Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-30

number Of insurance companies are out,
but his principal victims were poor people
who placed money and mortgages in his
hands. All the latter he negotiated to the
fullest extent, leaving the unfortunstes to
settle with the purchasers the best way
they could.
He Fooled with Grass Widow.
TROY On. W, January 29th.-Edwin
Firth, wealthy inventor of this city, was
fatally shot in the street this afternoon by
Mrs Minnie Warwick, of Chicago who
followed him from that city. She alleges
that Firth betrayed her under promise of
marriage, after inducing her to obtain
divorce from her husband.
Firth admits the intimacy, but denies the
promise to marry. Firth invented the
rifed cannon adopted by the United States.
A Forty-niner Suicides.
NEW YORK, January 29lh James Rig
ney, a handsome man of 90, killed himself
in a saloon yesterday with pistol.
Riguey was a forty miner and became
very wealthy, but subsequently lost most
Of his money III Australian investments
Later he backed Haverly's Ministries for a
time, and went broke. He killed himself
because he was out of work.
He Ran the Gantlet.
Ramner, the German who came here with
81 900 in his pocket, intending to go to
California, and was refused permission to
land when he refused to buy his ticket in
Castle Garden, has, after q most desperate
legal battle, been released by order of Court,
and the Emigration Commissioners have
been strongly censured.
They Got Even with Him.
BISMARCK (N.D.), January 29th.-The
Attorney General recently rendered an
opinion that members of the Legislature
could not draw their per diem during the
holiday recess. The Senate got even With
him to-day by adopting resolution reeHc-
ing his salary from $1,000 to 81 600 per
annum.
A Modern Sampson.
New YORK, January 29th.-The five
hundred-dolar trophy offered by Richard
K. Fox to the man who could lift thou
sand and thirty pound dumb bell in his
Office was won to-day by James Kennedy,
of Quincy, Ill. He is laborer in an iron
foundry, and was discovered by Steve
Brodie.
Boston Sports Disguised.
Boston, January 29th.-The sporting
fraternity are greatly disguised. Mayor
Hart has interfered to prevent the appear
ance of Peter Jackson at Music Hall. The
Mayor is satisfied that sparring cannot take
place under the license granted to the
Union Athletic Club.
Death of Charles E. Lester.
DETROIT (Mich.), January 29th.-Chas.
Edward Lester of New York, one of the
worlds greatest thinkers of this day, died
here to-day of consumption. He was
born in Griswold, Conn, July 10, 1915.
John Browns Family.
CHICAGO, January 29th.-The Inter Ocean
prints a letter from H. A. Rust, of South
Pasadena, Cal, making an appeal for the
surviving members of John Browns fam
| lily, who, he says, are destitute.
Government Contract.
WASHINGTON, January 29th.-The Secre.
| tary of the Treasury has awarded a con-
tract for constructing barn and stable fol
| the Point Iona Light Station in California
| to George E. Jenkins, of San Diego, at $40
Eight Passengers Drowned.
New YORK, January 29th.-The bridge
at Dusseldorf was carried away by food
| The wreckage of the structure collided with
| the ferry-boat which capsized and eight
| passengers were drowned.
| Sent Up for Five Years.
| PHILADELPHIA, January 10Th. = DR.
Braoley, manager of the weekly edition O
the Press, was sentenced to five years fol
| the larceny of the papers funds.
| Died at Ripe Old Age.
PHILADELPHIA, January 29ih.-Priscills
| Twiggs, niece of Commodore Decatur anC
widow of Major Twiggs, who was killed g
Chapultepec, died yesterday, aged SO years
Another Divorced Woman.
NEW YORK, January 29th.-Mrs. Lesli,
Carter has signed a contract to appear OF
| the stage under E. D. Price.