Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-04

A general advertisement will be issued
on the 18th inst. by the Postmaster-Gen-
eral, calling for proposals for rendering
steamboat mail service in ali parts of the
United States.
The German traveller Weiss, who has just
arrived at Berlin from Zanzibar, has in his
possession treaty with the Sultan of Pan
gam, which is north of Usagara, under
German protection.
The London Times editorially states that
it has been officially intimated at the For
eli IN Office that Germany is now willing to
refer the Carolines dispute to the arbitra-
ton of friendly powers.
Commissioner Atkins, of the Indian Bu-
reau. has received advices from the South
ern Agency in Colorado, contradicting the
published statement that the Indians have
assumed hostile attitude.
Lieutenant-Ge General John H. Melville
Darlington, of the British army, was killed
yesterday while shooting grouse in the
County of Dumfries Scotland, by the ac-
cidental discharge of his gun.
The strike of the Knights of Labor
against the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad Company ended yesterday with
mutual signing of articles of agreement
regulating the rates of wages.
nt lllCn WIZ iObDGO llC 0lilCdEO anu
Alton train near Blue Springs Mo,
Wednesday night, have not been captured.
The railroad company has offered reward
of $1,000 for each of the robbers.
The statement of the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company shows: Gross earnings
for July, sos, O00 net earnings, $4,000 !;
increase in net earnings, 1921 600 over the
corresponding month of last year.
The Elk Rapids (AIich.) Iron Company
have received an order for 400 tons of char
coal iron, to be shipped to England-proba-
bly, the first iron western manufacturing
company ever shipped from this country.
A long conference was held yesterday in
st. Louis betW cen representatives of the
the knights of Labor and the Wabash
Railroad Company, at which all the points
of dispute were discussed. No final result
was reached.
A McKeesport (Pa) special says: A
miners strike was inauguTated to-day in
stead of Saturday. Fifteen hundred men
in the second pool quit work. 1t is ex-
pected by tomorrow evening that fully
1000 miners Will be out.
The excursion of Sheridan Veterans, on
the 18th, promises to be large and exceed
ingly interesting affair. Enthusiasm is
manifested in each of the New England
States, and the Southern people are already
quite alive to the occasion.
The four-story brick building, corner of
Federal street and Western avenue, Lynn,
Mass, occupied by Nieolaus Weber as a
morocco factory, was burned yesterday
morning. The loss is 100000. Two hum
dred hands were employed III the factory.
At Rockaway Beach arrangements have
been completed for double scull race be-
tween the following well known oarsmen :
Hanlan and Lee, Courtney and Conley, and
Teemer and Ross to be rowed on Jamaica
Bay September 18th, for purse of $500.
Receipts of wheat at Minneapolis for the
crop year of 1884, ending Wednesday, were
81, 100000 bushels, an increase of 9,000,0 600
over 1888 New York is the only city in
the UniEd States which receives more
wheat than Minneapolis, Chicago having
been outstripped last year.
dispatch from Fort Smith, Ark, says
T. II. Lee, another of the notorious Lee
gang, was brought in yesterday and placed
in the United States Jail. He is charged,
Jointly with other members of the gang,
with committing a number of murders in
Indian Territory an Texas.
Stead the editor of the Pail Mall Gazette,
telegraphs from Switzerland that he alone
is responsible in the Eliza Armstrong case,
that Mrs. Jarrett was an unwilling agent,
that he will return to London at once and
answer for himself, and that he is certain
TO clear himself from all blame.
Se,retary Manning yesterday afternoon
met small party OF callers in the Treas
ury building at New York. The callers
gathered assurance from the interview with
Secretary Manning that the Administration
WAS q. unit ia a desire 10 abolish the silver
coinage law at the next session of Congress.
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state that the first section of the Panama
Canal will be opened in October, in its full
breadth and depth, from Colon Hill to
Tiger Hill, a distance of twelve kilometers.
The Star and Herald VS. the opening will
inaugurate the existence of the Panama
waterway.
The acting Secretary of the Treasury has
rescinded the order recently prescribed by
the Register in regard to the transfer OF
United States bonds. which required as a
condition precedent TO issue to any trustee,
executor, administrator. guardian, etc, that
he beneficiary shall be named in the APP
'ication and in the assignment of the
IDS.
eports of the exodus of Hungarians
Pennsylvania mining regions con-
A Huntingdon special says After
--Eeted trial of Hungarian labor al the
Saxton furnaces, the operators have con-
cluded to dispense with it and employ
American labor instead. The foreigners
did not show intelligence and aptness in
learning.
Frank e. Carpenter, Brooklyn physi-
clan, attempted Wednesday, to elope with
Miss Mary bier, of the same city. Carpen-
tiers wife disguised herself in the deepest
mourning. followed the couple to Rondeut,
and from there TO Poughkeepsie, and sat
keepSie to New York, where she had the
guilty couple arrested.
A ST. Paul dispatch says Specials from
different places show considerable damage
by frost " "Wednesday night. In the vicinity
of Moorhead and Willmar. the corn crop
is said to be entirely ruined, oats badly
damaged and gardens wholly destroyed In
the vicinity of Brainerd the frsst was the
most severe and damaging in many years,
Ice is reported at Wilimar.
Peace is still an unknown quantity in
Peru. Important military operations are
now being carried on in the north In ad-
dition to a detachment of CD men STA
toned at San Pedro. observing the rebel
garrison occupying TruiiIlo, division of
1000 soldiers horse, foot and artillery,
under General Ramirez, Chief of the GEN
eral Staff, was sent up to Paeasmayo few
days ago.
Preston, the author of the Colon fire. was
found gnilty in trial by Court-martial ar
Panama. and was hanged on the 18Th ult
The execution was witnessed by an i'm
mense crowd of all colors and nationalities,
the greater part of which probably never
witnessed such scene before. Death seems
TO have been instantaneous, as no show
of life was apparent three minutes after
dropping.