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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-02-04
DOMINION PARLIAMENT.
The House of Commons Dissolved by
the Governor General.


TORONTO, Feb. 3.-The Empire, the
chief organ of the Dominion Govern
ment, announces this morning that the
Governor General has dissolved the
House of Commons and issued writs for a
new Parliament.
The Empire says: "It is understood that
the Dominion Government has through
her Majesty's Government made certain
proposals to the United States Govern
ment looking to an extension of our COM
merce with that country. These propo-
sails have been submitted to the President
for his consideration, and the Canadian
Government is of the opinion that if these
negotiations are to result in treaty which
must be ratified by Parliament, it is evil
dent that the Gov ernment should bel able
to deal with Parliament fresh from the
people rather than with nloribund
house,
1t is understood that Canada viii send
delegation to Washington after March
4th, the date on which the life of the pres
ent Congress expires, for the purpose of
discussing informally the questions of
the extension and the development of
trade between the United States and Can
ada and the settlement of all differences
between the two countries.
This delegation will visit the United
States as a result of friendly suggestions
from Washington.
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ORIENTAL NEWS.
JAVA VISITED BY A DISASTROUS
EARTHQUAKE.
Fears of Rebellion in Siam, Owing
to a Failure of the
Rice Crop.
Special to the REcoRp-uN1on.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 3.-The steamer
Gaelic arrived to-day from Hongkong
and Yokohama, bringing the following
news:
Sir Edwin and Miss Arnold left Kobe
on the 18th inst. for Europe direct on the
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Verona.
PekIng is suffering from severe epi-
demic of influenza.
SiXty-four silk dealers met at Kama
gawa on January 18th to devise some
means OF reseuing the silk trade from
the present condition of utter stagnation.
They decided to petition Parliament for
loan of 81, ,500,G00 to enable the company
to export silk direct to foreign countries.
The court of inquiry on the burning of
the steamer Shanghai, and in which over
200 lives We're lost, found that every pos
Sible effort was made by the Captain and
crew, and that no one is to blame for the
disaster or its consequences.
Count Ito is to visit China soon in the
interest of the japanese in Corea. Their
position is growing very uncomfortable,
and bloodshed is expected.
The Jigi Shinnpo says the silk trade is
in very bad way Last year the loss
to merchants was over S25, 100000, and,
according TO present appearances, losses
will continue for some time yet.
Things are in bad way in Siam The
Mercantile Gazette says ii is owing to the
failure of the rice crop. 1t adds: .'Un1ess
efficient measures are taken to meet the
emergency, q rebellion and riot by the
starving unemployed, followed by epi-
denies, will surely be the order of the
day.
A serious earthquake took place in Java
OH december 18th. The town of Joana
suffered most. The Chinese quarter was
entirely wrecked, and the European rem
dered almost uninhabitable. Twelve per-
sons were killed and seventeen injured.
All districts of west and middle Java suf-
fered more or less, some severely
Mr.. Tomlinson, chief engineer of the
Gaelic, fell overheard from the vessel in
the harbor of Yokohama, and struck his
skull on some floating object, badly
fracturing it. He died on the way up
January 9th, and his body was brought
to this port.
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Special to the RrconD-US1oS.

special to the RECORD-UNION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Representative
Mckenna, in the House to-day, per-
formed the delicate task of defending his
friend Miner for his action in the Bar
rundia affair, without criticising Secre-
tary Blaine and the Administration. Nc
kenna acquitted himself in fine style,
and elected applause on both sides of the
House. He cited the Gomez case, in
which Secretary Bayard, in the last days
of Cleveland's Administration, set the
precedent which Miner in his actions
strictly followed.
Bayard held that a ship in foreign
port was amenable to the laws thereof
Gomez was a political refugee, whom the
Captain of the Honduras refused to sur
render while in Nicaraguan port, and
Bayard ruled that under the circum-
stances it was plainly the duty of the
Captain of the Honduras to deliver Co
mez to the local authorities upon their
demand.
McKenna said that the Democrats We're
acting with poor grace in abusing Miner,
when he followed the rule as set down by
Clevelands Secretary of State.
McCreary OF Kentucky was con-
SldefaDly worried over Mckenna' s
speech, and tried to interrupt
him several times, but each at
tempt his situation became more uncona-
Portable. McKenna torlncnted him I'M
mercifully, and the latter was apparently
glad when his bout with the Californian
was over.
When McKenna took his seat he was
congratulated by Mckinley and Cannon.
It was the general opinion that the Bar
rundia affair had never been presented so
clearly or SO well understood, and very
perceptible change of feeling and SYM
pathy for Miner was manifest.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.
items of Special Interest to the Pacif
Coast.

Items of Special Interest to the Pacific
Coast.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The resolutions
adopted by the California Legislature and
indorsed by Governor Markham, request
ing Congress to appropriate money for
the Benicia foundry, as recommended by
the Army Board, has been received by
the California delegation.
Robert Parker, of California has been
appointed to 900 clerkship in the War
Department.
Senator Stanford has introduced bill
providing for the sale of portion of the
Lime Point Reservation, adjoining
Sausalito, California.
Representative Morrow to-day pre-
sented a memorial from the San Fran
cisco Chamber of Commerce, asking for
an appropriation for publishing the
monthly pilot charts of the Pacific Ocean,
similar to those of the North Atlantic
Ocean.
Representative Wilson of Washington
introduced bill to-day to appropriate
Sl5, COO for light station and fog signal at
Turn Point, Wash.
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COLORADO LEGISLATURE.
The House Infested With Corrlrpt
Lobbyists.

The House Infested With Corrupt
Lobbyists.
DENVER, Feb. 3.-The House this after
noon received the report of the Bribery
Investigation Committee. The majority
were of the opinion that the House has
been assailed by as corrupt a lobby as
ever attempted to manipulate Legislat-
ure. They state, among specific charges.
that Otto Mears offered Representative
Bowman $500, and Representative Hanna
on another occasion offered him the
Craftsmanship of committee on condi-
ton in each case that he would support
Speaker Hanna.
It was also charged that DR.. Milton at
tempted to intimidate Bowman. and
Representative Mitchell was twice APP
preached by parties whom he refused to
name and offered 500 to 81 900 to support
Hanna. Several other Representative
had been approached, and the committee
recommended that the testimony be sub
mitted to the Grand Jury. The minority
report, signed by Coombs, was to the
effect that he could not indorsa the ma
jority report, as Mitchell, Thornton and
Chapman refused to name the persons
Offering them bribes.
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Lighthouse Board to expend out of the
money now on hand, So 600 for fog-horn
on the northwest Seal Rock, Cal, and
for establishing fOg-signal at Humboldt,
Cal, upon more secure site, $4,000. In
consequence of severe storms which
threaten to overthrow the Humboldt
lighthouse, it is proposed to rebuild the
station on Humboldt Bluff.
For fog-signal on Paters Island, at
the north entrance to the Canal De Haro,
Washington, 81, 900. This is regarded as
a dangerous point, and the lights will
be OF great benefit.
The sum of $3.50, 900 is appropriated for
the establishing post lights on number
OF rivers, including the Sacramento and
San joaquin Rivers in California;; the
Willamette i'll Oregon, and on Puget and
Washington Sounds and adjacent waters.
The Lighthouse Board is authorized to
lease necessary ground for all such lights
and beacons, as are for temporary use or
are used to point out the changeable
channels, and which in consequence can
not be made permanent.
For one superintendent of life-saving
and life-boat stations on the coast of
Washington, Oregon and California,
81, 800.
For continuing typographical survey of
the survey OF the Oregon and Washington
coasts, and the survey of the Columbia
River from the mouth Of the Willamette
to the Cascades, S25, 900; for continuing
the explorations of Alaska, $4,000; for
examination into the report of the dan
gers of the Eastern gulf and the Pacific
Coast, $500; for tidal observations on the
same coasts, 5000; for expenses of the
Alaska boundary survey and northwest
territory, $4,000; for repair of vessels of
coasts and geodentic survey, SIS, 900.
For the prosecution of tho inquiry into
the causes of the decrease of food fishes
on the Gulf and Pacific Coasts, $4,000;
and for statistical inquiry regarding the
same coast fishes, SIC, 900.
For the Reinforcement OF the Chinese
Exclusion Act, to prevent the unlawful
entry Of Chinese into the United States,
by the appointment OF suitable officers
and for the deportation Of Cinnamon to
Hongkong, $4,000; for agents at the
Alaskan seal fisheries, Sl3,350: for pub
hshing the Presidents proclamations
concerning the Behring Sea fisheries. and
for the protection of the salmon fisheries
$500
For pay ofquarantine officers at various
places, including San Diego, San Fran
cisco and Port Townsend, $4,000
For the construction of buildings and
the enlargement Of such military posts as
the Secretary Of War may designate, $780,
COO.
The following amounts are appropri-
ated for the Pacific branch of the Home
for Disabled Soldiers at Santa Monica:
For current expenses, $50, ,237; for sub
sistence, $500; for clothing, Sl5. 100; for
household expenses. SlS,0 ,0442; for the hos
pital, Sl0,060; for the transportation of
members, $500; for construction, etc,
S37, ,T69
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Perilous Voyage of Pacific Mail
Steamship Cologne.
HER DECKS SWEPT FROM STEM
TO STERN.
Narrow Escape From Collision With
Another Vessel Off the Gulf Stream
Her Passengers Compelled to Re-
main Below for Forty-Eight Hours
Anxiety for the safety of the
Steamship Denmark.
Special to the REcoRp.uNroS.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN
New YORK, Feb. 3.-A special from
Panama says: The Pacific Mail steam
ship Colone encountered n terrific storm
on her voyage from New York ON the
northern edge of the gulf stream. A
terrific southeast gale came up, tossing
the ship about. Great seas tumbled in
over the bows and swept the decks from
stem to stern. Down through the com
panlon-ways it went, flooding the engine
rooms and cabin, and frightening the
passengers, who Were finally battened
under to insure their greater comfort and
greater provide for their safety.
The cabins were swept by the sea. the
doors being smashed in as Though they
were not thicker than shingle, and the
deck houses were in danger of being swept
away. The sea was so heavy and broke
so high that it was impossible for the
officer to keep his place on the bridge.
The starboard light-box was smashed
and light was put out. The forward boat
on the port side was filled with
water by the heavy sea. Another wave
following struck il and smashed the rail
and bent the davits, heavy pieces OF iron
four inches thick and well secured. and
swept the boat away.
Captain Lima concluded to head ship to
eastward. In this he was successful, but
hours elapsed before the weather moder-
ated sufficiently TO allow him to put the
ship again on her course. Passengers
were kept below nearly iorty-eight hours.
The next day the steamer came near
sharing the fate Of the Nizcaya. II was
almost impossible to see ship length
| ahead, and when a flash light was
seen almost dead ahead from three
masted schooner, which was lying hove
TO and endeavoring to weather the gale,
it was for some moments uncertain
whether or not the crash of a collision
would finish the work of destruction
from which the steamer was endeavoring
to escape. The steamer refused to obey
her helm promptly, and passed in dan
gerous proximity to the unsuspecting
neighbor on the lonely ocean highway.
No boat could have lived in the sea. so
heavy it was running at the time, and
collision would have probably resulted in
the loss of both vessels with all on board.
ANXIETY FOR DELAYED STEAMER.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-There is anxiety
for the safety of the steamship Denmark,
which sailed from London on January
18th and was due here on the 26th of Jan
uary. On the 26th she was spoken 600
miles east Of st. Johns, the engines being
then not working. The weather since
has been bad at sea-
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PERILOUs SITUATION.
Fears Entertained as to the Safety
Lake Fisherman

Fears Entertained as to the Safety of
Lake Fishermen.
BAY CITY (NIich), Feb. 3.-Much ex-
element prevails here concerning the
report that many fishermen Cirifted into
Lake Huron on the ice-feld and were
carried out of Saginaw Bay by strong
sonth wind to-day. The fishing village
is about fifteen miles northeast of the
city ard five miles from land. It is esti-
mated that 200 men We're engaged in
spearing fish. and the first reports were
to the effect that all were lost. Toward
evening several of the fishermen reached
EsseNyille, a suburb of this city, and re-
ported that most OF their companions
reached shore in safety. The best author
ity obtained places the number OF cast
aways from twenty to fifty Those ac-
quainted with the situation say they will
reach shore before the ice passes outside
of Saginaw Bay. If they do not, there is
no hope of their being rescued.
LATER-To-night it is learned that six
Of the men managed to get ashore on the
east side OF the river. One of them
thinks that twenty more got ashore on
other side of the bay, and that the others
Will escape if the storm does not break
uD the ice
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man has swindled the United States Gov
ernment ont of some S2nL 900 revanue

man has swindled the United States Gov
ernment out of some $4,000 revenue.
1t is the custom here when goods are i'm
ported to take to the Appraisers store ten
per cent. of them, from which total duty
is to be calculated. The Custom house
broker has 20 file bond of S40O for the
payment of the duty, and the owner is
then allowed to take the other nine-tenths
to his place of business.
On january 1st of this year a China
man went through this routine, leaving
ten per cent. of large shipment of opium
with the Appraiser. Now that he is
wanted to pay the duty he canot be
amount of opium he imported will be
about S35, 600, and the ten per cent. left by
him is only about $500, he makes a
clean profit of over $4,000. He gave
what is believed to be an assumed name,
and has so long a start that it is not be-
Ieved he can be caught
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PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
A Decrease of Nearly Sixteen Millions
During January.

A Decrease of Nearly Sixteen Millions
During january.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-Public debt
statement: Aggregate interest-bearing
debt, exclusive of United States bonds is
sued to Pacific railroads, .s617, AS, 750;
debt on which interest ceased since ma
turity, Sl,679,695; aggregate debt, bearing
interest, including national bank fund
deposited in the Treasury under the Act
of July IA, 1890, S4O2, 753, 5334; aggregate of
certificates by cash in Treasury, S523, ,09S,-
3l3; aggregate Of debt, including certifi-
Gates and notes on January 81, 1891,
81 oh, ,677 ,354; decrease in bonded debt
during the month, 81, ,093, $40; total cash in
Treasury, S69S, ,0S2, 1909; debt, less cash in
Treasury on January 81, 1891, SS46, ,595,-
045; debt less cash in Treasury December
81, 1890, 1852, ,430, ,54l; net decrease in debt
during the month, Sl5, ,S35, ,496.
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San Joaquin Valley Farmers on
the Verge of Ruin.
A CHINESE WOMAN MURDERED AT
MARYSVlLLE.
Programme for the Fall Meeting of
the Trotting Horse Breeders Asso-
ciation-Southern Pacific Earnings
A Chinaman Swindles the Govern
ment Out of Customs Duties to the
Amount Of 100000.
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 3.-There are
hundreds of farmers in the upper San
joaquin Valley who are on the verge Of
financial ruin through the failure of a.
G. Ross, shipping and commission
merchant, who made an assignment to
A. Showers of visalia, for the benefit of
his creditors, the principal one being the
Changers Bank of San Francisco.
Ross had grain warehouses at Visalia,
Goshen, Tulare, Fresno, Hanford, Le-
moere, Alila, Upton and Pixley, besides
agencies at other points. He virtually
controlled the grain trade of the section
in which he operated.
Ross apparently had a large capital,
which he loaned on growing crops at the
rate of l per cent. a month, taking the
borrowers note, which he assigned to the
Granger's Bank. When the farmers
turned their crops over to him he agreed
to deduct the amount of their loans and
pay them the balance due on the grain.
During the past two weeks the farmers
have been astounded to learn that he has
sold their wheat, for which they have not
as yet received cent, and of late the
Granger's Bank has made demands upon
them for the payment of their notes,
which Ross assigned to that institution.
Some of them, if they have to pay the
notes, besides losing their grain, will be
utterly ruined.
The bank declares that it has had moth
ing to do with Ross or his operations, be-
yond advancing money on his notes. The
general impression among those who did
business with Ross was that he acted as
agent for the bank. A majority of the
farmers say that they propose to carry on
a legal warfare, and claim that they can
show that Ross was mere tigurehead.
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MURDER AT NARYsyILLE.
A Chinese Woman Found in Horribly
MutiIated Condition.

A Chinese Woman Found in a Horribly
Mutilated Condition.
MARYsvILLE, Feb. 3.-Chinatown is in
a state of high excitement over the brutal
murder of Chinese woman.
About s o'clock this morning frenzied
Mongol informed the police that his wife,
Yon Toy, had been murdered. A num-
Der of officers accompanied him to the
scene of the crime and found in one Of
the lowest houses of prostitution in the
Chinese quarter the naked remains of
horribly mutilated Chinese woman. The
. throat was cut and the skull badly
crushed and gaShed. Large pools of
blood were about the floor, and in the
room a bloody hatchet which was found
went to show the implement with which
the horrible crime had been committed.
When found the woman had been dead
over an hour. An examination by q
physician led to the opinion that the vic
tim had been hit over the head with the
hatchet until unconscious, after which
her throat had been cut with a sharp
knife.
The Chinese are at fever-heat over the
the affair and claim that the woman was
murdered by q White man, and that she
has been robbed of large sum Of money
which she always had about her person.
A white man who happened to be near
the scene of the murder was chased by
mob of Chinese, and had it not been for
the assistance of the police he would have
been foully dealt with He was arrested,
but subsequently allowed to depart, as
he clearly showed that he had not
been near the house in which the dead
woman was found.
The police have no faith in the theory
that the woman was killed by white
mau but think she was murdered by one
of her own countrymen. An opinion is
being formed that the murderer is the
same person who killed George Call, half
block away, last simmer.
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sUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
Appropriations Recommended for the
Pacific Coast.


WASHINGTON, Feb. g. The sundry
civil bill prepared by Representative
Morrow, as Chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations was reported to the
House to-day.
The following are the items of interest
to the Pacific Coast: For the completion
of building and approaches, including
grounds and other expenses, for a court
house at Portland, Oregon, for the pur-
chase of a site, $3.50 GOO Qimit of cost, $780,
O00); for the completion of the Sacra-
mento public building, S150,0O0; for a
one-story extension of the San Francisco
Custom-house, $4,000: for heating ap-
paratus for the Marine Hospital at San
Francisco, $4,000; for the purchase of a
site and the construction OF building at
Stockton, California, $4,000.
A clause is inserted authorizing the
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THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
Large Increase In the Earnings the
Past Year.

CIlG EaF1lIIlrS TIC
Past Year.
SAN FRANCIso, Feb. 3.-Secretary
Lansing's report for December shows
that the earnings of the Southern Pacific
Company for that month amounted to
S4,0l0,9S5, an increase over the earnings
for December of 1889 of $780,. .SlI. The
operating expenses for December, 1890
Were s., 1884, T3344 ,244, while for the same month
III lSS9 they amounted TO S2,9lI, ,534.
The gross earnings OF that company for
1890 amounted 10 S4S, ,206. Isl. and the oper-
ating expenses We're $40, ,907, ,72S For 1859
the gross earnings were SIC, ,427, ,S,ss8, and
the operating expenses $50, ,304, 1856, which
shows ansincrease III the earnings of last
year over those of 1889 of 81, ,71S, ,2SS. and
in operating expenses OF S60S, ,352, net
increase of s.. l.l74q26.
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Burned to Death.

The DALLEs orr, Feb. 3.-The charred
remains OF L. Hagge, a farmer who lived
near Boyd, ten miles south Of here, were
found in the ruins of his burned cabin
yesterday. Hagge was bachelor, living
alone, and nothing can be learned as to
the cause of the fire.
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His Property Recoyered.

SPOKANE FALLS, Feb. 3.-J. T. Fa,nil-
ton, of this city, who recently lost
valise containing $50, 900 on the ferry be-
tween New York and Jersey City, re-
ceived telegram to-day that his property
had been recovered.
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Libel Suit Against an Editor.

BAKERSFIELD, Feb. 3.-To-day A. C.
Maude, publisher and proprietor OF the
Kern County Californian, was served
with summons in libel suit COM
menced in Tulare County, for So, ,OOA
damages, by James Harrington, who was
some time last October taken out of the
County Jail by a mob and tarred and
feathered.
The complaint alleges that Maude pub
llshed Harrington as a shystar and petit
logger engaged in making up blackmaii-
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A stockman Robbed.

CHICAGO, Feb. 3.-James Davis. q stock
man, arrived from Cheyenne ;terday
with lot of cattle. This morning about
z o'clock, he was held up by stock yards
thugs and robbed of S535. Fortunately
he did not have the proceeds OF thu sale of
cattle with him.
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Large Fire In Brooklyn Suburb.

Large Fire In Brooklyn Suburb.
New YORK, Feb. 3.-The Hecla Bronze
and Iron Works of Brooklyn were al
most completely burned out tonight
Loss, 100000.
LATER-Feb. 4-2 A. M.-The Hecla
works fire at Williamsburg, is reported as
spreading. All the engines in Brooklyn
have been called to the scene. Two
blocks of buildings are threatened.
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striking her in the leg. The wound not
proving fatal, he struck her with The butt
end of the weapon, inflicting fatal in
juries. He then reloaded the gun and
shot and killed himself No cause is
known for the tragedy. Il