Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-13
THE WORLDS NEWS.
lsrsaAL DnrArcHs TO TIE ns0onD-unos.l
DOMESTIC.
Funeral of the Late Senator Miller.


WASHINGTON. March 18th = Arrange
ments for the funeral of the late Senator
Miller are completed. and services will be
held in the Senate Chamber tomorrow.
Before the body is removed from the resi-
dence, prayers for the dead will be read by
Rev. DR.. Leonard, Rector of st. Johns
Church, who will also conduct the public
services in the Senate chamber.
THE FUNERAL TRAIN
WASHINGTON, March I2th.-The body of
the late Senator Miller will be taken from
the Capitol about P. NJ tomorrow, and
will be escorted to the depot of the Balti-
more and Potomac Railroad The remains
will be placed in a special car provided for
them. The train is due in San Francisco
at IL A. NJ. on Friday morning next.
The Vacant senatorship.
WASHINGTON, March 12th.-Representa
tive Henley has telegraphed Governor
SLOVENIAN to urge the appointment of Del
mas as Senator, to succeed Miller 1.-THE
appointment of Delmas would kill Field,n
said Henley this afternoon, land | want
to see him get the place" Henley thinks
the contest lies between Delmas and Hearst,
with the chances in favor Of the former.
Execution of 3wo Murderers.
NEW ORLEANS, March 12th.-At 7:3O this
morning, when the keepers went to call
Ford and Murphy, who were to hang to-
day Cor the murder OF Captain Murphy,
committed on December l, 1884, he could
not rouse them. Physicians were hurriedly
called, and pronounced the men under the
influence of belladonna. Every effort was
made TO restore them to consciousness. AT
10 o'clock Murphy Mad rallied q little but
Ford was still unconscious. The crime for
which Ford and Murphy are to be hanged
is without a parallel in history. The high
position of the accused and those asso-
ciated with them, the bodness and audac-
ity OF the crime itself.and the social, politi-
cal and financial influences brought 10 bear
to retard and divert justice, made trial
duel between the State and the defendants
The central figure in the tragedy was Judge
Thomas l. Ford, late Recorder of the city
OF New Orleans, now serving twenty
years sentence in the penitentiary for the
part he played in the murder. Ford the
condemned man, is IA brother of the Judge
and Murphy is ali officer of Judge Ford S
Court The trial showed that Judge Ford.
his brother and five officers of his Court
were implicated in the murder.
THE GOVERNORS INSTRUCTIONS.
BATON RoUeE, March 12th.-The Gov
ernor this morning received a telegram
ing g Ford and Murphy attempted suicide
this morning by swallowing poison. They
are in stupor and in comatosecondition
The doctors believe the attempt failure,
but cannot say how long it may take to re-
viye them to consciousness. Should they
not revive before the hour fixed, shall /
execute the warrants Notwithstanding
To this the Governor replied: :" Yes, get on
with the executions. Garry out the war
rants"
ORDERS oBEYED.
New ORLEANS, March 12th.-Ford and
Murphy were hanged here to-day at 1851.
The Transcontinental Railroad Trouble.
New YORK March Arrangements
for conference between Messrs. Strong.
Goddard, Potter and Huntington, for the
purpose of adjusting the transcontinental
war, are progressing quietly. The meeting
will not take place before Monday or Tues
day: Meantime it is not unlikely that the
views of each one are becoming known to
the Others.
The Railroad Strike.
ST. LOUIS, March 12th.-Authentic in
formation was received tonight that secret
negotiations were begun yesterday for a
settlement of the great strike. Commuuica-
ton between the Missouri Pacific officials
mittee at Sedalia was established YESTERDAY.
through State Labor Commissioner Koch
titzky, and tomorrow there will probably
be at least slight rift in the clouds.
The Dempsey-La Blanche Fight.
New YORK, March 12th.-The best in
formation obtainable tonight is that
Dempsey and La Blanche did not fight.
The sporting men who have returned,
among them Mike Donovan, say they did
not. The purse was subscribed by some
club men, who insisted that it should be a
select affair, but the meeting-place leaked
out, and lot of roughs congregated there.
The club men declined to pay the money
subscribed, if the toughs were allowed to
witness the mill, and stormy time ensued.
in which revolvers were drawn. The
Sheriff and his posse have been hunting
for them all over Westminster county, and
in the midst of the row an alarm was given
that the officers of the law were approach
ing, and the gang scattered. The fight is
said to be off indefinitely. Efforts are being
made for contest between the men with
gloves.