Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-11
South Dakota Legislature.


blame TO Knoch.
South Dakota Legislature.
PIERRE Is. d., January 10th.-In the
House this morning bills were introduced
extending the time for the payment of 1889
taxes reducing membership of the House
10 seventy and the Senate to thirty con-
tinuing in force the laws of Dakota Terri
tory making railroad corporations respon-
sible for damages from injury by fire; sub
mitting the question of woman suffrage TO
voters; authorizing Circuit Judges to hold
Court in circuits other than for which they
were elected providing for the registra-
ton of names of voters; governing the
powers of County Judges, and creating
Board of Regents of nine members, to have
custody of all State institutions.
Killed Her Paranlour.
ELMIRA IN. Y y, January 10th.-The po-
lice were summoned this afternoon to the
house of widow named Mary Eilenber-
ger, where the body of William Edwards,
well-.o-do farmer was found with bull
let hole through his head. Mrs. Eilenber-
ger said she and Edwards quarrelled over
| money matters and he drew q revolver. In
the struggle for the weapon it was dis
charged. An examination, however,
showed that the ball had entered the back
of Edwards neck and that his coat collar
had been burned by powder. Mrs Ellen
berger was arrested. She and the farmer
had been on intimate relations for several
years.
Death of Dwarf.
MARLBORO Mass, January 10th.-Little
Dollie button, as she was known the coun-
try over, the once-famous midget, is dead,
and has been inferred privately in the fam
lily lot at Hudson. Mrs. Alice NJ. Swain
was her married name and she was ma
tive of Sudbury. She lived for some time
in the famous wayside inn in the neighbor-
hood of that town. 1t was some twenty
one years sgo that she retired from the
public gaze after having been exhibited in
nearly all the States of the Union. For
eleven years past she has been an inmate
of the Worcester Insane Asylum, where
she died. Her weight was fifteen pounds
and her height but twenty-five inches.
He Was Bad Egg.
P1rIsFlELD Mass }, January 10.n-Frank
D. Lesclide was arrested in Philadelphia
yesterday, on the request of the PIttsheld
police, and charged with Obtaining money
under false pretenses and fraud. He came
here in December with J. W. Harris and
Frank War;, of Chicago They claimed to
be agents of bad debt collecting associa-
ton, and obtained considerable money.
They operated also in several Massachu-
sets and Connecticut cities. 1t was learned |
also, that Lesclide formeTly worked for a
debt agency in Chicago, and is deiaulter
TO the extent of several hundred dollars
Miss Keener and her Coachman.
JACKSONVILLE (Ill.), January 10th.-Miss |
Fannie Keener will not die from the pistol |
wounds inflicted by her negro coachmsn, |
Pasten. II is claimed that Miss Keener has |
been unjustly accused in this connection. |
The negro has been in the keener family |
for years and it is thought did the shooting |
through pique over being dismissed, at |!
tributiDg the coupling of his name with |
Miss Keener as the cause Of his misfortune, |
and therefore endesvoring to take her life |
in revenge for fancied wrong.
Rescued Seamen.
New YORK, January l0th.-The British |
ship Stag to-day brought TO port eighteen |
seamen constituting the crew OF the Shakes |
peare, which was dismasted December 14th |
and which drifted about water logged one |
week before the rescue came; Captain Null |
Ter of the Shakespeare died from exposure, \
and officer Mates had his arm broken |
by falling spar. The crew Of the Shakes |
pesre had been at pumps nearly whole |
week. All were nearly exhausted when |
rescued.
The Leather Strike Over.
WOODBURY. (Mass.), January 10th.-At a
meeting of the striking workingmen to-
night Grand Master Workmen Morell de- |
clared the strike and lock out of the leather |
industry practically ended, and the men |
were ordered back to work next Monday. |
Both sides agree to submit the matter to a |
State Board of Arbitration, who will open |
a hearing in the case next Thursday. 1t is |
estimated that the strike cost upwards of |
100000.
Baltimore and Ohio Officials.
CLEVELAND, January l0th.-It was ascer-
tanned to-day that by the sale of the Valley |
Railway to the Baltimore and Ohio, Gen. |
eral Manager Thornburgh. Auditor Porter |
and General Miner, officials, will be sus- |
pended by the Baltimore ana Ohio people. |
General Freight and Passenger Agent Cur |
ran will be retained at the head of the |
freight department
MeCoys and Hatfelds Again.
HUNTINGTON (W. Va.) January 10TH
The Sheriff of Lincoln county is holding !
the Jail at Hamling tonight against an
armed mob which is clamoring for the
blood of Bart FerFall, who killed James
Butcher week ago. Ferrall is Mccoy |
man, follower of Hatfeld's. To-nights
work will undoubtedly reopen the Lincoln
county war.
CLEVELAND, January 10th.-The freight |
and passenger departments Of the Cleve- |
land, Canton and Southern Railroad were
divided to-day and Albert Rokusek made |
General Passenger Agent. The General |
Freight Agents name is not yet made |
known, but it is said TO be well-known |
local freight man. Increase in business |
necessitates the change.
MemDhis Officials in Trouble.
MEMPHIS. January 10th. The Grand |
Jurv to-day returned fourteen bills of in |
dictment against David Phadden, Presi- |
dent of the Taxing District OF Memphis, |
and G. L. Pullen, Secretary, charging them
with the embezzement and larceny OF
fines and forfeitures collected in tie Police
Court from January, 1886, to October, 1889.
"Spartacus."
PHILADELPHIA, January 10th.-Counsei
for the estate of John Mccullough has is
sued notice that productions of Sparta
Gus. or the Gladiator will be considered
an infringement, and prosecution is threat
ened in case the notice is disregarded.
The FIy-wheel Bursted.
New ORLEANS, January 10th.-At the
Louisiana Electric Light Works here to-
Hight belt ran of the tiy-wheel and the
wheel few to pieces, killing John Der
bugny and doing considerable damage to
the building. The city is in darkness.
Boiler Explosion.
CHICAGO, January 10th.-The boiler in
Morris & Co.'s printing establishment, on
Monroe street, exploded late this afternoon.
Eight employ es. mostly girls, were injured,
some probably fatally. The engineer IS
believed to be fatally injured.
Sugar Trust Enioined.
New YORK, January 10th.-Judge Ingram
has issued an injunction to restrain the
Sugar Trust from making the transfer OF
the property ordered. No money will bs
paid in dividends pending the decision by
the Court of Appeals.
Daring Robbery.
DEPERE (Wis.), January 10th.-While
on his way to the bank to make deposit
tot day, City Treasurer Van Dewiele was
assaulted by a footpad, who snatched his