Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-08

others followed, until the entire establish
ment was III ruins. The loss will be
$4,000, and the insurance $12,500. Mix's
was the Oldest refinery in the city.
The international Yacht Race.
NEW YORK. September 7th.-Great inter
est was manifested to-day in the interna-
tional yacht race for the America Cup,
between the English yacht Genesta and the
American Yacht Puritan. The measurer of
the New York Yacht Company gives the
following as the measurement for the cal
culation OF sailing: Length of the Genesta
from topmast head to deck, 81 2-10 feet !;
end of boom to tip of bowsprit, 40 $40
feet gaff, 46 feet; water line, 81 Clio feet
The Puritan's measurements are as follows:
From the top masthead to the deck, 103 ITO
feet from the end of the boom to the tip
OF the bowsprit, IA 10 feet ; gaff, AZ feet !;
water line, 81 ITO feet. She therefore gives
the Genesta 81 seconds time allowance
The Puritan is being sailed by Captain Au-
brey Crocker, assisted by Captain Joe Els
worth, and twenty-five able-bodied seamen
and the Genesta is being sailed by Captain
John Carter and mate William Hosgate
and fifteen British tars. The first race will
be twenty statute miles, 10 windward or to
leeward, and return; from the Scotland
lightship. If il is possible to make the
course from that point; if not, from the
Sandy Hook lightship.
The second race will be over the club
course, the length being about 50 statute
miles. In this race the contestiEg yachts
in starting viii cross an imaginary line
drawn from the judges steamer anchored
opposite Owls Head, Long Island, to a
boat anchored in shore from the steamer
thence keeping outside of Fort Lafayette to
and around the Sandy Hook lightship
tho north and or and
then returning over the same course to the
finish line drawn between the home-stake
boats.
The third race will be over triangular
course, 40 statute miles long. Starting from
the Scotland lightship, the contesting
yachts viii cross line at the start and fin
ish in the same manner as the first race.
II \ M-Yachts. steamers, steamboats,,
| tugs and sailing crafts of every description
are going out towards Scotland light, the
! starting place for to-days race. Never
| before III the memory of the Oldest inhab-
| liant was such fleet assembled around
Sandy Hook. The wind is now five miles
and still from the north.
1:45 p. M.-The yachts have started in the
international race for the America cup.
The Puritan got off at 1:35 p. NJ, followed
| by the GeneSta at 1860. The wind is
light from the southeast. With the present
wind, 1t is not expected that the race can be
sailed much within the prescribed time,
which is seven hours or no race.
7:15 P. M.-The yachts are now reported
standing on a starboard tack TO the south.
All the steamboats, are coming back. The
wind is light southeast, and the weather
hazy.
$40 p. M-The race between the Puritan
and l,asrpsta no. haar, rnCetrnnal mill
morrow.
THE GENEsTA sQCARELY oUTsAILED.
New YORK, September 7th-Owing to
the lateness Of the start in the initial race
between the Genesta and Puritan, and to
lack Of wind afterwards, the yachts sue
ceeded to-day in making only half a course,
or twenty miles In this twenty-mile heat
TO the windward the Puritan squarely out
sailed the Geuesta one mile in ten, and
nearly two miles in twenty.
At $50, when the judges boat arrived at
the outer mark, it was shutdown. The
wind was growing lighter and the yachts
being then two miles to leeward, it was
evident that the race could not be sailed
within the required time limit of seven
hours, so the Regatta Committee ordered it
postponed until tomorrow when the boats
will start at the same hour and over a sim
liar course. All the accompanying yachts
turned back before dark, and the Genesta
and Puritan were lowed back to the Horse
shoe. The result of to-day's contest is
thought by experienced men to be convinc-
ing proof that the Puritan can beat the
cutter under any conditions.
Brighton Beach Races.
BRIsHToN BEACH, September 7th.-The
track was i'll superb condition to-day, the
racing fully up 10 the average, and the at
tendance very large. The feature of the
day was the winning of the mile race by
the California horse Joe Howell, who was
well backed by his friends and who made
a splendid finish with Joe Murray, beating
the favorite by a length. The three-quar-
tiers of a mile race for maiden two-year-olds
Petticoat won, Velvet second, Startling
third. Time, I:17k. The mile race Joe
Howell won, Joe Murray second Punka
third. Time, 1:45. The seven eighths OF
a mile race for three-year-o Little Minch
won, King Fan second, Joe S. third. Time,
1921. The mile and an eighth race for all
ages Tom Martin VOL, Whizgig second,
Sovereign Pat third. Time, 1:57l The
mile race for four-year-olds and upwards,
Judge Griffith won, Santa Claus second,
Navarro third. Time 1:474
Clingstone and Harry wilkes Matched
Against Each Other.
PITrSBURG, September 18th. - Harry
Wilkes and Cingstone have been matched
for race at Homeward Park, near this
city, Saturday, the 18th, for purse OF
5000.
Two Prisoners Roasted Alive.
WASHINGTON (Ark.j J, September 7th,-A
mob Sunday night visited the Pike county
Jail at Murfreysboro, and made an attempt
to shoot the Polk boys, confined for muir
der but not being able to get within range,
the mob hauled a load of wood to the jail,
piled it around the iron cell, saturated the
wood with coal oil, set fire to it, and liter
ally roasted both prisoners alive. There is
nothing standing but the brick walls of the
jail. The Folks murdered Fiddle last year,
and have had several trials. The affair
has created great excitement, as this was
the third effort by mobs 10 kill them
settlement of The Wabash-I<nights of
Labor Trouble.
ST. LOUIS, September 7ta.-As a result
of a conference to-day between Manager
Talmage, of the Wabash Railroad, and rep
resentatives of the Knights of Labor, the fol-
lowing order was telegraphed to theSuperin-
tendent of Motive Power and Machinery OF
the Wabash road: Give old men the
preference over strangers or new men, ask
ing no questions as to whether they belong
to the Knights Of Labor or any other or
ganization." This, it is believed will settle
the trouble.
ouaranti Against SMALLPOX.
New BEDFORD Mass, September 7th.-
| The Board of Health will quarantine all
vessels from the British provinces, on ac-
count of the smallpox in Canada.
Score One for the Prohibitionists.
GALVESTON Tex, September 7th.--A
special to the NeicS from Rockdale day
says: In the local option election in this
lMilanl county, to-day. the ProhihitinniSts