Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-27
SATURDAYS NEWS.
CONTINUATION OF THE HOT
WEATHER IN THE EAST.
The American Turf-Negro Lynched
Presidential Appointments
Foreign Items.
IooyDEssED FROM SPECIAL DISPATCHES
DOMESTIC.

looSDENsED FROM SPECIAL DIsrArcHEs.i
DOMESTIC.
Charles Shackelford, of Colorado, has
been appointed Special Agent of the Land
Office.
J. L. Milan, railroad passenger agent,
was recently almost killed by a mob in
Laurens county, 5. c.
Theodore d. Jerney has been appointed
! by the President to be Collector of Customs
for the district of Charleston.
Henry Cox, Pension Agent at San Fran
cisco, has been suspended, and Truman Il.
Allen appointed to succeed him.
In Pittsburg, Saturday the thermometer
marked 964o, and five cases of sunstroke,
two of which proved fatal, were reported.
| The New York Sun says the Clearing
house banks have decided to give Treas
! urer Jordan S6,000,000 in gold on Tuesday
for an equal amount of fractional silver.
Admiral Jouett, who has been in Central
| America waters for some weeks, has been
ordered to collect the vessels of the North
Atlantic squadron and proceed with them
to the coast of Maine.
Peter Stamps, colored, was lynched, Fri
| day night, at Donaldsville, Ga, by mob
of 500 men, for an alleged assault upon
! Ida Abercrombie, the 13-year-old daughter
of well-to-do white farmer.
The first race of mile at Monmouth
/ Park Saturday was won by Richmond, Du-
pick second, Slasher third Time, lis.
! The second race was won by Electric Buff
falo second, The Bard third. Time, 1:164.
Delegates from seventy-eight labor or
! carnations in Western Pennsylvania met
in Pittsburg Saturday night and organized
Trades Assembly, for the purpose of boy
cotting business men employing non-union
Workmen.
Brevet Brigadier-G General Charles McDou-
gall, Assistant Medical Purveyor of the
United States army, retired, one of the
Oldest officers of the army, died at Berry
dale, Va, Saturday. He had served over
fifty years.
John w Noble, colored, was arrested in
Kansas City Saturday on suspicion of con-
nection with the recent murder of Mary
| Baldwin at Atchison. The story is that
Noble was employed to murder the girl by
chloroforming her.
A statement is published that William
Starr, the Treasurer of the Chicago Brick
layers and Stone Masons' Union, is miss
| ing, and that he is short in his accounts
| 5000. The taking of the funds leaves
| the treasury OF the association completely
empty.
i joseph Faugman. his wife and a three
year-od son died in Baltimore Saturday
| from trichiniasis, and his daughter is lying
| in dangerous condition. The pork was
eaten on the 10th of May. These are the
first cases of the malady ever known in
Baltimore.
The thermometer registered go, and the
close, humid atmosphere was at no time re-
lieved by a refreshing breeze. Twenty
three cases of prostration and four deaths
were reported after 3 O'Clock. At II P. NJ.
the thermometer registered 800 and the cir
was nearly Sitting
The following appointments of officers
of the Interior Department have been
made: T. 4. Burns, to be Agent At Yaqui-
ma Agency, w. T., vice r. II. Melloy, sus-
pended. Mr.. Burns served in the Union
army through the war being part of the
time on the staff of General Hancock.
The Secretary of the Interior has received
a number of communications from cattle
men since the PRONUNCIATION of the Presi-
dents proclamation ordering them out of
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations,
asking for an extension of the time allowed
them for removal. In no case have they
protested against the order of removal.
The President Saturday made the follow
ing appointments: To be Surveyor of Gus
toms, Richard Smart, for the port of New
Orleans; Joseph B. Baker. Appraiser of
Merchandise for the district of Philadel-
phia; Daniel J. Moore, Assistant APP
praiser of Merchandise for the district of
New York to be Agent for Indians. j. b.
Kinney, of Missouri, at the Uintah Agency,
in Utah.
The record of the mortality in New York
for the seven days ending at noon Saturday
shows 1,09f deaths, against 896 in the same
week last year In no week in 1884 did
the number of deaths reach 1000, the
highest being $50. The highest number of
deaths ever. recorded in ordinary seasons
was that of the week ending July g. 1872
In the dreadful heat Of that summer the
record reached ,591.
At Saratoga Saturday the first race was
won by Conklng, GiFoha second, Arabia
third. Time LA The second race the
Alabama stakes for threc-y ear-old fillies,
Ida Hope won, Elizabeth second Banana
third. Time l:59. The third race, free
handicap, was won by Bcatman. Euclid
second, George i. third Time. 2;52. The
fourth race Rosiere won, Navarro second,
Thady third. Time, 1:15. The fifth race
was free handicap steeplechase, and was
won by Major Pickett, Captain Curry sec
ond, Iolanthe pulled up. Time, 4;5l.
At the conclusion of the parade Of tn
Second Brigade in Boston, Saturday Just as
the rear of the column reached the Com
mon, about 100 of the men fell to the
ground, Frustrated by the heat. About 100
others were afterward obliged to seek the
shade OF the trees. and in a short time the
services of all the physicians of the brigade
were needed. Ambulances We're sent for,
and some Of the worst cases taken to the
hospital At least dozen men were dan
gerously sick and it is feared that two of
them cannot recover. The men had been
in camp for a week at birmingham.
The first race at Brighton Beach Satur-
day, three-quarters of a mile, for maiden
two-year-olds, United won, Chance second,
Unique third Time, l:l9l The seven
eighths of a mile Joe 5. won. Inconstant
second, EuIogy third. Time. 1:314 The
seven eighths Of u mile Belle B.won, Hick-
Org Jim second, Prosper third. Time 1:31
The mile and q. quarter Nettle won, Kellar
second, Vibrator third. Time 2:15l The
one mile for all ages, King Fan won, Rad
nor second, Marsh Redon third. Time
1:4f. The mile aud an eighth Harry Mann
won Judge Griiliths second, Talleyrand
third. Time, POP.