Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-10

mission Day. The banks and few stores /
were closed, but trade generally was unin- |
terrupted. The Eagle Corps paraded, and /
held its annual picnic and target shooting. |
SrocKToS, September 9th.-ThcIe was
no public demonstration here to distin- |
guiSh Admission Day from any other day |
in the week The banks and few bust |
ness houses closed, and in the evening !
the San Joaquin Valley Society of
California Pioneers had public installa-
ton of officers, after which collation. was
served.
NIsAL1A. September 9th - Admission
Native Sons Golden West. Five thousand
people were present. There were eight
hundred in procession.
Cornerstone Laid.
SAN FRANcIsco. September 9th.-To-day
the Society Of Pioneers is not only ccle-
bratimg Admission Day with its usual en-
the new and magnificent building which il
is to erect on Fourth street, and which is
likely to be the headquarters of the society
long after every participant in to-daYS
events has been laid away in the ground.
Whistler and Delinas to Nrcstle in Sac
ramento.
SAN FRAHCIsco, September 9th-WhstIer
and Dclmas have arranged To wreStle a re-
turn match in Sacramento for 4 purse Of
81 600 next Tuesday.
SHADES Challenge Ia Brady.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 9th.-Jack
Brady, challenged by Siade to meet him
with hard gloves or bare knucklcs for the
heavyweight championship of the Pacific
coast, states that lie will fight Slade at any
time after two months, and prove his claim
to the tide of champion At present he
has fight with Lord, Of Eureka, which
will keep him in good condition 10 meet
Sladc. Brady says that he would prefer
knucFlc fight To take place ON a barge, or
arranged in any way 10 avoid coming in
conflict with the police authorities.
Father Poisons Himself and -Four
Children.
PETALUMA, September 9th.-A stranger,
whose name is thought to be Patrick Shea,
poisoned himself and four children with
strychnine here last night, between and 9
o'clock. The father and two of the children
are dead but the other two children, il is
thought, will recover.
DETAILS OF THE HORRIBLE AFFAIR.
PETALUMA, September 9th.-One of the
most horrible deeds that ever darkcned the
annals sof crime was pcrpetratcd in this
city last night between the hours of and
8 O'clock Yesterday afternoon, when the
P NJ down train pulled into the
depot in East Petaluma. among the paSsen-
gers was 4 short, thick-sct man and four
small children, who, on quitting the sta
ton, made their way down the road several
| hundred yards and entered vacant lot, the
property of John McNear No further no.
| tice was paid them until between and S
O'Clock, when Joseph Lynch, whose resi-
dencc is near by, thinking it rather hard
that the children should remain out all
night, the air being chilly, went in com
panv with friend named Pickering 10
offer them shelter at his house. They
! found the man and his children in a cor
ncr of the lot behind some high shctering
| boards. No baggage or provisions were
visible, and upon one bare blanket,
stretched upon the ground, lay the three
smaller children. The Oldest child,
girl aged about eleven years. was
moving about, while the father
was observed in Il knecling posture on one
end OF the blanket. He remarked, as they
approached, that they were all very hungry,
and begged that something To eat be
brought them Nh Lynch FASTENED to his
home, leaving Pickering with the strangers,
and after an absence of some thirty minutes
returned with a hamper of food. On his
return he found the family lying down.
ranged in row At one end of the BLANKET
lay the father. next the three boys, ranged
according to their ages-the Oldest first,
aged about years, and on the outside the
grid. These people act strangely re-
marked Pickering to Lynch, as he APP
preached. OH exclaimed the father Of
the strange family. " let me die with my
children Oh. / believe papa has
poisoned us all, cried the little girl. He
gave us all white stuff out of bottle Signs
| of approaching commissions now appeared,
and the two younger children bean 10
suffer from nausea. Mr.. Lynch made haste
for town and physician, and several Off
Gals were soon upon the ground. The
father of the family was now in the last
throes of death. The child lying next to
him was in terrible commissions and beyond
aid Emctics were administered to the
other three between their spasms, and with
| two Of them-the youngest, aged between >
and 4, and the girl-with the desired effect,
| they being made to yOmit. The two first
mentioned sufferers expired about 9
! O'Clock The three remaining children
were conveyed to the house Of Mr.. Lynch,
where at 1870 the oldest boy died in agony.
| The two others suffered from frequent con-
! vulsi0ns until about o'clock this morn
| ing, since when they have slept, and they
| are resting quite comfortably, with Symp-
toms in favor of recovery. In the pocket
of the deceased father was found S2l 40,
and the following note: