Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-05

| iOWcu ny neCIUEs 1uS WINS tdhSh
back, but refused to remain. following the
deputies when they left. The Sheriff was
compelled to call on the bystsnders for as
sistance, the deputies being unable to keep
Rector on the scsff1ld. The prisoner uttered
terrific screams, and begged piteously for his
life. Finally his limbs were bound, and the
hanging proceeded. This is the first execu-
tion in this parish under the civil law since
1856.
Extremely Cold Weather.
CHICAGO, January 4th.-This has been the
coldest day of the present winter, the ther-
mometer being l4' below zero st 9 A. NJ, and
at IL o'clock it rose to 12'. At l o'clock it
had fallen again to IA below. At Omaha
the Thermometer was 17' below, and at Du-
buque 26' below at o'clock this morning.
TWENTY CARS OF LIVE STOCK rERIsHING.
CHICAGO, January 4th.-The extreme cold
wsather of yesterday and last night, which
| delayed all trains and mails from all quarters
of the country, delayed their arrival to-day
| from three to sixteen hours. Eleven miles
southwest of the stock yards, on the Wabash
road, stands stock train of twenty cars Of
| famishing, freezing live stock. The train was
showed under and stalled on Tuesday night
since which time it is believed the animals
have been without food or water. a rescu.
ing party succeeded in reaching the snow
| bound train late this afternoon. OF the
twenty cars of live stock, all were cattle,
save two or three cars of hogs. Some Of the
cattle were found frozen, others partly frozen,
and were Immediately killed. The exact
number thus killed is not known. The re-
mainder of the cattle were fed and cared for
by the railroad company. who are making
every effort to bring them through. Another
large force et men went out to-day and Of
fered to work for 30 cents an hour. Arriving
near the train they refused to go to work
They could not see ten PAGES ahead for the
| immense drifts of snow, and returned nearly
frozen.
CHICAGO, January 4.h-The thermometer
has been going down the entire afternoon and
evening At II o'clock it was "a degrees be-
low Reports from other points are received
as follows Rock Island Ill.( at 5 o'clock,
IS degrees below; st 9, % degrees below.
Keokuk ia }, 19 degrees below. At points on
| the Wabash narrow gauge 81 degrees below.
! Das Moines (Ia.), 80 degrees below-the cold
est ever known-and growing colder. Du-
buque, 9 o'clock, % degrees beleW several
cases of frost-bite ; trains two hours late.
Algons ia J, 80 degrees below. Peoria (Ill.)
Is degrees below. Rockford QI.), 80 de-
grees below-the coldest in forty years.
None of the towns in the above list report
any cases of freezing to death, or any damage
to property from frost. In Chicago there
] HeEc a uuilDcE VI iuiuOE CasualIlee, lucluulDS
the breskage of plate glass windows by the
intense cold.
ST. PAUL MINI January 4th.-In Man
itoba. on all divisions, from 80 degrees to 30
! degrees below zero. The Northern Pacific
| reported ~ degrees to 3S degrees below. From
| St Paul to Fargo, on the Dakota division, it
was 40 degrees below. In st. Paul and Du-
luth it ranged from 3S degrees to % degrees
helOw-the latter being the figure for Duluth
! Omaha 80 degrees below. On the northern
division. 40 degrees to 80 degrees below. In
st. Paul the range was from 30 degrees to %
degrees below.
BRAINABD (Minn J, January 4th.-The
thermometer az 6 this morning stood ~ de-
grees below zsro.
MILWAUKEE, January 4th.-The steamer
Wisconsin, which left for Grandhsven,
| A1ich., Wednesday evening never reached
there, and after a terrible exposure of forty
hours in terrific gale and severe cold, made
this port again st noon to-day, covered with
ice three inches thick. The Captain says he
never experienced like gale in all his expe-
rience on the lakes. The thermometer
marked % below zero at P. NJ, and the
signal officer prophesies 50 below tonight.
The Coal Miners Convention.
PITTsBURG, January 4th.-The Coal Miners
State Convention adjourned sine die tonight.
Resolutions were adopted giving the EN-
ployers one weeks notice before taking Ce-
cided action in any strike, denouncing the
importation OF foteigu labor, requesting Con
gress to legislste against it, and suggesting
the establishment Of National Bureau of
Labor and Statistics for lie islators.
Addition TO a Gift.
NEwHAvEN Conn., January 4th.-Albert
G. Kent, of San Francisco, member of the
Ysle class OF 53. who a year sgp presented
Yale with $50 900 for the erection of chem
ical laboratory, has added S25. 900 to the
original gift.
Successful swindIer.
Boston, January 4th.-The Eyeping Star
states that Robert A. Murray, supposed to
be carrying on legitimate brokerage busi-
ness here. has sbsconded, leaving liabilities
of 100000, mostly on raised forged mort
cages. Murray was aided in his transaction
by a well-known adventures claiming to be
his wife.
Horrible Fate of Four Little Children.
DUKE CENTER Pa January 4.h.-The
dwelling Of j. y. Garner, an employe of the
| keJsto Oil Company, on the kiusina
branch, near here caught fire from an over
pressure of gas. while Mrs. Garner was sb-
sent, and in a few minutes it was in ashes.
-Four little children, aged from l to years,
were left in the house, and all persisted in the
flames. Thomas McHsle fshed the bodies
out Of the ruins this afternoon. They pre-.
sen.ed horrible sight. The parents are wild
with gtief.
AntI-Temperance Outrage.
LEAvENwoRTH (Ks.l January 4th.-The
office of the Kansas Prohibitj0Hist was en-
tered by unknown persons tonight, the
forms pied and half the type thrown into the
stove and melted.
Fire In II. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Jauusry 4th.-The old St.
Nicholas Hotel building was burned at mid.
night The lower floor was occupied by q
number of business houses The upper sto.
ries were used as lodging houses. All the
inmates were saved. The total loss is about
500, 600
Union Pacific Earnings.
BosToN, January 4th.-The earnings of
the Union Pacific for the eleven months end
ing November S0th were S27, ,353 779.
FOREIGN NEWS.
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