Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-01

Clements. boots and shoes. Total loss, about
800. 600; insured.
Sister Mary Paul. the heorine in the SEN
sational secret marriage with DR.. Ross, at
Yankton, was formerly resident of Omsha.
She was Sister of Mercy, and was second
in charge of st. Mary's Convent in that city
for several years.
The brewers Of Chicago and Milwaukee
price of beer TO cash customers will be IS per
barrel, ss before to Others, IS 40. The al
lowance of 40 cents per barrel to drivers for
treating viii be cus of.
The coinsge st tie Mint in Philadslphia
during 1882 aggregated 69,967, 200 pieces,
valued at S4S 800, 1856. This amount included
double eagles. $50; eagles, 2, 1924, $50; half
eagles, 2 154, $50; thIes- loliar pieces, l. $40 !;
quarter eagles. 4,040; dollars, 800.
A bogus affair has been imposed on inno-
cent investors in Chicago. called the Hon.
duras Company. Its projectors claim that
they have big mines in Honduras, and want
to start colony and get money for some
stock. The chief Of affairs, W. l.. Walker,
has been arrested.
A race riot occurred at Oconee, Ga. Satur-
day, and Asa Lawson was killed and Marshal
Webster and sos, William, mortaly wounded,
all white. Three colored brother, Handy,
Jefferson and Squire Washington, were dan
gerously wounded, and several others of both
races injured.
Before the middle of next month the en-.
tire cable system, contemplated originally by
the Chicago City Railway Company, will be
completed and cable cars running on three
lines. The cable now runs only to Thirty
ninth street, on State, bus viii probably be
extended shortly two miles further.
Lieutenant John O'Connell, Eighth In
fantry, sentenced to make good deficiency
in his accounts of 81, 479, wife acting SIS As
sistant Quarteruaster at Benicis barracks,
California, aud to be dismissed the service,
has had the dismissal part RENTED snd the
amount TO be made good reduced to SlS4
George McElfresh and James A. McDev.
lit, detectives, were arrested III Washington
Saturday night as the result of the iuvestiga-
ton of charges by the Citizens Committee
that the members of the police acted with
thieves, burglars and forgers, and were held
to answer to the charges, being in the mean
time suspended.
James Murdoch, the veteran actor, Satur-
day signed contract to play Hamlet" on
Friday night of the Dramatic festival in
Chicago next April, with John Mccullough
as thu Ghost, Barrett as Laertes, and Nc
Wicker, Of Chicago, as FRS. Grsvs-digger.
Murdoch is the first one to sign the contract
to appear at that festival.
Nine of the principal culpIits out OF twenty
one Bedouins implicated in the murder of
Professor Pslmer's party, have been cap.
tured, together with their wives and other
relations of the remaining important GRIM
inals, who will be held as hostages for the
murderers of Palmer and Gillsmony. Sufi-
cient evidence has been collected for the trial
Of the accused.
Miss Josephine G. Meeker, daughter of the
late n. G. Meeker, who was tortured and
killed by the Ute Indians in the massacre Of
1879, died in Washington Saturday morning
of pneumonia. Miss Meeker was clerk in
the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, and
was held in high estimation for personal quail
tiles. She and her mother for some time
were prisoners after the massacre of 1879.
Secretary Chandler has ordered command
ants at the navy yards to reduce, by thirty
per cent, the number of men employed IN
der the appropriation for the maintenance of
yards and docks. The class affected by the
order is watchmep, keeper of fire extinguish-
irg apparatus and persons employed in like
occupations. The reductions do not extend
to skilled mechanics and workmen gen.
orally.
At Madison, Nebraska, Friday night, g
son of Samuel Tyrrell, aged years, who was
visiting in town, went to the house Of John
Crew, ST.. whose family were all absent ex-
cspt 7-year.old boy Yong Tyrrell found
Winchester rifle in the house, and while
handling it the weapon was accidentally dis.
charged, killing Tyrrell instantly, the ball
entering his forehead and SCATTERING the
whole cranial vault and blowing the scalp,
brains and skull in all directions.
Mary Isabella Martin, who was tried in the
District Court Of Lyon county. Kansas. in
November. for the murder by poison of Mrs.
Lorraine M. Kuger, and who has been feign-
ing insanity since the verdict OF guilty was
rendered against her, has been pronounced
sane by competent board of physicians, and
was Friday sentenced by Judge Graves to be
hanged, according to the laws of Kansas,
after one years confinement at hard labor in
the Penitentiary.
During lecture in Boston Saturday night
by the Ford brothers, the slayers of Jesse
James, in one Of the subsidiary halls in the
Horticultural Building, fremont street, an
exciting scene occurred. A large audience
was present, when some rough loudly offered
the opinion that the Ford brothers were mo
good" This reflection was resented by the
brothers, who drew their revolvere and,
brandishing them, lesped from the stage into
the midst of the audience. The people stam-
peded Immediately, and such was the haste
that many sought egress through the win.
dows, smashing the sashes to facilitate their
exit. The hall is on the ground floor aud the
windows open directly on the street.