Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-07

A Prize Fight.
New YORK, April CHA prizs fight oc.
cured on Long Island at dsybreak this mora
ing. between Harry WetsoD. commonly
known as the BLACK Diamond" and James
Mclaughlin. Seven rounds were fought in
seventeen minutes, when the "BIack Dia-
mond" was declared the winner. Wetson
halls from Cincinnati.
Sullivan Issues Challenge.
New YORK. April 6sh.-Sullivan has issued
a challenge to meet James Mitchell, the re-
Gently arrived English pugilist, within tbres
weeks, with hard glove for s., 900 a side.
Marquis of Queensbury rules. Madder and
Mitchell were in Wall street when the latter
expressed perfect willingness to accept the
challenge. and the twain started out to raise
the necessary stakes. 1t is said that Suli-
van has received lucrative offsr to go to San
Francisco, and if he accepts his visit to Eng.
land will be postponed.
BunkO sharps and Methodist Preachers.
New YORK, April 6th.-At the session of
the New York Methodist Conference yester-
day Rev. DR.. Buckley of the Christian Id
vOcdte warned the m smbers against confidence
men, as two brethren had already been de-
ceived by these shsrpers, and he gave q de-
scription of the method of the bunko men.
" The scoundrels described, he said, "have
been lying In wait for ministers connected
with the Conference as they were visiting the
Methodist Book Concern, and nabbed them
as they were going up or coming down stairs
accidentally came upon a minister in the
clutches of confidence men. The minister,
whose name | won't mention, was Just about
to sign check for S175. The confidence man
had approached him and represented himself
as brother-in. law of well known Presiding
Elder. Some of the confidence men had been
trying to work their little game with min
lister in front of this very church this morn
ing"
The New York Domestic Tragedy Conk-
lina's Trial Postponed.
NEW YORK, April 6th.-The interior of
the Court of General Sessions was crowded
this morning with people. who had come to
attend the trial of George Conkling. As
sistant District Attorney O'Byrne said he
was not prepared to go on with the case, but
Conkling's counsel strenuously objected.
O'Byrne said he had begun an investigation
that would take all the gush out of this so.
called domestic drama. "If the case is
postponed, it will go over until the May
term, remarked Judge Gildersleeve. O'Byrne
was satisfied with this, but Conkling's coun-
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immediate trial, asked if any postponement
was granted it should be until September, in
order that he could go home and attend to
his business. The Judge decided to adjourn
the trial until the September term.
Most Too Much to Endure-The Notorious
Socialist Coming West.
New YoRK, April 6th.-The Socialist,
Johann Most, addressed the Iuternationalists
this evening. The Telegram says the meet
ing is in part to give him hearty send. to
the West tomorrow. He has received inyi.
tations from various groups of International
Workingmsns Associations in the larger
cities of the West to visit them and Qhske
addresses. It was said at Schwabs head.
quarters to-day that the Association has had
a much more rapid growth since MosL's arri-
val than before, and that it has much better
and frmer organic alton. Most will visit the
Pacific coast before returning.
News In Advance.
PHILADELPHIA, April 6Sh.-The Ledoer's
New York special says: A friend, VINO is
posted in the sayings and doings of the Nj
hilist and Communist colony, mentions as a
curious circumstance that the Frankfort dis
patches this morning, announcing that the
Kremlin at Moscow had been ruined, was
posted up in the wine cellars of Bleecker
fore it was published in the evening papers,
or put on the news bulletins.
Lotta's Voice.
ST. LOUIS, April 6th.-Mrs. M. A. Crab
tree, in letter, announces that her daughter,
whose full name is Lotta Mignon Crabtree,
will not play for two year,, but will spend
that time in Europe and seek medical treat
ment for the restoration of her voice. If the
old tones can be brought back again, then
Lolita will be heard once more, but if the
physicians of the old country fail to set the
worn chords TO new music, Lotta will appear
on the stage no more.
The Counting of the Cash.
WAsHINGroN. April 6th-The committee
examining the condition of the United States
Treasury are making rapid progress. The
bonds held to secure the circulation of national
banks, the bonds held as security for public
deposits, and the bonds of the II dian trust
fund, have been counted, and found to agree
with the amount called for. All the odds
and ends have been closed up, and the work
now before the committee is straight count
of the sealed packages of reserve United
States notes and bags OF siver coin. There
are l, $50 packages of notes. Each package
contains 4, 900 notes. There are about 2. 800
bags of silver, each bag containing 81 600.
The count will not be finished for two weeks.
The members of the committee say the
Treasury is in good shape in every respect.
The Jeanette Investigation.
WASHINGTON. April 6.h.-The Jeanette
Court Of Inquiry convened to-day. The
Judge Advocate announced that he had re.
ceived q communication from DR.. Collins, in.
closing thirty. five questions. which he desired
to have put to witnesses. Fireman Bartlett
was called, and the questions read to him. 10
reply, the witness stated in substance that
Collins was treated exactly the same as the
other officers. The witness was of the opin-
ion that the trip to Belun might have been
made sooner, but it would have been at.
tended with great suffering, and he believed
that, taking all things into consideration,
everything was done that could have been
deue to rescue De Longs party.
The Chileans In Peru.
New York. April 6th.-The World, re-
ferring to its Lima correspondence, asserts
that the position of the Chileans in Peru is
full of peril. The guerrilla forces, If indeed
they are not to be called the army, Of Gen.
ersl Caceres, can no longer be regarded with
indifference by the Chilean garrison of Lima
A skirmish, from which the Chileans have
not come off with advantage, occurred be-
tween the outposts of Caceres and the Chile
ans three weeks ago, within three miles of
the Peruvian capital. Meanwhile, deadly
epidemic, invited by the debauchery and
recklessness of the Chilean troops, has broken
out amcng the earrisons on the coast A
single serious military disaster to the Chileans
it is obvious would bring the Peruvians to
arms all over the country, and the silly at
tempt which the Chilean Government is
making to manufacture q psstebosrd Peru
Wan President out of discredited and insig.
ni6cant Iglesias, bears witness to the anxiety
and disquiet, if not to the positive alarm, Of
the Chilean Government at the condition into
which it has allowed itself to be drawn by
yielding to the extravsgaDt and senseless
rapacity of the worst element in Chilean
society.
The Central American States.
CHICAGO. April 6th.--S. A. Batres, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the United States from the Rep1blic Of
Guatemala, was in this city yesterday on his
way to Washington. He will likewise look
after the interests of the Republic ef San Sal
vador at the same time. Senior Batres said