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

In New York Saturday Government bonds
were quoted at 1855 for As of 1907 11s1I for rs
sterling 81 SsG4 80; 1907 for s. 100 for IS
silver bars, lll34
Silver in London, 80 19-l6d: consols. 10e 5-l6d
s per cent. United States bonds, extended, lO5
Is, 125a4; as, 11519.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at SS24@S914 cents.
The general stock market opened with a
firmer tone i'll San Francisco Saturday morn
ing At the $50 session Hale e. NOrcross rose to
s. 69td2 65, and Chollar to 81 go while small
proportionate gain was made by the other stocks
on the Comstock list. Business was fairly active.
The Bodie stocks were firm, with sales of Bodie
as high as 81 .. At the close in the afternoon
there was further advance in the middle Com
stocks. The general tone of the market was
iirm.
in New York, yesterday, Patrick Heating
while drunk, beat his wife to death
The devastating forest fires in the East are
still raging.
John Wentz attempted in New York. yester-
day, to poison his three children, failing in
which he drank the poison himself. and died.
The steamer B. s Ford was burned yesterday
al Chestertown Pa.
a prize fight of seventeen rounds. with bare
knuckles, took place yesterday near Pittsburg.
A new postofiice has been established at Haw-
icy. San Bernardino county.
The supplemental Chinese bill was passed by
the House of Representatives Saturday evening
by vote of Isl to Is.
Fitzgerald won the walking match i'll New
York. with q score of go miles to Rowells COZ.
The towns of Brisbin, Pa and Gilmans De
pot, n. Y, were burned Saturday.
IN q fight with robbers near Kittanning, Pa,
Saturday four members of Sheriff posse were
killed
Five men were killed Saturday at Gouvcrneur
\. Y, by a boiler explosion.
Rich placer diggings are reported on the Vel
lowstone river, near Livingstone, Mont
The trouble at Buffalo between Italians and
'longshoremen is assuming serious proportions.
Fire in Detroit; loss, about 10000.
James Maxwell, charged with murder com
mtted suicide in his cell at Kansas City, Mo,
Friday night
fire in Gainesville, Fla; loss, 5000
Considerable damage has been done by floods
in northeastern Texas
For killing his wife and burning her body,
Spire Pa. of murder in the second degree.
The steamship State of Florida is believed to
have been lost in 1nid-ocean.
Yellow fever caused the death of thirteen per
sons in Havana last week.
Natives murdered the crew of the English
steamer Grapple tSt. CroiX Island, West Indies.
and burned the vessel.
W. H. Clarke committed suicide Saturday in
Virginia New.
Fire at Moore's Flat, Nevada county; loss,
s2O,Ooo
Near Cotton, San Bernariino county. Satur-
day. Louis Duncan was fatally crushed by a fall
ing rock
Two men were drowned Friday at the mouth
of the Columbia river.
The tunnel of the Eureka and Eel River Rail
road through Table 1000 feet in length
has been completed.
General Trevino gives assurance that the cor
. dial relations between him, the Government of
Mexico and General Diaz are as strong as ever.
Sullivan, the slugger, acted as pitcher in
baseball game at Cincinnati yesterday
residence was burned Saturday near indie
pendence, Ia, a young girl perishing in the
flames.
Inc STATUE oI thlel JUSTICE Mafshai Will De
unveiled in Washington next Saturday.
T, R. Shanks was thrown from horse Satur-
day near Weston, Or, and fatally injured
Three men were drowned in Clarks Fork
Montana, by the capsizing of a skiff
An effort is being made in Portland, Or to
have the death sentence of J. ". Murray com
muted to imprisonment for life.
Andrew Leonard has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree at Kalama, W T.
Cairo EGYPT dispatch announces that fresh
reports ofthe surrender of Bcrber are in circua-