Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-27
THURSDAYS NEWS.
IooxDkSsED FROM SPECIAL pisrApcHns
Domestic.


! The California Veterans Home will prob
ably be made Il national home.
The ship Loenty was run into and sunk
by the steamer Cornwall in New York har-
Dor Thursday.
1t proposed to amend theme Hawaiian
treaty so as to make it more favorable TO
the United States.
! w. c. Harvey, United States Express
Agent at Panora, Ia, was robbed of $1,000
on Wednesday night
A petition protesting against the passage
OF the bill extending the chartered priYi-
leges OF the Union Pacific is being M
merously signed in Iowa.
| At Chicago Thursday J. s Prince defeated
! W. NJ. Woodside in a fifteen-mile bicyclc
race for the championship of America bv
/ only one-quarter ofa second.
| Senator Vest has taken up the cud-els
| against the abused privilege OF printing, bv
| leave, speeches not delivered, as q sort of
of legacy from the late Senator Anthony,
who was intensely opposed to the practice.
| The La Porte tInd.) Savings Bank has
closed its doors and been placed in charge
of receiver. The assets are about $50. 900,
! liabilities $4,000 less. John Sutherland,
President, says the depositors will be paid
in full.
In the case of the Central Pacific Railroad
| Oregon branch) vs.. the heirs Of Silas VOL
| ford, involving lands in Shasta district.
| California, the Secretary of the Interior has
| sustained the decision of the Land Otice in
| favor Of Wolford
! There has been a row in the theatrical
| firm of Brooks 4 Dickson of New York.
and the firm will soon cease to exist under
| that name. OF the stories told on Union
| Square one is that some creditor is at the
bottom of the trouble.
Otto Muller, alias John Topper. who
| robbed the college safe at st. Mary's, Kan
| sas, last Tuesday night, was captured in
Lawrence, KS. Thursday, as he was board
! ing the train for the East. Over 81 600 OF
the money was recovered.
The five-story brick building on Henni-
! pin and Washington avenues, Minneapolis.
| occupied as Offices and also the rooms of
! the law library of the Minneapolis Bar AS
sociation, were burned Thursday afternoon.
| The loss Is 100000; insurance, $4,000.
The Grievance Committee of that part of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
operating over the Gould system are still
i'll New York, and presumably in session,
but as to the nature of their business or the
result they aim to achieve, only those who
are in their confidence know, and news
paper men are not of this number.
Ogle, noted counterfeiter, was arrested
in Memphis, Tenn, Thursday by NJ. &.
Bauer, of the United States Secret Service.
Three thousand dollars in SO counterfeits
on the Third National Bank of Cincinnati
were found on his person. Oge has
already served several terms in the peni-
tentiaries in New York, Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania for counterfeiting
Officers of the Northern Pacific denv the
published report that the road is bockaded
and that all mails have been ordered to
Portland via San Francisco They state
that the snow blockade is on the OREGON
| Railway and Navigation Company's lines,
and that the Northern Pacific is and has
been continuously open from St. Paul to
Wallulu junction, and trains have been
running regularly
New York telegraph circles are agitated
by reports of the formation of a new and
powerful telegraph syndicate, which, it is
stated, will enter during the early part of
the new year actively into opposition to the
Western Union John W Mackay of the
Postal Company, Robert Garrett of the
Baltimore and Ohio, and James Gordon
Bennett and the bondholders of the Bank
ers and Merchants Company, are said to
be the moving spirits in the enterprise
Governor Cleveland has rented the resi-
dence of Mrs. J. 0. Towner on Willett
street, Albany, for two months, from the
lst of January. After his resignation, en-
the 9th of January, Cleveland will attend a
charity ball in Buffalo, given for the benefit
of an institution of which he laid the
cornerstone while he was Mayor of that
city. He will return to Albany and re Z.
in the Towner house until March, who
will go to Washington, accompani
his sister, Miss Cleveland, who Will by .I.-
lady of the White House.