Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-19

Wnlcn there Is lOuf leet OF SNOW ne - sup
posed to have become exhausted and per-
ished.
Mr.. Bell was about sixty.fiye years Of |
age, native of Tennessee and bachelor. |
4 party of men will leave in the morning |
and bring the body 10 Fresno Flats Tor
burial.
Fire at E1lensburg.
ELLENsBURG Wash }, January 1Sth.-Be- |
fore daylight yesterday morning an alarm |
of fire sounded throughout HORTON, large |
three-story brick hotel. Three hundred
and sixty guests hurried downstairs, many
leaving their clothes and valusbles. An
oil stove, used to heat the coffee tank, had
exploded and the kitchen was mass OF
flames. A large crowd began fighting the
fire and it was soon extinguished. a few
hundred dollars will repair the damage.
| There is only one stairway in the building
and that in the front end. There is 30
! doubt but a terrible affair would have been
recorded had the fire got under Roadway.
Creosote Works Destroyed.
| SAN PEDRO, January 1SIh.-The creosote
\ works of the Pacific improvement Com
plny were burned to the ground this
M orning. The fire started at 800 ana
| burned furiouslY for about three hours.
| Tae Southern Pacific Company's lumber
va is adjoining the creoso1ng works, and
|
| the fire and sparks over the bay, not a
stick would have been saved.
| Loss to Pacific Improvement Company
| about 100000. The fire originated on the
roof OF the engine-house. The cause is
unknown.
Dropped Out of Sight.
| VIsAIIA, January 1Sth.-F. NJ. Compton,
a music teacher here, has disappeared COM
| pletely. He left here before Christmas TO
find employment and was heard from in
Nevada once since. It is now thought
that he vent back to Missouri, where his
friends surnise he has a wife and family.
He married young widow with two
children here one year ago. She Is greatly
puzzled at his actions, as they had lived
| happily together. Compton had no bad
| habits, except laziness. His father is
Cumberland Presbyterian preacher in
Fresno county. Compton left several small
debts behind.
Suicide at Olympia.
OLYMPIA Wash January 18th.-D. NJ
Brown, formerly City Marshal OF Olympia,
committed suicide this afternoon by shoot
ing. He had been drinking during the
forenoon. and his wife finding fault with
him for his habits, he made no reply, but
went up stairs and shot himself.
Brown killed man during his term as
Marshal, and was imprisoned in the peni-
Tertiary for some years. Since his release
he has worked as q lsborer, but drink
seemed to be his enemy. He leaves a wife,
but no family.
Stealing from Freight Trains.
SEATTLE, January 1Sth.-The jury in the
case of Jack Gay, charged with robbery,
returned a verdict of guilty this evening
Gay was a trainman on the Puget Sound
Shore Railroad and was one of number
| of other employees who were indicted for
| the offense. 1t is stated they had regular
organization for the robbery of the COM
paDy's freight, consigned by it, and before
they were detected had plundered the
company to the extent of thousands of
dollars. The arrests were made last Octo-
Der and created great sensation.
Bricklayers on a Strike.
| SEATTLE wash January 1Sth.-The
| bricklayers' strike began here yesterday.
1t effects all members of the Union. Some
of the contractors have acceded to the de-
mands, but most of them hold out and say
they are determined to fight. tits impossi-
| BILE to say how many men are affected as
work has been practically suspended on
many buildings for the past three weeks on
account of bad weather. AT the lowest
calculation, however, 400 men are tenn
porarily out of employment.
LOuSlnS-h mouse bUrneu
FRESNO, January 18th.-This morning at
o'clock fire was discovered in room of
Mrs. Hughes lodging house, on the third
floor of the Baker Block. The Fire Depart
ment was on hand quickly, snd soon had
the fire under control. The damage from
fire and water to the building is $780, Mrs.
Hughes loss on goods damaged by water is
s., 600. There is partial insurance on it
all. The building was just completed last
month, and was only occupied few weeks.
1t was one of the finest in the city.
Tacoma Fighters.
TACOMA (Wash.), January 1S,h.-Ar-
engagements are being made for q fight be-
tween Tom Cleary, of Tacoma, and Tom
Fraker, OF Minneapolis, now in Tacoma,
for purse of 81 600. Fraker would enter
the ring at from $50 to 100 pounds. Cleary
fights at about 100. Six ounces gloves will
than fifteen rounds. If the match is ar
ranged the men will Immediately go into
training, as the fight takes place in two
weeks.
Another Disagreement.
MODESTO, January 1sth.-The second |
trial of George Brown, son of Captain
Brown, Chairman of the Board of Super |
vlsors, for assault with a deadly weapon |
with an attempt to murder S. L. Hanscom, |
editor of the Modesto Herald, in August |
last, closed last night. AT noon to-day the |
jury were discharged, standing seven for |
conviction and five for acquittal On |
former trial the jury stood eight for simple ]
assault and four for acquittal.
Not Given square Deal.
SAN BERNARDINo January 1Sth.-Jack |
Sullivan snd Joe Cotton, the latter colored, |
who fought to a finish December 9th, had |
another hattie laet y,iobf G1lltvop
generated his opponent, and in the twenty |
ty-ninth round Cotton refused to fight, |
claiming that on account of color he had |
not been given an equal chance.
Sudden Death.
STOCKTON, January 18th.-While alone |
in cigar store where he worked, Hermann |
Meyer WAS stricken with hemorrhage to- |
night. When found he was dead. He !
was a native Of Germany, 81 years of age. |
He had been here eight years. He had |
relatives here and had been in the hos |
pital for some time.
a Captain Resigns.
PETALUMA, January 1Sth-Captain L. |
j. Winans has resigned the captaincy of |
Company c, and his resignation has been |
accepted at headquarters. Captain Winans |
commanded Company @ for many years,
and the company prospered under his |
management. Lieutenant Dillon is now |
in command.
Howling for More Tariff.
SANTA Rosa, January 1Sth.-At meet |
ing Of the Sonoma County Fruit Growers |
Association, resolution was passed asking |
that the tariff on foreign prunes be raised |
from one to two cents per pound, and that |
the tariff on foreign oranges be raised to |
twenty five cents per box.
The Field Trials.
BAKERSFIELD, January 1Sth.-A number |
of gentlemen, prominent in San Francisco
circles, arrived here to-day to attend the
field trials which commence on Monday.
Thirty dogs have been in training in this
vicinity for the past month for that event.
and several more came to-day.
A Rector Resigns.
Los ANGELES, January 1sth.-Rev. Elias
Rirdsall, rector of st. Paul's Church, has
resigned owing to ill-health. He is the
Oldest Protestant clergyman in this city.
He came here in 1864. at that time there
wss no Protestant church in Los Angeles.
Latest from sissons.
SIssoxs, January 1Sth.-Tbere are several
snoR-slides between here and Dunsmuir.
Over three hundred men are employed.
Slides also reported north Nc trains since