Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-28
SATURDAYS NEWS.
[ooNDEssrD FROM SPECIAL DISPATCHES
Domestic.


Schaefer won the decisive game of the
billiard tournament.
Transactions in Brooklyn On. W real
estate are pretty active.
The President has signed the bill giving
pension to Mrs. Grant
Mcpherson of New Jersey will lead the
anti-silyer forces in the Senate.
Henley says that Cleveland has promised
to send Tinnin's name to the Senate.
The holiday sales in New York surpass
those of any year in the citys history.
The Casino and lie Grand roller Kinks at
Cleveland, o., have gone into bankruptcy.
c.. Toliver was shot dead by Ashbury
Crisp in Elliott county. Kentucky, Satur-
day.
The riotous Polish Catholics at Detroit
continued their disorderly conduct Satur-
day.
speaker Carlisle has decided to put Mark
ham ON the Committee on Rivers and Har-
bors.
Charles Mitchell says he will fight
Dempsey when the latter has made repu-
tation.
Fifteen hundred hands were thrown out
of employment by fire in Newburyport,
Mass, Saturday.
The Railroad Gazette does not anticipate
any great change in railroad affairs during
the coming year.
John Bigelow, recently appointed and
confirmed as sub-Treasurer at New York,
has resigned that Office.
The Newfoundland executive has issued
a proclamation forbidding an Orange pro-
cession i'll Harbor Grace.
A dynamite plot to wreck one of the
most expensive buildings in the city has
been discovered in Chicago.
The New York bank statement shows a
reserve decrease of - 035 900. The banks
now hold S25, 500 900 in excess of the legal
rule.
In row at Taunton, Mass, Sunday
night between striking molders and
scabs,' several on both sides were badly
hurt.
a terrible northeast gale prevailed Satur-
day on Cape Cod bay, the sea being the
heaviest known for years and the tides I'M
usually high.
An Italian syndicate has secured control
of the principal silk markets, and as a
consequence silk has advanced about -
per cent. in the last two months.
The Point Judith r. ~ life-boat crew
put ont in their life-boat on Christmas for
the scene of the collision between the
steamer Willie de Wolf and an unknown
vessel, and have not yet returned.
The thirty days mourning for the late
Nice-President Hendricks have expired,
and the departments in Washington and
other public buildings were Saturday di-
vested of their mourning drapings.
General Atkins. Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, says: The Government has re-
ceived no official information of an attack
upon the Indian camp near Ell Paso, Texas,
in which eleven Indians are reported TO
have been killed"
Senator Miller is greatly improved in
health so much so that his physician has
given him permission to leave his bed and
move around the house. BY the time Con-
gress meets it is thought that he will be
able to attend the session of the Senate.
aforementioned Charles A Reynolds,
Department Quartermaster-G General, now at
Baltimore, is ordered to Vancouver Bar
racks, W. T., as the Brigade Quartermaster
OF the Department of the Columbia, reliev-
ing Major kimball who will remain tenn
porarily on duty in the department.
Work at No. Slope, where the accident
occurred at Nanticoke, Pa, will be aban-
doned. 1t has been found that as fast as
the debris is removed it flows in again from
the great break in the culm bank above
1ne company VIII recOmpense the relatives
of the victims who are undoubtedly buried
deep beneath the sand culm an rock and
can never be found.
The official programme for the Presidents
reception on New Years Day does not
differ from that of former years. The
President will be assisted by Miss Cleve-
land and ladies of the members of the
Presidents Cabinet Miss Cleveland's
weekly Saturday afternoon receptions from
B till o'clock, will begin on January 9th
and continue through the season.
A case of wholesale poisoning at St. Au-
gustine, Florida, Friday, resulted in four
deaths. Nine persons are suffering from
commissions and are not expected to live.
Samuel Tanner (colored) and his wife and
eight children were first stricken. The
father and two children are dead, and the
rest are not expected to live. The mother
was the only one who escaped. The family
of Fletcher Taylor, consisting of five per-
sons, living near the Tanners, was attacked
at the same time with the same symptoms.
One child has died and the rest are in a bad
way. An autopsy showed that death was
caused by arsenic, and the poison was
traced to well used by the two families