Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-13

siOner Sparks, OF the OeneFh i-anu OlHCe,
charged with personal assault upon Colo
mel De Alma, timberinspectoro OF that office,
came I'D for trial The Commissioner was
present with counsel. There was no testi-
monv showing undue violence and the
Court was obliged to dismiss the case.
Rosecrans as Register of the Treasury.
New YORK, May 12th.-The Posts Wash
ington special says: The report that the
President has offered the Office of Register
of the Treasury to RoSecrans is doubtless
due to the fact that the delegation has
waited upon the President and informed
him that provision ought to be made for
ROsecrans. who is in need of an income
and suggested the Office OF Register Hen
lev. OF California, states positively that
Rosecrans will get the place.
California Inventions.
WASHINGTON, May 12th.-Patents were
issued to California inventors to-day as
follows: JOS. T. Astor, assignor to F.
Kaston, Watsonville reversible hinge; Pres
ton G. Gesford. Jr., Napa, device for adjust
| inc and removing nuts; Peter II. Jackson,
| San Francisco, laying artificial stone or
concrete arches; Constant Leduc, Stockton,
machine for making tule punches for life
preservers; Christopher Maggin, San Fran
cisco, horse hay fork; Arthur A. Sprague,
San Rafael, railway station signal; Carlos
Tawrigue, San Francisco, pattern making
| machine.
Visitation of Locusts.
WASHINGTON, May 12th-Professor C. V.
| Riley, the Eutomologist of the Agricultural
| Department, says the country is soon to be
visited by two great brOOds of locusts of
| the seventeen and thirteen-year varieties,
and that this will be the first time in 221
years that they have appeared in conjunc-
| ton They will not prove greatly destruc-
tive, and the injury they will infiict will
probably be confined to fruit trees. The
visitation will be prolonged until late in
July.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, May 12th-Charles Roths-
child was to-day appointed Postmaster at
TOWNSVILLE, Napa county, Cal
Secretary Lamar to-day approved the
appointments of J. II. Grove of Delaware,
and Henry Jones, of Georgia, as special
agents of the Bureau OF Labor, at a salary
of 81 per day.
McSweeny, the Irish suspect, is still
| here, and insists upon being rewarded with
an office He wants the Collectorship of
| San Francisco.
| The count of moneys and securities in
| the United States Treasury has been COM
pleted. Everything was found in a salts
| factory condition, and the reports of eX-
| Treasurer Wyman proved in every in
stance. Even the alleged discrepancy Of
| two cents reported III the count OF the
cash-room was shown to be incorrect, the
missing pennies being subsequently found
on the floor where they had dropped dur
ing the count.
The Superintendent of the United States
| MINIS at San Francisco, New Orleans and
! Philadelphia have been authorized to pur-
chase mutilated and uncurent United
States silver coin of standard tineness at
| the rate of 9S cents per ounce, troy weight,
| in sums of three dollars and upwards.
Curious Case Of Attempted Exclusion.
NEW YORK, May 12th.-A curious case
| exciting interest in musical circles is the
attempted exclusion, under the Act OF the
| last Congress prohibiting the importation
of contract labor, of forty musicians who
arrived here to play at a summer resort
near Philadelphia. The case was taken up
| in the Supreme Court chambers yesterday
on an order to show cause why an iniunC-
| ton should not issue against the North
| German Lloyd Steamship Company to pre-
vent their landing. General HoratiO King
appeared for the injunction. He said the
men had been engaged in Germany to fur
| nish music at 4 lower rate than bands here
already, and for these reasons the Musical
| Mutual Protective Union has brought these
| proceedings. He also said: If we can
| have some adjudication upon this matter
it will save a great deal of trouble, as TN
derstand a number Of foreign musicians,
under contract, are coming to this coun-
| try." Judge Lawrence dismissed the case,
saving My idea is that America is open
to everybody, except lunatics, paupers and
| Chinese. | certainly shall not prevent any
artists or mechanics or musicians from
! landing here to find employment" The
| Tribune says: Their case is decidedly differ
ent from that of the Chinese imported by
the Six Companies. Why did not the
Musical Union object to DR.. Damrosch' s
| importation last winter?
| An Actor Sued for Abandonment.
New YORK, May 12th-Clinton NJ Bar
| Der was in the Police Court yesterday
charged with abandoning his wife Annie
| He said he was an actor and was married
| to Annie Dahlglies in this city four years
ago. Annie now lives with her mother,
and has a child eighteen months old. She
says she is only nineteen years Of age, but
| she looks ten years older. Barber lives
with his mother He was stock with a
company III San Francisco for five years,
and has travelled with Florence and John
Stevens He says he was engaged last win
! ter by Maggie Mitchell, but she broke her
contract Charges and counter charges are
made promiscuously. Barber was willing
to give his wife SO per week when he had
an engagement. but the Justice decided
that he must pay her IS a week the year
around and be was locked up in default OF
bail BARRIERS mother claims that young
Mrs. Barber and her mother have spent
$4,000 of her money.
The Plymouth Horror.
PHILADELPHIA, May 12th.-At to-day's
meeting of citizens, for the relief of suffer
ers by fever at Plymouth, the police sur
geon detailed to visit the infected region re-
ported that he found that the reports had
not been exaggerated. In some instances
four or five persons were i'll in one house,
with three or four in one room, and in in
stances two or three dead persons in the
same house The only school-house has
been turned into a hospital. Philadelphia
has contributed $1,000. In many cases the
father or mother of large family of chill
dren had died. He heard of a case in
which the father and mother were both
down with the fever, and were being nursed
by a 14-ycar-old boy, who was also caring
for small babe. DR.. Shakespeare, who
also went to investigate the disease, said
that, unless disinfectants are freely used,
the disease will not be wiped out this sum
mer.
The Pittsburg Trunk Mystery Cleared Up.
CHICAGO, May 12th.-The three Italians
arrested in this city for alleged participation
in the murder of the Italian lemon peddler
Carrusso, practically confessed to the per-
petration of the murder this afternoon.
They, in a measure, absolve Gilardo who
I was arrested in New York on his way to
| Italy. They state that he witnessed the
| deed, however, and demanded a share Of
! the money taken from Carrussoa as the price
| of his silence, and then aided them in ship
ping the body i'll a trunk to Piltsburg.
| Detectives declare that the confession is
sufficient to cause the hanging Of ali three
| men. All the particulars are known to the
police. The murder was perpetrated solely
to obtain $500 or S400 which il vas known
| Carrusso had IN his possession.
Two Girls Terribly Burned.
PTrsBURG, May 12th-A special from
Huntington, Pa, says: VIM. Hess. farm
or, yesterday was burning brush near a
valuable piece of timber land on his farm
at Wells valley, in Fulton county, when a
high wind carried the flames into the tim
Der, and the fire was soon beyond his con-
troll. lie fought the flames until uncon-
sclous. His two daughters. Lizzie and
Annie, found him lying on the ground by
the ire, and they dragged him To a place
OF safety but IN doing so their clothing
caught fire, and they were so terribly
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