Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-10
sco,ch-Irish Congress-

COLUMBIA (Tenn-) May 9th.-At to-day's ses-
sion OF the Scotch-Irlsh Congress, the Commit
tee on Constitution and Bylaws submitted
plan for permanent organization of the Scotch
irish Society of America. The purpose of the
Society is the preservation of Scotch-Irish his
tory and the keeping alive the esprit dc corps of
the race and the promotion social intercourse
and fraternal feeling among its members.
The following officers were elected: President,
pobert Bonner of New York Secretary, A. C.
Floyd of ennessee. Among the Vice Presidents
IS Judge j. M. Scott of Illinois
Baseball.
games throughout the East yesterday were as
follows:
AT Observation-Disclosures IA. Athletics6.
AT Chicago-Chicago Z, Pttsburg G.
At Cleveland Cleveland ID, indianapolis .
At Philadelphia = Philadelphia 6, Washing
ton0.
At St Louis-St Louis 4, Columbus g.
At Kansas City-kansas City s, Baltimore -
AT Boston-New York 10, Boston 9.
Success sful Trial Trip.
BALTIMORE, May 9th The private trial of the
new Government gunboat Petrel which was
built by the Columbian Iron Works of this city,
was made to day and was success. che aver
aged nearly fifteen knots with her engines
working 1i0 revolutions per minute and on the
last quarter nearly seventeen knots IT took
one minute and thirty seconds to stop her when
going at full speed, and twenty-eieht seconds
from full speed to reverse her. The best test
was made when she ran seventeen knots with
leNOlutlODS-
Investigating Trusts.
ALBANY IN. " May 9th-The State Senate
General Laws Committee, ordered at the last
session to investigate the trusts, have reported.
The committee concludes that the oppressive
trusts have within them the element of their
own destruction. That as trusts become better
known they become less feared: that the evils
of which they are the cause are short-lived
that owing to the pending suits now on the way
to the Court of Appeals no legislation should be
had.
Travelling Epaulettes.
DENVER, May 9th.-Secretary of War Redfeld
Proctor, accompanied by General Schofield,
General George Crook, Adiutant- General Drum
and General Merritt, arrived here tits morning
from Fort Lea, enworth on tour of inspection
OF Western military posts The party visited
Fort Logan to-day and will leave for Cheyenne
tomorrow.
Rowing at Salt Lake.
DEsyER, May 9th.-A special from Salt Lake
says: Oarsmen OConnor, Lee, Gaudaur, Hamm
and Peterson will row at Great salt Lake on the
20 OF June single scull race three miles with
turn for 81 SO purse, to be divided as follows:
$500 to winner. 500 to second, $500 to third and
500 to fourth. A San Francisco man offers
SzoO purse to the man who breaks the worlds
record.
Sale of q Trotting Stallion.
PRoRIA Qll), May 9th.-Del Studer sold Du-
range the black trotting stallion. to g. Dam
forth to day for $1,000. Durango has record
years old, with a record of DDS and Aphelia,
four-year-old, with record of 230. Durango is
twelve years old.
Constitution al Convention.
DEApwooD Dak.), May 9th.-Hon. Charles NJ.
Ihomas, Associate Justice and presiding Judge
OF this district, was nominated to-day in the
Democratic Convention for delegate to the Con-
stitutional Convention at Sioux Falls Also Mr.
German. of Lead.
Killed by Lightning.
DEs MONIES Nav eth-A Reoisfer sneo;al from,
Brooklyn says: Lightning struck barn in
Madison township to-day at noon, in which
were Peter Searl and his son Norman. Scarf was
instantly killed and his son badly injured, and
barely escaped from the burning building.
Y. NJ. G. A.
PHI LADELPHIA, May 9th.-The second DAYS
session of the International Convention of the
to routine business, the reading of papers and
listening to addresses, after which Kansas City
was chosen as the place for holding the Con-
yention in 1891.
Forest Fires.
SHEBoyGAN Mich. May 9th.-Forest fires re
raging to an alarming extent along the line IF
the Michigan Central Railroad On seyera o6-
casions the trains have been delayed for hour,
on account OF the fires along the track, the
dense smoke nearly sitting the passengers inside
the cars ,
Returns to Yale.
NEW HAVEN, May 9th.-The rumor to the eff
feet that ex- Minister Phelps would resume his
duties as Professor in the Vale Law School was
II elective studies with the course of law by
Professor Phelps.
Good Prices.
NEW YORK. May 9th.-The sale of trotting
stock from Palo Alto farm, in Santa Clara
county, Cal, the property of Leland Stamford,
The prices obtained ranged from $500 TO over
s., 500. The total receipts were 1850