Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-03

DOMESTIC.
Blaine says he does not wsRt office,
The crop report of Minnesota is good.
Forest fires are doing great damage in Long
Islsnd.
The reduction of the public debt in August
is S6.971, S51.
Two more cases Of yellow fever are re-
ported at Pensacola Navy Yard.
Butler announces that he ia a candidate for
reelection on the Democratic ticket.
At Philadelphia three Cinnamon have
recorded their intention to become American
citizens.
The Northern Pacific has been formally
recognized IS member of the Pacific rail
road pool.
a match has been made between schaeffer
and Vignaux, the billiard players, to come
off at Paris.
The Massachusetts, Central Railway was
sold at auction sale Saturday 30 S. l.. Aid
rich for $4,000
ChiosgO is happy and even with st. Louis.
It has managed to fad lot of Indian relics
in thu City Cemetery.
The Western Union Company has made an
alteration in hours aud salaries which, it is
said, will benefit its employees.
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tion viii hold its annual meeting in Brooklyn
in the Academy Of Music, October OH and
10th.
The stesmer J. V. Throop, Of the Evans
vile and Cairo Packet Company, sunk Fri
day. just above Smithlsnd, Ky. The loss is
not known.
A bout at fencing took place at Newport,
R. l., Saturday. in which Joseph Castslde,
| of the Naval Academy training squadron,
was the victor.
Captsin &. Fl. Barlow. au attorney at EFF.
fngharn, H., who WAS one Of the immortal
SOC ia the Chicago Convention, died Friday,
of consumption.
Several thousand volumes of books shipped
to the States by three Montreal publishers
have bsen seizsd by tie United States Gus.
toms ofi5ers at Rouse's Point, N. Y.
At midnight Friday night eleven Norman
horses. recently imported, wers snotI red in
q burning barn of Stubbleiiald & Co., at
Bloomington, III. Loss, about $4,000.
Stephen A. Douglas, son Of the deceased
Senator. is lying dangerously i'll 81 his resi-.
dence in Chicago. Ga Friday he underwent
a surgical operation growing GUS Of an abseas.
Specials report that warrants have been is
sued for the arrest of Alva Tucks, Stats At.
torney for Peoria County, IL, owing, it is
alleged, 60 shortage Of $4,000 il mis- &C.
| counts.
The Convention of the German Catholic
| Benevolent Societies of the West and North.
west meets in Evansville, Indiana, to-day.
Preparations have been made TO lodge and
| feed 20. GOO strangers.
Commissioner Stephens, of New York,
says he has received full pay from Thomas
| Murphy OF the debt Ct $500 for which he re-
Gently instituted legal proceedings, and tha.
! the case has been settled.
| 1t is understood at Washington that upon
the return of Secretary Folgsr, John G. New
| will resign as Assistant Secretary of tbs
| Treasury and give his whole time TO his pri-
vate business in Indianapolis.
HOP. L. NJ. Cuts, member of Congress
| from the Sixth Iowa District, died at Oscs.
loosa yesterday, after protracted illness,
aged so years. He came to Iowa in 1855, and
was successful both as lawyer and poll
tician.
jason Downer, at one time Associate JUS
tice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, is
dead, at the age of 20 years. He went to
| Milwaukee in 1892 and was first editor of
| the Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, afterwards en-
tering the legal profession.
A special says great alarm has been occa.
stoned on the western border Of Kansas by
|
| Cheyennes at Monument. General Pope
sent company of cavalry to Investigate. No
| depredations were committed.
| Samuel Logan was arrested Friday night
in New York by Piuksrt0n's detectives, on
charge OF stealing $4,000 from Adams Ex-
press Company at Winnipeg, but Commas
| s:0rer O5rorLe discharge the accused on the
ground Of insufficient evidence.
The Boston Transcript Of Saturday says
It was reported on the street. to-day that q
rsnsfer of S2,000,0O0 OF Atehison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad Company stock has
just been made to the Barings, of London.
Tbs report is not wholly wrong,
The City Council of Dodge City, KE., has
instructed the Marshal to enforce the ordi-
| nsnees IN relation to gambling after Septsm-
Der 9Th. An ordinance was also adopted to
60 into effect at the game time, prohibiting
music in saloons and dance halls.
The Citizens and Telegraphars' National
Union Telegraph and Cablegram Company
has been organized. The capital stock is
S.. 100000; shares S25 each, no person to be
permitted TO hold more than 800, 600 worth,
Every employe will be stockholder.
| Major WATSON, the embezsling army pay.
master, now serving out his sentence, has
been detailed to superinteud the work of
building road between Leavenworth and the
Kansas penitentiary. Ee asks to be allowed
to wear overalls instead of convict trousers.
The railways running into Chicago are
sgain In trouble about wstermelons, and
parties to whom they are consigned refuse to
receivs them. Invoices from Indiana and
| Missouri sold Friday at from SO to $40 per
hundred, and car loads Of cucnmbers are side.
tracked.
A steam engine attached to thrashing-
machine exploded in a grain field six miles
north of Frankfort. D. T., Saturday, in
stautly killing William Bounell Clarence
Resd, George Storm and an unknown man,
and iujuting five others, four of whom are in
critical condition.
A cattle disease, termed the bloody urine,
| has broken out On farm near NeWburg, N,
| Y, battling the efforts OF the veterinary sur
! geons, and fourteen cows have died. The
doctors say these are the only cases of the
| disease ever occurring in this country, though
| it is common in Europe.
| The New Orleans Saddlers, Harness and
! CollErmakers' Union, q branch of the ma.
tionsl organization. struck Saturday All
| firms except three acceded to the demands of
the Union. The prices asked by the Union
are thirty-hve per cent. In advance OF tbs cd
ones asked for piecswork.
| The executive order consolidating Internal
Revenue Collection Districts, as far as it
sffscts the following. named districts, was put
in operation Saturday TIE District of Ore
gon and the Fifth District of California
New Mexico ia TO bs transferred to the new
Collector of the Fifth District.
The busy season for the express companies,
furniture movers and house cleaners has be-
gun, for thousands OF New York people who
have been spending the summer at watering
ing-places and other summer resorts, have
turned their faces cityward, and are return.
ing in daily increasing numbers.
A defective switch threw the rear truck of
the sleeper OF the Cleveland and Pittsburg
express off the track near RAvenus, Ohio,
| Friday night. The coach was dragged s)n Q
distance, smashing the sides of several cars
of local freight on the siding, enc killing
j ohn Rorbsugb, who was standing between
| the tracks.
| General Grant is in Chicago, on his way to
witness the Northern Pacific spike-drivipg.
He said Saturday that ne could not think
Arthur would get the nomination. eud if he
did that he could not carry the country, and
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