Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-18

Woods and his wife were both severely
wounded by bullets fired by the party
outside, which penetrated the walls of
their house. Woods escaped from the
posse, but was arrested and jailed this
evening. 1t is believed he will be taken
from Jail by Hoskins' friends and lynched.
A Mysterious Balloon.
MONMOUTH (Ills.) September 17th-The
spectacle OF an enormous balloon, swaying
above the city few hundred feet, drew
people from their stores and houses this
afternoon till the streets were crowded
The excitement became intense when
shortly the air-ship swooped down and i'm
paled itself on the spire of
the Catholic Church, near the public
square. The balloon at once collapsed
and a hundred citizens helped to drag the
concern to the ground. The basket was
empty, except bar ring, torn shirt sleeve,
a cuff and some branches of oak, indicat-
ing collision with tree-tops somewhere,
and the possible death of an aeronaut.
All efforts to discover whence the balloon
came, and the name and fate of its occu-
pants, have as yet been unavailing.
Ten Thousand Dollars offered fer Bank
DefauIter.
ST. PAUL (Minn.), September 17th.-De-
tective Wood, of Virgins & Wood, of Bos-
ton, head OF the firm from whose special
detectives Brainerd, the Vermont bank de-
faulter, escaped, is now here Offering $40
coo for the recovery of the prisoner They
still feel that their man is secreted some
where not far from st. Paul, but parties
know he is safely in Canada
A Dynamite Fiend Caught in the Act
DENVER (Col.l, September 18th. - Last
Sunday night the police arrested man
named G. w. Smith, while in the act of
placing dynamite cartridge on the Den
yer and Rio Grand track near the CITY. The
case was worked up by private detective,
who was taken into the secret. AT the APP
pointed time officers were concealed near
the spot where the explosive was to be de-
posted. The matter was kept from the
public, in hopes that Smith would confess
and implicate others The examination
will take place tomorrow.
Prairie Fires in Dakota.
STEELE, September 17th.-A terrible
prairie fire is raging west and north of here
all day. Reports from Sterling, eighteen
miles west are that the farmers of that re-
gion have lost everything. Passengers on
to-night's east-bound train report seeing
ten TO fifteen stacks of wheat on fire at the
same time near here. The losses in grain
range from 100 to 5000 bushels 10 each
farmer. Mrs. w. l.. Bedford, seven miles
from here, inhaled the flames while fight
ing the fire and is IN a critical condition.
The fire is still raging, and will probably
cause still greater damage before it is eX-
tinguished
FARGO Dakota, September 17th.-An
ArgIs special from Buffalo, Dakota, says:
a prairie fire north of here this afternoon
destroyed 200 stacks of wheat on William
Howden's farm, $50 acres of wheat belong
ing to Mr.. Wylie, three harvesters and
binders of D. Andrus, and doing less seri-
Gus damage to many other farms in this
vicinity.
Four-oared Boat Race.
BosToY, September 17th-At Point of
Pines, this afternoon, four cared working
boat race distance three miles with three
turns, was contested by the following
crews; No. l, Casey, stroke; Silvie Gookin,
Wallace Ross, James Ten Eyck, bow
No. ,, George Hosmer, stroke; Peter
son, Hamm, Mckay bow. No. 3,
Holden, stroke; Ryan, Cunningham,
Sweeney, bow. Hosmers crew were not
headed once during the race, and won ten
lengths ahead of the Casey crew, who fol-
lowed second. Time, 20174