Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-19

Three Hard Cases.
NEW PHILADELPHIA %. December 18th h.-Chas.
Dewitt Taylor, representing himself as a minis
ter, has been arrested here with two women
whom he claimed were his wife and daugh ter
One of the girls is fifteen years old. She con-
feSsed that Taylor met her in Cincinnati four
weeks ago, and she has been travelling with him
as his wife ever since. The other girl was picked
up in st. Louis in similar manner. All are in
jail here.
Made Short Work of Him.
KNOXVILLE (Tenn.) December 1Sth.-A negro
gambler, driven from Dunavants Camp on the
Cumberland Gap Railroad, yesterday returned
with party of friends and attempted to shoot
some of the men. They were driven off with
out any injuries having been inflicted, and the
leader was arrested. On the road to the Jail a
mob took him from the officers and hung him
to a tree.
Trap-SheOting Championship.
JACKSONVILLE Qll.), December 18th j R.
otice has accepted the challenge of c. W. Budd,
of Des Moines, Iowa, to shoot match for the
American field championship clp, and also $50
a side. Stice has named March 5th as the time
and this city as the place for the match with
Budd. Both are to shoot at fifty live birds from
ground traps.
CLOCK" Gambling in Chicago.
CHICAGO, December ISth.-The Appellate
Court to day rendered decision in the case of
H. B. M2ilen and others against the New York
and Chicago Grain and Stock Exchange, whose
dealing were carried on by means of a machine
of the lower Court, that the transactions were
gambling.
Chloroformed and Robbed.
OMAHA, December 1Sth.-Eugene Foote, an
engineer, was chloroformed and robbed of 500
in a hotel last night He was discovered I'M
conscious by his brother, who smeled the chloro-
form and burst in the door. Foote was en- route
to California to recuperate fiom injuries suffered
IN recent collision.
Mysterious Disappearance of a Youth.
is absolute son OF an English Lord, and has
6 been I5s employed in menial capacity here. He
ously disappeared. He wedding day has passed,
and it is believed he has been murdered.
Dsath of General DahIgren.
NEW YORK, December 1Sth.-General Charles
6. Dahlgren, formerly of the Confederate arm Y,
died to-day at his home, $50 Decatur street,
Brooklyn. He was a brother of Admiral John
A. Dahlgren. They fought on opposite sides in
the war. General DahlgTen was 10 years old,
and was born in Philadelphia.
The Razor Carved Victim.
KANSAS CITY, December 1sth.-The physicians
having in charge the young man so cruelty
mutilated By his alleged wife report him i'm
proving tonight, but unconscious OF the extent
of his injuries. Though they refuse to divulge
his name it is believed to be Charles p Hudson
a real estate speculator.
Vessels supposed to be Lost.
PHILADELPHIA, December ISth.-The schoon-
ers August Flower and William Wilder, which
sailed from here together on November 18th are
believed to have sank at sea during the recent
storm and that all on board are lost. Each YES
sci carried mate, four seamen and a steward.
Wrecked and PIundered.
NEW YORK, December 1sth.-Captain W. H
Greno, his wife and seven sailors, formerly the
crew of the Nova Scotia brig Martin j. Brady
arrived on the steamer Saginaw to-day from San
Domingo, on which island they were wrecked
They were plundered by band of guerrillas af-
ter landing.
South Caro,ina's Disabled Veterans.
COLUMBIA Is. c., December 1sth.-The Senate
yesterday rejected the bill to establish q home
for disabled Confederate soldiers and sailors,
and passed bill amending the present pension
laws by limiting the total amount to be paid out
annually to $4,000.
Tragedy In Iadian Territory.
KANSAS CITY, December 1Sth.-James Sacra, a
and killed at Caddo, Indian Territory,
yesterday by NJ B. Owen on, a son of the noted
Ex-Governor of the Chickasaw Nation. He left
for Fort Smith, Ark, to surrender.
a 100000 Fire.
IRON MOUNTAIN (Mich.), December 1sth-A
destroyed an entire block. The loss is nearly
S100 600 and the insurance very small. The orr
gin Of the fire is unknown, but it was probably
incendiary-
A Miners Strike.
FORT DODGE Qa), December 1sth.-Seyenty
miners employed in the Canal Company's coal
mine struck to-day for RI increase of wages.
Three thousand employees in other mines are
prepared to go out to aid them in securing their
demands
Powerful dynamite Guns.
New YORK, December lsth.-A new dynamite
gun is on exhibition here. Projectiles are
thrown from the periphery of rapidly revolv,
ing disc ten feet in diameter. 1t is estimated
| these shells can be thrown over five miles.
Three Men Drowned.
NEW YORK, December 1sth.-Three men
Johnston, Oaks and Dockey-were drowned
while crossing to the American side OF the st.
Lawrence river last night from Cauada.
A Baseball Dicker.
BUFFALO, December Isth-Jack Rowe and
Jim White, OF last years Detroit Club, have
bought msjcrity of the stock in the Buffalo
| Baseball Club, and viii hereafter control it.
Radbourne, the TwirIer.
BLOOMINGTON Qli), December lsth.-Rad
bourne, the pitcher is spending the winter with
| his family here. To-day he signed contract tc
| play with the Bostons next season.
Wants to Re Public Printer.
SPRINGFIELD Qll.), December Isth.-C a
Vaughn, one of the proprietors of the State Jour
not OF this city, IS candidate for the Office o.
! Public Printer.
! A Mother Acquitted of Murder.
ZASEsvLLE (o), December 1sth.-A jury to
day acquitted Anna Snootz of the charge OF mur
der in poisoning four of her children with Paris
| green.
Wife Murder and Suicide.
OMAHA, December 1sth.-At Cain, in tn,
| northwest part of this state. Stephen Mead to
day shot his wife dead and then committed
&, suicide.
The Burlington Strikers.
GALEsBURG Qll.) December 1Sth.-Alexande
| r. Carvner of California addressed a secre
meeting of Burlington strikers here tonight.
Death of Supreme Justice.
LITTLE ROCK Ark, December 1Sth.-W W
Smith, a Justice of the Arkansas Suprem
Court, died tonight of consumption.
Until the Other Man is Heard From.
| CHARLESTON W. Va }, December 1Sih.-J. A
McGinnis, a Republican, will go to Congress
from this district.