Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-20
HOME AND ABROAD.
SHOCKING TREATMENT OF A
YOUNG GIRL.
The Overland War Hancock's
Estate-The Grant Funeral Ex-
penses-Foreign Items.
lsrruAL DIsrArcHEs TO THE REooRD-usros.I
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The TranscontinentAI Rate war,

The TranscontinentaI Rate War.
New YORK, March 19th-The cutting of
passenger rates to Pacific coast points con-
Gnues without much change. The latest
rates reported made by the Union Pacific
were $23 first class, SIS second class from
Missouri river points to San Francisco
Tickets are sold in New York at $50 80
first class, $31 80 second class to San Fran
cisco, on lower sales being reported of lin
tied tickets. No standard can be reported
as changes are continually being made
Freight rates to California points are en-
tirely uncertain, and it is impossible to
name any definite rate. For the past week
each road has been making its own rate
at almost any figure which suited the con-
venience of agents or individual shippers
1t is reported that both the Atehison and
Union Pacific are forcing rates down to the
lowest point, in order to end the war as
soon as possible.
NEW vIGoR SHOWN.
New York, March 19th.-New vigor was
shown in the transcontinental railway war
yesterday, when Huntington, of the Sun
set route, gave notice that it was ready to
make contracts at present cut rates good
for six months. To-day the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company will make longtime
contracts. This evidence of the intention
of transcontinental lines to prolong the
fight for traffic caused surprise in Wall
street, where lately there has been daily
rumorS of an impending settlement of the
war.
LATEST PHASE OF THE SITUATION.
NEW YORK, March l9th.-The trunk
lines are trying to adjust their through cut
rates west of Chicago as fast as they are
made, but there is no uniformity about the
rates. so they have issued no rate-sheet for
several days, although notice was sent to
the various trunk line agents. ordering
them to sell first-class limited tickets to
San Francisco for $53, with an exclusive
ticket at Council Bluffs, which will entitle
the buyer to $5 rebate at San Francisco
second-class limited tickets at Si4, with an
exchange ticket at either Council Bluffs or
Kansas City, with a rebate of $40 at
San Francisco, These rates on first and
second-class tickets are the average rates
The New York Central and Pennsylvania
are charging little more. The Pacific
Mail contract with the Transcontinental
lines expires to-day, and the SS5,000 per
month which has been paid the Pacific
Mail will cease. 1t is authoritatively stated
that the Pacific Mail will not enter the
fight for California freight business, be-
cause, it is said, its steamers are run fully
loaded with local freight, which pays them
better than California business at the pres
ent rates. The freight agent of the various
lines have practically agreed to guaran-
tee freight rates until next Saturday
Information received by the agents of the
Morgan steamship lines is to the effect that
there is no strike at any points reached by
their line or by the Sunset route, nor is any
apprehended. The Burlington route,
which announced rate of SAG for a round
trip from the Missouri river to San Francis
Co. 30, Il 4 I l4lz
rate to $50. The meeting of the Executive
Committee of the trunk line pool transacted
no business of importance. They discussed
the west-bound business, but decided
nothing.
The Railroad Strike.
CHARLESTON, March 19th.-Reports of the
action of the Dallas Merchants Exchange
and citizens of Greenville Texas, in passing
resolutions denouncing strikes and strikers
methods, were forwarded to Jay Gould here
and he has forwarded a telegram in re-
sponse, in which he says: "Will not the
public soon learn that it is they who pay
the railroad pay-rolls that railways use its
clearing house to receive and disburse this
fund. which is fully 60 per cent. of the en-
tire gross earnings of the railway? And
when they do they will probably find some
method to regulate and control the labor
engaged in railway transportation, and
thus prevent such strikes as the present
one"
BRIDGES BURNED BY THE STRIKERS.
MARSHALL (Texasl March 19th.-The
passenger train from st. Louis and one
from the West were to meet here at 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The st. Louis
train arrived, and that from the West was
momentarily expected, it having left Hall
vile, thirteen miles out, on time Ten
minutes after 4 a telegram was received
stating that bridge No. Ill, seven miles east
of this place, was burned down, and an
other was burning A wrecking train,
loaded with bridge timbers, bridgemen,
bloodhounds and United States Marshals,
left Immediately for the scene of the con-
fiagration. Mashal Reagan offers 81 600
reward for the arrest and conviction of per-
sons implicated in the burning of the
bridges. He says he will have sixty more
deputies here to-day, and will run the road
if he has to place one at every bridge
General Agent Wheelock says he knows
nothing of the reported movement to ar
bitrate the difficulties between the strikers
and the company, as reported from New
Orleans in Wednesdays dispatches.
Shocking Treatment of Girl.
GREENvILLE (O.>, March 10Th. - Cora
Green, a pretty 14-year-old glrl, who es-
capped last Sunday from John McVey, a
gypsy, and his two female companions, re-
lated horrible story of her treatment. She
states that she was kidnapped from her
home near Lebanon, Ind. over year ago,
and was compelled to travel about the
country with gypsies. McVey. she says
shot her in the head, kicked her, cut her
on the body with a hatchet, beat her with
club. fiogged her with buggy whip and
outraged her person. He also drove nail
through her foot, fastening her to board
and swung her up to wagon box. Marks
of the girls wounds are still plainly visible.
Her parents have been communicated with
and they will arrive here in day or two
McVey and his two companions decamped
as soon as they learned of the girls escape.
A large number of citizens are hunting for
the party, and if they are captured lynch
ing will probably follow.
Peculiar and Fatal Railroad Accident.
FoRr WORTH TEX. March 19th-This
afternoon an accident occurred on the
Texas and Pacific Railroad at Iona station,
fourteen miles west of here, which resulted
in the instant death of engineer w. H. Met
calf and fireman Dick Clark. The train
was the through passenger from FL Paso
to st. Louis. The engineer, owing to the
very bad condition of the road. as a conse-
auence of the strike, was running at the
rate of about sixteen miles an hour,
when the pilot of the locomotive
struck something, and the fre-box
was thrown out of position, causing the
boiler to explode. Metcalf was hurled
sixty feet, and Clark about 200 feet back OF
the engine. The explosion plowed out a
huge hole beneath the engine, into which
the locomotive and tender fell, and were
completely wrecked. The express messen-
gers, mail clerks and number of passen-
gers were badly shaken up. The heavy
rains have made the track of the Texas
and Pacific worse than ever.
Frightful Natural Gas Explosion.
PrrrsBURG, March 19th.-By an explosion
of natural gas at Murraysville, Westmore-
land county. this afternoon, seven persons
were injured, three of them fatally. The
explosion was followed by fire, which de
stroyed seven dwelling-houses. The name:
of those fatally injured are Mrs Harry