Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-16

Association.
Professor Russell of the theological depart
ment at Yale has resigned on account of the An.
dover controversy.
A Helena, Montana, special says the Con-
stitutional Convention will be Democratic by
about five majority.
Boys under sixteen years of age who are
caught smoking cigarettes by the police in Oak
land are led to prison.
The four percent. bonds provided for by the
last Legislature of Dakota have been sold at q
premium of 42s per cent.
The White Caps of Rawson, Ohio, do not want
liquor sold there and have chased their only
saloon-keeper out OF town.
The Shah of Persia is journeying from Tehe-
ran to st. Petersburg. and is meeting with a
grand reception in Russia.
The steamship Servia brought the longex-
pected acceptance from the Earl of Dunraven
TO the America Cup Committee.
Peter Hartswell and his father-in-law, William
Smith, engaged in shooting scrape at Detroit,
and both were MORALLY wounded.
The races announced on the Napa Agricult-
ural track for May 18th and 18th have been in
definitely postponed, on account of rain.
A Connecticut man has just died, leaving five
tons of copper cents to his heirs. He had accu-
mulated the great stock of copper q penny at q
time.
Pennsylvania will vote on prohibition June
18th. The proposed amendment absolutely and
forever prohibits all traffic in liquors and bev-
erages.
The trial at Camsjuany, Cuba. of colored
man for murder was conducted in the presence
of the mutilated body of his victim, thirteen
year-old girl
"Tug" Wilson, who shot and killed John
Whalen on Market street last month, was held
to answer for murder in the Superior Court at
San Francisco
The leading Republicans in Congress- both
Senate and House, seem to be in favor of an ex-
ira session of Congress to begin about the mid
die of November.
States District Attorney for the Northern District
of New York, claims TO be lineal descendant
of the Duke of Alva.
At a revival meeting in Calhoun, KY, Sher-
iff who became converted confessed that thirteen
years ago he stole 81 600 from the county. He
has made restitution.
Mining throughout New Mexico is booming
end news from al the camps is to the effect
that the influx of miners from Colorado an i
Arizona is increasing.
volney E. Howard, well-known in California,
particularly in San Francisco in its early days,
and in Los Angeles since 1861, did at Santa Mon
lea Tuesday, aged eighty.
The fees for ascending the Eifel Tower are
five francs to the top, three francs to the second
platform and two francs to the first The three
platforms will hold 10000 people.
The steamer Nanticoke, from Truxillo, arrived
at Key West yesterday. She had run out OF
coal at sea- and the officers burned every bit of
her woodwork and 900 cocoanuts.
The charge against James Wiley of shooting
through door at Bert Clark, in San Francisco,
has been dismissed by Judge CARRIER as it could
not be proven that he fired the shot.
Ex-officer E. R. Eaton, juryman in the case
of Sheath VS.. Waterman, was arrested in the
jury box in Judge Firms Court at San Francisco
yesterday morning on charge of bribery.
Ex-President Cleveland has leased. with the
rarfr- nCtyY f1A
Henry G. Marquand's residence, at Madison
avenue and Sixty-eighth street, New York.
An autopsy on Mind-reader Bishops remains
showed all the organs to be in a normal condi-
ton. There were no signs OF organic diseases.
The brain was examined, but not removed
During thunderstorm at Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma a few nights ago. tent containing
six men was struck by lightning, and Nelson
W. Harphan of Eagle Grove, Iowa, was instantly
killed.
In jacksonville, KY, the authorities have
passed an ordinance forbiddIng brass BANDS
from meeting for the purpose of learning new
pieces of music within 800 feet of dwelling
house"
A Philadelphia clothing store is advertising
novel bait to catch customers Zach person
buying suit is photographed in his new clothes
free of charge, and the scheme is proving
paying one.
Louise Lehman, 20 years old, has brought suit
for SIC, 600 for breach of promise against Samuel
OululQEuHiO, IL IlCu scNeULI-yeHI-OlO DaclelOr,
Mrs Lehman is a widow. Both are residents
of Galena, IL.
An organization called the Secret Union +"
has been brought to light at New Haven, Conn,
in which each member (all being unmarried
young ladies' makes a vow to get married
within year.
Hon. Abram S. Hewett who is in Ionden
says he is convinced that America will make
iron and steel for mankind in the long future
The iron, coal, capital, skill and energy neces-
sary to do it are there.
combination of glass fruit jar cap manu-
quotations yesterday were So 81 for quarts and
Sl2 so for gallons and a further advance from
so cents to 81 is talked of.
Several thousand Oklahoma boomers have
accepted the offer of tree transportation made
by the Northwest Immigration Association and
are passing through Fort Worth daily to find
new homes in the Texas Panhandle.
Chief Crowley of San Francisco has received a
letter from Philadelphia asking for information
of the whereabouts of Nelson Pierrepont Crooks
and Edna Crooks. missing heirs to the estate of
Captain Nelson Crooks of Philadelphia.
George Luse, a garroter, was captured by a
policeman in San Francisco Tuesday about A.
NJ. He was caught robbing man. ard on the
approach of the officer ran The policeman
winged him with q bullet and Luse surren-
dered.
Roger A. Pryor, Jr., has published complete
refutation of the charge of desertion recently
made IN Richmond against his father, General
Pryor. The proof is regarded as being abso-
lutely conclusive of the Generals loyalty to the
South.
The British ship Altmore, Captain Weeks,
from n. s. W., April sth, for san Francisco, has
been wrecked at Deirai Island in the south
Pacific. The Captain and portion OF the crew
landed at Leynka. The first officer was
drowned.
William Mckinney has sued the San Fran
cisco Contract Company to recover $50, 900 dam
sing had
ing rock for the company, on the 9th of March
last, which resulted in the amputation OF his
entire foot
Merchants discovered during the recent fair
at Nizhnee- Noveorod, Central Russia, that the
turquoises offered for sale by Persian traders
were nearly all false. These rogues have been
imposing paste upon customers the last six or
seven years.
Reports from the Virginia hail-storm show
that great injury was done to vegetable crops
Serious damage seems TO have been confined to
section of Norfolk county. Cabbage, tomatoes,
cncumbers squashes, strawberries and green
peas were almost entirely destroyed.
The President has accepted the resignation of
Judge George A. jerks. as Solicitor-General of
the Department of Justice. jerks resigned
upon the change OF Administration, but was re-
qlested to remain In Office until the close of the
existing term of the Supreme Court.
There was a twenty-three round prize fight in
Buffalo Wednesday between Billy Welch of
Buffalo and Jack Smith of Toronto. when
Weich's right glove bursted and he refused to
90 on The referee gave the fight to Smith. A
large amount OF money changed hands.
Ferdinand Schroeder, saloon-keeper in In
dianapolis. yesterday morning cut his wife's
m roat as she stood with young babe in her
arms. killing her instantly. He ran TO vacant
lot. and, kneeling down, slashed his throat with
the same razor, dying halt an hour later.
The engagement is announced from Paris of
Mile Marcellin, the grand niece of old Com
modore Vanderbilt, and Franklin Singer, the
Youngest and only unmarried son OF the late
isaac Singer, celebrated for hissewipg machines
and his complicated marital entanglements
The recovery of the King of the Netherlands
has been a great surprise 10 his subjects. More
than half OF the well-to-do families of the coun-
try had made their mourning, and immense
quantities of black cloth had been purchased
for draping churches and other pubic edifces.
Alice Brown, of Sag Hsrbor. declares that she
is the wife of bank-wrecker Fish. She says she
used to be his typewriter, and when Fish went
TO jail and she heard that sctress Sallie Reber S
child called him father her mind gave way.
She was the pretty daughter OF a once rich citi-
zen.
The Boston Ideal Opera Company gave a
sacred concert at the Bijou Theater AT Pitts
burg Sunday. The concert was hurried in
O, der that the troupe could get out of town be-
fore Monday began, as suits were promised by
the Law and Order League for worldly employ
ment on the Sabbath.
Margaret Hendrick. a colored woman in Ken
tucky gave birth Tuesday 10 twins both of them
girls and one white and one colored. The white
one is perfectly white and the other an African
of the deepest dye. The woman herself is q