Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-14
Brave Omaha Boy.

carriers.
Brave Omaha Boy.
OMAHA, July 13th.-Isaac Lewis, aged
IL, to-day jumped into a cistern and saved
the infant son of Joseph Quinn, at $40
North Seventeenth street. A number of
children were playing together in the rear
of the house, when the baby crept to the
edge of the cistern and fell in The water
is about thirty feet deep. Young Lewis,
who was at work in the adjoining yard,
ran to the cistern and, jumping in, seized
the baby's skirts. They sank once, but
were rescued before they could go down
again. Both are out of danger. The boys
mother is widow.
Disastrous Floods.
AUSTIN, July 13th.-The heavy rains west
of here during the past week have swollen
all streams. The Colorado at this point is
higher than in twenty years. and is still
rising at the rate of ten inches an hour.
Hundreds of melons, many horses and
cattle, in immense quantities, are in the
drift going down the river Plantations
on bottom land are under water, and the
fences ale swept away The new iron
bridge, few miles below the city, had two
spans swept away.
WEIGH VIII BE Arrested.
CHICAGO, July 13th.-It is not at all I'M
likely that before many hours are past the
name of Maurice WEIGH will be added to
the list of Cronin suspects under arrest.
WEIGH is the Californian of whom consid-
cradle mention has of late been made. He
is believed to be the original of the picture
shown Hatfield and Throckmorton by Luke
Dillon and identified by them as the much
wanted j. B. Simonds.
Captivated by an Actress.
CHICAGO, July 13th.-Alice Irving, an
actress in John DilIon's Company, is i'm
plicated in a suit for divorce filed by
Florence Breedon against Harry Breedon,
a machinist. Breedon has been enjoined
from entering his own house. The bill
charges that during the engagement at the
Peoples Theater here he consorted with
Alice, spending large sums of money on
her.
Tough Cheyenne Story
CHEYENNE, July 13th.-A Union Pacific
brakeman named Hall had most remark
able escape from permanent manning YES
terday. He fell from the top of moving
train, and two wheels of box car passed
over his left leg without bruising the men,
Der. Hall bent his limb, and the contrac-
ton of the muscles made it resist the great
weight. He is again on duty.
Fruit Sales in Boston.
BosToS, July 13th.-Snow e. Co. sold to-
day at auction, for account of the Golden
Gate Fruit Association, zone carload CAL
ifornia fruits at the following average
prices: Bartlett pears So Co. Bradshaw
plums, 50 rs; Purple Duane plums, So 10
German prunes, 81 rs; Early Crawford
peaches, 81 20; apricots, 81 05 to 81 40.
Chicago Fruit Sales.
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sold to-day five carloads of fruit at the fol-
peaches, zoe 9Sl 70; German prunes, 81 10
al 10; Fontainbleau grapes, Sl@1 rs:
Washington prunes, 81; nectarines, 81 90;
pGrple Duane plums, 81 15@1 40. The de.
mand is light.
Carrier Pigeons.
BUFFALO On. W, July 13th.-The Amer
lean Homing Pigeon Club of this city liber-
ated six birds in Detroit at 1923, 18th mer-
idian time, yesterday morning The first
two birds reached here at 2:40 p. M. and
the third bird at 3:55 p NJ. The distance
flown was 225 miles.
Affected by the Heat.
New YORK, July 13th-Captain Gordon
Winslow, 81 years old, retired army off,
Ger, was found acting wildly on Sixth
avenue to-day. The heat had unbalanced
his mind and he was sent to the hospital
for treatment. His home is in Nebraska.
South Dakota.
SIOUX FALLS Oak, July 13th.-Only
thirty members were present when the
Convention was called to order this morn
ing. The only business transacted was the
and reference TO committee of
a design for the seal of the new State. The
Convention adjourned until Monday.
Hanging Murderer.
MEMPHIS, July l3th.-Thomaa Jefferson
(colored) was hanged this afternoon. His
neck was not broken, and be was strangled
to death in eighteen minutes. The crime
was the murder of William Rsgland (col-
ored) on October 20, 1888. Jealousy was
the cause.
Hiram Pearson's win.
CHICAGO, July l3th.-The will of the late
Hiram Pearson has been discovered
amongst his papers in sealed envelope,
and placed in the custody of the Judge of
the Probate Court. 1t has not yet been
opened and its contents are unknown.
Enights of Labor.
CHICAGO, July 13th-Terence V. Pow
Derby, with the full Executive Board of the
Knights of Labor. will arrive here to-mor-
row night and hold ten days session.
An effort will be madeto unite the warning
factions.
More English Purchases.
CLEVELAND, July l3th.-The sale of the
Otis Iron and Steel Company to an Eng
lish syndicate tor 81 SOC, 600 has been COM
pleted after several months negotiation.
wife-Murder and Suicide.
BosToN. July 18th William ?. White,
an eclectic physician, to-day killed his wife
in a domestic alteration and then suicided.