Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-31
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Special Dispatches to the Record-Union In
Condensed Form

DOMESTIC.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Saturday voted to report back the Chinese
Treaties favorably, without amendment.
A new organization, called the National
Anti ti-Monopoly League, held meeting at
Cooper Institute, New York, Saturday night,
L. E. Chittenden presiding. Among those
present were Rev. Heber Newton, +. B.
Thurber and Henry George.
AT midnight the score in the walking match
at New York stood: Hughes 55S Albert
533, Vint 532. Khrone 525 Howard 515. Cam
pana 401.
Cyrus Smith, who bought Government rev.
enue stamps and gave bond for payment, in
Chicago under the pretense of starting a
match factory. then sold the stamps for s4O,-
600 and fed, was captured the other day in
Kansas. He is farmer of southwest Mis-
souri,, with a crooked history. He took an
overdose of poison, in jail, at Carthage, Mo-,
Friday night and defeated his purpose to
suicide.
The New York paper in which the Morey
letter appeared filed its first page ON Satur-
day with documentary testimony intended to
show that Vice-President-elect Arthur was
not born in Vermont, and is a native of Cam
ada The evidence goes mainly to disprove
his Vermont nativity.
| The Missouri Senate has adopted concur
rent resolution asking Congress to open up
Oklahoma to settlement and to the West st.
| Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
| The heavy ice in the river and bay impeded
ferry travel at New York on Saturday. A
molasses-laden barge was sunk at Pier No. 4,
| cut down by the ice. Total loss.
| Three trains from Boston to Portsmouth,
| N. H., were stuck in the snow-drifts Satur-
! day, and the passengers returned.
! Samuel B. Lemay, large merchant at
| Shreveport, La, was shot dead by desper-
ado brother on Saturday. The latter ESCAPED.
| There was no quorum on Saturday in the
Pennsylvania Legislature, and the Senatorial
contest is still undecided.
L. D. Brown, in Jail at Baldwin, Mich,
for drunkenness, was burned to death in his
cell on Thursday night.
The residence of Jacob Hay was burned at
Easton, Penn. on Saturday. Loss, S25, ,0Oc.
The New York Times printed Saturday
the prospectus of the Continental Railway
Company, which proposes constructing a
double track airline road from New York to
Chicago and Omaha, by the consolidation of
five companies organized under the laws of
Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania. Its promoters aim to furnish a
thoroughfare for the transportation of freights
at less cost and with greater ease and expe-
dition than any other line.
In the U. s. Senate Saturday ingalls, ress
olution for counting the Electoral vote was
taken up, and Bayard moved to refer it to the
Electoral Count Committee, which prevailed
Uy 4 partJ Y te.
FOREIGN.
In the event of war the Porte intends ex-
ercising to the fullest extent its right at sea
as beligerent Instructions for the guild
ance Of naval commanders will be based on
English and American precedents. A COM
mission has been formed for considering a
projected naval prize law.
In Greece new army corps are forming
daily. Several regiments have been ordered
to Vonitzs, and two regiments are already
ordered to be in readiness for the frontiers.
The Greek Minister of the Interior has in-
structed the provincial authorities TO prepare
rolls of national guardsn en- from thirty to
forty years of age.
England has accepted the proposal for ne
gotiations on the Greek question, on condition
that the decision of the Berlin Conference and
Treaty will net be considered as dropped.
Ia the British House of Commons Sstur-
day Gladstone, answering the accusation that
the Protection bill aimed at the Land League,
pointed out that nobody could be arrested
under its provisions unless he came within
the stringent definition of being under reason-
able suspicion of being connected with an act
in proclaimed district tending to interfere
with the maintenance Of law and order. The
reasonableness of such suspicion could be
challenged in the House. The Government
had no intention of interfering with tbs lib
erty of discussion or even the license of dis
cussion.
In the recent engagement with the British
the Beers fought with determined courage.
They captured the coloTs of the Fifty eighth
Regiment, killing two officers in the charge.
The colors were recaptured at the point Of
the bayonet. An eyewitness says the Beers
were shot or wounded through their heads as
they lay. Colonel Dean and Captain Inman
are among the killed. Forty. five Beers fell
close to the British lines.
Two school teachers in Berlin have been
reprimanded for personal encounter with
Jew, and one has been fined for anti-Jewish
agitation.