Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-17


failure.
Two bank forgers have been captured st
Philadelphia.
Work in the Chicago Steel Rolling Mills is
TO be resumed.
Judge R. NJ. Mayo, of Virginia, commit
ted suicide Saturday.
At Duluth haul of counterfeiting appli-
aances has been made.
Preparations are being made for the issue
OF the tHo-cent postage stamp.
Mosier, who murdered two men near
Cheyenne, and escaped, has been arrested.
At Henrietta, Texas, disputes about fences
are proving fatal TO several of the contestants.
At Providence, r. l., the we'll known horse
Jay.Eye-See trotted an exhibition mile in
2:103.
A skeleton, supposed TO be that Of Herman
dez de Soto has been found near Helena,
Ark.
Two engines and eleven freight cars were
wrecked nesr Willimantic, Conn, by a col
lision Saturday.
Fare is likely to be cheap between New
York and Chicago. 1t is down 70 Sl5, and
likely to go to S..
Vics President David Davis and wife have
gone to Fayetteville, N. c., where he owns a
large tract Of land.
The walking match at Baltimore closed
Saturday night Hart, ALI miles Psnchot,
406 /; Wilson, 40l.
Mrs. Langtry has had mortgages on New
York property transferred to her to the
amount Of $4,000.
The sculling match on the Missouri river
sc st. Charles, between Hanlsn and Gsu-
daeur, was tame affair.
Trunk Lie Commissioner Fink will ap-
pear before the Senate subcommittee on Ed
ucation and Labor to-day.
At 1:26 o'clock Saturday morning all the
westero wires at Chicago were rendered tenn
porarily useless By an aurora.
A fire as Casey, ILL.,, Saturday night, de-
stroyed eleven buildings. business houses and
several offices, causing loss OF O,0OO.
Lewis Brisner, who was singer in theSan
Francisco minstrels, died Saturday. He had
been q homeless wsnderer for many years.
The conclusion reached at Washington and
the East is that the Gre eley relief expedition
has been an abominably mismanaged affair.
The annual dinner Of the Aztec Club.
formed of officers who fought in the Mexican
war, took place 10 New York on Friday even
ing.
The United States frigate Powhattan is to
cruise on the Newfoundland banks, with the
view Of investigating the disputes among the
fishermen.
High j. Hastings, of the New York Com
,nercial Adyertiser, was buried Saturday.
President Arthur and other prominent citi-
zsns were present.
The loss of the Pro.eus is causing much
anxiety at Washington, as it Vill probably
seriously jeopardize the lives of the party at
Lady Franklin Bay.
The Independent Labor Party has ep-
pointed committee to issue call for ma
tional convention of labor organizations, to
be held in Philadelphia January IL. 1884.
The fight between Slade and Mitchell is
declared off. The latter is matched 10 fight
Sheriff, "The Prussian." Sullivan refuses to
fight 1.-THE Prussian" until his (Sulliyan's)
sparring tour is finished.
The Posscfice Department began the dis-
tribution of the new two.csnt stamps Satur-
day. The requisition upon the contractors
was the largest, in the number of pieces and
value, ever Issued in one day.
A fire at Delphos, o., early Saturday
morning, entirely consumed the extensive
works Of the Pittsburg Hoop and Barrel
Company. The night watchmsn was burned
to death. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $50 O0O
A train Of ten cars of canned corn, con-
spicuously lettersd to attract attention, left
Portland, Me, Friday evening on special
fast schedule fer Portland, Oregon. It is un-
derstood Willard will make demonstration
OF i5s arrival.
John Roach, the sell-known shipbuilder.
was taken seriously i'll st his residence Thurs
day evening with bilious colic. His medical
attendants pronounced him out of danger
Friday morning and that evening he had
greatly improved.
There is lively political sensation over
the resignation of D. w Kerwia, Chairman
Of the ST. L1u:s Police Board, because the
gamblers ring, backed by those who want 20
run the city corruptly, mada things 30 un-
comfortable for kim.
A Troy, n. Y, 6ispatoh says there is a
large quantity of hops yet to be picked. The
greater part of the unhsrvested crop has been
rendered almost entirely worthless. Frosts
have done great damage and many yards will
not stand another storm.
The police of New York City are notified
to look for Abrams Nesbitt, sixteen years DID,
SOC of the Pre3ident of the Second National
Bank at Easton, Pa, who ran away from
home, aud is supposed to have gone there.
He Is said TO be heir to $4,000
Junius Brutus Booth, the wsll.known the
atricsl manager, is reported dying at the hotel
at Manchester-by .the-Ses, Mass. He has
besn i'll for soms time and q day or two ago
had q psralytic stroke. His wife, Agnes
Booth, has been summoned from Philadsl-
phia.
It is reported that the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railroad will extend its branch,
already built to the coal fields, near Socorro,
N. NJ, on to White Oaks, thus getting ahead
If both Gould and Huntington. and making
White Oaks and Lincoln county, n. NJ,
tributary to Socorro.
Naval Constructor Harte, who died on
Thursday, was employed constantly during
the war at Boston, Philadelphia and in Cali
fornia, and was highly esteemed by the
authorities. His grandfather and father were
also naval constructors, the former having de-
signed the frigste Constitution.
The report of the Commissioners Of Emil
grafton Of the State Of New York shows sc,
374 emigrants landed in tie port of New
York from August 3, 1881, to June 80, 1888,
inclusive. The largest number landed in any
month was $3.50, in May, 1888, and the
smallest S34, in January of the same year.
The session of the New Hampshire Lsgis-
Isture, which closed Saturday morning. was
the longest ever held in the State. The mem.
hers each received one hundred and two days
paw. It required upwards of 800, 900 to
ssttle their psr diem. Nearly three hundred
and ssventy.fye bills and joilt resolutions
were passed.
Peru continues to be in sorry plight.