Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-21

W. e. Vanderbilt has contributed 50 500
to the Ohio food sufferers.
A Cairo dispatch says that the False
Prophet has captured Obeid.
The Maine Senate has passed the constitu.
tional prohlpitory amendment.
The German Budesera.h has adopted the
regulation against American pork,
| The Maine Ssnate hiss PASSED the hin al.
lowing women to vote on school N s5te:a.
Somervile & Birdinyer's mill in I,suark.
Scotland, has b., n burned. Loss. so COO.
j. G. Mason, President of the Central Ma.
tional Bank at Worcester, Mass, is dead,
aged 70.
Emperor William wisbos Crown Pence
Frederick William to attend tie coronation
| of the Gar.
There is no truth in the story that Wander,
bilt is dangerously i'll. He is attending ia
business as usual,
The steamer Hekla, from Copenhasen for
Stettln, IS ashore ct Lauynig. and viii prob.
ably prove total wreck.
It is not decided yet who shall succeed
Phelps Ia command of Mare Island, but il i
more than likely that Sbuieldt will.
The wholesale grocery and spirit store Of
d. Mason & Co, of Montreal, was burnsd
yesterday. Loss, 100000; partially in.
sured.
The Allan line steamer Buenos Avreg ia
collision sunk the steamer La Mascotte. and
eleven OF the crew of the latter steamer were
drowned.
The New York Assembly yesterday passed
bill to the third reading prohibisicg polit.
zeal assessments Of office holders sud caudi.
dates for Office.
The American schooner Pilots Bride has
been totally wrecked st Desolation Island.
OHly four OF the crew wera saved, and were
landed at Cspetown.
Ex-Judge Moses Taggart, the Oldest prsc.
Using lawyer in western New York, died in
Batavia on SATURDAY., after brief illness. in
the eighty fifth of his age.
In the ballot yesterday for United Statos
Senator In the Michigan Legislature, Newton
reeeivei z6. Burroughs 70, P.lmer IS. VII
let's ID. Ferry II, scattering 20.
Eighty men in the shoe shops Of Sing Sing
Prison refused to work yesterday. and were
locked up. The ~ locked up Monday are
still in. More tronble is anticipated.
The bark Gsise, just arrived at Queenstown
from San Francisco, lost her sails, life.boa.,
and was otherwise damaged. 0ne Of the
crew was drowned and several others injured.
TIE Pfeeideat has made the following
nominations for the Civil Ssrvise Commits
sion Dorman BeatOn, of New York: John
NJ. Gregory, Of Illinois; Leroy d. Thorn IS,
of Ohio.
Senator Kellogg is driven nearly TO dist-ac-
ton by forty white and black constituents
who are pushing their claims for FIVE i'm
portant Federal offices In Louisiana about TO
become vacant.
The woman's suffrage question in Nebrss-
ka Will hardly come to successful issae. A
proposition was introduced into the L-gisla-
ture to submit the question to the women of
the State, and was voted down.
Louis F. Feldsohke, Master in Chancsry
of Woodford county, Illinois, has disap.
peared, his accounts being short upwards of
$1,000. His property has bean attached. lie
leaves wife behind. He was a prominent
Democratic politician, q soldier in the Mexi-
can war, and was much liked.
David Day, Jr., mail agent, refused to
trsnsfer through pouches at Mandan into a
Fargo coach, claiming the Northern Pacific
road had 10 right to change cars ct Manisn,
when the route terminated at Bismarck TIE
mail car was side-tracksd by order CT the
Supe rin.sndent of the railroad.
Mrs. Matilda Paulitsch, q professional
singer, in the Superior Court at New York
yesterday recovered verdict for Sl2 500
damsges, with $500 extra allowance, from the
New York Central and Hudson River Rail
way, for injuries sustained by an accident
which necessita<ed thu amputation of her
foot.
Elk State Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, is
in critical condition. Unless released from
confinement he cannot live q month. He
cannot speak above whisper, and has not
eaten any hing since Tuesday. An attempt
will be made to compromise his default at
$500, 000 payable in new issue of Tennessee
bonds.
By the latest mail from Madagascar it is
learned that tie French flag is flying on the
northwest coast. Owing TO the fact that the
natives are very much irritated, the Prime
Minister has begged the foreign residents Of
Tamatane not to venture into the interior.
Warlike preparations were proceeding at
Tamatane.
It is stated that the Western Union Tele.
graph Company will. within six month";, lsy
3-inch pneumatic tubes between the main
Office Cd Broadway and Dey street. in New
York, and ths uptown branches, thus reiiev-
isg the down town streets of many of IT'S
poles and wires as tho city business will be
largely done through the tubes.