Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
Land Decisions,

ClSiLns, dHu tndt Sdlu ld0u lies ulTSCttv
across and covers the main mineral belt OF
the Julian Mining District, and said claims
are worked more or less each year"
Chandler holds that ss said mines had
yielded no income and were virtually
abandoned Swi,zer's filing be permitted
to stand intact, subject TO his compliance
with the pre- emption law.
Chandler affirmed the decision of the
Land Commissioner in rejecting the appl-
cation Of Louis Billiveaul to make desert
land entry for the two tracts in section 30,
North Yakima Land District, Washington
Territory.
Hills Boom Has Collapsed.
ST. LOUIS, July 14th-The Republican, a
Democratic organ, will to morrow print an
entire page devoted 10 the opinions of Dem
ocratic editors as to the availability of
Governor Hill of New York as the Demo
cratic standard bearer il the Presidential |
contest Of 1882 The newspapers to which |
the query was addressed circulate in ten |
States where Democratic opinion IS strongly !
represented by them There is but one ex-
preston in favor Of the nomination of |
Governor Hill, coming from the Augusta |
tGa.) GtT0aicier a protection paper. OF the |
others all buttwo are uuqualitiedly opposed |
to the nomination OF Hill. The two ex- |
cepticns are the Louisville C0rier-J0U7pi |
and the Atlanta (Ga.) Journal Mr.. Wat |
terson simply declines to commit himself |
to an opinion now.
Civil Service Commission.
WASHINGTON, June 14th.-It is stated to-
day on the best of authority that the con- |
roversv between the Civil Service Commits |
sion and the Interior Department over new |
clerks to be appointed in the Census Office !
has been decided by the President in favor |
OF the former. This Will be hard blow to |
the patronage element as il was expected |
that as these l 500 clerks would be only |
temporary employees they would not come |
under the civil service rules. Superintend- |
ent OF Census Porter so believes, and As |
sistant Acknowledgement Shields affirmed |
this belief. The Civil Service Commission |
protested and appealed to the President, |
with the result as above stated. The Presi- |
dents official decision has not been made |
public.
Field and Gorham Coming West.
WASHINGTON, June 14th-Justice Field |
of the United States Supreme Court, and |
George c. Gorham, started for California |
this morning. Mr.. Gorhsm expects to be |
absent on the Pacific coast three or four |
months
Wanamaker's yacht Restless is III the |
Potomac, awaiting orders from the Presi- |
dent, who will go down the river to-mor- |
row morning al 10 o'clock. There will be |
small party invited, but it will be a |
stag affair strictly, and the excursionists |
do not expect to return to the city before |
Monday.
Executions in Georgia.
BArNBRIDGE (Ga.) June 14th.--Alexan- |
der Henderson (coloredl was hanged here
to-day for the murder Of Amos Jackson
and his daughter, also colored.
TOWNSVILLE (Ga). June 14th.-Will
Dibel (colored), was hung here to-day for
the murder OF a negro named Long last
December.
LEEsBURG (Ga.), June 14tI-John Pick
EFT, a negro aged 19, was-aang, d here to-
day for the murder of an CT negro and his
wife early this year.
Bloody Affair ii. Texas.
AUSTIN (Tex.), June 14th-Meager de-
tails of a bloody affair last evening at
Givens' store, eighteen miles southeast of
here reached this city this evening. 1t
seems that colOred Constable undertook
to arrest a white man for horse-stealing
The man resisted, and fight ensued be-
tween him and his friends and the Consta-
Bile and his friends. Revolvers were freely
used, and four white men and two negroes
were killed outright. while az least a dozen
others were wounded, some probably ia
tally.
Fruit Sales.
CHICAGO, June 14tb.-Porter Bros. & Co.,
agents for the California F ruit Union, sold
to-day two carloads of fruit, at the follow
ing prices Peaches, 81 20 to 81 15; april
| cots, 81 04 to 55 cents plums, So 20 to
81 35. The apricots were in bad order.
New YORK, June 14th.-In the Califor-
! mia fruit auction sales to- DAY $50 half-crates
of Royal apricots were sold at 30 cents to
TO 81 TO- and small lot oS plums at 81 40.
A small lot Of peaches were sold at 25
cents.
Diamond Dust.
| CHICAGO, June 14th.-The baseball games
played to day throughout the East resulted
as follows:
At New York-New York IA, Philadel-
phia 4.
AT lphia-Athletics s, St. Louis 5.
At rooklyn-BTooklyn Z, Cencinnati, f.
| At Boston-Boston 9, Washington 8.
At Baltmore-No game; rain.
a Woman's Final Leap.
NIAGARA FALLS IN. v, June 18th
This afternoon an unknown woman sup.
posed to have arrived here on the $40
| Buffalo train, committed suicide by Jump
| ing from raceway point in Prospect Park.
| In an instant her body was swept over the
American Falls. Shortly afterward it was
seen floating in the river and toward the
Canada side. The body was properly cared
| for.
Barry Not a Success.
| CHICAGO, June 14th.-Thomas Barry,
who came 10 Chicago week ago to form
Labor organizations in opposition to the
Knights of Labor, is not meeting with
much success. The walters Assembly,
which " as expected to 90 over to the new
organi zation, failed to do so. Neither has
the gas and coke Assembly, which Barry s
! friends were confident would take the lead.
| Afflicted Rio Janeiro.
New ORLEANS, June IA h.-News has Just
been brought here by gentleman from
| Brazil that smallpox and yellow fever are
| raging in virulent form IN Rio Janeiro,
and in radius OF 200 miles of that city.
The death rate for three days AT Santos was
seventy per cent. The people are leaving
in droves.
Murder and suicide.
KIRKvILLE (Mo@, June 18th. This
morning Frank Frobst, an ex-School Com
missioner, was shot dead by his brother
Joseph Probst, who then put a bullet
through his own heart. The cause is un-
known.
Drowned in Tennessee.
BROWNSVILLE Tenn June 14th.-Twc
well-known negroes, Dan Springfield and
Bob Taliaferro were drowned to day in the
Hotchie river by the overturning of skif
Perhaps He Had No Watermelon.
GARDNER (Me), June 14th.-East Pitts
tons imitator of DR.. Tanner, Watson Good
speed, who hes tasted thirty-nine days
died to-day.
The Deadly Kerosene Stove.
New YoRK, June 14th.-A kerosene stow
exploded in an East Side tenement to nigh
and Mrs Kirshman and her grandchild wer'
burned to death.
Large Diamond Robbery.
LONDON, June 14th.-Another large dia
: mond robbery is reported from Leipzig