Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-18

Domestic.
The Navy Department is advised of a case
of yellow fever at Key West.
A storm in Pittsburg and its vicinity Sat
urday did considerable damage.
General Logan arrived in Chautauqua
Saturday and was rendered reception.
The business portion of Anoka, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire Saturday. Loss,
about 81 100000.
Patrick Egan will remove the head
quarters of the Irish National League from
Boston to Lincoln, Nebraska.
Ship Captains in Philadelphia experience
much difficulty in shipping crew without
the payment of heavy blood money"
Five hundred thousand dollars in British
gold bars and $4,000 in American gold
coin arrived in New York from Europe
Saturday.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: The miners
strike in the Fourth Pool assumed a serious
aspect Saturday, and grave fears are enter
tanned of an outbreak.
A story is published in New York to the
effect that Grover Cleveland, while Sheriff
of Buffalo, charged exorbitant prices for
services and no vouchers can be found.
The 25Oth anniversary of the incorpora
ton of Ipswich, Mass, was observed Satur-
dav. The houses were all decorated and
the procession was the largest in years.
Thomas Williams starts on Tuesday from
Racine Junction, Wisconsin, 10 bear ban
ner to Blaine at his home in Augusta, Me-,
walking the entire distance, 1881 miles.
The New York bank statements show:
Loans decrease, 81 ,03f, 700: specie increase,
S69S, POO reserve increase, s., 391, 200. The
banks now hold So, 54S 300 in excess of the
legal requirements.
The Massachusetts Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Worcester Septem-
Der Sd. The call invites Democrats. and all
others in favor of eiecting Cleveland and
Hendricks to take part.
The action of Blaine in instituting pro-
ceedings in the indianapolis SANDER case is
commended throughout the East. The
paper has yet made no attempt to Justify
the publication Of the libel.
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue
has postponed until December 9th the time
that his order for the immediate distrain-
ing for taxes on spirits at the expiration of
warehousing bonds shall take effect.
Colonel Mondea, of Glen Alice, Tenn,
on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, was
killed by his son Saturday evening. The
father was drunk and attacked the son.
The latter thou struck the father with Il
club and crushed his skull
1t is learned that the resignation of In
dian Commissioner Price is not due to any
difference of opinion with his superior off
Ger but mainly to his dissatisfaction with
the onerous and thanklesS duties of the
office and its inadequate salary.
The story that the Blackfeet Indians in
Montana are starving is believed to have
been started by traders in Helena, who
wanted to dispose of supplies without the
formality of Il contract. The Indian Bureau
has received telegram from the Blackfeet
Indian Agent that he was not short of sup
plies.
The Secretary of the keely Motor Com
panv says he has no doubt that keely will
have his engine completed by the close of
this month. An exhibition willsbe given by
Kecy at Fort Hamilton, in the presence of
a number of United States army officers.
of his new force in the discharge of guns
instead Of by powder.
The Court of inquiry appointed to inves-
tigate frauds III the Navy Department will
not rcassemblc before the middle of OctO-
Der. 1t is asserted that investigation shows
that frauds involving about 100000 were
IN the Bureau OF Medicine ana
Surgery long before Surgeon Wales time,
and were continued under him.
The Philadelphia Record gives the par
ticulars of an attack on Wilson, the New
York shipping agent, Saturday, by a mob
of sailors. 1t says he was brutally beaten.
1t was the elimination of spirited COM
petition for the supply Of seamen TO the
bari, Doris Eckhotf, lying at the old navy
yard with full cargo for Havana
H. II. Hadlcy, whom John I. Davenport
charges with having forged the Morey let
ter being interviewed, denied cmphatically
having forged or written the Iorev letter
and branded rs a lie DayenpOrt's assertion
that he had confessed the forgery. He
asserts that he never saw nor heard Of the
letter until il was published in the public
print.
\ Charleston w. Val dispatch says
Last might the dwelling of Charles sum
merticId was destroyed by fire This morn
ing Summoriield appeared and was greatly
astuni>hed 10 find his wife and child gone
and his house burned. Later IN the day
the body Of Mrs Sunmerlield was found
in the river. it Is feared that the child was
destroyed by It's mother, who was insane.