Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-31
TEIEGRAPHry BREvITIES.

Twenty-six persons were injured IN
railway collision near Wigan, England,
Monday.
Etzel, Hutchinson & Co., dealers in toys
and notions at st. Louis, have failed, with
liabilities of about 100000: assets, S57, 600
New York charterers of clipper vessels
look forward to lively boom in January,
on the strength of the reported forcing up
of rates by the overland railroads.
Measures for the relief of General Grant S
personal effects, trophies. etc, are in favor
able progress at Philadelphia, with the eX-
pectation of an early and satisfactory result.
The committee of leading members of
the ST. Louis Merchants Exchange, ap-
pointed some days ago to consider the
Spanish treaty, have made an adverse re-
port, but make no recommendation TO Con-
gress.
Archbishop Bourget is said to be dying
in Montreal. Bishop Fabre has admins
tered to him the last rites of the church.
He is the oldest Bishop in America, and
made himself famous in opposition to the
burial of Guibord.
British business men are complaining
about the American Australian mail SER
vice. During December seven steamers
were SlON, Willie lut iliS
mails to New York were beaten by other
vessels sailing on the same day.
The forthcoming report of the Illinois
Department of Agriculture will show that
the area of growing corn and winter wheat
in Illinois is 2,317 900 acres, or a decrease
of 405,0 900 acres from the previous seeding.
The condition of the growing crop is fair.
A man supposed to be James Greenwood,
of Chippewa, while crossing Niagara river
yesterday from Chippewa to Port Bay,
about a mile above the falls, lost control OF
the boat, was drawn into the rapids, where
the boat upset, and he was carried over the
falls.
The Secretary of the Navy has sent the
following telegram to all commandments OF
navy yards: Discharge all employees who
have hitherto been paid under the six
months appropriation Act, except those
required to prevent destruction of prop
erty or loss of life, and all such must work
| without agreement for compensation"
Rev. Heber Newton, of New York. on
| Sunday, again warned the rich that the
| prevailing discomfort among the working.
men was not TO be cured by attempted re-
preston, that there is danger of anarchy
| to-day Any one who reads the wild and
| fiendish utterances made at Chicago on
Thanksgiving Day may see the danger.
An Injunction was yesterday served upon
| the New York Board of Aldermen, re-
| straining them from confirming any nomi-
nation from Mayor Edison for the positions
| of Commissioner of Public Works and
Corporation Counsel. The injunction was
issued by Judge Beach at the instance OF
| Theodore Roosevelt and others, on the
| ground of alleged fraud and corruption.
In pursuance of instructions from the
| War Department, Brigadier-G General Augur
of the Department Of the Missouri, has or.
dered Colonel Hatch, of the Ninth Cavalry
| to proceed to Camp Russell, on the Cimeror
| river, Indian Territory, with six troops Of
| cavalry and one company of infantry, and
remove unauthorized persons from the
| Oklahoma and other points in Indian Ter.
ritory.
In the Spanish Cortes a resolution was
offered on Saturday, asking the Govern.
ment whether it was aware that the text OF
the Spanish-American treaty was cabled tc
| New York by the Times, and whether il
knew of any person selling the treaty foI
81 900. The reply of the Government was
! that the Geographic correspondence was :
private matter with which it had no power
to interfere.
Information has been received in Wash.
ington that Daniel Hogan, a Republican
| hold-over Senator in the Illinois Lecisla
! ture, will neither go into caucus, nor will
he vote for General Logan if the latter is tc
be the Republican nominee for United
States Senator. The importance of Hogan:
attitude lies in the fact that Logan's future
will, in all probability, be decided by {
single vote, the Legislature being evenly
divided between Democrats and Republic
cans.
Judge Sage of the United States Distric
Court in Cincinnati, yesterday sentenced
some prisoners, most of whom had beer
convicted of violation of the election laws
at recent elections. Robert Perry, James
Usher and James Mclaughlin, for illega
voting, were sentenced to six months in the
Hamilton county Jail. D. Shannon anc
Ferdinand Mott, same offense, sixty day;
in jail. Henry Schaffer and Daniel Kinney
for hindering citizens from voting sil
months in jail,