Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-01

be employed to place charges of dynamit,
in position. The Whitelaw will then draw
away to safe distance and the dynamit,
will be exploded by electricity, the hui
being broken in pieces suitable for handlins
by the powerful machinery of the wreck
ing steamer.
All the pieces of iron from the hull will
be piled in convenient place for shipmen
to San Francisco. 1t is expected that III,
work of breaking the vessel up will cos
$40, 600. Whitelaw expects to recover thu
machinery intact, and with the coal ant
vast quantity of iron in the hull hopes tt
make good profit on his investment.
Santa Rosa Briefs.
SANTA Rosa, May 31st.-The County
Horticultural Society had an interesting
meeting here to-day, when the general
prospects of the fruit crop were discussed
and the outlook reported favorable fol
grapes, peaches and prunes. The shipping
union was discussed, and it was thought
by most of the members too late to do any.
thing in regard to the matter for the pres.
ent year.
| A resolution was adopted recommending
that every farmer, stock raiser and vine
yardist of the county do everything in
their power to make the California exhibit
| a. bhC w OAlo l. all q great CTeQlI 10 IDc
| State, and congratulatipg President NJ. l..
Mcdonald upon his appointment as Com.
| missioner at Large.
The company of the Fifth Regiment, N.
G. G., gave brilliant farewell reception
and dance at the armory last night, in
honor of First Sergeant SWEET. who leaves
for Seattle in few days. Captain Juillard,
on behalf of the company, presented him
with an elegant gold charm set in dia-
monds.
Political Gossip.
SAN Francisco, May 31st.-There is every
reason to believe that James V. Coleman's
followers are in fair way to join the
threatened revolt in the Democratic party
against the Vaccinations of Buckley.
Coleman's warmest friends and admirers
the party, who fight the battles and win
the victories at the polls.
1t Is claimed that Buckley has COM
United himself to Mayor Pond for the
Gubernatorial nomination and cannot re.
cede.
Despite the talk to the contrary it is
reasonably certain that Stanford will en-
deavor to succeed himself in the Senate.
II is said that w. w. Stow has been chosen
to manage his campaign. With fourteen
Republican hold-over Senators the Repub.
licans only need forty-seven more votes to
elect Senator, while the Democrats must
elect fifty-five.
Marysville Notes.
MARYsvILLE, May 3lst.-At an early
hour this morning man named George
McGrath, who lives at Sacramento, en-
gagged room at local hotel and went 10
bed. He was drunk, and in some way set
fire to his bed but did not notice the fact.
Tho fro cd IF Iol
but went out of its own accord.
McGrath was found SO badly burned
that he was sent to the hospital this morn
ing.
The Directors of the Thirteenth District
Agricultural Society have prepared an at.
tractlve speed programme for the annual
fair, which opens here on September ID,
and lasts five days. The purses amount to
over So 900, and good racing is anticipated.
Despite the prevalence OF the remark.
ably cool weather for this season of the
year the Yuba and Feather rivers keep at
rather high stage, from the melting snow
in the mountains.
Los Angeles Sensation.
Los ANGELES, May 31st.-Y esterday John
Gross, rancher Of Arroyo Seco, was found
unconscious in a lodging house opposite
the San Fernando. street depot of the
fiuence of morphine, and if it had not been
for the timely discovery of his condition
life would have been extinct. He was re-
viyed and, after recovering, stated that he
had taken no poison of any kind so far as
he knew. He had considerable money on
his person, and the belief is that he was
given morphine in order that he might be
reduced to state of insensibility and
robbed.
Balloonist Killed.
PORTLAND, May 31st.-C. Redmond, a
well-known parachute jumper, who was
travelling with McMehon's circus, was in
stantly killed last evening at Snohomish,
twenty miles from this city. He made
splendid ascension, but the balloon was
carried away to the east of town, where il
landed on the top of tall pine probably
200 feet in height. Redmond was thrown
out OF the balloon and was instantly killed.
Before making the ascension he said it was
the most dangerous pieceof country he had
ever assembled from, and said good-by to
number of his friends who were near.
Died From His Injuries
SAN LUIS OBIspo, May 31st.-On the
morning of the 2sth Thomas B. Groome of
Avenales was riding a colt, which fell over
backward on Groome, and from the in
juries resulting he died May 30th. He was
one of the firm of Olmstead & Groome,
cattle-raisers, owning large ranch in
Avenales, this county. He leaves widow
and daughter, aged 16, TO mourn his loss.
He was member of the Masonic frater-
nifty. The remains will be taken to Oak
land tomorrow, where his mother lives.
Pacific Coast Failures.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3lst-Bradstreets
monthly report states there were seventy
three failures in the Pacific Coast States
and Territories during May, with assets of
Sl05, 1852 and liabilities of S26s 1863, TO fifty
tive failures for May last year, with assets
of S123, lS6 and liabilities of 1921 ,109 The
failures in California were fifty-two, WASH
ipgton twelve, Oregon six, Arizona two,
and Nevada one. Twenty-Five failures
were due to incompetence, eighteen to in
adequate capital. and nine to fraud
Broke the Worlds Record.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3lst.-The third
and last game in the match between
Schaeffer and McCleery was played this
evening. Schaeffer took up the game
where he left it off last night in the fourth
inning, after making 1000 and continued
until he had scored another 600. This
| beats the worlds record OF 1872 made by
II. Mckenna st Boston. Schaeffer's aver
age was $50; McCieery's FIVE.
Lady Injured.
| SufsUN, May 3Ist-A fiery horse driven
by James MCGUIRE ran away in Fairfield
last evening, and after throwing him out