Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-04

Dutch Louise who had a ranch on
Crooked creek, NJ. T., is reported to have
been hanged by cowboys on the charge of
keeping a rendezvous for horse thieves.
Fred w Congdon, for twenty years Il
pilot and steamboat Captain on the lower
Columbia and Willamette rivers, died Sat
urday near The Dalles of rheumatism Of
the heart.
1t is now said to be settled that third
rail will be laid on the Denver and Rio
Grande between Ogden and Salt Lake
without delay SO that Central Pacific trains
can run into the latter city.
Sylvas, the Spaniard who stabbed and
killed Mcintyre on July Dist, was convicted
of murder in the first degree Saturday. He
will be sentenced on Tuesday. There was
cheering when the verdict was announced.
The Utah Central Railroad will begin at
once the construction of Il branch road
from Milford to the Cave mine, Beaver
county. eight miles distant. Recent de-
velopments in the mine are said to justify
this move.
7. C. McClelland, an engineer lately of
Oakland, was the victim of an explosion in
the Oriental mine, at Daggett, Saturday.
He was putting some Babbitt metal under
journal of the engine, when from some
cause lamp exploded. His injuries are
supposed to be fatal.
Saturday morning at 6 o'clock William
Harris, brakeman, while engaged i'll coup
ling freight car and Il caboose at the
Southern Pacific Railroad depot, San Jose,
was caught and crushed so severely that he
will probably die. The couplings on the
two ears were of different patterns and al
lowed the cars to come within four inches of
each other His relatives reside at Racine,
| Wis.
A fire started at Redding at 1915 o'clock
Saturday night, destroying two frame
buildings owned by C. G.. Bush and occu-
pied by O. Anderson as a furniture store
| and O. z. Whitton as fruit store. BY the
efforts of the firemen and citizens the In
dependent office, Good Templars' Hall and
the adjoining buildings were saved. Bush's
loss is estimated at $4,000, partly insured
O. Anderson, on stock, 81 500, insured fol-
$500. Whitton's goods were mostly saved
The discovery was made Saturday night
that Frank Frisbie, assistant exchange
clerk in the First National Bank at Port
land, Or, is from $1,000 to $4,000 short in
his accounts. He left last Friday night for
San Francisco by steamer on his regular
summer vacation, and is supposed to have
taken the ldSI steamer IOT AUSTRALIA. III IL
supposed that he took the money on the
last day that he worked in the bank. The
shortage was noticed on Thursday even
ing, when the monthly balance was made
up.
A fire occurred at Bodied on the night OF
July 30th, burning A. B. Stewart & Bros.
drug store, the Champion Hotel and all the
other buildings between Harvey Boone's
merchandise store and Kingsley's stable
Stewart & Bros were the heaviest losers,
their stock, very little of which was saved,
footing up $l2, 900; insured for 81 900. The
total losses are about 5000 insurance,
$1,000, During the progress of the fire,
Felix Donnelly, who had some previous
difficulty with William Deegan, walked up
to the latter, who was standing in crowd
looking at the fire, and shot him four
times in the back with a six-shooter.
Deegan emptied his revolver, one shot tax
ing effect i'll the abdomen of a bystander,
Patrick Coyle, miner. Deegan died in
half an hour and Coyle lived until the next
day. when he expired. Deegan had been
concerned in many shooting affrays and
was considered dangerous man when
under the influence of liquor. Coyle, how
ever, was a quiet citizen, and great indig-
nation was felt by the miners, especially at
Donnelly For fear of lynching the latter
was removed on Wednesday night from
Bodie to the County Jail at Bridgeport.