G. Walker, colored
lawyer, entered a libel suit Tor $4,000 damages
against the Boston Post Publishing Company for
defamation of character contained in an article in
that paper.
at reunion of soldiers and sailors in Leaven-
worth, Ks, Friday, a message was sent to Post
master-General Gresham asking him to restore Paul
Vandervoort TO the position from which he has been
dismissed.
Helen Leonard, the young woman who shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. Clarence Smith, was con-
victed in New York Saturday of assault IN the sec
ond degree and sentenced to the penitentiary for
three and half years.
There has been considerable agitation at Kansas
City, Mo-, lately on the subject of diseased beef.
1t is charged that SICK and disabled animals,
demned at the stock yards, brought across the
line and retaied in the city as healthy beef.
Jacob Melting was arrested in Lafayette Ind,
Saturday, on suspicion of having murdered Ada
Atkinson. bundle Of his clothing was found con-
cealed in the woods near the Atkinson homestead,
covered with blood Melting has been employed on
the Atkinson farm.
1t is reported in Washington that Sergeant Mason
will soon be plrdOned. The applications for aasons
release form the largest general petition ever pre-
scented on any subject in the history OF the United
States, the signatures attached to which are from
every State and Territory.
The international Socialistic Workingmens Asso-
citation convened in Pittsburg Saturday night, and
Will continue in session several days. Nineteen del
egates were present. and it is expected that by to-
day. when the local work OF the congress will begin,
the number will be increased to sixty.
At Syracuse, Friday night, HAL stoddard and
Owen McManu5 had a knock-down win soft gloves.
Stoddard had the best of it after the first round.
At the beginning of the third round McManus
fell and StGddard struck at him. The umpire for
McManus claimed foul. A general fight followed.
Saturday afternoon A. NJ. Harrison, residing on
Ninth street, in Denver, Co shot his sixteenye year.
old wife and then himself, both dying almost in
staptly. The cause assigned is jealousy and inter
ference in domestic affairs the part of his mother
in-law. The couple were married IN Shawnee
Kansas, last March, and nave been in Denver a
month.
Edward Robbins, Superintendent of the Electric
Light Company at layton, Ohio, was killed from
electric shock while fixing lamp that had broken
from the cable Friday night. Benjamin Shardt,
his assistant said carried the lamp in from the
street aud pulled it up the pole. Robbins said to
cut it out. This was doing as he requested. The
lamp slipped, and Robbins grabbed hold OF one of
the wire. l heard him cry out and saw him fall.
Jumping from the ladder l took hold OF him and
said, What is the matter, EdT He replied, Il
am burned to DEATH"
FOREIGN.
Ruiz Gorilla is in Paris.
The Egyptian question is once more agitating
England.
No proof has been gained that O'Donnell was cen
nected with the Irish Invincibles.
In Canton the depression in trade is increasing on
account of fears of a French blockade.
snow-storm at Winnipeg, Manitoba, for two
days, forms the basis for excellent slejghing.
Almost panic was caused at Montreal through
the embarrassments OF very large business firm.
The steamer Deruyter, from Antwerp for New
York, put in at Falmouth Saturday with her feed
pumps broken.
A few English gentlemen contributed $4,000 to
mission Of Moody and Sankey at Islington.
Dupessis has arrived at Hongkong, and SAYS that
an amicaDle arrangement with the Black Flags is
impossible and that they must be extirpated.
During the last few days the arrest of several
naval officers has been made at Cronstadt and
several army officers and soldiers arrested at
Riga.
Sir Stafford NOrthcote arrived Mt Lorne Saturday,
in continuance of his political tour in Ulster, and
WAS presented with an address and entertained st