Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-09
SATURDAYS NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM SPECIAL DISPATCHES
Domestic.

Ex-senator Farley, of California, wishes
TO be Minister to China.
The railroad strike Is spreading; 400
operatives struck at Sedalia, Mo.
Pleuro-pneumonia has broken out in
herd of Jersey cattle in Fulton, Mo.
Donovan won the x-day roller-skating
match at New York, with the score of ], 092
miles.
The town elections in forty-six counties
of New York show large gains for the Re-
pubiicans.
There is a great rush of Democratic
statesmen for offices, but Cleveland refuses
to hear any personal applications.
Ex-senator Slater, of Oregon, is men
toned in connection with the office of
General Land Office Commissioner.
The entire family of Joseph Hall, living
near Larimore, D. T., was mysteriously
poisoned, and it is thought will die.
Forty New York policemen have created
a good deal of merriment by appearing in
the chorus in the Pirates Of Penzance"
The members of President Cleveland's
Cabinet took the oath of office Saturday,
and entered upon the discharge of their
duties.
Three candidates are already mentioned
! for Commissioner of Indian Affairs-Con-
gresham Muldrow, Of Mississippi, Theodore
| Lyman and General Barlow.
| Beecher expresses himself as satisfied
! with Cleveland's inaugural except that
portion which refers to the Chinese. That
| he condemns in unmeasured terms.
Phil. Thompson, of Kentucky is max
| ing a strong fight for the Commissionership
| of Internal Revenue. He has the earnest
support of Beck, Blackburn and Carlisle.
Under the guidance of the American
| Bible Society, preparations are being made
| for the translation of the Scriptures into the
simplest form OF the written language in
| China.
At Monongahela City, Penn. Saturday,
the Rivcs Coal Mine Convention, represent
| ing 5000 men, resolved to demand three
| cents q bushel on the 9th instant, and, II the
advance was refused, TO strike.
| The first meeting of the American Con-
gress of Churches will be held at Hartford
early in May The Congress Is intended to
| embrace all Christian denominations, and
| to be participated in by representative di-
| vines and laymen.
Alfred \. Cohen, of san Francisco, has
| brought suit in the New York Supreme
Court against the banking firm of WinSOw,
| Laner g. Co. and John W. Ellis, formerly
a member of the firm, to recover $l50,OOO
| invested by him in West Shore bonds and
| stocks.
Miss Cleveland held her first Saturday
afternoon reception at the White House
Saturday. The callers both ladies and
gentlemen, numbered several hundred.
The majority were strangers who have
been attendance at the Inauguration cere-
| monies.
1t is understood in Washington that
counsel for General HaZen will challenge
ali the members of the Court-martial, on
the ground that the late Secretary of War,
though the accuser, also made the detail of
| the Court, thus legally tainting its character
as a judicial body.
1t was rumored in New York Saturday
that the Russian Government proposed to
purchase ships for Use rs transports and 4
| quantity of arms. John Roach said his firm
| had not been asked to estimate on the cost
of Russian ships, and he did not believe
any such contracts had been offered.
| Drake de Kay, who is well known among
mining brokers. is an inmate of the Bloom
| ingdale Asylum for the Insane. He is as
helpless as child. At the battle of the
| Wilderness he was struck on the back by
the top of a tree which was cut off by 4
shell. Ii neglected the wound, and never
fully recovered.
DIR. Emile Henckel and Ernest Van
Horne, hearing screams issuing from the
residence of William Burgmiller, at New
Iberia. La, rushed into the house and found
| Burgmiller in the act of grossly assaulting
| his daughter. Henckel shot the father
dead, and the daughter was slightly wound
| ed Henckel and Van Horne surrendered.
Henckel and the daughter were engaged TO
| be married.