Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-19
eight men each capsized, drown

containing eight men each capsized, drown
ing five of them.
The police searched the residence OF
Deputy Turquet and five other members of
the Boulangist party for documents in re-
lanon to the Boulangist campaign.
The hearingof the petition of the Amer
lean Bell Telephone Company for an in
increase OF $40 100000 in its capital stock
was begun IN St. Louis yesterday.
II is now said another broad-gause rail-
road is talked of between Santa Cruz and
San Francisco that will reduce the time be-
tween the two places 10 two hours.
a hagnio at Santa Rosa was burned at an
early hour yesterday morning. The in
mates barely escaped with their lives, and
prominea, citizen lost his coat and vest
The old Carroll homestead at Knoxville
was burned Tuesday The tract upon
which the old mansion stood was taken up
IN l721 by the father of Charles Carroll of
Carrollton, and embraced 10 900 acres.
Two men, Riley and Brown, taking
down telegraph wires in New York CITY
yesterday morning were ierked out of a
window, being entapgled in a rope attached
TO falling pole. Both men were instantly
killed.
The Great American Tea Company. of
Nebraska City, Is in the hands of Sheriff.
The manager has disappeared, and an in
yestigatlon shows that the entire stock is
nothing but sawdust and will invoice
about S25. The liabilities are unknown.
For two years, it is rumored, the Stand
ara Oil Company has been quietly securing
property in Ohio, where il has invested
100000. 1t is said they will * abandon
the Pennsylvania fields for those in the
Buckeye State.
John Fl. Swift was hanged at Hartford
yesterday for the murder of his wife in
July, 1887. She was forced to leave him
on account of his disSipated habits and
cruelty. The murder was done because
she refuse TO return to him.
Mrs. Amanda Wallitgan. of Jackson.
Miss, was found bound and gagged on the
railroad track yesterday morning. She
claimed to have been robbed at the point of
revolver by an unknown highwayman
and placed on the track in the condition
found.
An attempt was made Wednesday night
to wreck the west-bound passenger train on
the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad
near Grand Rapids. While approaching
Grandville an open switch was encountered
and the engine and all the cars ran off the
'hS chSibC DSliiS SoinpietSIy ueInOl-
ished.
Joseph King, wealthy and well-known
citizen of Springfield, Mass, 73 years OF
age, was shot and killed by Edgar King,
his Oldest son, and the house fired. The
murderer went twenty steps from the
house and then shot himself The murder
| and suicide are traceable to an unbalanced
mind caused by dissipation.
The trial of Mrs. Frances Carmichael,
| charged with the murder of her husband,
at Hillsdale, Mich. ended with verdict OF
| not guilty. Carmichael died on January
10Th, and on his deathbed declared that his
wife had poisoned him. 1t was shown that
| he had threatened to commit suicide, and
the jury did not credit his dying state
ment.
BY jurys verdict yesterday, Frances
| Ebbs, The colored mistress of James NJ.
| Roman, an old farmer recently deceased
was given all his property, in amount
| $4,000. Roman had lived with the woman
from slavery days. when he owned her.
AT his death he left her and her three
| children his property. His niece, Mrs.
Mary Hydron of Indiana, contested the
will