Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

David Nero, q colored preacher is under
arrest at Glasgow on charges of swindling.
1t is charged that the passage of the
Broadway Railroad bill by the New York
Aldermen was secured by bribery.
The House Committee on Public Lands
viii probably report a bill forfeiting the
unpatented portion Of the Northern Pacific
land grant.
There is an intimation from reliable
source in Washington that new Postmas-
ter for San Francisco Will be appointed in
a day or two.
The principal landlords in Wales have
combined to resist the demand of the
Farmers League for reduction of % per
cent. in farm rents.
An Arizona dispatch reiterates the state
ment that the recent killing of Captain
Crawford by the Mexicans was a cold
blooded murder, and not the result of an
accident.
The trial of Mrs. Harrie Howard for the
murder OF her husband in december. 1884,
at Petersboro, \. Y, was concluded yester-
day morning, the jury rendering verdict
of acquittal.
An attempt was made in East st. Louis
Thursday night 10 burn six men to death
by firing a cabin in which they were sleep
ing. The men were all fearfully burned.
and it is doubtful if they recover.
Congressman Morrow has called Secre-
tary Bayards attention to the fact that
Consul Withers, at Hongkong, is issuing
Consular certificates to coolies in defiance
of the instructions of the Treasury De-
partment.
Gladstone is being sorely pressed by the
Irish leaders, and when he brings forward
his land bill it viii certainly contain pro-
visions drawn on the lines of Collines'
amendment, which will be long step to-
ward home rule.
The President has pardoned George r.
Sims, who was convicted of participating
in conspiracy to defraud the Government
In pension case, and sentenced to five
years imprisonment in the Southern Hi
nois Penitentiary.
There are many Liberal members of the
British House of Commons who insist that
nothing short of absolute separation will
ever satisfy Ireland. and this point thev
will not concede. They will vote for re-
forms of the broadest kind, but not for dis
union.
John Macmahof, defaulting ex-Collector
of Revenue of Hoboken, who absconded
two years ago, leaving a deficiency of over
S5l, 900, was sentenced in the Court of
Special Sessions, at Jersey City, yester-
day, TO five years il States Prison, the full
extent of the law.
Wallace Ross and Fred Plaisted saw they
will make an attempt next August to 90
through the Niagara whirlpool in a boat.
| They claim that Capt Webb was drowned
| through an accident, and that the boat they
| contracted for in the United States will
carry them through safely.
1t is announced in the forthcoming trial
of the breach of promise suit for $4,000,
brought by Miss Annie Messmore. a pretty
girl of Chester township, against Edward
/. Green, Postmaster at Spainsville, Ind.
800 burning love letters, written by Green
to Miss Messmore, will be used in Court.
A dispatch from Matamoras, Mex. saws
! Deputies of the State Congress will be
elected Sunday, and it is hoped that after
the election some sort of order will be re-
| stored. Every night pistols are fired in the
streets, and murders are of frequent occur
renee. The better class of the community
stir about very little after dark when eyery-
body goes heavily armed On Tuesday
night an attempt to assassinate General
VIllareal, commander of troops. was made.