Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
GENERAL NEWS.
CONTINUED SEVERE WEATHER In
THE NORTHWEST.
Execution of a Negro-Ruined by
observation-disclosures Wages
Raised-Affairs Abroad.
ESPECIAL DrsrArcHEs TO THE RrcoRD-unIos.
DOMESTIC.
Severe Weather in Colorado, Kansas and
Nebraska.


DENVER (Col.), January Sth-The biz
yards Ia eastern Colorado Kansas and Ne
braska, which subsidized Wednesday. and
allowed the snow blockade to be raised.
was renewed later Wednesday night with
great vigoT, demolishing telegraph wires
for miles, refilling the cuts of the Santa
Re, burlington, Union and Kansas Pacific
roads with snow and sand. to such an ex-
tent that ali travel was compelled TO sus-
pend. Not single train left Omaha or
Kansas City for Denver Yesterday. No
trains have arrived from the East or de-
parted from here since Wednesday night,
when the temperature of Colorado fell
fourteen degrees between midnight and 5
O'Clock. Very little snow has fallen during
the storm. Immense numbers OF cattle
have been driven from The north by the
winds and drifting snow towards the Ar
kansas river, where they will have to stop,
as the river is not frozen SO they can cross.
No great loss is expected unless the cold
continues two or three weeks There is
plenty of grass uncovered to keen them
alive. To-day has been warm, and the
snow is melting. The storm is thought to
have reached its end.
MOST EXTENSIVE BLIZZARD IN YEARS.
CHICAGO, January Sth-The blizzard
raging at present throughout Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota and Minnesota
is declared to be of the widest extent and
more fierce in character than has been
known for years. All western trains are
behind time, many have been showed in
and abandoned, and very little can be
learned concerning them, or of the effects
of the storm, owing TO the blowing down
OF the telegraph poles and wires and the
stoppage of telegraphic communication.
The temperature throughout Dakota is
stated to be from 20o to 40o below. with a
wild blizzard blowing. A telegram from
Fargo says the thermometer registered 27o
below at noon. Yesterday was described
as the toughest experience that city had vet
had in the way of boisterous weather. Bis
marck reported a high wind, with the
thermometer $50 below zero. A high wind
IS prevailing at Sioux City, and the tenn
perature is 200 below. Telegraphic com
munication with Omaha has been cut off
nearly all day. California telegrams were
being sent by way of st. Paul and the
Northern Pacific, with only one wire work
ing. telegram from Des Moines. Ia, saws
the cold wave continues there, with a high
wind and drifting snow. All through
trains west of there are blocked, and the
branch roads are showed under.
The Chicago and Burlington trains are
stuck fast in drifts about fifteen miles south
OF Des Moines. The Wabash road south
from that city is badly drifted. The Fort
Dodge and narrow gauge roads have been
abandoned. A snow-storm prevailed
throughout Illinois all day The weather
has not been very severe so far, but it has
been growing colder tonight All the
roads to Omaha are reported practically
blockaded in central Iowa.
The Ruin Caused by IA Thieving Book
keeper.
BALTIMORE, January Sth. - Painter.
Tongue Il Co., dealers in fancy dress goods
made deed of trust this afternoon for the
benefit of their creditors. A member of
the firm stated to-day that the failure was
caused by the Gefalcation of their book
keeper, William H. Rose, who confesses to
having misapprOpIiated $4,000 but thev
believe his defalcation will run much
higher, the firm having had implicit con-
tidence in Rose and intrusted him with the
firm finances. The liabilities are roughly
estimated at $4,000, against which they
have $50, 600 or S40, ,0o0 worth of stock. Rose
has been with the house for seven wears.
George w. Day, of Evans, Day & Co., fruit
'and oyster packers. is a special partner in
the firm for $4,000, which he will lose,
and probably more. The firms creditors
are nearly all in Philadelphia and New
York: Rose has been arrested, and his
irenGs are making an effort to make good
the amount of his defalcations
The Ruined millionaire.
New York, January Sth.-Jas r. Keene
stated, on his examination in the proceed
ings on a judgment for 81 500 obtained
against him by Julius Gimlernat, that he
lived at Far Rockaway in a small, rented
nf will u 8,
and two children that he had no business
or income, and was living on his wife s
income. He has done no business since
last July when he turned over every
thing he owned TO a receiver. The amount
of the judgment obtained against him by
S. L. NJ. Barlow was $4,000.
The Death Penalty.
CAMBRIA (Md.), January Sth.-C. Will
Jams (eolOred), convicted of an outrage on
Mrs. Eliza Keene (white) in this county,
was hanged here to-day. From the time OF
his arrest and during his trial he exhibited
an almost total indifference to his fate. and
it was not till last night that he manifested
any apparent concern. He protested his
innocence of the crime.
A Corporation Raises the Wages of Its
Employees.
CLEVELAND, January Sth.-The Cleve-
land Rolling Mill Company notified all It's
employees that their wages would be adj
vanced ten per cent, dating from January
lst. The lowest wages paid will be 81 10
the highest Sc, and the average about SO Sc
a day. About 5000 men are interested. and
are the same who engaged in the strike last
summer.
An Entire Family Fouud with Their
Throats Cut,
BATTLE CREEK Mich, January Sth.-
Neighbors noticing the absence of persons
around DR.. Martin Whites residence in
this city, broke into the house this after
noon, and found the entire family with
their throats cut from ear to ear. White
and his wife were lying on the floor and
the two children in bed 1t is thought
they had been dead since Sunday night, as
they had not en- seen since then. White
is believed to have become insane and mur-
dered his family. The room shows evi-
dence of a terrible struggle between the
husband and wife. No other cause is
known. A Coroner's jury Is now in ses-
sion.
Destructive Fire and Loss of Life.
LOUISVILLE (Ky.), January 8th.-This
afternoon, during heavy snow-storm, the
front and middle part of the large four
olOAy NdlSAiOuSS OCSuplci DN EOENODu ~
Co., Trabue d Co., and Balmforth & Co,
all cotton and commission merchants, fell
suddenly, and, overturninga a stove, started
destructive fire. The building was filled
with cotton, tobacco, molasses and dry
goods, and the flames spread all over the
place instantly. There were eleven per-
sons in the building when it fell. Peter
Perkins, porter, heard the crash, and
gave warning to seven men on the second
floor, who escaped by jumping from a back
window to a she'd. Charles Stamforth, a
colored porter, gave the alarm on the first
floor, and started for the front door. 1t is
thought he was killed by the falling walls.
NJ. II. Wright, manager of the place. and
| J. ?. Balmforth, one of the proprietors,
were in the Office on the first floor, and
| started for the door, but it is believed they
were caught in the wreck.
Excursion Rates to the Pacific Coast.
New YORK. January Sth.-An arbitra-
ton committee, consisting of S. f. Pierson.
J. n, Abbott and Henry Monett, to-day sat