Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-23

to-day for maiden three-ycar-odds and up
wards, three quarters OF a mile, Bonnie
Chiel won, Excelsior secord, Rocket third.
Time, 1:174. The first mile race Huron
won, Bahma second, Hatochimie third.
Time, Las. The second mile race Little B.
won. Joe Sawyer second, John X. third.
Time, 1444. The mile and quarter race
for three year-old maidens Mollie Walton
won, Value second, Tecumseh third. Time,
2:19. The race for all ages, one mile and a
furloag, Exile won, Islette second, Anem-
mitt third. Time, 1;573.
Street Railways and Stages.
NEW York, June 22d.-A marked still
ness, compared with the continues roar and
rumble of Broadway has followed the in
PRODUCTION of the street cars, which attract
almost as much attention as did the ele-
waited roads when they first started The
cars run at one minute and halfintervais,
one hundred in number, from Fourteenth
street to Bowling Green, where they con-
vey their passengers from the ferries. The
stages Will run in the same way from
Broadway to the ferry The stages still
run above Fourteenth street. The Madison
avenue street railroad will run from the
City Hall to Harlem riverln week or two,
crossing the new bridge over the Harlem
to One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street.
Yale College commencement.
New HAVEN, June 22d.-The commence
ment at Yale College began to-day with
class day exercises, including the class in
histories, ivy planting, etc. Among the
prizes awarded and announced were the
following; First prize for English COM
position, Sophomore class, Gerald Ii.
Beard, Chicago; second prize, John n.
Pomeroy, Jr., San Francisco; third prize,
William Kent, San Rafael Cal.
a Man Safely Jumps from a Bridge los
Feet High.
CINCINNATI, June 22d.-Thomas Knott, a
stone cutter, who lives at Dayton, KY,
when on the middle of the Newport and
Cincinnati Railroad bridge this afternoon.
suddenly jumped over and descended to
the deep water in the river, 105 feet below
He was unhurt, and commenced at once to
swim for dear life. Some boatmen picked
him up and took him ashore. He says he
was not attempting suicide, but jumped
from sudden impulse. He was perfectly
sober, and was returning from Cincinnati.
where he had sought in vain Tor work
A Wife's Throat Cut by Jealous Hus-
band.
CAIRO Qll), June 22d-Charles Bowe
(colored) wrote To his wife at Paducah,
Ky, TO meet him here. When she arrived
to-day, Bowe cut her throat and also stabbed
her in the side and arm. Jealousy is sup
posed to be the cause. The woman will
die. Bowe was arrested
Virginia Republican State Convention.
STAUNToN, June 22d.-The Republican
Convention to-day was the largest ever
held in the country There was no ex-
preston of choice for Governor. Senator
No hair hi
Serious Charge Against Democratic
Member of the Illinois Legislature.
SPRINGFIELD (Ill.), June 22d-Thomas
James, a Democratic member of the Legis-
lature, aged 81, was tonight charged with
assault with intent to rape Mamie James,
12-year-old girl employed as a page in the
State House. Opinions vary whether it is
a genuine case or one of blackmail. James
is a man of considerable wealth, and has
an estimable wife now in the city.
FIogged for NegIecting His Family.
DALTON (Ga.), June 22d-Lem Johnson.
a disreputable sot, of Spring Place, Murray
county, who has persistently refused to pro-
vide for his family, was taken from his
home Saturday night and terribly logged
by twenty masked men. He was told if he
did not do better the dose would be re-
peated.
A Batch of Distinguished Criminals.
New YORK, June 22d.-There was set
of extremely distinguished criminals be-
fore Judge Barrett, in the Oyer and Ter
miner, to-day. They were Ferdinand
Ward, Mrs. Yesuelt Dudley, zig Frank"
Mccoy, John Carpenter, the alleged MUIR
derer, and other lesser lights. Mrs. Dud-
ley's case went over. General Tracey was
anxious that the trial of his client, Mr.
Ward, should go on, but Judge Barrett de-
cided TO take up the Carpenter case first, so
it was begun.
Case of Hydrophobia.
NYAcK On. y, June 22d-Andrew Dorf-
ner, an 1S-year-old boy residing at Pier
mont, was bitten by a dog thirty eight days
ago. Ten days ago he was taken with
severe attack of hydrophobia, and is now
suffering from such an extreme phase of
the affection that it at times requires eight
men to hold him.
a Coming journal.
WASHINGTON, June 22d.-The recently
published rumor that ex-Postmaster-G len
eral HattOn and George. Gorham intended
starting a newspaper in Philadelphia. is
now succeeded by the report that Hatton
and Clinton A. Snowden, formerly of the
Washington National Republican, have pur-
chased a controlling interest in the Ereniy,g
Mail, OF Chicago.
Dumb Locusts killing Apple Trees.
LYNCHBURG (Va.), June 22d-An insect
called the dumb locust is committing raw
ages on the apple trees in some of the
southwest counties, and the trees are dying