Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-28
SATURDAYS NEWS.
TcoSDxSsED FROM SPECIAL pIsrATcuHs.l
Domestic.


President Zoldivar, of Salvador, arrived in
New York Saturday.
The Judges of the Cincinnati Criminal
Courts are imposing heavy sentences on
criminals.
General Emerson Opdyke, hero of
Chickamauga, died in New York Saturday,
aged fifty-four.
A bill to remove certain burdens on the
American merchant marine passed the
House Saturday.
The State Department authorizes con-
tradiction of the statement that the German
mission is soon to be filled.
Thomas Golf, a millionaire brewer of
Cincinnati dropped dead of apoplexy in
disreputable house on Friday.
The Minneapolis City Council have
adopted an ordinance fixing the license for
spirituous or malt liquors at $500.
Judge Miner, County Judge of Garfield
county, Colorado, suicided Saturday by
drowning. The cause was family troubles.
Peter Concannon, brutal parent was
taken from his house at North Bergen, y.
J., tarred and feathcred and driven out of
town.
A special from North Bloomfield, Pa, of
Saturday, says: A destructive forest fire
has ragged on the Limestone ridge all day
and tonight.
The Consular Appropriation Committee
have completed a schedule; number of
missions have been consolidated and sew
eral abandoned.
The Eighth Congressional District Re
publican Convention of North Carolina has
elected delegates to Chicago instructed for
Arthur and Lincoln.
Mrs Paran Stevens, millionaire widow
in New York has quarreled with the trus-
tees of her husbands estate and seeks the
removal of one of them.
In Albuquerque New Mexico, the public
house kept by Nora Grant was badly
wrecked by giant powder Friday night.
The occupants were unhurt.
The House Committee ON Pacific Rail
roads has instructed Representative Thomp-
son to report his bill amending the Thur
man Sinking Fund Act. A minority re-
port Will also be made.
William ]. Phillips, of the New York
Produce Exchange, who failed Saturday,
has absconded. He had forged warehouse
receipts for large quantities of flour and had
done other fraudulent acts.
Abbey was served Thursday with a sum-
mons in a suit brought in the Superior
Court of New York by Sofia Scalchi for
81 $50, balance of salary due. Another suit
will be brought for Scalchi' passage money.
Shipments of new season salmon, packed
April LIST at Eagle Cliff, Oregon, have been
received in New York by the Northern Pa
cifc as ordinary freight. Former ship
ments, by way of San Francisco took
thirty-eight days.
George L. Ewing, aged 50 years, a we'll
known sculptor, with a studio in Phila-
delphia, was found dead in the Brevoort
House, New York, Saturday. The gas-jet
was partially ON. He was engaged ON busts
of Henry Irving and Miss Terry.
Advices from Western Texas are to the
effect that cattle are suffering and large
numbers are dying for want Of water and
grass the drought having been very severe
i'll that section. Myriads of caterpillars
have also appeared and are destroying all
kinds of vegetation.
Orders were issued by the PostOffice De-
partment Saturday establishing new offices
at Lomaprieta, Santa Cruz county, Califor
mia; at Mors, Wasco county, Oregon, and
at EdmOndS, Snohomish county, Washing
ington Territory. After May 14th special
service at Churchill, Tulare county, Califor-
MIA, will be discontinued.
Edmund Dickinson, well-to-do farmer
of Amherst, Mass, went away about two
weeks ago to buy cattle, and had about
$4,000, which he had borrowed from friends.
A letter Just received from him says that he
was robbed in New York, and in some
manner, which he cannot explain, found
himself at Salt Lake City, U. 7.
At Easton, Pa, Saturday morning, Mrs.
Amelia Barnett locked the doors of her
house, threw her two children, one aged
three years, the other five months, ON the
bed and cut their Threats with razor.
Then she gave an alarm, and as the neigh
bOrs rushed in drew the razor across her
own throat and threw herself beside her
children.
Competition of the new telegraph COM
panies has begun to show itself in the mat
ter of rates. The Western Union Company
has announced a reduction in night rates
TO fifteen cents for ten words, and one cent
for each additional word, between all COM
petitive points east of the Missouri river.
Heretofore its night rates have been two
thirds of its day rates.
The State Register, of Des Moines, Ia,
has reports from % Republican County
Conventions held Saturday, making re-
ports, with what it has previously had,
from 81 of the 80 counties of the State.
These 81 counties have 765 of the 91z total
votes in the Convention, and of them 653
of the delegates are for Blaine 81 for LO-
gan, &c for Arthur, Is for Edmunds, and 20
unknown.