Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-14
SATURDAYS NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM SPECIAL Dr,7arcHEs,i
Domestic.


The Miners Convention concluded lis
business at indianapolis Saturday, and ad-
journed
In Baltimore, Saturday night, Pat Ker-
nan shot and killed his uncle, an old nan,
named Thomas Herman.
In a four-handed shooting afIray at
Franklin, Ky, Saturday night, all the par
tcipants were wounded, one fatally.
One person was killed and ten were in
Jlred Saturday by au accident on'the Texas
faclhc Railroad near sherman, Tex.
Emory A. Storrs, the wel-known Chi
cago lawyer and political orator died at
Ottawa, H., Friday night, sof paralysis Of
the heart. His death was unexpected
A. NJ Kelley was at the Department of
State IN Washington Saturday. lie has
formally rendered his resignation as Minis
ter to Austria, and his resignation has been
accepted.
Dominick McCaffrey, of Pittsburg, says
he IS anxious to take Sulhvau's place in
battle with Paddy Ryan He declares his
belet that he can knock Paddy out in
three rounds
The Chinese Legation in Washington has
leased the residence of ex-senator Stewart,
on Dupont Circle, for a term of three years.
AIllIOTllla
TO look after her interests there
Roswell A. Fish, of California. has been
appointed Assistant Register OF the Treas
ury upon recommendation of Register
Rosecrans. Fish has for some time been
clerk in the Assessors Office in the District
of Columbia.
Rear Admiral John w. Livingston died
in New York Thursday. He was born in
1904. In 1882 he served as watch officer in
the brig Dolphin and sloop Fairchild, in
the Pacific, and in the irigate Columbia on
the voyage around the world.
The large sugar works of the American
Glucose Company, at Peoria, Ill, were
burned to the ground Saturday morning.
The loss is $250,000. Some ninety men
were employed in the factory at the time.
and barely escaped with their lives.
William n. Riddle, ex-President of the
defunct Penn Bank of Pittsburg was dis
charged from custody Saturday, under
the insolyent laws. He was subjected to a
rigid examination, but the opposition failed
to show that he had a single dollar left.
Thegeneral passenger agents of the Trans
continental Association held their first
meeting in ST. Paul Saturday morning. \
rOund-trip rate of $50 was agreed upon
from Eastern points to San Francisco for
the Grand Army of the Republic meeting
next year.
Stearns, the New York silk manufacturer
threatens TO shut down his factory unless
the 800 striking silk weavers return to
work. At the same time agents are search
ing for weavers who are willing to take the
place of the strikers. Many of the latter
have found other work.
George Lester, of the minstrel company
which has engaged Sullivan to do the
statue business, has posted forfeit to back
Sullivan against any man in the world for
from $4,000 to $4,000, at the close of the
season, and he offers to back McCaffrey
against Ryan for $1,000.
The body of United States Deputy Mar
shall Miller, who mysteriously disappeared
in Sumner county, Tenn, several weeks
ago, has been found buried within 300
yards Of the house of John Bradley, who
has all the time been suspected of his mur-
der. Bradley was arrested.
Charles H. Chamberlain, of st. Louis.
has begun suit against the Chicago Bur
lington and Quincy Railroad, asking $780,
600 damages for injuries received at an ac-
cident on that road ten years ago. Mr.
Chamberlain claims that he was perma-
nently disabled by the accident.
Democratic and Republican District Con-
ventions, to select delegates to the forth
coming State Conventions, were held
throughout the State of New York Satur-
day. In many of the Democratic Conven-
tions resolutions indOTsing President Cleve-
lands administration were passed.
Fish Commissioner Blackford was on
hand at the pier of the Red Star Line in
New York, Friday, to take charge of the
shipment Of brill and soles expected on
the steamer Republic. Instead of the fish
he found a lot of empty tanks. The brill
and soles had died before reaching Liver
pool en- route for New York,
The oil warehouse and factory of Swan &
Finch, rs Maiden Lane, New York, was
burned Saturday afternoon. The flames
extended to the southern half of the double
building and damaged the stock of leaf
tobacco of Lichtenstein Il Bros. to the ex-
tent of about $4,000. Swan & Finch's loss
is about $4,000; loss on the building,
$4,000.
There is a regular japanese bank in New
York City with every facility for the trans
action of banking business, sale of bills of
exchange, letters of credit, purchase OF
specie, etc. The gentlemen connected with
the bank are all natives of Japan, and men
of intelligence and refined and highly edu.
Gated. Several of them speak English
huently.
Owing to the extreme activity of Protest
ant women in voting for school committees
in Massachusetts, it is stated that an active
movement is on foot in Catholic cities to
bring all the women of that faith to the
polls at the coming municipal elections
for the purpose Of counteracting, as far as
possible, the influence of those of the OPP
posing belief.
An Associated Press correspondent has
just returned from Sycamore creek, Clay
county, West Virginia, where a contagious
disease has been raging the past two weeks
Up to date 100 cases have been reported, 50
of which have proved fatal. The disease
is confined to territory ten miles square,
and is not spreading.
1t was announced q short time ago that q
willow tree in the neighborhood of River
side Park was grown from slip cut from a
bOugh which had helped to shade tie grave
of the great Napoleon. Since then no ioval
Frenchman has come to the park without
a knife, and now there is scarcely willow
in the entire park that has not suffered, and
many have been badly disdgured.
A new star has been discovered in the
nebula of Andromeda. An effort is being
made to identify it with the star of Bethle-
hem. II may be found in the eastern sky.
well up from the horizon, as a glowing
point of the eighth magnitu. .e, surrounded
by q cloud-like mist Of nebuEl, from which
it sprang. A good pair of opera glasses will
clearly show bJth the nebula and star.
On down grade on the South Park, Col,
road, Satu,d day, the air brakes on an ex-
press train refused to work. With greatly
increased speed the train soon struck a
sharp doTn-gradc curve, when two coaches
broke frCm the engine, jumped the track
and piled up in the ditch, complete
wreck All Of the ten passengers Iniracu-
lously escaped serious injury. except Il Mrs.
Cronkhite, of Denver, who sustained the
fracture of both arms and internal injuries.
In reply to the protest of the Woman's
National Labor Convention against the
giving out Of wash towels for The Treasury
Department by contracts, upon the grounds
that it opened he way for Chinese mo-
nopciy, the Secretary Of the Treasury has
replied that the work in several of the de-
partments is given oat by contract, and in
every case it is given to responsible steam
lauL Try establishments, who emplov Amer
lean labor, and under no circumstances will
it be given 10 Chinese
Saturday was theseventy-f anniversary
of the battle OF Moth Point Md, where
General Ross. at the head Of the British
army was Killed and his forces rpnuIscd