Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-16
KOME AND ABROAD.
PECULIAR CHINESE MURDER CASE
IN NEW YORK.
Railroad AffairsLThe Toledo Fire
Turf Matters-Funeral Train
Foreign Items.
DOMESTIC

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-UNIoN.l
DOMESTIC.
Effect of General EIilIer's Death on Chi
nese Legislation.
NEW YORK, March 15th.-The CONNER
mercial 4dretiSers special saws: The death
OF Senator Miller may have an in}portant
bearing on the future of the Chinese oues-
ton: lie was Chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Relations, and regarded the
Chlnese from the California Standpoint.
Whoever succeeds him, be it Sherman.
Evarts or some new man, will probably be
less extreme. The question is too larGe to
depend for treatment on the feelings of anv
one man. II has already assumed serious
aspects, and the situation may grow worse
instead OF better. 1t is important, at this
Juncture, to know how the Chinese Coy
ernment feels. The following statement
sheds much light on the matter. and comes
from an authentic source. The Chinese
Government never encouraged its subjects
to emlgrate; but the Government would
much prefer that the overcrowded popula-
ton III the seaboard States should eniprate
to the waste territory in the western part of
the Empire. While the Government feels
that the Chinese are there at the urgent
solicitation of American interests, and
should. therefore, be fairly treated, it recog-
nlzes the gravity of the labor problem in
America, and is mainly troubled by the
discrimination made especially against the
Chinese. Both Governments will carefully
acquire all the information that bears on
the subject, and these facts will form
basis OF negotiations.
The Miller Funeral Train.
CHICAGO, March l5th.-The Congression-
al party having in charge the remains of
the late Senator Miller. of California. ar
rived in this city last night. The cars were
immediately transferred to the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy road, and the west
ward journey was continued at 1880
o'clock.
Peculiar Murder Trial.
ROME On. ", March 15th.-The trial of
Fong All Yu for the murder of Sing Lee at
his laundry in this place last July will be-
gin here before Justice Kennedy of SYRIA
cuse to-day. Great interest is felt in the
case, as well Oh account of the peculiar cir
cumstances surrounding the murder as on
account of the nationality of the accused,
who is the first Chinaman ever prosecuted
for penal oifense in this part of the State
Sing Lee came here early in the summer of
1854 from Montreal, and opened a laundry.
One day about one year afterward the
patrons who went to the place for their
washing found the door locked and on it a
small piece of white paper, on which was
written in a scrawling hand "Gone to
New York. Sing Lee" After few days
the place was entered by neighbors, who
found Sing Lees body covered with blood
on the bed. The jugular vein had been
severed with knife and there was deep
stab under the ribs on the right side. There
were no evidences of struggle and indi-
cations pointed to murder while the victim
was either asleep or under the influence of
| opium. The box containing Sing Lees
, money. which, as was afterward learned,
contained twelve hundred dollars, was
broken open and the whole house had
,, been ransacked. A knife and shirt
| covered with blood were found under the
bed. On the day before thenotice was found
| posted on the door, strange Ghinaman,
dressed in a new suit of clothes of good
| material and fashionable cut, in the Can
adian style, had been seen to enter the
place. and an hour or two later was dis
covered helping the laundryman with his
| ironing. The same man was seen at the
railroad station next morning, where he
| bought a ticket for some point on the
| Rome and Ogdensburg Railroad. The de-
! .e"tives were puzzled. The matter was
4 w
Foo, of New York city, who in May of the
| year previous had acted as Interpreter at
Montreal in a lawsuit brought by three
brothers named Fong against a Chinaman
named Shuen Yin. The latter was a
| newcomer but had, during his brief resi-
dence in the city, made large inroads on
| the business of the Fongs. Sing Lee was
witness for the defendant, who won the
case. 1t afterwards appeared that the
criminal proceedings against the Fongs, in
which Sing Lee was witness. had offered
the motive for the crime Wong Chin Foo
went to Montreal and worked up the case
against Fong All Yu, one of the brothers.
who was arrested, the evidence against him
being regarded as complete. The ALLEGED
murderer led q dual lie in Montreal, and
was the accepted lover of 4 tailors pretty
daughter He speaks and writes English
well.
Turf Mites.
New York, March 18th Among racing
men it is said that Mr.. WitheTs will have
much better stallion this year than ever
before and has secured the Jockey Billy
HAYWARD. lie is now on the lookout for a
superior light weight rider. His colt, Mi
kado, is said to be doing wonderfully well.
He is entered for the Monmouth Cup. The
Turf, Field and Farm says: The challenge
which o. +. Wiley, of San Francisco,
authorizes us to publish on behalf of Arab
has attracted considerable attention. J. |.
Case writes to us from Racine . | see no
good reason why jay Eye See should not
be better horse than ever this year If
he so proves when we give him his track
work | will willingly chance him against
any horse on the turf the coming season"
Should Arab come East he will find plenty
of opportunities to demonstrate his capaci-
ty. Orrin Hickok has telegraphed us from
Sacramento that the conditions proposed
by Wiley are too sweeping. He does not
believe Arab can beat Jay Eve See The
challenge as published, therefore, is with
drawn.
Generous Rivalry.
New YORK, March 15th-A Tribune edi-
torial says Stimulated by the success of
the citrus fair, recently held at Sacramento,
the people of the southern counties have
arranged for a similar exhibition at Chi
cago. 1t is probable that with these
two exhibitions, the country will be pretty
thoroughly impressed with the fact that
both ends OF California can grow oranges
and other citrus fruit.
BeecheI's New Lecture.
New YORK. March 15th-The Suns
leading editorial says Henry Ward Beech
er has a new lecture on "Consciences.
There is no other living man who can SO
terribly portray the terrors of a guilty
mind. There is no other man who so ter
riby portrays them i'll letters which will
always be famous documents in the pathol-
ogy OF guilt. 1t this new lecture keeps but
little of the accent of horror and remorse
that thrills through those confessions of his
crimes, there is no audience which it would
not profoundly move.
Conkiins's Supposed Aspirations.
PHILADELPHIA, March 15th-The Times
New York correspondent says: Roscoe
Conkling's name is on everybodys lips
here when the Broadway Railroad investi-
CATION is talked about. Conkling occupies
peculiar position in that affair. He stands
to get all the glory that will come of it
should the inquiry prove success, or 10
shit the burdens of defeat on the shoulders
OF committee should his efforts be futile
The ex-senator unquestionably looks for
something more than his fee out of the in
yestigation. People think there is great
deal OF truth in the reports that he is lay
ing the wires TO get back into his old seat
IN the United States Senate.
Suit to Suppress the Publication of a
Song.
NEW YORK, March 15th.-The trial of the
suit in which Henry Z. Dixey, the Adonis
of tha Riinu Opara Houea eaaI-e - rac.xo;,,