Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-04

projecting Tue pFOluClS OF lDe country, OF
which silver is one. We have always used
silver as currency, and can well afford to
let well enough alone and still continue
the conservative use of silver"
Murder and Suicide.
DENVER, September 3d.-Billy johnson,
aged o. an employe of the Denver Fuel
Company, became jealous of his sweet
heart, Jennie Schrock, because of her at
tention to Charles Wood.
Johnson and the girl met in the ward in
the rear of her fathers house, at Twentieth
and L4rimer streets, tonight, and quar-
relied, he accusing her of unfsithfulness.
The girl ordered him away from the
house, saying she wanted no more to do
with him
Johnson pulled out his revolver, and as
the girl ran toward the house he fired.
The ball entered and passed through her
heart and out in the left breast. The mur-
derer then ran to his room and fired ball
through his heart and another through his
head.
The Schrock family came from Aztec n.
NJ, where johnson lived with them.
An Editor Chosen.
CINCINNATI, September Sd.-A special
meeting of the General Book Committees
of the Methodist Episcopal Church was
held in this city to-day to elect a successor
TO the late DR.. H J. Bayless, editor of the
Western Christian AdvOcate.
Rev. David II. Moore, of Denver, Col ,
was elected. DR.. Moore is an Ohio man.
He served in an Ohio regiment during the
war, reaching the rank of Lieutenaut-Col-
onel. He graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan
University. He preached at Columbus and
Cincinnati before he went to Denver, where
he now lives and where he was until re-
Gently at the head of the Denver University.
Star Chamber Politics.
CHEYENNE (Wyo.). September 3d.-In
the Constitutional Convention to. day the
Republican faction, designated as the star
chamber wing, led by Governor Warren
and Delegate Carey, encountered its first
defeat
The dominant clan had designated Judge
Conway, of Sweetwater, as permanent
presiding officer of the Convention. After
sharp contest NJ. C. Brown, of Albany
who claims that he was cheated out of the
Chief Jusdceship of the Territory, after
having been promised the place by Dele
gate Carey, was made President by small
majority.
Death on the Diamond.
RED BANK IN. J.), September 3D.
Thomas Vincent Murray, the 19-year old
son of Superintendent of Police Murray, of
New York, met with sudden death yes
terday- He was playing ball and ran to
catch fly. be threw up his hands, when
he was seized with a sharp pain near the
heart and tell. He was taken home, and
II was found the man had ruptured blood
vessel near the heart by over-exertion. He
died two hours later.
Encouraging Catholic Immigration.
CLEVELAND, September 3d.-At to-day's
session of the Central Roman Catholic So
ciety a resolution was adopted to encour-
age the immigration of Catholic foreigners
TO this country. 1t is proposed to paw es.
pecial attention to farmers, who will be
sent to join Catholic parishes in the West
or be banded together to form new par.
ishes.
Copper Strike in Minnesota.
DULUTH (Minn). September 3d.-At 4
O'Clock to day a blast was touched off
where workmen were excavating for the
basement Of the new PRESBYTERIAN Church.
and large amount of rock was dislodged
disclosing an immense piece of native cop
per surrounded by large vein of what
miners call gray copper.
Cholera Reported in Ohio.
PITTsBURG, September Sd. "A special
= SA't A4itI'is NAiiOi mis- O6OISS
Coons of Little Sandusky, a village fifteen
miles south of here, died of what doctors
pronounce genuine Asiatic cholera to-day.
The people there are greatly excited and
many are leaving the village.
Woman Abducted.
NEw YORK, September 3d.-Kai Kura,
the japanese who recently arrived here
from Los Angeles, where he kept shoot
ing gallery reDOrts The ahluctiOn of his
daughter 10 the police, and reward is
offered for her restoration.
An Umpire Murdered.
CHARLOTTE, n. c., september 3d.-Dursn
ing a game OF baseball at Darlington to-day
Leon Dargan, son of Congressman Dargan,
in dispute over decision killed William
Marshall, who acted as Umpire.
Refused to Pardon Him.
DEER PARK, September 3d-President
Harrison to-day refused to grant a pardon
in the case of Thomas Sheldon of Montana,
sentenced to ten years, in 1888, for mail