Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-09
SATURDAYS NEWS.
IcoSpEssrD FROM SPECIAL D1srArcHEs.l


Domestic
At Brighton Beach, SATURDAY., the win
ming horses were Blue Day, Hickory jim,
Pericles and Tom Marten.
The New York World says John Kelly's
reign is over, and he wishes it understood
that his political life is ended.
Miss Mary A. Melendez and Mrs. S. E.
Westcott, sisters, have been acquitted of 4
charge Of arson at Milwaukee.
Joseph Penn, prominent capitalist, and
Judge William ?. Launst, OF Belleyille, Ill,
have been indicted for perjury.
hundred Boomers and forty wagons
captured by Colonel Sumner on the Okla
homa land, arrived at Fort Reno Saturday.
Robert \. Thompson has been appointed
Appraiser, and Christian Refs Assistant
Appraiser in the district of San Francisco.
The pilot boat Mary and Catherine was
run down and wrecked off the Jersey coast
on Friday morning by an unknown
steamer.
The agent of the Illinois Central at
Waterloo, Ia, got away with coal valued at
$4,000 by acting in collision with g local
coal dealer.
The Standard Oil Company, which is
monopolizing the Pennsylvania gas wells,
proposes to lay q main to Buffalo 10 supply
natural gas.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
has asked the New York Stock Exchange
to list $4,000 600 of its second mortgage
per cent. bonds, due in 1888
Some colored children OF Columbia, La,
who had witnessed a baptism, expert
mented in a pond with a fOur-year old
child, which, when found, was in dying
condition.
The New York Times says that the Dem
ocratic State Committee has been unable to
collect its campaign assessment from Jones
of Binghamton, who has been elected Lieu.
tenant Governor.
The apple crop of Niagara county, New
York, this year is estimated at 500, 600 bar
rels, the largest yield ever known. The
fruit is of excellent quality and the average
price about 81 p per barrel.
Friday evening about o'clock a cyclone
struck the little village of Brownsville, in
Sumter county, Ala, and the village was
almost totally destroyed. No lives were
lost, but many persons were injured.
Dakota men profess to know that it is
the intention OF the President to recon-
mend the admission of Dakota as Il State,
but that he is inclined to think that the
Territory is large enough for two States.
A terrible cyclone passed ten miles south
of Dangersiield. Tex, Thursday evening,
and Mrs. Pittman and her children were
killed. The path of the cyclone was thirty
yards broad. The whlrwind moved with
great velocity.
Fred McAllister, aged wears, in escap-
ing from the Catholic Orphan Asylum at
Troy, n. Y, on Tuesday night, got stuck
in the mud, back of the institution, and
was found dead in the morning, buried to
his chin in the clay.
The pen used by President Lincoln in
signing the emancipation proclamation was
recently stolen by q burglar from Mrs.
Claude J. Adams, of Chicago The papers
made 50 much fuss about it that the pen
was returned by the depredator, who signed
himself as Felix"
The casting of the 5f-ton gun at the South
Boston Iron Works was q failure. The
men upon stripping the mold found that
owing TO the unequal cooling, caused by
the core having given way on one side it
cracked open, destroying the gun, which
will have to be recast.
The monument to Washington, which
has been placed at the head of Grand Ave
nue. Park, Milwaukee, at cost of 25000,
and presented to the city by Miss Lizzie
Plankinton, daughter of John Plankinton,
the pork king was unvailed Saturday in
the presence of several thousand people.
The President made the following APP
pointments Saturday: James A. Bayard of
Maryland to be Secretary of Arizona /;
James c. StEanghan of Indiana to be Sur
veyor- General of Idaho; James Dawson of
Colorado to be SurveyOr-General of Col
orado: John Hise of Arizona to be Sur
veyor- General of Arizona.
Ferdinand Ward is in bad way, and
prison life is telling on him. Il think, :"
said the Warden to a reporter, Ward will
pretty soon break up, and if he has not he
will tell all he knows. There does not
seem TO be any blood in him. His pulse is
extremely low, and when | look at him |
doubt whether he will ever pull through"
An inspection of the returns in the Ham
ilton county Ohio Senatorial case be-
fore the Circuit Court at Cincinnati
disclosed some very remarkable dis
crepancies, during the examination
and cross examination of County Clerk
Dalton, Saturday afternoon, which, in all
probability, will result in the election of
the entire Republican ticket. The case is
still in a complicated condition, but the in
dicatiOns, after the days proceedings, point
to changes in the official count which will
make the county Republican instead of
Democratic