Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

AI fOrC JarVis, New orK, Saturday,
Daniel Vannor and wife were killed by a
train.
At Marion, New Jersey, Saturday, the
clay-pigeon match resulted Carver, 9S b.
gardus, 81.
The steamer D. Steinman, from New York
for Aspinwall, is aground in the river Scheldt
at Terneusen.
A London dispatch says the betting against
Keenes Foxhsll for the City and Suburban
handicap is 20 to 1.
Richard Musgrove, merchant and bill
broker in Liverpool and Manchester, has
failed ; liabilities e120,000.
The Nord Deutsche Zeitung ssys the
Bundesrath will soon consider the question of
increasing the duties on corn.
The Agricultural College at Des Moines,
Iowa, hiss temporarily closed because of the
breaking out of scarlet fever among the stu
dents.
The steamer Brooklyn was run eshors at
Hog Island, Maine, Friday niant. The pas
sengers were taken eff. She is badly aground
and full Of water.
A Vienna dispatch ssys the sentence of
Baron Powell Ramminger. convicted Of fraud,
has been commu:sd from seven TO FIVE years
imprisonment.
The American gchooner Est;Ils sud Mex.
lean pilot boat Teodwits have been l9st on the
bar at Tuxpan. Mexico, during norther.
All hands drowned.
Il is reported that ho-sss are suffering in o
few locslities in MINI esoea from pinkeye.
glanders and kind of nervous disease,
termed by some spinal meningitis.
McNutt's hotel and barns and the stores of
Boomer and james Parker, at Lower Stewi-
acke, Colchester county. Nova Scotia, we're
burned Saturday. Loss heavy.
The long.cherished plan of the Kiralfy
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of their own, adapted to the production of
spectacular dramas, is about being carried
out.
1t is stated that the Emperor Of Germany,
who usually commutes sentence of death, has
decided not to interfere in the case of Conrad,
who killed his wife and feur children.
The trial of Mrs. James Werner at West
Bend, Wisconsin, for the alleged poisoning of
her mother with doetored soup, ended Satur-
day morning with verdict of not guilty.
In Willimantic, Conn, Friday night, An
sell, Arnold Il Co.'s wholesale flour and feed
store was entered, the safe blown open and
robbed of small amount of money and S20,-
900 to $50 900 in bonds.
On Friday, near Clinton, Jones county,
Georgia, a nine-year.old son of Buck Jordan
accidentally, while playing with an old gun,
killed Mrs. Wheeler, an old lady, and wound
ed her daughter, Mrs. Allen, and q baby.
1t is understood the Presidents Of the
Grand frank and Canadian Pacific Railway
Companies have held conference which ter
minated satisfactorily, and there is good pros.
pect OF an agreement between the companies
being arrived at.
o. II. Burch, advertising himself as the
Union Manufacturing Company, in Galens,
H., and recently posted SIS swindler by the
Postoffice authorities, has disappeared. 1t is
estimated that he succeeded in swindlipg in
nocent people, mostly Swedes, by promising
to send articles through the mails, to the ex-
tent of S35. 600.
Secretary Folger has almost entirely recoy
cred. He went riding on horseback Saturday
afternoon, and appeared benefited by the ex-
ercise. He has abandoned his contemplated
trip to Bermuda.
The funeral Of the late General Joseph K.
Barnes. ex-Surgeon-G General, took place Sat-
urday afternoon with military honors. The
escort consisted Of battery of United States
artillery, two companies Of heavy artillery.
two companies Of marines and Union Vet.
erans' corps.
Police Sergeant William Becker was prob
ably fatally shot ct Port Jervis, n. Y. Sat
urdaY, by Martin Wenricb, whom he was
taking in carriage to jail. Wenrich was
arrested.
The New York NaH and Erpress SAYS.
day have not been SO large as the season
would warrant or was expected. This is due.
it is thought, TO the action of European
agents in booking steersge passengers through
to California aud tie West, by way of New
Orleans, at S35 head.
James p. Stow died in Meriden, Conn.
Friday night. In 1868 he was Chairman OF
the Alabama delegation to the Republican
National Convention, and his was the first
vote ever cast for General Grant for candi-
date for President
Shippers of grain from New York COM
plain that in the shipments of grain TO Eu-
rope there is generally reported shortage,
occasioning them losses Of from one to FIVE
per cent. on the value of the goods as esti-
mated on this side of the Atlantic
George Tucker was asssssinated in Leb-
anon, KY, Saturday. by his brother Irwin.
Tucker was shot while on horseback and in
stantly killed.
Freeman Younglove, Treasurer and busi-
ness manager Of the Cohoss Strawboard Com
pany, and SON of the late ex-Spesker of the
New York Asseubly, has left Albany, N.
Y. His whereabouts are unknown. It is
alleged that he forged the name of Nicholas
Cute, his fstber.iG-lsw, TO notes for $25, 600.
HIS accounts are ia such condition that the
company has suspended. Seyenty-fvs men
are thrown cut OF employment.