Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-20

REDDING, April 19th.-Theodore Habich
a merchant at Newtown, in this county
and an old settler, was shot about 6 O'Clock
this morning. Habich died from the shot
and his murderer is under arrest. He for.
merly cooked tor Habich.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
REDDING, April 10Th. This morning
about sunrise Theodore Habich, store.
keeper at Newtown, some five miles from
Redding, was shot in the back, An Indian
tells the story that Habich came out of the
store aid was looking down towards hi.
field, when man living in cabin shor,
distance from the store crept out and shot
him.
The name of the murderer is unknown
here but the Indian says he had been EN-.
ployed by the deceased.
On his discharge month ago he bought
a rifle and has been brooding several weeks
over real or imaginary wrongs done him by
his former employer.
Habich is an old pioneer of the county
and was well known here.
Sheriff Hopping went to the scene of the
murder this morning, but has not yet re.
turned.
Oakland Street Cars.
OAKLAND, April 1ath.-Articles of incor.
poration were filed to-day for the consoli.
dation of the Fourteenth Street & Oakland
Berkeley & Piedmont Railroad Company
with the Piedmont Cable Road Company
The consolidated corporation is organ.
lied with a capital of 100000. The Di.
rectors aud incorporates are Mrs. Phoebe
Blair, Montgomery Howe, Samuel Howe
A. Heron, Wilson B. Morse of Oakland
and Daniel Meyer and Ira Bishop of San
Francisco, the latter representing himself
and Charles X. Bishop, the banker Of
Honolulu.
The consolidation represents fifteen miles
of street car track. The entire system or
Fourteenth street and on Broadway to the
cemetery is to be converted into q cable
line at once.
Lively Earthquake.
VICTORIA (B. CO, April 18th. = The
steamer Princess Louise arrived from
Queen Charlotte island and northern ports
last night, bringing news of a severe
earthquake on the islands around Skide
gate, especially on the west coast of Queen
Charlotte Island, where few old shanties
were leveled to the ground. The totem
poles of the Indians shook like leaves, and
in some places the earth was cracked. The
shock lasted some thirty seconds, during
which time the Indians were wild with
fright.
Since that time there have been about
twenty different shocks, the last one being
on the 18th of April, although none were
near as severe as the first. A very slight
shock was felt at Skeena.
San Francisco's Health.
SAN Francisco, April 19,h.-The deaths
recorded at the Health Office during the
past week numbered l25, against III the
corresponding week last year. Ten of the
sixty-two foreign-born were Mongoliaus
Twenty-seven died under one year of age
and 20 were over sixty years old. Two
suicides and two casualties were reported
and 80 died in public institutions.
Died from consumption, 10; pneumonia
IL; heart disease, IL; cancer, 6; inanition. s
uiphtheria, commissions and encepbilitis, 4
each; Brights disease, Group, enteritis
liver disease, lung disease, 3 each; bron.
chitis> s.
The diseases are classified as follows
Zymotic 15 constitutional, 26; local, s.
development, II; by violence, 4.
Sensational Suicide.
PORTLAND. April 19Ih.-A sensation was
created here this evening by the announce
ment of the suicide of Charles E. Seton, q
prominent druggist. This afternoon Seton
drove out on the Cornell road and hitched
his horse alongside deserted road, and
seating himself on the bottom of the buggy
saturated a handkerchief with chloroform
and placed it over his face. In this posi-
ton be was found. On his person was