Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08

,, and growers who depend wholly upon theiI
crop are very despondent. Where four and
six cents were offered for last years crop,
three weeks ago, now fifteen and eighteen
cents are easily obtained. Very few old
hops are in growers hands.
California Fruit in Chicago.
CHICAGO, July 7th.-Green fruits met
with fair demand to-day, at abeut former
prices. Offerings were ample. Oranges,
S4@6 for California apricotS, good con-
ditIon, 81 Goa 70; Bartlett pears- good
condition, s. 10; piuus. good condition,
q; peaches, good condition, SEA %; figs,
bad order, nodemand. II IS extremely diffi-
cult to learn much concesning the Califor-
MIA fruit trains. which are sent East by the
California Fruit-Growers' Association. for
the reason that the firm here which handles
nearly all of the California products is not
in harmony with the Fruit-Growers' Asso-
citation and declines TO furnish informa-
ton concerning the fruit trains.
The Romeo Fire.
MILwAUKEE wis. J, July 7th.-A Romeo
dispatch says: Eleven dwelling houses,
one boarding house, two large barns, Two
warehouses, the sawmill, planning mill, two
carloads OF flour, eight million feet of luDl-
Der and FIVE million of shingles were
burned to-day. The loss will be sI30, 600 {;
insurance, $4,000, Sixty men are thrown
out of employment and twenty-seven tami-
lies are left destitute. The origin of the
fire is unknown, but tits supposed to have
caug from q freight train engine. The
woods south Of Romeo are all on fire, and
men and women are fighting il as best they
car. Van Hosears mill and buildings are
totally destroyed. His losses win aggre-
gate about 500 600.
Bloodshed Feared.
BozEMAN (M. T., July 7th.-At Timber
Line the Knights of Labor. supported by
all non Union men. to-day decided to resist
the coal company's ordeftha. all Knights
should leave the gulch The company at
once closed its store and butcher shop. A
committee of Knights was sent to Bozeman
for provisions. The situation is critical,
and bloodshed is feared.
Terrible Drought in Texas.
FoBT WORTH, July 7th.-The suffering
from the long drought in western Texas is
unprecedented, rain to any extent not hay-
ing fallen in some localities for fourteen
months. The cattle are starving. In many
localities the settlers are selling their farms
for mere trifes, and leaving for the East in
abject poverty.
Thrown from a Horse and Badly Injured.
BRECKENRIDGE (Col.), July 7th.-Edward
Welch, son of Judge Welch, of Brooklyn,
n. Y, was thrown from a horse here yes
terday while riding race, and received in
ternal injuries from which lie is not ex
pected to recover.
New York Stock Market.
New YORK, July 7th-Central Pacific
424 Burlington, 1874 Rio Grande, 157
Northern Pacific, 271; Northwestern, 1134
New York Central, 1861 Oregon
Navigation, los TranScontinental, 333
Pacific Mail, 54l; Panama 9S; Rock
Island %; st. Louis and San Francisco
24l; St. Paul and Omaha, 96l; Texas-P Pacific,
107 Union Pacific, Sc; Wells-Fargo Ex-
press, rs; Western Union, 665.
New YORK. July 7th.-Northern Pacific
skies, lis bid; Southern Pacific skies,
1094@ 1104; Arizona skies, 1922 New
Mexico skies, 103.
Death OF Hayne, The Southe'n N Poet.
AUGUSTA (Ga.), July 18th. = Paul H
Hayne, the poet, is dead.
Schooner and All Hands Lost
KEY WEST (Fla), July 7th.-Two sea
men, who arrived here to-day from Havana,
report the loss of the schooner Sea Gull, OF
Key West, and all hands, on the north side
of Cuba, June 2Sth.
Failure of Cotton Broker.
New YORK, July 7th.-The failure of w.
H. Beede, cotton broker, is announced this
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