Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-19
SATURDAYS NEWS.
TCoSDESsED FROM SPECIAL DlsPArcHBs,I


General w. H. H. Terrill, Adiutant-
General of Indiana during the war, is dead
Herbert Armstrong and David Brown
were shot and killed while blowing at
Bardstown, \. j.
AtGlenmary, Tenn, Saturday night, two
men named Trindell and Kirby killed each
other III a quarrel.
A few failures of minor firms occurred in
New York Saturday, but there was marked
improvement in the market.
Father McEvoi. of Indianapolis has re-
ceived orders from Rome. He has been
appointed English confessor for St Peters.
The Treasury of the United States has
forwarded 5000, goo legal tenders to the
Assistant Treasurer at New York, for use
in case Ofnecessity.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians' Ma
tional Convention at Cleveland after the
election of officers. adjourned TO meet two
years hence in st. Paul.
A panic occurred Friday night in Days
Theater, New York, caused by the entrance
of smoke from burning chimney adjoin-
ing. The audience. escaped unhurt.
Christian Riebling was hanged in Morri-
son, H.. Friday, in the presence of $50 peo-
pie, for the murder Of Albert Lucia at Lyn-
ton His neck was broken by the fall
river is even with the March flood and ris-
ing eight inches in twenty-four hours. All
the lowland> subject to overflow are now
under water
John Biggs and Ellen Farrar eloped from
Greenbriar, White Sulphur Springs, ".
Va, in boat They were pursued by the
I,,.,t a1l1 "a and
lover were drowned.
The New York Supreme Court has
granted an injunction in favor of the Buff
taIo, New York and Philadelphia Railway,
restraining L. 5. Grant and others from
disposing of the bonds of the railroad COM
pany.
Lord Aylesford, the Texas cattle king,
has lust arrived in London from New
York. He is enthusiastic in his praises of
Texas. which he says is the greatest coun-
try in the world for the pursuit of wealth,
health and happiness
A dispatch from Water Valley, Miss,
says While a Mormon elder was waiting
at the depot here to-day for several other
elders he was assaulted by an unknown
person who emptied a bucket Of tar on his
head. He made his escape.
At Burlington, Ind, the trial of Charles
Walker, for the murder of George Shaw, is
in progress Louis Prilliman, one of the
Jurors, received letter which declared that
an organized body existed for the purpose
of lynching the jury if they failed IL find
verdict of guilty and sentence the murderer
to death or imprisonment for life.
In the House Of Representatives Satur-
day the Senate amendment to the Indian
appropriation bill was concurred in. The
bill passed extending until December 81,
1885, the duration OF the Alabama Claims
Commission. On motion Of Cassidy the
bill passed to relieve settlers on the Duck
Valley Indian Reservation, in Elko county,
Nevada.
The Philadelphia papers contain accounts
of brutal four-romd prizc-fight near that
city between John Britt, of Germantown,
and VIM Chester, of CunShohOcken. The
men fought with six-ounce gloves. After
savage pounding, in which both men were
severely punished, Britt struck Chester UNI
der the chin, knocking him unconscious
and winning the fight.
Frank McGinnis, weighmaster of the
Missouri Pacific, in st. Louis, has been ar
rested. charged with defrauding the COM
panv by a system of false weights. dividing
the difference with the shipper. 1t Is said
one of the largest lumber firms has saved
over $4,000 i'll freight during the past nine
months by getting short weights. The
railroad company claims to have lost large
sums by the fraud.
In the Presbyterian General Assembly at
Saratoga. n. y. Saturday, a committee was
appointed to prepare memorial on the
Rev. W G. Case, of California, who died
en- route The Moderator appointed a conf
mittee of forty-two on reduced representa-
ton. The twenty-ninth annual report of
the relief fund for disabled ministers and
the widows and orphans of deceased min.
listers was adopted. y committee of fifteen
was appointed on insurance for ministers A
resolution deprecating the publication and
sale of Sunday papers as 4 dissertation of
the Sabbath was debated with great force.
Referred to a committee