Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-15
HONE AND ABROAD.
DREADFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT
NARROWLY AFERTED.
Child Cooked in an Oven-CrueIty
at Sea-Scallop Fleet Wrecked
Foreign Items.
Especial DIspATcHEs TO THE nEooRD-uNos. !
DOMESTIC NEWS.
A Toboggan Craze.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
"A Toboggan Craze.
New YORK, January 14th-The Canadian
winter sport, tobogganing. is becoming as
popular in the East as roller-skating was
last winter. The papers to-day contain en-
thusiastic reports of last nights opening of
toboggan slide at Orange, n. J., 600 feet
long and l27 feet high The Tribune saws :
All Essex county turned out to celebrate
the opening-old men, children, young
men and maidens--to the number of two
or three thousand. The racers rushed
down the lane of faces with speed that
melted them all To one expansive smile,
| then ran up the opposite hill out into the
field, and one sled following the other,
each filled with screaming, laughing hu-
manity. All varieties of uniforms were
represented. The ladies wore red and
white shaggy suits. The number of coast
ers was SO great that there was q row of
one dozen or more continually waiting
their turn, standing in line, with toboggan
| on end, towering above them like enormous
shields The slide of 1,000 feet was
trayeised in twenty seconds Parties are
forming all over New Jersey, and in New
York, to visit the Orange toboggan slide
a slide is being erected in Prospect Park,
Brooklyn. Those who tried tobogganing
for the first time declare there is no out
door recreation comparable with it, The
| skaters are promised good ice in Central
Park to-day, or tomorrow on the upper
Hudson, and ON the Harlem and West
chester streams skating is excellent.
The New York Cigarmakers.
NEW YORK, January 14th.-At the order
of the Cigar makers International Union,
500 men went on strike to-day in the fac
tbis actinn was the adonfi0n Of ,rhat 49,
Clear Manufacturers' Association consiGar
to he nniforn rate of rr;ce, ana ~; -,
which tbf en,nIoyes in faciories controIied
h The association are diseatisfed Tba
Tnion ordered lew Rros emnlo,as 70
strike as n test case becanse If ono ynap,,D
facturer Yields tbe others will do IikaJr;sa
nrovid;ng tha Assoc;at;o, 50 orla,|, :" r. IT,
morrow mornine, a con ferer,co iii ho haIJ
between committee from the str;le,.s orc; and
the Manufacturers Association with a view
to settling the matter.
New YoRK Januarv 18th Tho Proores-
sive Cigarmakers' Union to-nioht decided
to call ont it's men emnloved IN tba shows
of Brown & Earle tomorrow This move
is made to evidence the harmony of mr.
pose with the International Union
cr,.,ty ot Co., C.,,.,;,
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.Lal htLADhLrhlA' e1 January Ifth.-A WI
X14:IfE? ,nilEeon sPeoiai P sass Captalil Jonil "A.
W!illalhs, sentenced 10 elghteen years I'M
Fr,.,.. IL, ' :' - - VI !" pooi
to be a phenomenal menster The sailor
was weak from sickness. unable to work
and Williams seems To have dol;heratoIr
snent the whole dov in tortur;na tho n,o1
to death. He beat him. choked. kicked
and struck him with a handspike: and
when at last he had fallen beIniess to tbe
oeck, the captain put rope around the
,li .io.iin alllPi's. caiieu Ior piock-ahu-
~ 'cSS ~ ~ 'ue inaihina as, ;,
~ .Ie ~. anu tioiste9 MN ~ up until
anobdt iro ,Jeo ~ la, Ia u .he ueeh heli ne
nio as,i Nv iiinoo win coiu water;
nv NC Sai.o; ieia 70 tie ueoA sloailuS ana
.iie Gap.aln s'ilea MS groans WIN MS 1901
III us ,ieun, iiiu Ioii'tiiueu l ,tiis sort oi
He'''i'eill uii'ii ne iiau iiiiisiieo hiih-
wreck oil a scaiiop Eject.
RIvERHEAD l.. L., January 14th.-News
has just been received here that most of
| the scallop fleet at Promised Land, Gard
iners Bay, were wrecked on Robin S
Island during the late storm. Among the
vessels were the schooners Seven Brothers,
No Name, Crazy Jane, Sappho, Hepsted
| and Chief. The names of a number OF
sloops, sharpies and schooners have not
yet been ascertained. The crews are all
safe as far as known, but they suffered
greatly from cold.
Schooner and sixteen Men Lost.
GLOUCESTER. January 14tb.-The schooner
Mabel Dillaway. one of fine MISSING fisbinc
vessels. has been given up as lost. She
salieu DeceliipeI Zoli on a nshing trlp, was
spe, n baara fro,,, an, ias no. oeeil
seen seen VI neiiu iro'i since 0he carried SIX
'eei' iheii
Narrow Escape from Frightrul Disaster.
New YoRK. January 18th A mos,
dreadful accident was narrowly averted bv
a ouick-witted engineer fbis mornino Tbs
north-bound exnress ON the New Y0rk and
Long Island Railroad was filed with ,rom.
| inent New York business men comIny r.
| their offices Near Mstawon and iuSi
| before reaobino tho trestIe br;dao 5oo Co.,
| long, the cars were derailed bv broken
frog. The cars, after dropping down on
| the ties, ran across the bridge, swapping the
steel rails INTO bits and tearing the wooden
structure INTO splnters. The rear coach
| lost its truck. and was drawn long dis
tance on its floor beam. George Chickner
the engineer, finding it impossible to stop
his engine, which was tearing along at the
rate OF thirty miles an hour, saw that the
only hope was to increase the speed. He
threw open the throttle, and thus prevented
the cars from topping over the bridge,
The cars swayed from side to side, but they
were safely carried out of danger. The
passengers were all more or less shaken up
but nobody was seriously hurt.
c,,,d posts
New HAVEN (ConnO. January 14tb-A
horrible story comes from Willingford.
Reports say that Il colored woman living
near Pond Mill, wishing to call her hus-
band, closed her baby up in the oven to
keep il warm, the fire being barely out.
While she was away her husband came
home, and, unaware of the whereabouts OF
the child, built a hot fire. The woman
noticed the smoke coming from the Chin
ney and hurried home. but arrived too
late, as the child was found literally
u
OGpsN January l4th'-A terrible ex-
p!oSloh OF Ire-dalnp occurred about mid