Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-05
Prindie, of the Mormon Church. The
party is en- route to Utah.

Prindle. of the Mormon Church. The
party is en- route to Utah.
The names and addresses, youched for
by the steamship company and Elder
Wiley. were taken by Chief Contract Labor
inspector Milholland, and a test case will
sometime in the future be brought into
Court to decide if the Mormons come here
In vloiation OF the alien contract law. If
the decision be that the Mormons are con-
tract iaborers, in the meaning of the law,
they will all be sent back to Europe.
Meantime, they are allowed to 90 to Utah.
Negro Conference.
MOHAWK LAKE IN. W, June 4th.-The
negro conference opened here this morning
with large number of distinguished men
from all parts of the country. The present
gathering is the first of its kind. II was
called to consider the question of Christian
izing and educating the colored people.
Ex-President R. B. Hayes was elected Pres
ident.
The topic for the morning was "Indus-
trial Education; What 1t Is and What It
Ought Be-"
General Armstrong, of the Institute,
opened the discussion, followed by Rev.
DR.. Allen, Secretary of the PRESBYTERIAN
Board of Missions, and Rev. A. F. Baird
Secretary OF the American Missionary AS
sociation.
Three Miners Killed.
LEADyILLE (Col.), June 4th.-Scarcely
had the city recovered from the shock
caused by the accident at Arkansas juno
ton, by which two young ladies were
drowned, when news was received last
night that Engiaeer Folk, while repairing
q pump in the Gallagher shaft of the Mi
kado Company's mine, fell 2O9 feet to the
bottom and was crushed into a horrible
mass.
No sooner had the Coroner brought the
remains to the city than he was called to
60 to the Antioch mine, where Thomas
Flanagan was blown to atoms by prema-
ture explosion, and James O'Donnell was
badly injured. His recovery is doubtful.
Prospects In Hops.
New YORK, June 4th.-A prominent
hop dealer, who has just returned from the
New York hop section, says: The vines
are six feet high in many yards and are
growing nicely. There is no general COM
plant made of trouble, although some re-
ports of blight are heard. The acreage is
less than last year. There is q clean deck
as far as the growers are concerned. The
new crop will undoubtedly be held stiff1y.
Illinois Democrats.
SPRINGFIELD Qll.), June 4th.-The DEM
ocratic State Convention was IN session to-
day, and nominated Judge E. s. Wilson for
State Treasurer, and Henry Raab for State
Superintendent of Public Instruction. 1t
also indorsed General Palmer for United
States Senator. A letter of regret from ex-
President Cleveland was read amid enthu-
siastic cheering.
Nebraska Wind-storm.
LINCOLN (Neb.) June 4th.-But little can
be learned of the wind-storm at Bradshaw,
as the telegraph wires are down. From q
passenger on the morning train 1t was
learned that but one person was killed-a
child. Two houses only are left standing
in the village.
Nominated Again.
SPRINGFIELD Qll.), June 4th.-The Desa-
ocratic Convention of the Thirteenth Con-
gressional District to DAY renominated
Hon. William M. Springer for Congress by
acclamation. This is Mr.. Springer's ninth
nomination.
Home Missionary Society.
SARATOGA, June 4th.-Last evening the
American Home Missionary Society FORM
ally began its sixty-fourth anniversary.
The sermon was delivered by Rev. DR..
John K. Mclean. of Oakland, Cal.
Kentucky Elopement.
LOUISVILLE (Ky.), June 4th.-Frank Nc
Twain, bank cashier of Sulphur, KY,
disappeared with Mrs. John Watkins, the
wife of a hotel-keeper at that point. Nc.
Twain is said to be short SIC, 900.
Hugh Farrar McDermott Dead.
NEW YORK, June 4th.-Hugh Farrar
McDermott, the poet, once editor of the
Alta California, and a well-known Irish
patriot, is dead, aged 81.
On Strike.
COLUMBUS (Ohio), June 4th.-The EN-.
ployes of the Consolidated Street Railway,
$50 in number, struck for an advance in
wages.