Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-10
Unconfirned Rumors.

New YORK, July 9th.-Etforts to COM
municate with any point within the local
tiles of JohnstOwn, n. Y, and Amsterdam,
where rumors would lead to the impress
sion that there had been a disaster of no
small proportions are unavailing on ac-
count of the fact that the telegraph wires
throughout the section have been de-
stroyed.
Some reports have reached here that a
cyclone caused a disaster ~ lille more ser
lOus character is given to the story by in
definite. and, as yet Incontirmed rumors.
that there has been considerable loss of
life
Brave Farmers Wife.
OLATHE (hans }, July 9th.-Earlv this
morning two burglars, John Chambers and
John Chesser, entered the house of Ed
Hyatt, a farmer living ten miles north of
here, through a window. The noise
aroused Mr.. Hyatt, and drawing revolver
he fired three shots. Chesser fled through
the window, but Chambers sprang to the
bed and attempted to wreSt the revolver
from Hyatts hand. Finally Mrs. HYATT
felled the burglar to the floor with a heavy
walking stick. The three shots fired by
Hyatt had taken effect in the body of the
PROSTATE burglar and he died this evening,
His companion was arrested.
4 Cloud Burst
SCHENECTADY On. W, July 9th.-A cloud
burst washed away the Central Railroad
track between Aikens and Tribes Hill sta.
tlons, about five miles west of Amsterdam.
this afternoon, causing another delay to all
the trains. 1t seems impossible to get any
particulars here this evening as how bad
the break or how long it will take to repair
1t. Some of the trains hurrying to make
I'D lost lime naTrnUIU nSrapaI ha
burst, but all did escape. One house was
partially washed away, but no lives lost.
Triple Hanging.
New YORK, July 9ih.-Judge Cowing
this morning sentenced three murderers to
be hanged the same day, August 22d. in
this city. Two killed their mistresses and
one cut his wites throat with a razor be-
cause she refused him money to buy
whisky. All tried to escape the eallows
through the legal loophole in the enact
ment of the electrical execution law which
is supposed to have abolished hanging in
this State. AL three will hang on the same
gallows.
Significant Resolutions
CHARLESTON rs. O., July 9th.-The Min
lsterlal Union to-day took part in discus
sion OF the Mellow acqulttal. The adop-
ton of several resolutions followed. The
most striking was: I'VE invoke the pulpit
OF the State to unite in putting down the
deeds of violence which have so often dis
graced us and provoked the rebuke of those
who honor the commands: Thou shalt not
Kill, and Thou shalt not commit adul-
terry"
Triple Tragedy.
PITTsBURG, July 9th.-This CITY was the
scene of triple tragedy at o'clock this
afternoon, Richard Lewis, plasterer,
fatally shooting Mrs. Elmira Moseby and
her sister, Emeline Myers, and then COM
mltting suicide. The cause is shrouded in
mystery. The parties are colored. Mrs.
Moseby was widow, and Lewis boarded
with her.
New York Fruit Sales.
New York, July 9th.-The California
Fruit Union agents auctioned one carload
of fruit to-day at the following prices
-Four hundred boxes Bartlett pears at So 20
to So 10, sixty boxes purple Duane plums
at 81 40. The demand continues very
good, and larger supplies would have done
equally well. Another sale will lake place
tomorrow.
Systematic Robbery.
CANTON (0hio), July 9th.-Six officials of
the Cleveland, Canton and Southern Rail-
road were arrested here last night by a
SASNCioAu NCltSllNS, SLdl Will SNSltu-
atically robbing the company. They have
confessed their guilt. The officials here are
reticent about the matter, but it is known
the amount lost is quite large. The rob-
bery has been going on for years.
Track Washed Away.
SARATOGA IN. W, July 9th.-The tele-
phone people at Amsterdam state that
wash out at Aiken, n. Y, three miles west
of there, has torn up 400 feet of the track
and cut off communication with the West.
Whether the wash-out was caused by
cloud-burst at Aiken, or by the breaking of
a dam at Johnstown, n. Y, as rumored,
cannot be ascertained
Assisting Burke.
CHICAGO, July 9th-There is some evil
dence going to show that funds have been
carried from here by an ex member of the
police force to Winnipeg. for the purpose of
aiding Burke and resisting the extradition
proceedings