Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-15

| ing new, except that McDow's negro driver,
Moses Johnson was concerned in the attempted
| burial OF the corpse under the Office stairs
| Johnson denied it, but his footprints in the
| freshly-turned earth are strong evidence against
him. The vcrdict was that Mellow killed
| Dawson with pistol and that Johnson was
| accessory. Both are jailed. Mellow was
present Ri the inquest, but did not testify.
| Oklahoma Bill to the President
| ST. LOUIS, March 14th.-APurcell, l. t. special
| says: Oklahoma Bill and party to-day sent a
message to President Harrison TO the effect that
the situation in Oklahoma is critical and it is a
| national necessity to have action taken st once
| The telegram concludes: :. If the thous ands of
actual honest settlers clamoring ior admittance
are compelled TO depend upon the right to set
| tlement until too late to make crop, actual
| starvation will follow
A Report Without Foundation.
| NEW YORK, March 14th.-Concerning the
story about Huntington buying lands in Lower
Calliornla, Charles II. Tweed, counsel for the
| southern Pacific Company, says the report is
without foundation. The people named do not
| propose to build any more railroads unless as
| feeders may be required for the main line that
now runs from one END of the State to the
other.
The Weavers' Strike.
| FALL RIVER (Mass.), March 14th.-Ihe weav-
| ers still present an unbroken front The shut
| down of the King Phillip aud American Linen
| Mills has added 1000 to the number of idle op-
/ eratiyes, and has brought the strike home TO a
| great body OF operatives outside of the weavers
There was meeting in the Park this morning
attended bys4,0 strikers, who manifested much
enthusiasm.
The West Virginia Governorship.
CHARLESTON (W. Va.l, March 14th.-The su-
preme Court met this afternoon, and in the
Gubernatorial question between K. S. Carr, Pres
ldent OF the State Senate, and Governor Wilson,
decided that Carr had no ground upon which
to take the Office of Governor. This gives Will
son the chair until the contest is settled between
General COT and Judge Fleming.
Suicide From Bunkoism.
! KANSAS CITY, March 14th-Adolph Uafay.
alias John McKinzee, committed suicide last
night by taking morphine. He was en- route
from Phoenix, Ariz., 10 New York. where his
swindled out of all his money. over Sl0,0OO BY
bunko men, and it is supposed the loss drove
him temporarily insane.
Bad Outlook for Young Sigel.
New YORK, March 14th-Robert Sigel, son of
General Franz Sigel, charged with Irregularities
while clerk in the Pension Agency here
pleaded guilty before The United States Com
missioner this afternoon, and was remanded for
sentence on Thursday The penalty for the two
forgeries specified in his arraignment is twenty
years.
An Astronomical Discovery.
BCsToE, March 14th.-A cable message re-
eeived by the Science Observer from the Euro
pean Association of Astronomers, announces an
observation by Professor Francis Terby of Lou
vain, Belgium, OF the white region of Saturns
ring. which was seen by him against a dark
Western Baseball Schedule.
SIOUX CITY (Ia.), March 14th-The committee
arranging the schedule for the Western Base
ball Association was in session all day but ad-
Journed with nothing accomplished The
schedule submitted by the Secretary was re-
jected aud Il new committee appointed, which
will report a schedule tomorrow.
Money for the Ex-Confederates, Home.
NEW YORK, March l4th.-Secretary Downing,
of the New York Citizens Committee to aid the
National Confederate Soldiers Home at Austin
Tex, to day received a letter from General Al
fred PleaSanton containing money, and also
one from Mrs. General Grant, inelosing Sa5
Mrs. Laugtry Very Ill.
New YORK, March l4th.-Mrs Langtry was
too Ill to night to APPEAR on the stage, being
able to rise. During the evening an operation
was performed upon her throat, during which
she swooned twice, and cannot now speak
aloud.
Railroad Trouble Settled.
ST. PAUL, March 14th-President Oakes. of
the Northern Pacific, said to-day that the dis
puie between the employees of his road and
those of the Union Pacific, in jefferson Canyon,
Mont had been amicably settled.
The Stakes withdrawn.
CHICAGO, March 14th.-Alf. Kennedy, the
hacker OF Billy Myer, has Withdrawn Myers
share of the stakes in the recent Myer-slc-
Aulife draw. Myer will probably be matched
with DAILY.
He Survived His Party.
DETROIT, March i4th.-Hon. Moses w. Field,
the man who brought the Greenback move
ment into prominence in the United States. is
lying at the point of death from apoplexy.
Anarchism Still Lives.
CHICAGO, March 14th.-A number of dynamite
cartridges, Illuminating caps and three bottles
of nitroglycerine were found by the police at
the Garfield Park gate-house yesterday.
Wine From Jerusalem.
CHICAGO, March 14th.-Twelve casl-s of wine
from Jerusalem arrived here yesterday, i'm
ported by Jews for use on their annual Feast of
the Passover.
He Expinted His Crimo.
ATLANTA March 14th-J L. Adams, the Ma
con forger, died in prison this mornsng from his
self-imposed starvation of twenty-seEen days.
General Sherman's Son.
PHILADELPHIA, March 14th.-General Shsr-
mans son. Thomas Ewing Sherman, will be
consecrated a Catholic priest herein July.
Politics in Chicago.
CHICAGO. March l4th.-L. E. Gross was to-
night nominated for Mayor on tie United Labor
ticket.