Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-29
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RrooRD-usyo.S /,
DOMESTIC.
General Grants Financia, aH.irs.

with the facts, said to a Tribune reporter
yesterday that an inventory had been taken
of ali of General Grants possessions, under
the Judgment entered against him in favor
of Vanderbilt for Sl50,9a9 and interest,
leaned TO him when he was trying to save
the firm of Grant d Ward from failure.
The inventory and executions under the
judgment We're taken, he said to protect
Grant as well as Vanderbilt. The execu-
tons cover the houses ia Washington and
Philadelphia, and the farms near st. Louis
and Chicago The farms alone are valued
at 500. 900, al,d with the other property are
ample to secure Vanderbilt, as Mrs. Grant
Joins with the General, and gives up her
life interest in the property mentioned.
The inventory includes all the presents OF
weapons. bric-a-brac and rare articles made
to the General at different times by friends
at home and potenJates abroad the swords
and medals awarded him by Congress; his
pictures and books his relics of the war,
and even the engraved cards ordered struck
to express the thanks of Congress. Sher-
man, on his visit here, learned of the posi-
bility that Grant might lose all those
articles Indeed it is said that Grant called
council of war with his old comrade in
arms over the situation, and the result has
been that steps have been taken TO relieve
the property. Sherman left the city yester-
day for Philadelphia, and will atterward
visit Washington. 1t is probable that he
will continue there the work he began
here.
Cyrus w. Field said to Tribune reporter
Yesterday: Grants swords, medals and
relics of war may be sold at any moment,
under a mortgage to secure the debt OF
| S150,00 which he borrowed from Wander
bilt to help the firm of Grant & Ward, and
| for which he has confessed judgment. This
ought not to be. | received a message from
Sherman last night informing me of the
fact 1t was the first | knew of it. This
morning [ went TO see Vanderbilt, and he
promised to throw off $780, 900 of the total
amount, which is now about 100000 with
| the interest, if the remaining 100000 is
| paid | have taken the matter i'll hand,
and think | shall have no trouble i'll raising
| the money"
SECOND DISPAICH.l
PHILADELPHIA, December 2Sth.-General
William L. Sherman, George W. ChildS
| and A. J. Drexel held conference this
| afternoon at the residence of General Sher-
mans son-in-law, Lieutenant Thackeray.
! The result of the conference was an engage
ment for the three gentlemen to lunch tOgeth-
| er tomorrow at Drexel's clearinghouse for
the purpose of discussing the ways and
means to assist General Grant out of the
pressing financial difficulties i'll which he
has become involved under the judgment
entered against him in favor of William II.
| Vanderbilt for S150000. General Sherman
came here from New York last night for
the purpose of consulting with the gentle
men named on the subject.
Disastrous Colfiagration-Three Lives
| Lost.
| RACINE (Wis), December 2Sth.-Blake' S
| block, including the opera-house and hotel,
recognized as one of the finest structures of
the kind in the country, was burned at l
o'clock this morning. Three lives were
sacrificed The hotel contained sixty per-
sons. all of whom escaped in their night
clothes, except Russell Glover and wife,
members of the Beggar Student Opera Com
panv. and hotel chambermaid named
| Mrs Patrick The fire started from an eX-
! plosion of some kind. When the report
was heard in the building, the widest ex-
element ensucd Women screamed,
men shouted and ran hither and
thither in dismay. A very thrilling
scene was presented to the hundreds of
people who quickly gathered as the in
mates of the building made hurried dash
for existence by each Imaginable means of
exit, leaving everything of value behind.
The loss on the opera house and hotel is
100000; insurance, SOS, 600. The other
losses are as follows: Villas, drug
gist. 81 800; insurance, 1500. Wood
| Bros hardware, $4,000 insurance,
| $4,000. Johnson's Cafe, $500; insurance,
81 900. Montgomery Il Long, BARRIERS,
81 900; uninsured Flanagan & Curry,
proprietors of the hotel $4,000; insur-
ance, 5000 Rausch's variety store,
IS 600; insurance, $4,000. Duffy's saloon,
s. 600; insurance, 81 800. The wife of ex-
Mayor Doud, who occupied apartments in
the hotel, lost $1,000 worth of jewels and
pictures-the finest collection Of Dante
works in America - besides notes and
mortgages to the value of $4,000. The
opera house was built in 1881 by a stock
| company, and was 80 by 100 feet. fitted
for the bodies will be commenced in the
morning. The west wall, seven stories
| high, remains standing.
The Spanish Treaty.
| WASHINGTON, December 2Sth - The
Spanish treaty will be given precedence in
| the Senate of all the other pending COM
mercal treaties, and its fate will determine
the status of the others. While there is
not now the faintest hope fits ratification,
its friends expect reaction in favor of the
| treaty before ii is reported to the Senate.
Car-drivers' Strike.
| NEW ORLEANS, December 2Sth.-The car
drivers strike has been renewed. Ten
thousand people at the Exposition yester-
| day finally secured steam transportation by
railroad and boat to the city.
SECOND DISPATCH.l
New ORLEANS, December 2Sth.-As the
cars came in yesterday the drivers were no.
| tilted by a committee of strikers not 10 re-
| turn, and these warnings were obeyed. At
p NJ an Annunciation street-car came on
Canal street, and was quickly surrounded
| by a large crowd of strikers, the mule I'M
| hitched and turned loose. The party who
unhitched the mule was arrested and one
of the railroad officials was also arrested for
aSsaulting a striker All throughout the
city great inconvenience is experienced
| from the stopping of the cars, the continued
rainy weather keeping the streets in bad
condition for pedestrians. 1t is understood
| that the Assemblies uphold the drivers, and
will render them every assistance in their
efforts to carry the strike to a successful
conclusion.
Diabolical Deed Promptly Avenged.
CHATTANOOGA Tenn J, December 2Sth.-
4 few days ago an obstruction was placed
on the Quein and Crescent track near Pur-
VS., -fIi9Ss i't''eN4'N yam b''7iiCN IAItO
it. and was ditched. The engineer was
killed several cars wrecked and a number
! of passengers injured. A railroad detective
traced the deed to a merchant of Purvis,
Miss. 1t was ascertained that his cattle had
been killed bya train. He had appealed for
damages, and failing to receive any, took
this means of wreaking vengeance. His
son assisted him. The populace were driv-
Ell to fury by the diabolical deed, and to-
day at daybreak took him from the Jail
ana hanged him. The man confessed the
deed and exculpated his son. His name is
not learned
SECOND DISPATCH.l
CHATTANOOGA, December 2Sth.-A special
TO the Times from Purvis, Miss, about the
lvnching of a merchant at that point, who
wrecked train, says that his name is Jor-
dan and that he stood well in the com
munity.
Resumption of Travel.
DENVER, December 29th.-The storm
which recently visited large portion of the
mountain region has subsidized All the
roads are open, and trains are now running
nearly on schedule time The first train
for three days from Salt Lake over Marshall
Pass reached here last Friday. Stages to
Aspen and other interior points are making
regular trips.
Hurd viii Contest.
TOLEDO (00, December 2Sth.-A special