Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-15

! witness had seen those of respectable men in
! Dsnville, they would want to leave Virginia
| He had seen 3 white man escorting q white
lady TO church or the opera. snd negro man
"bust right through their arms
CaIifornias Indian Claim.
WASHINGTON, February 14.h. - Senator
| Msxey, from the Committee on Military
Affairs, has reported adversely the bill TO in.
demnify the State Of Caiiornis for balances
| paid and remaining due on account of the in
! debtadness incurred in Indian wars, for the
payment of which the State issued bonds in
| 1851 and 1852 part of which remain due, ow-
| ing TO War Department rulings. By direc.
ton of the committee Msxey moved TO in
definitely postpone the bill. Senator Miller
asked to have the bill placed on the calendar,
| instead of the adoption of Maxey's motion,
which is customary, and after some obj eotion
| to cumbaring the calendar with an adverse
report, MIller's request was granted. The
| adverse report, however. SIS good as kills the
| bill.
The National Educational Convention.
WASHINGTON, Februsry 14sh.-The final
session of the Educational Convention opsned
| this morning. After the discussion of several
| papers, the Association took recess to call
| upon the President and Secretary Of the Iu.
| terror. At the White House o special recep-
ton was accorded the members by the Pres-
dent General Eaton, Commissioner of the
Bureau of Education, introduced Hon. b. l..
| Butcher, who In turn introduced the delegates
! to the President. General Eaten then spoke
Of the delegates as representing millions of
children. and of the Presidents experience as
teacher. The President responded, saying
that among the plessantest recollections Of
his life was the remembrance connected with
the time of his school teaching. He felt that
the greatest help to the administrative func
| tious came from the educators of the people
that the pernanence of our institutions de-
pended upon the education of the nation. At
the close of his address he Convention re-
turned to the church and resumed its session.
A number of papers were read and discussed,
and the session adj burned.
WeII-Deseryed Promotion.
WASHINGTON. February 14th.-The Presi-
dent has directed the promotion Of Lieuten-
ant Rhodes, of the revenue cutter Dexter, for
gallant conduct on the occasion of the wreck
OF the City of Columbus.
FOrty-eighih Congress.
WASHINGTON, February 14th.-In the Sen
ate to-day, Voorhees, resolution, requesting
the Secretary of the Interior to suspend the
approval of the indemnity lands selections
made by the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
p1ny, was referred to the Committee on Pub
lie Lands.
Beck called up the Mcpherson bill relative
to national bank circulation, and he spoke at
some lsngth in its favor.
Several amendments were offered and
speeches made, and at the close Of the debate,
without final action, the Senate adjourned.
The New York TrageJy-Antecedcnts of
the Principal Actor.
New York, February l4sh.-The Tribune
has some details Of the anteceden.s OF Miss
Jennie Almy, who, last Tuesday, in the
Third Avenue Elevated Railroad. shot man
named Victor Grafton Andre and then sue.
ceeded in killing herself. Her mother Mrs.
Almy, first appeared in East Chester about
tweuty-seyen years ago, when Almy was in
Californis. John Davis, Constable of East
Chester, was oLe of the friends OF Mrs.
Almys husband. He said yesterday that he
first knew Mrs. Almy about twenty years
ago. The family then conais ed Of a mother,
two daughters and son. About fourteen
years ago they moved from East Chester TO
Williamsburg, where Davis married the
mother and lived with her for several years.
One night" said Davis, II cane home
and found her gone, and that's the last ever
saw of her. When Jennie was about 10
years old she married q man named Schwartz.
She separated from him soon sfterward, and
don't know what became of her. Within a
few months of the time that she was married
she was in Bellevue Hospital. l think she
was treated for insanity. caused By epileptic
fits. Her temper was very violent"
Emma Hyde said she knew Jennie. 1.-The
last time 1 saw her was in September, when
l met her at Williams Bridge. She was &C
compsnied By a tall, dsrk-complexioned
man, who was introduced TO me as DIR.
knight, her intended husband. She said
she had been living in Chicsgo, and ex-
pectei to go back. She said then that Almy
was aIive in California" Miss Hyde said
there was something mysterious in tie way
Jennie appeared. Her mother said she had
been found by policeman and given to her,
Mrs. Almy kept sort of liquor store, and
John Davis was her bsIkeeper. After Almy
ceased sending money to her she married
John Jameson. She fell out with him, and
then married Davis. After she left Davis
she went back 30 Janies5n. and lived with
him until be died. The last heard of
Schwartz, Jsnnie's husband, was that be was
in Sing Sing for robbinG the Harlem Rail
road.
Andres friends say that he is a grand
nephew of Major Andre, of revolutionary
fame. His mother is the daughter Of Gen.
ersl Croftin, late of the British army. Police
Captain Gunner, who took charge of Andres
papers, was asked by a reporter g Is it true
thst Miss Almy deceived Andre as TO her
former msrrisge" Gunner answered, No
she told him all about it before they were en-
gagged to each other"