Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-17
Grant and belong.


Grant and belong.
WASHINGTON, January 16th.-At the re-
cent meeting of the House Committee on
Military Affairs, Representative Siocum
was authorized to call up in the House, at
the first opportunity, the first bill intro
duced in theSenate al the present Congress
providing for the placing of General Grant
on the retired list. At meeting of the
committee to-day motion authorizing
him to call up the bill passed bv the Senate
on the l4th instant, and having for its
object the retirement of General Grant. was
lost by vote of to . Those opposing
the proposition We're Rosecrans, Slocum,
Morgan, Wolford, Murray, Connolly, Ly-
man and Bayner. Those favoring il were
Cutcheon and Steele.
The Senate Committee on Pensions re-
ported adversely the bill TO grant pension
of $50 per month to Emma DeLOng, widow
of the late Lieutenant Commander belong.
of Jeannette fame. The report of the ma
jority merely recommends indefinite post
ponement.
Last Years Crop.
WASHINGTON, January 16th-The annual
report of the Department of Agriculture.
now in press makes the record of the corn
production for 1884 1876 million bushels :
wheat nearly 513 millions, and oats 5S3
millions. These aggregates are the largest
ever recorded. The rate of yield is %. 8
bushels Of corn, wheat IL, oats 27.4 These
are figures for permanent record.
The New York Senatorship.
ALBANY, January 16th.-At noon to-day
Hon. George B. Sloan and Royal B. Stearns
announced Russels withdrawal from the
Senatorial contest in favor of Evarts Since
the announcement Of the withdrawal of
Russel, friends of Minister Morton cabled
him, advising that he also withdraw. This
would leave Evarts clear field
The North Carolina senatorship-Special
Election.
RALEIGH, January l6th.-Senator q. B.
Vance was renOminated by the Democratic
caucus by accamation.
At the special election for Congress, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Scales scattering returns indicate the elec-
ton OF Reid.
Another Breach-of- Promise Suit.
CHICAGO, January l6th.-Suit was insti-
tuted in the Circuit Court yesterday by
Alice Coates, calling upon George L. Rock
wood to pay $25 900 for breach of promise
OF marriage. The attorneys tell the follow
ing story Alice, who is petite brunette.
was a star in St Paul and Minneapolis
society III 1881. At that time she met Geo
E. lockwood. wealthy and highly con-
nected young manufacturer of Minneapolis
and Chicago. After short season of love
making he made her proposition of mar
rage in March, 1882. She accepted, and
soon afterwards their intimacy became
more than lover-lile lockwood brought
IL ~ t,g., 1
up house for her. 1t would appear that
her intimacy with lockwood haf the effect
OF bunting Miss Coates finer sensibilities
for she was soon presiding over q bagnio.
Here lockwood and his friends often
passed an evening, and Alice was always
introduced. As the time passed Alice often
demanded Of lockwood that their marriage
should take place, but the ceremony was
often postponed. He finally informed her
that he had tired Of her. and soon after his
visits ceased. Early last year be married
the daughter Of one Of the senior members
OF his firm, q young lady high in the social
circles Of Chicago. Alice had put mp with
her lovers coolness in the hope that he
would get over il, but when she learned of
his marriage she bet0ok herself to LAWYER.
Rockwood's attorney filed & plea of not
guilty, merely raising the general issue.
Robbery at the New Orleans Exposition.
NEW ORLEANS, january 1sth.-When Al
bert Mebele, an exhibitor in the German
section of the main Exposition building,
came down yesterday morning he discov-
cred that his showcases had been robbed of
nearly all their contents, which were valued
at 81 600. The affair is only another out
come OF the unfortunate financial manage
nent Captain Farrell was originally hired
70. aIggn y
patrOlmen and detectives When q fort
night ago it became apparent that the man
agement could not sustain this expense the
force was cut down to 15O men. the number
now doing duty. One If the heads of the
departments is responsible for the state
ment that number of slips OF paper were
picked up on the hoor0 the main building
bearing this inscription: Men. collect
your wages or burn the building" This
official cliimS to have found one Of these
slips himself, and to have seen five others.
Husband Murdered by His Wife.
UTICA On. ", January 16th.-William
Druse. farmer of moderate circumstances,
living in the town of Warren, Herkimer
county, has been missing for a month un-
der suspicious Of murder caused by a quar-
rel between him and his wife For several
days it has been rumored that Druse had
been murdered by his wife, his body cut
and burned, and the bones put into the
swamp. An AK owned by Druse was found
in Weatherbee's pond Saturday, rolled up
in paper. A nephew Of Mrs. Druse, named
Gates, aged IS has been squeezed by the
neighbors, and he confessed that Mrs.
Druse shot her husband while he and her
son were out, and put rope around his
neck and compelled him to shoot also.
They burned the body and buried the
bones An odor Of burning flesh was no.
ticed December 18th. Mrs. Druse and
Gates are under arrest.
Murder Confessed on Deathbed.
NEW YORK. January lGth.-Robert Mer-
chant of Greece, \ Y, who a few days
ago, believing he was dying, confessed to
having murdered a peddler in 1866 and
buried the body in a cellar has died. Two
men We're sent to dig in the cellar in which
Merchant said he buried the peddler. They
found. three feet below the floor, remains
which are undoubtedly those of a human
body The people Of Greece now believe
Merchants stories about having been a
pirate in early life were true.
The Extreme Penalty.
EDwARpsvILLE (II), January 16sh.--
William Felix Henry lcolored) was exc
cuted here to-day for the murder of Henry
Ross and Henry DePugh (both colored)
Ross and DePugh, single men, were found
murdered in their house at Rocky Fort,
about six miles from Alton, in March, 1888.
The crime was traced to Henry, who was
arrested, convicted, and afterwards con-
fessed the deed.
Fatal Caeserian Operation.
SYRACUSE On ", January I6th.-Frankic