Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-29

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tee have issued a powerful manifesto urg,
| ing all who condemn the assassination tc
| attend
They Favor Trust.
| CHICAGO. July 2SJh.-Interviews with 8
| number of leading railroad Presidents OF
Western railroads published here show
| that nearly all favor the formation of a rail,
read trust The general opinion is that
under the present restrictions, the railroads
| cannot earn fair return on the invest
ment.
| Willed to Uncle Sam.
RIvERHEAD IN. y. }, July 2Sth.-Willism
! Merrimsn, an eccentric school teacher
| who died recently, willed his entire prom
! erty, valued at nearly one hundred thou-
sand dollars, TO the United States Govern
| ment.
jackson and Ashton.
New YORK, July 2Sth-A glove match
has been arranged betweed Peter Jackson
| and Jack Ashton. Jackson will probably
| train at Jerome Park and Ashton at Fort
Hamilton. The contest will take place
August Sth.
Cut His Throat.
RICHMOND (Va.), July 2Sth. = James
Conaty, the bookkeeper who left his wife a
few weeks ago, went to her house tonight
and asked her TO take walk. She refused
whereupon he cut her across the throat
with razor. Conaty then went into the
adjoining room, stood before a looking
glass and cut his own throat from ear 10
ear. He died in few minutes. His
former wife will recover.
Short in His accounts.
KANSAS CITY, July 2Sth Charles S.
Crysier of Independence is reported TO be
$50 900 short in his accounts. He is the
agent for several estates. Crysler is at pres
ent IN Washington, but telegraphed his
father 10 give delivery bonds and that he
would satisfy them when he got home
Sunday Law in Missouri,
KANSAS CITY, July 28th.-It having been
found inexpedient to make arrests for Sun
day law violatOrs under the Downing. or
State law, as the Police Judge could not
enforce some of its provisions, the Com
missioner hunted around and found q city
ordinance exactly like the Downing law.
and conterring the proper powers upon the
Police judges.
The penalty of the revocation of licenses
bad its effect, and to-day the police were
able to arrest seven violators.
No Requisition Yet.
BALTIMORE, July 28th.-It seems the
Governor has issued no warrant for Kill
rains arrest aud Detective Morris will be
obliged to go back to Mississippi, as the
grand jury of Marion county, where the
offense was committed, has not vet found
an Indictment against the puglists.
Found in a Pawn Shop.
CINCINNATI, July 2Sth.-To-day Jones'
watch was found in pawn-shop, where
Blythe received $40 for it. Confronted
with the watch and pawn broker Blythe
admitted he did pawn the watch, and said
he had also taken 81 of the money in the
Coloners pocket.
Death of an Editor.
PTTTsBURG, July 2Sth -Jonh c. Barr,
well-known newspaper man. died this
morning at the age of 90 years. He had
been at different times connected with the
New York World and Times, and at the time
of bis death was employed on the Chroni-
Gle Telegraph of this city.
Two Women Poisoned.
NASHVILLE Tenn J, July 2Sth.-Lucinda
Bedford, wealthy colored woman, aged
S5, and Emily Persons, her niece, aged 65.
were poisoned yesterday, the poison being
put in their coffee by Catherine Small
(colored), who claims she wanted to kill
Mrs. Bedford's cook, Grace Hunter
Mrs. Bedford is very i'll, but will recover.
Her niece died in the evening. The motive
of the Small woman for poisoning them is
not known.
Fatal Lightning Flash.
WABASH Qnd J, July 2Sth.-Five men
were killed by the explosion of dynamite
twelve miles from here during the storm
last night. The men were employed on
the railroad and took refuge in a shed,
when lightning struck it, exploding the
dynamite. Their names cannot be learned.
They are not known here.
Corner Stone Ceremony.
CHICAGO, July 2Sth.-A thousand people
attended the laying of the corner stone of
the Bohemian soldiers monument by the
Grand Army of the Republic at the Bo-
hemian National Cemetery, in Irving Park,
to-day.
Three Persons Drowned.
BALTIMORE, July 2Sth.-A yawl pleasure
party OF six persons was run down and
sunk by the steamer COLCHESTER on Pot
tapsco river. Mary Weiner, Mary Kolb and
John Beltz were drowned. The others
were saved.
Determined Printers Union.
New YORK, July 2Sth.-To-day's meeting
of Typographical Union No. is said to
have been the largest ever held in this CITY.
A thorough discussion of the troubles of
the past week was had, and by a vote of
about 800 to 400 it wss decided to resist TO
the utmost any reduction in price of COM
position. They regard Big g. as the back
bone of trades unionism in the United
States, and it is assumed if the scale were
reduced here in the printers stronghold
reductions would follow in the trade all
over the country.
Excellent Showing.
BosToN, July 2Sth.-A table compiled
from the dispatches from leading clearing
houses in the United States and Can ada
shows the total gross exchanges for the
week ending july 9th were 1924, ,613,572,
an increase of u 4 per cent as compared
with corresponding period last year.
Diamond Dust.
CHICAGO, July 2Sth.-The baseball games
played throughout the East yesterday re-
suited as follows:
BROOKLYN, July 2Sth.-Brooklyn 1, Gin
cinnati q
COLUMBUS, July 2Sth. = Columbus 10,
Louisville Il.
PHILADELPHIA, July 2Sth.-Kansas City
game postponed on account of the rain.
WRECK OF THE YACHT SEA TJnN