Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-21
Montana Afuddle,


mandamus case of Thompson, member
of the Legislature, VS.. Denny Stage the
Auditor, was heard in the Supreme Court
to-day. Much interest was manifested, the
room and galleries being crowded. In this
case the issue goes right home to the valid
ity of the State Board certificates.
The Auditor in his answer does not deny
any of the facts, but besides the old defense
that there would be no appropriation to
pay his claim, raises knotty issue in stat
ing that a controversy existed over his
claims to a seat in the House, and he
wanted TO be sure about paying the proper
ly-elected member.
The case was ably argued from both
sides, and many authorities were cited.
The Court withheld its decision, which is
anxiously awaited.
Trouble Anticipated,
PIERRE IS. d., January 20th.-Indica-
tions are that there will be trouble at Fort
Pierre before or Immediately upon the is
suance of the Presidents proclamation for
the opening of the Sioux Reservation 10
settlement. Boomers here and at Fort
Pierre have organized for an invasion of the
| reservation, and two more companies of
United States troops are on their way there
from Fort Sully to preserve order and keep
the thousands of home-seeker5 outside the
reservation. A number of officers of the
Northwestern Railroad, which claims a
mile square," arrived here to-day and are
preparing to enforce the company's claim
under the Government treaty.
Alleged Brutality.
CHICAGO, January Goth. = Sensational
charges of ill-treatment and abuse have
been made by sixteen-year-old boy, who
has Just completed a term in the State
Asylum for the Blind at Jacksonville. 1t
is alleged that helpless blind children are
brutally whipped and starved, their letters
suppressed, and their money and eatables
stolen by the attaches. The children are
kept thinly clad, and compelled to dress in
mid winter with the dormitory windows
all open. An Investigation will probably
be held Immediately.
A Crazy Lawyer.
New ORLEANS, January 20th.-The Times
Democrat San Antonio (Tex.) special says
At IL P. NJ. yesterday one OF the nurses at
the hospital telephoned that man who
assisted Judge Longenecker in prosecuting
the Cronin murderers, at Chicago, had been
brought here in an insane condition. The
man is possessed of the halluciDation that
the members of the Clan-na-Gael are after
him with knives.
The name of the crazy lawyer is given
at the hospital as Babcock, but this is not
believed to be correct.
Singular EIopement.
COLUMBUS (O.), January 20th.-For some
time the attentions of James McGill an at
tendant at the Insane Asylum, to Hattie
Green, a patient from Bucyrus, have been
the subject of comment.
Miss Green is pretty brunette, nineteen
years of age, and has been in the retreat
about six months. The doctors did not
consider her case serious and promised her
speedy cure. Yesterday McGill and Miss
Green eloped. McGill's wife has applied
for divorce.
Appeals for Aid.
CHICAGO, January Gotham appeal for
aid has been received by the Mayor for the
farmers of Edmund county, South Dakota,
who are represented to be in great distress
on account Of the failure of crops. Re-
quests for immediate assistance were also
received from the cities of Clinton and
Wichlitfe, KY, for the sufferers from the
recent cyclones in that region.
A Weeks Business.
BosToN, January 20th-A table COM
piled from the dispatches from managers
of the clearing houses in the United States
shows the total gross exchanges for the
week ending Janusry 18Th were 81, las, $780,
631, an increase Of per cent. as compared
with the same period of last year.
Freight Train Derailed.
KANSAS CITY, January 20th-A Missouri
Pacific freight train was derailed at New
Haven last night. The engine and five
freight cars were damaged to the extent Of
$4,000 The engineer and firemen were
badly injured. A Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train was delayed three hours.
Will Visit America.
New YORK, January 20th.-Dunlap's
London cable agency says the Prince OF
Wales expects to visit America in the
spring, accompanied by the Princess and
Prince George. The party will come in
cognito to visit the United States and Can
ada.
Denouncing Sunday Papers.
MINNEAPOLIS (Minn.), January 20th.-
The pulpits in this city united yesterday in
a grand attack upon the Sunday papers. 1t
! is the beginning of the eccleslastical cru
sade which, it is said, will be waged un-
remittingly.
A Jail Delivery.
QUINCY Ill.), January 20th.-Thirteen
| prisoners escaped from Jail last night by
saving off the bars. Only one has been re-
| captured.
Miss Bisland on the Atlantic.
New YORK, January 20th.-Miss Bisland
sGiied from Queenstown on the Bothnia
Sunday morning.
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