Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-18

The Indians at the Dakota agencies are
starving.
A $50 900 fire occurred in Chicago early
yesterday morning.
Government boats are still distributing
supplies to the flood sufferers.
The total amount collected in Boston for
the Western flood sufferers is 81, 500.
Charles Weeks, a well-known horseman,
died in B.ooklyn, n. Y, Saturday night.
Reuben Woods, champion fy,caster of
America, dropped dead in Syracuse, n. Y,
Saturday night.
The Harper high-license law, in Illinois,
has been declared constitutional by the
State Supreme Court.
The gross earnings of the Union Pacific
Railroad for the last year was S29, 76l, 100;
expenses, 100000.
The investigation into the Copiah county
Miss. election murders was continued at
New Orleans Saturday.
A man named Avery killed his wife in
Chichesterville, N. Y, Saturday night, and
then attempted suicide.
The Governor of Mississippi has vetoed
the Railroad Commission bill. The deci-
sion causes considerable connection.
George William Curtis will deliver
public eulogy in Boston on Wendell Phil
lips, but the date has not yet been decided
upon.
The Liabilities of Edgar Peck, the
banker at Patehogee, La, who failed and
tried to kill himself, is placed at $50, 600
assets, $1,000
George P. Curry, banker and cotton
manufacturer of Augusta, Ca, has made
an assignment. Liabilities, 500, coo as
sets, nominally the same.
The burning oil cars at Bellefontaine, o.,
Friday night was followed Saturday by the
explosion Of tank OF oil which had been
leaking. A boy fired the oil on the ground
and ignited that in the tank. Six children
were badly burned.
Two men, Thomas Lynch and Michael
Stephens, OF the crew of the steamer S.
W. Wood, were drowned at the foot of
being thrown from skiff under the wheel
of the steamer Springer.
The Moravians of Bethlehem, Pa, are
about to extend their missions in Alaska.
Two brethren, one of whom is to be lay
man of experience and the other an or
dained minister, will leave for Alaska as
soon as the revenue cutter sails.
Mrs. StribIing lady living in Mont
gomery, Ala. who was assaulted recently
by a negro, has died Her throat was
cut, and she fingered in great agony for
two or three weeks. The negro was
hanged by mob a day or two after the
outrage.
The meeting of the Military Service In.
stitute at Governors Island, Thursday,
was attended by most of the distinguished
army officers in the vicinity of New York.
General Hancock presided, Stone Pasha
delivered highly entertaining address on
Egyptian military affairs.
At the funeral of Mrs Uhler in New
York Friday, Mr.. Uhler sat through the
services with his face buried in his hand.
kerchief. He was chief mourner both in
name and in fact. He had besn uumoved
before, but under the influence Of the SOL
emn service he wept freely.
Hustar, Samprel & Wells, the contract
ors who graded the International Railroad
extension 100 miles into Mexico, have pro-
cured Judgment against the company in
Mexico for S245, 900. The entire roadbed
and its fixtures will be cold within twenty
days to satisfy the judgment.
On February ID herd of 100 cattle from
Liverpool were sent to quarantine at Port
land Me, and were pronounced free from
disease. The same day some cattle fed in
the road over which the herd had passed
and soon showed signs of disease. Now
nearly all the cattle in quarantine are az
tscted.
A general strike Of railroad coal miners
against \ reduction of half cent is looked
for shortly in P,ttsburg. The ruling rate
"a five and half cents, but in a number OF
instances the operators refused to pay more
than three cents, and they claim they are
unable TO run pits at profit and pay the
former rate.
1t is officially announced that H. w.
Burns, local agent of the Union Pacific at
Couuci! Bluffs, has been appointed general
joint agent at that point OF ali lines in the
Western Trunk Line Association. Agents
of other lines, members of the Western
Trunk Association are instructed to report
to Barns as their superior officer.
1t is reported in Miles City, Mont, that
the remarkable death-rate among Marquis
De Mores' sheep in the Little Missouri
country aud in the Bad Lands in Dakota
Is the result of poison, as the sheep on
Montana ranges are healthy. The loss OF
& 600 out of y, 900 can be accounted for on
no other ground than from poison and ma
lcious motives against the Marquis, grow
ing out of the killing of O'Donnell.
The family OF Albert Hammerling, of
Minneapolis MINI, purchased a ham.
Subsequently they were taken sick. Mr..
Hammerling his wife, three children and
Mrs. Hammerljngs slater were taken to
the College Hospital, where the disease was
pronounced trichiniasis. Mrs, Hammer
ling died Friday after suffering horribly.
The other members of the family are in
critical condition. The disease resulted
from eating raw ham.
The sensation OF the day in Washington
has been the publication Of the cable dis
patch from London saying, on the author
ity Of the Times Berlin correspondent,
that Prince Bismarck had returned to Herr
Won Eisendecker, the German Minister,
the resolutions of coincidence on Herr
Lasker's death, passed by the House Of
representatives, with the request that the
resolutions should be returned to the
House. as the position of Herr Lasker in
Germany was not such as to Justify the
action of Congress.
The conclusion reached by Joseph Whar-
ton, OF Philadelphia, from experiments
made with dust found in the snowfall on
January 20.h last, that the brilliant twi.
| lights OF the past winter were caused by
volcanic particles in the air, finds corrob.
Grafton from an analysis made of specimens
OF pumice dust brought TO Philadelphia by
the snip Ridgeway from the Pacific, and
which covered the ocean for miles, within
a few days sail from the Island of Kra.
katol, the scene Of the Javan volcanic con-
vulsion. He finds this pumice to be sub.
stantislly identical in its composition and
structural arrangement with the strange
dust he found in the snow.