Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-07
PACIFIC SLOPE.
LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
In PHOENIX, A. t.
Jkiah Stage Robbery = Murderer
Ordered Set Free Child Poi
soned-Brewer Drowned.
lsrro.A1 DISPATCHES TO THE RrooRD-usros !
CALIFORNIA.

Died from the Effects of His Injuries
SAN FRANcIsco, August 6th.-Willie
OKeefe, the eight-year- old boy who last
Thursday evening was mangled by bob
tail car of the Central line. died at O'Clock
to-day from the effects of the shock his
nervous system received.
Stage Robbery.
CLovERDALE, August 6th.-The Ukiah
stage left here at 2 P M "Wednesday with
twelve passengers and Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
express About four miles north from
Cloverdale, near the toll-gate, two
masked men with rifles ordered the driver
to stop and deliver. He complied by CIV
ing up the box and mailbag He was
then ordered on his way. Mr.. Hume, spe-
cial detective for Wells Fargo q Co., in San
Francisco, received the news of the rob
berry, and dispatched detective John Nj.
Thatcher to ferret out the parties who per-
petrated this outrage. The box and mail
bag were found few feet away from the
spot with letters and way-bills intact.
Wells, Fargo e. Co.'S loss amounts to $50,
which was forwarded to the town of Hop
land
Child Poisoned.
CENTERvILLE, August 6th.-A S-year-o old
daughter of John Motif, residing near Al
varado, by accident had hold of slice of
bread covered with rough on rats The
child had eaten the whole of it before her
danger was discovered. The drug was doing
its deadly work rapidly, when, as there
was no doctor near at hand, the child was
given a plentiful dose of some simple anti
dote. which saved her life for the time,
though she is still very sick.
A Brewer Drowned.
HoLLIsrER, August 6th.-J. C. Beutler,
the San Juan brewer, was drowned yester-
day while bathing at Firebaugh's ferry, on
the San Joaquin river, in MERGED county.
Freight Train Wrecked.
Los ANGELES, August 6th.-Y esterday
freight train between Volcano and the
Mammoth tanks, on the Colorado desert,
was ditched. The late washeut caused a
lowering of the track The train passing
ahead Of the wrecked one, caused the rails
to sink badly, then rise so they looked all
right. The fated train ran full on, then the
pilot went deep into the ground, thee dip be-
ing too short to allow the engine to rise.
When she came up she stood almost endwise,
swung round, and stopped at right angles on
the track. The water car ran right over
the cab crushing the same completely.
In the cab were the engineer and firemen,
named Joe Oman and Walter Hart, and
were caught by a passing box-car. The
former had his left leg below the knee
broken, and likewise the left arm above the
wrist, both breaks being compound frac-
lures The fireman had his left ankle
badly bruised. Six cars are completely
wrecked. One shot full 10 feet beyond
where the engine stopped.
San Jose Items.
SAN JOSE, August 6th.-A warrant was
issued to-day for the arrest of Edward Viii
son, Calaveras rancher, on charge of
felony, alleged to have been committed III
branding heifer belonging to Bartolo
Ortega, with intent to steal it. He will be
arrested tomorrow.
At the meeting at the Committee of Ar
engagements of the reception of the G. A.
R. on Tuesday next, this evening, all the
preliminaries were settled, and it was the
general expression that the affair will be
complete success in every respect. Gen.
eral headquarters were opened to-day ny
the st. James Hotel.
Thomas Brotherson, gardener en-
ployed by Jim Sylvia, was arrested this
evening on charge of grand larceny in
stealing so from the room of Amelia
Moyle, a housekeeper.
Martin Doesserane, aged 6l while work
ing at the Guadalupe lime works to-day,
was killed by a cave, his head being severed
from the body.