Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-23
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
SHOCKING MURDER OF A YOUNG
WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.
Internal Revenue Receipts-Public
Land ing-Outrageous Rob-
berry - Foreign Affairs.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD uNos.I
DOMESTIC.
Transactions in Public Lands


WASHINGTON, November 22d-Commis-
sioner Sparks has recently made a ruling,
which is probably destined to have an inn
portant influence upon the course of trans
actions in public lands. He has decided, in
substance, that the Communication of a
homestead is, in effect and law, the turning
of the entry into pre.emption, and as such
is illegal. when the claimant has previous
" had the benefit of the presumption law.
The Postmaster-Gen VIII Defend
Himself.
WASHINGTON. November 22d-Postmas-
ter-General Villas will, according to an edi-
torial in this mornings Post, make in his
annual report a defense of his action in
refusing to distribute the 100000 appro-
priated by the Act of March Sd last, to be
paid to American steamship lines for car
rying foreign mails.
Decreased Internal Revenue Receipts.
WASHINGTON, November 22d. - The
annual report of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue shows that the total receipts
from internal taxation for the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1885, Were SIP, 421 ,121, as
compared with Sl21 ,590,039 for the previous
year.
Young Wife Murdered by Her Husband.
CHICAGO, November 22d.-Samuel =.
Smith shot and killed his young wife last
night, although the fact of the tragedy was
not disclosed until to-day. They were oc-
cupying Il single room at 80 Monroe
street, in which a shot was fired about s
o'clock last night, which alarmed some of
the inmates; but their fears were quoted
by Smith appearing and stating that his
shotgun had been accidentally discharged.
! This forenoon the discovery was made that
! he had killed his wife, and had fled during
/ the night. His wife was supposed to be a
! Creole, formerly lived in Cleveland, but ran
away with Smith, and married him in
| Buffalo. She was not more than 10 years
! old, and from several letters found in the
room appears to have been engaged to DR..
J. II. Bcckford, of Cleveland who fol-
| lowed her to Chicago, and finally left, de-
claring in letter that he intended to com
init suicide. But little is known of Smith
Jealousy is supposed to have actuated him
Outrageous Treatment and Robbery OF
an Old Man.
PITTsBURG, November 22d.-A special
from Oil City, Pa, says: Information
from Clarion gives the details of one of the
most outrageous robberies on record. Last
Friday night, three masked men entered
the house Of Jacob Iipe, in an out-of-the
way corner Of Point township, and de.
manded his money. To this he replied
that there was none i'll the house. The
villains then poured petroleum on him and
set ii on fire, finally succeeding in extort
ing from him the whereabouts of SO
which they secured and departed. Mr.
Lipe is quite an old man, and his burn!
and injuries are serious.
Fire iii Tenement House.
New YORK, November 23d-A. MA fir,
has just broken out at 4O6 East Sixty
fourth street. a third alarm has beer
sounded, and ambulance calls sent out
The building on fire is a five-storv tene
ment house.
SECOND DISPATCHI
New YORK, November 23d.-A loss t,
property of about $1,000 was the only re
suit Of the blaze.
Clearinghouse Transactions.
BosToN, November 22d-The leadin!
clearing houses of the United States repur
that the total gross bank exchanges for tn,
week ending November 21st were 81 ,156,
967, 99S-an increase of 44.5. compared will
the corresponding week of last year.
Subscribers to Grants Book
NEW YORK, November 23d-A. Nth
Tribune has the following of Grants forth
coming book: President Cleveland ha
subscribed for a copy, bound in morocco
General Sheridan not only subscribed, bu
he caused the War Office to be ransacke,
for a month, hunting for the original docu
ment of Lees surrender Governor Hoad
ly refused point blank, when approache,
: and asked to subscribe. General Gran
isn't literary man, said ne. II don
know that have any use for his book
The profits Of the book are now assured O
half million. The second volume vii
probably swell the amount to 100000