Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-24

dom and Assistant Secretary Spaulding are con-
sidering the construction of the clause in the
Chirsse Exclusion Act which authorizes China.
meE ssund to be unlawfully in the United
States 10 be returned to the country whence
they came 1t has been customary to send them
back to China at the Governments expense, but
Judge Maxey, OF Texas, in the case of two
Cinnamon who had come from Mexico decided
that they could lawfully be sent to Mexico, and
nowhere else.
Puget Sound Dry Dock.
WASHINGTON December 23d.-The President
to-day sent to Congress the report of the Com
mission appointed to select a site on the Pacific
coast, on Puget Sound, for dry dock.
The report, after reviewing az great length the
localities visited, states that while solely from
commercial point it might be difficult to decide
between the naval claims of Columbia river and
Puget Sound for the Government dry dock, the
conditions necessary for successful defense of
the latter are such as to leave no doubt in the
I mind OF the Commission as to the proposed dry
dock.
Tragic shooting,
New CoRYDoN Qnd), December 23d.-wesley
TELLS, a prominent young business man, this
morning killed Miss Virena Travel and then
suicded. He had been paying attentions to the
girl a long time, but her mother was opposed to
the match. This morning he entered the store
kept by Mr.. Travel and was ordered out. He
drew revolver and shot Virena through the
heart. Af.er firing two shots at Mrs. Travel.
who escaped through back door unhurt, Tells
put bullet into his own brain.
Five Years imprisonment.
PHILADELPHIA December 29d.-Ellis p Bard
who pleaded guilty 10 embezzlement from the
Lincoln National Bank, at lincoln, Pa, and
franklin W. Hull, convicted Of aiding and
abetting him in the embeZzlement were to-day
sentenced to five years imprisonment in the
Penitentiary. Bard was Cashier of the bank,
and Hull one of its depositors. Bard allowed
HULL TO overdraw his account almost SAC, 900.
Railroad Dividends.
New YORK, December 2Sd.-1he Lake Shore
| and Michigan Southern Directors have declared
| seDi-annualsdividend of 21S per cent, and an
| extra dividend of ~ per cent.
The Michigan Central has declared q regular
dividend of per cent, and an extra dividend
| of per cent.
The Canada Southern has declared regular
dividend of "a per cent
Fatal Railroad Accident.
BRADFORD (Pa), December 2sd.-A passenger
train on the Western New York and Pennsyl-
vania jumped the track at Watsonville, sixteen
| miles north OF this city to-day and twenty-one
| this number two were fatally injured and others
suffered severe contusions and fractured limbs.
| The wreck was caused by the spreading of the
rails
Worlds Fair on Sunday.
WAsHINGToy, December 29d-The Sunday
closing crusade against the Worlds Fair has
opened in earnest. On the desk of each Senator
asSns h ~ ,ns was Letter
the Sunday opening of the Worlds Fair. The
letters bear the signatures ofthe religious editor
| OF semi-poliilcal religious New York weekly
paper.
Reward Of Good Conduct.
WASHINGTON, December 23d.-The command
ing officer at Acatrax Island, Cal, having rec
ommended for clemency, to take effect on
Chi ist mas day, VIM. H. studley, late private in
the Ninth Infantry, as having most favorable
record OF conduct at prison, SO much of his SEN
| tence as shall remain unexecuted December 25
1880, is by direction of the President remitted.
To Relieve the Stringency.
WASHINGTON naoer,har ~, tho IJ~reo
to-day Blanchard of Louisiana offered for ret
erence preamble and resolution setting forth
the financial stringency, and instructing the
committee on Banking and Currency to bring in
bill providing for such an increase of legal ten
der currency as will bring up the circulation to
about s. per capita.
Made Out of Whole Cloth.
WASHINGTON, Wash, December 2ad.-The Com
the Department that there is no truth in the
published report that efforts were recently
made to sink the Terror, and that the reports
concerning attempts to sink other naval vessels
part untrue
Cattlemen Killed.
San ANTONIO Tex.), December 2Sd.-F NJ.
wilkins, partner in the large cattle ranch of
Walton have been found dead at their camp,
nifty miles from Langley. Both bodies Were
Tiddied with bullets. Two Mexicans, who are
being pursued by posse are suspected.
General Spinner Dying.
JACKSONVILLE (Fls.), December 2Sd.-General
= E. Spinner. ex- Treasurer of the United States,
is gradually failing. The cancer on his face
has eaten deep hole near the eye and nose,
through which tho pulsations of the brain can
be SEEN. He is most of the time in stupor.
General Spinner is SO years old.
Fatal Accident.
CHICAGO, December 23d.-3y falling wall in
an old packing house, the property of Armour
q Co, Mike Barry and an unknown man were
killed. William Devine and John McNerey
fatally injured, and several others more or less
seriously injured.
sawtelle Murder Case.
DOVER On. H.. December 23d-The prosecu-
ton closed in the Sawtelle case to-day. The
attorney for the defense made his opening
speech, and the taking of evidence began. The
evidence presented up to adjournment showed
remarkably weak defense.
Will Discharge Thousands.
INDIANAPOLIS, December 23d-A local paper
asserts that the new reaper and binder trust will
on the fist of the year discharge several thol-
sand men from factories and Offices through
out the country