Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-26


and liar. Silas E. Cheek
Terrible Crimes in Texas.
AUSTIN (Texas), December 25th.-Two
terrible crimes were committed in this city
last night after midnight, which will un-
doubtedly result in three deaths, and no
telling how many lynchings During the
past year, Austin has been Mortified every
few weeks by some dastardly attack on
servant women both white and colored.
Fully a dozen servants have been outraged
and eight murdered within this period.
The crimes all bore evidence of being per-
petrated and planned by the same persons.
Every effort has been made to apprehend
the criminals, and skillful detectives have
been employed. Many negroes have been
arrested and putthrough rigid examinations
but nothing came of the efforts. Many
citizens and some officials held to the
theory that the crimes were perpetrated by
some insane individual. who cunningly
devised how he could shed women's blood
without apprehension. About midnight
last night w. II. Hancock, well-to-do
carpenter, residing at 203 Water street, was
awakened by groans. Entering his wife's
chamber, adjoining, he found her vacant
bed covered with blood spots. He followed
the trail out of the front door, around
the house and into the back
yard, where he found his wife weltering
III q pool of blood S e had been
struck twice across the head and face
with blunt ak, and her skull fractured.
Although still alive, the physicians say the
lady will surely die from her wounds. Mrs
Hancock is aged 40, and still handsome.
She bore an unblemished character. In
the midst of the great excitement produced
by this outrage the citizens were appalled,
at learning of still greater crime, perpe-
trated about the same hour, several squares
distant. At l o'clock, Mrs. Phillips, re-
siding at 30S Hickney street. was awak-
ened by the cry of her grandson, Enter
ing her son James Phillips room, she
found the infant on the bed COW
cred with blood, and Phillips lying
senseless from terrible blow across
the head. Ella Phillips, his wife,
was missing The frightened neighbors
followed the bloody trail again, and found
her body lying in the back yard of the ad-
Joining premises. Death had resulted from
blow on the forehead with an AK. Across
the body lay heavy rails, and her person
had been outraged. There is no clue to
either crime. The excitement on the
streets during the day has been very great,
and Christmas was forgotten. The Mayor
called q meeting of citizens at the State
II
Committee of Public Safety was organized.
The feeling over these last outrages is in
tepse, and house-to-house search for the
bloody handed murderers will probably
be made.
Ihe SILK Industry.
New YORK, December 25th.-Ex-Consul
Peixotto is home from Lyons. He is rec
ognized as authority on silk, and be-
ing interviewed, he said The advance
in raw silks began in the first week in No
vember. An Italian syndicate was formed,
with capital of 100000 of francs, and
succeeded without difficulty in obtaining
the control of the principal mar
kets. The business in silk goods for
several years has hardly paid more than
investments in United States bonds. a de-
preston in the silk trade, except for GER
tain novelties of extremely limited produc-
ton, has universally prevailed. Notwith-
standing all this, so varied and diversified
have been the uses to which silk has been
adapted, that the consumption has all along
equalled the production, some few leading
fabrics have from time TO time yielded
handsome profit, but in comparatively
insignificant amount. The reeing and
throwing mills in France, Italy and Spain
were abandoned by hundreds The
wretched raiser of silk fell prey to the
capitalist, and was either driven to ruin
outright or to mortgages. Half OF
the properties in France, and perhaps
as many IN Italy, are under mortgage
to-day, while thousands are closed and
literally crumbling to pieces. In the face
of this condition of things, viewing the
actual state of the stocks on hand, the fact
of the manufacturers being all but denuded
of supplies, having bought only from hand
to mouth for years past, where for.
merly they carried large quantities
the powerful syndicate above alluded
to organized its campaign and has
until now, successfully prosecuted its work
| consider this work to be legitimate, hav.
ing for its object the permanent revival o.
the silk industry, as well as for the imme-
diate profit of its intelligent and enterpris-
ing promoters. Silk has advanced in the
past two months from ten to twenty per
cent. Taking all sorts, the average has
been fully 10 per cent. 1t is destined to go
higher. The demand for pure tissues has
partially revived, and ii will positively con-
tinue Pure black silk goods will again
become as popular as they were in the good
old time when our mothers never consid-
cred themselves dressed without a black
silk gown, the most elegant garment q
woman can wear"
Chairmanship of the House Labor Com
mittee.
ST. LOUIS, December h.-Congressman
O'Neill. OF this city who is is mentioned as
the probable Chairman of the Committee
on Labor of the House of Representatives
arrived at home to-day and was met by
various leaders of the labor interests to
proffer their support to him. O'Neill depre-
Gated any action on their part, not wishing
to embarrass the Speaker in his selection of
committees, and said "If having created
the Committee on Labor in the last Con-
gress, introduced the bill to create the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, and made a
speech in the House on the importance of
contract labor, which the Democratic Ma
tional Committee made one of their prin-
cipal campaign documents. all of which
was done under the eve of the Speaker,
does not entitle to the Chairmanship of the
committee, then mass meetings and resolu-
tions will not help me-"
The Silver Question.
WASHINGTON, December 25th.-The Ma
Gondl Republican tomorrow will give, as a
result of exhaustive inquiry concerning
future decisions in the House of Represent
atives regarding the unlimited suspension
of silver coinage, table showing that 143
Democrats and 81 Republicans are against
suspension, and 80 Democrats and 81 Re
publicans in favor of it. A noticeable
feature III connection with the matter is
the division of members upon sectional
lines. The West and South are practically
a unit for coinage, while the Eastern and
Middle States appear TO be almost solid!y
in favor of suspension.
Peculiar Case of Attempted Wife Murder.
New ORLEANS, December 25th.-To-night
Martin Heindal, a gas-titter, aged 81, called
at disreputable house on Custom-house
street, where his wife Ernestine, aged 20,
was living. He called her out, and stabbed
her several times, infiicting injuries which
will probably prove fatal. Heindal is un-
der arrest, and admits having intended to
kill his wife, saying that he was unable to
endure her conduct. She left him three
weeks ago, and has since been an inmate
of a disreputable house. He says he and
his wife's brother, Jack Beren, and her
father had determined to kill her, and as
her father was too old to live out term in
the Penitentiary, it was better that young
man should do it. Jacob Beren accompa-
MED Heindal to the house, and it is said
held his sister while her husband stabbed
her. The police have notyet arrested him
The girl recognized Heindal as her assail-
ant, but as yet has made no charge against
her brother. The proprietress of the house
says Heindal's visit to the house tonight
lo