Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-22
home AND ABROAD.
A BRIDEGROOM WHO LACKED
MORAL COURAGE.
The Gar Afraid of His Shadow
London's Lord Mayor and His
Show-Matters in Bulgaria.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE RECORD UNION. !
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Not a Likely Case.

considerable comment in political and
social circles as to the change of programme
which excluded Mrs. Cleveland and other
ladies who had intended going to Rich
mond. The feeling prevails to some ex-
!. tent that Miss Winnie Davis daughter of
jeff. Davisl, who was to have assisted Mrs.
Governor Lee in receiving the Presidential
party, was the cause of the trouble and
that the President and his wife, putting
politics and society together, concluded it
was political and social recognition which
the Administration could not permit. AT
the White House, however, all such ideas
are secuted as preposterous. and the i'm
preston was given out that it was simply
a desire to look after personal mat
ters that kept Mrs. Cleveland at home
Then, too, the ride to Richmond was IA
tguing one, and there would be consider
able hustle and confusion attendant upon
the return trip. and Washington would not
be reached until late tonight. These and
other considerations were cheerfully dis
cussed by tie President and his wife last
evening, and resulted in a determination
to abandon the Richmond trip, SO far as
the mistress of the White House was con-
cerned. There could certainly be no i'm
propriety in Mrs Cleveland meeting Miss
| Davis, and it is regretted by not a few OF
her friends that she should have suggested
|
trary.
The Alleged Bold SmuggIers.
WASHINGTON, October 2lst-Speaking
to-day Of the alleged importation of wine,
| etc, by the officers of the United States
ships Saratoga and Portsmouth, Commo-
dore Schley, Chief of the Equipment
| Bureau, said that there was no attempted
smuggling on board the training ships
The officers did bring over considerable
quantity of wine with them from Madeira,
| intended for friends on this side, who had
sent for it, with the express understanding
| that the duty, whatever it might be, should
] be paid. If the commanding officers had
been given an opportunity Commodore
Schley said, they would have sent to the
Customs authorities andj asked for an
Inspector to come aboard TO make an ap-
praisement of such goods as might be duti-
able, but the officers were treated as
smugglers caught in the act, almost before
the vessels had anchored, and did not have
an opportunity to show their intentions.
RATHER COSTLY WINE
| NEWPORT (R. I.). October 21st.-The mat
ter of the alleged smuggling on the train
ing ships Saratoga and Portsmouth was
settled this afternoon by "a Deputy Collector
boarding the vessels and collecting from
the officers duty on the contraband goods.
The collection amounted to nearly 5000.
The money was paid under protest, as the
ships leave here tomorrow. The protests
will be referred to the Secretary of the
Treasury
A Bridegroom's Mysterious Suicide in
Chicago.
| CHICAGO, October 21st-A tragedy of
remarkable character this evening pre-
vented what was to have been the brilliant
wedding of a couple who have occupied an
honorable position in the highest social
circles, and whose bridal preparations had
been completed down to the minutest par
ticulars. Miss Minnie +. Roesch. beauti-
full, wealthy and estimabie girl of 20 years,
waited at her home at 194 North State
street, with nearly 100 guests. The music
and clergyman were in attendance and the
wedding feast prepared, but the BRIDE
groom, who had left his betrothed less than
two hours before the time fixed for the GER
emony, failed TO make his appearance.
The man for whom all were waiting was
julius Lefor, confidential assistant to
Schmidt e Loebs, wholesale liquor mer-
chants. He is 30 years of age and men,
| Der of the Germania Maennerchor, is widely
known throughout the city and is general
fayorite. Believing that some accident
had befallen him, friends at last hurried to
his apartments on Chestnut street. The
| mousse was iOChetl, Htile Vi lDc HIS at
hand, and no sign of the bridegroom. En-
trance was finally effected with the aid of
the police In Lefor's chamber, stretched
upon the bed in his wedding garments, was
the bridegroom with a bullet in his fore
head, and dead. Two scraps of paper
bearing somewhat incoherent inscriptions
were found. In the writing he COM
planned that he had not the moral cour-
age to proceed with the marriage. Word
of the tragedy was hastily brought back to
the waiting bride. An attempt was made to
break the news gently. but at the first init
nation of the death of her betrothed she
shrieked and tainted, while the gaily-
attired guests departed in confusion.
| From the Canada Contingent.
New York, October 2lst.-A Montreal
special to the Post says: Since the arrest
of Jake Sharpe aud the other alleged bribeTs,
Billy Moloney, the ex-Reading Clerk of the
Doodle Council, has been more COM
municative and confesses that he received
the Doodle money in connection with the
Broadway scandal and paid it over at the
rate of $40 coo to each of the boodlers.
| Where the money came from, however, he
has refused to say remarking that this
missing link was only known to himself
and one other; that he was no infermer,
and never would be one. All kinds of
offers of pardon, he said, had been made
him from the District Attorneys office in
New York if he would return and give
evidence for the State against the bribers
and bribed Ex-Alderman Sayles has ar
rived"
MoLoNEY's DENIAL.
MONTREAL October 2lst-P. M.-Moloney
tonight denies having made any of the
above statements, and says that Sayles is
not in this city.
The Baseball Champions.
ST. LOUIS, October 2lst-Clarkson, after
pitching against the Browns yesterday in
Chicago, attempted to do so against them
in st. Louis this afternoon, in the fourth
game of the worlds championship series,
but he met with little success. He was
batted for but one more hit than the Chi
cago's got off Foutz, but his bases on balls
and general inability 10 control the ball at
critical times lost his club the game. Bo,h
teams fielded excellently. Although the
weather was quite cold, fully 1900 per-
SONS turned out to see the game. The
score was: st. Louise l O 8 3-S Chi
cago-3 0 00020-5. Base hits-Chicagos
6. Browns T. Errors-Chicagos A. Browns 4.