Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-30
HOME AND ABROAD.
FURTHER APPOINTMENTS BY THE
PRESIDENT.
Death of an Infant from Delirium
Tremens Terrible Tragedy in
Ohio-General Foreign News.
pEc1AI DISPATCHES TO TIE REcoRD-uN1oN.l
.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Further Appointments by the President. I
WASHINGTON, April 29th.-The Presi !
dent has made the following appointments: /
Charles l.. Scott, Alabama, Minister Resi-
dent and Consul-General of the United
States to Venezuela Warren Green. Ken
lucky, Consult General at kanagawa, Japan;
John f. Bacon, of South Carolina, Charge |
d'AtIaires to Paraguay and Uruguay. These
will be United States Consuls: Berthold |
Greenbaum. of California, at Apia John |
H Putnam, of Ohio at Honolulu; Robert |
f. Withers, of Virginia, at Hongkong, |
ConsuIs to be Retained.
WASHINGTON, April 29th.-In view of the !
excellent records and distinguished services |
of the following-named Consuls. the Pres |
idcnt to-day decided that they shall be re- !
tanned W f. Grinnell, at Bradford, Eng; /
Lvell T. Adams. at Geneva; Samuel W. |
Dabney, at Fayal.
Professor Rasmus &. Anderson qualified !
at the State Department to-day as Minister |
and Consul-General 10 Denmark, and will |
soon sail for Copenhagen.
New YORK, April 29th.-Ex-GovernorT |
McLane, of Maryland, the newly-appointed |
Minister to France, left this morning for /
Havre.
Greenebaum's appointment.
WAsHINGToH, April Goth. - Berthoid
Greenebaum. who was to-day appointed |
Consul to AHA, is the first Californian to !
Get an office under the present AdmlnlStra- |
ton. The salary of the office is 81 500 !
wear. Judge Field and Rosecrans secured
the appointment of Greenebaum. The DIS
arpointlnent that he met with III his efforts
10 secure amendment as Consul 10 Frank
fort put Greenebaum in such condition OF
mind rs to cause his friends much appre-
henson. and Judge Field and General
Rosecrans made personal appeals to Bayard
Yesterday in his behalf. Greenebaum'S
friends were fearful of the effect of another
disappointment upon him, and when the
! announcement that he had been appointed
was made they brcathed sigh OF rellef.
| He will leave for home tomorrow.
Mails Destroyed at Aspinwal.
| WASHINGTON, April 29th.-The Depart
ment of State is to-day informed by the
| United States Consul at Colon, under date
| CT April 10th. that the mails from the
| United States and elsewhere for Bogota,
! Carthagena, Barranquilla and the interior
| of Colombia, for the last two months or
more. were destroyed by the fire at Colon
! on the 3lSt Of March They were stored IN
the national postoflice, awaiting an oppor-
| tUnItN 10 forward tnehl'
Military Inspection Tour.
WASHINGTON. April 29th.-General Sherl-
dan expects TO leave Washington in few
| DAYS ON an inspection tour Of the military
| posts Of the West
No Trouble Between Sheridan and the
Secretary of War.
SALEM Mass. }, April 29th.-Judge Endi-
colt, Secretary of War, was seen last night
and asked about the alleged difference be
tween him and Lieutenant-Gene Sheri-
dan. The Secretary said he was much sur
! prised at the publication. So far as he was
| concerned there was not "a word OF truth i'll
| if. His relations with General Sheridan
| had been of the most cordial nature. lie
knew of no difference between them and
could not understand how the rumor
/ started.
Material Improvement.
New YORK. April 2oth.-The liberated
portions OF General Grants throat, from
which The tissue has been sioughcd oil, has
materially improved. Tie canccrous troll
bic at the base of the tongue is neither les
| sencd nor is at present aggressive. In the
meantime the Generals system Is i'm
proved.
! FrightfuI Act of IA Drunken Husband and
Father.
CINCINNATI, y PHI -Jtll--- !>putlNlI IIch4
Concordia, Ohio, says: One Of the most
shocking crimes ever known in this State
| was committed near this place on Sunday
might. A German named Adolph Hess.
with his wife and child, lived in a mean
| little house three miles from the village. 1t
| appears that some time during the night
Hes who was addicted to drink. took an
az. and with one blow severed the head Of
his child from its body. The head was
found on the floor. Hess then beat his wife
on the head until life was extinct. The
room bore evidence Of dreadful struggle.
The floor was smeared with blood, chairs
were broken. and bloody tinger-marks
stained the walls. The woman's body, al
most nude. and horribly bruised and gashed,
lay in one corner. After his bloody work
, | Hess hanged himself t. a raitcr When
, found all the bodies were stiff in death.
stocks in New York.
f New YORK. April 29th.-Slocks were
: steady at the opening. but Immediately
e held off q fraction on the filling Of some
large selling orders. Brokers report the
iuyiu2 of st. Paul for London account
1.-THE heaviest declines during the first hour
were Omaha preferred |, Union Pacific L
; and Missouri Pacific Z. The market has
been more active during The first hour than
d for several days past, and at II O'Clock
t prices were about steady.
NEW York. April 29th-Central Pa.
citic. 3Is: burlington, 1903 Northern Pa
, ciiic. IL; Northern Pacific preferred, 32}
- Northwestern, 953; New York Central, 500
Oregon Navigation. -; TranScontincntal
a.: Pacific Mail. 5is; Panama, IS; Texas
| Pacific. IOI Union Pacific, 49, Wells
Fargo Express, 1t9; Western Union, 5SS
New YORK, April 29th-Noon.-Sto
have been dali and prices have generally
. recovered small fractions.
j. NEW YORK, April 29th--3 r. N.-Stocli
j dull and about steady until late in tn
afternoon, when they became strong an,
l. closed firm II about the best prices OF tn
:, afternoon.
u Chicago Board of Trade Building.
II CHICAGO. April 18th - The splendi'
structure erected for the use Of the Chlcag
/ Board 81 Trade at an expenditure OF 81,
- 100000 was formally dedicated this fore
l. noon. The exercises We're very simple Il
character, and partook OF the form OF
e. number Of addresses, interspcrsed wit
orchestral music.
An infant Dies Of Deliriuln Trelnens.
" CINc1NvlrI. April 29th.-Mrs. John Sui
" Ivan. Of this city, became grossly intoxi
Gated, and while i'll that condition Sh
e nurscG her infant child, which was 500
SelIcu Win ConNulSloHS anu u'ci VII
re every symptos Of deiirium trcmens, an
the Coroner Jury returned 4 verdict to Ia
ID same effect.
( Forest Fire in Pennsylvania.
le REND1Nc, April Goth A fire whic
u started to-day on the Blue mountains, be
tween Berks and Schuylkill counties
y tonight raging fi,riousiy. Several thor
d. sand acres OF timber have been devastated
p The farmers find it useless 10 fight the fir
as the wind scattors the sparks IN all dire'
IS tons.
At rrohibitoGy Proclamation.
Nuns CRY tMont.) April 29th.-GoN
N ernor Carpenter issued proclamation Il
k day against cattle coming into this Terr
n. tory.
~ FOREIGN.
- The Situation at Panama.