Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-04

Deserters Not Entitled to Pensions.
WASHINGTON, June 3d.--General Black,
Commissioner of Pensions, decided to-day
not to take favorable action on an applica-
ton for pension by soldier who de-
serted from his second term of service and
again enlisted during which enlistment he
alleges that he was disabled. The claimant,
General Black says, must seek relief
through the War Department or through
Congress. The Commissioner also rejected
the claim of soldier who entered the
service as substitute deserted on his way
to his regiment, and having been captured
and tried by Court-martial, was sentenced
among other things, to make good the time
| lost by his. desertion. 1t was during his
service under his sentence that disease at
tackled him and disability followed, for
which he claimed a pension.
Indebtedness of the New Orleans Fair.
| WASHINGTON, June 3d.-The Secretary of
the Treasury has received from the Board
| of Managers of the Worlds Industrial Ex-
| position at New Orleans a statement of
| their Indebtedness, of which the following
is a recapitulation: Undisputed indebted
ness, 1888, 345; disputed Indebtedness,
claimed, Sl50,337 rejected, $72, 1872; adj
mittcd, S77 ,5S5; premiums, sec, 3SS Total
amount of claims, 1897 ,516; appropriation,
| $685., 900; difference, S62,31S.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, June 3d.-Judge Wallace
returned here to-day from New York. He
proposes to pass some time in the East
| The Secretary of State received to-day
| from the United States Minister at Madrid
cablegram stating that the Government
Commission had declared Asatic cholera
| epidemic in the Spanish province of Yalcn-
ella.
The arrival at New York of the last of
the marines sent to the Isthmus of Panama
during the recent troubles there is reported
to the Navy Department to-day.
The President mas appointed Harlan
Petiey, of Boise City, Idaho, Register of the
Land Office at Boise City, Idaho, vice Ed
ward l.. Curtis resigned.
Secretary Whitney has designated Ad-
miral J. W. a. Nicholson, retired. as the
naval member of the Prize Court to be
appointed by the United States District
Judge at New York, to examine the officers
of the Ambrose Light, recently captured
by the Alliance fer alleged violations Of the
neutrality laws. Five prisoners, including
the Captain and mate were captured by
the Alliance.
The President has amended Rule 9 of
the civil service rules, relating to the ex-
animation of applicants for Office, by insert
ing after the words q" No person dismissed
from the public service for misconduct
and before the words Shall be admitted
to examination within two years thereaf-
ter the following words =" And no person
who has not been absolutely appointed or
employed after probation
The Comptroller of the Currency to-day
authorized the First National Bank OF
Riverside, Cal, to begin business with a
capital of $4,000.
Colonel Stephenson, chief of the middle
division of the Pension Office, has been in
duced to resign. The grounds have not
been made public.
Ex-President Arthur in Fad Health.
NEW YORK, June 3d.-A Times Washing
ton special says: A prominent physician
who has Just returned from New York is
quoted as saying that ex-President Arthur
is suffering from Bright's disease. Arthur's
visit to Fortress Monroe was not for mala-
rial trouble, but to obtain relief from kid
nev troubles, with which he has been suf-
fering for over a year. Arthur is looking
badly and seems suffering intensely. He
is preparing for a sea voyage.
a CoaI-OiI Accident.
New YORK, June 3d.-While a party OF
, Germans, embracing members of three OF
four families. were seated around table
last night in a room on the ground floor
49, Ludlow street. q kerosene lamp eX-
ploded and the fragments and burning oil
, flew in every direction, covering all those
who sat around the table. In an instant
the whole room was ablaze, and the in
mates screamed for help and ran to and fro
Between them and the door leading into
the store everything was on fire, and
blinded as they were by the burning oil
that covered their faces, they rushed first tC
one side and then to the Other, and finally
the party succeeded in getting into the back
yard through a window. Only one was IA
tally burned. The pecuniary loss by the
fire was small.
New York Policemen Excited.
2 NEW YORK, June 3d.-Police headquar-
ters are highly excited over the discovery
of a clause, said to have been struggled int
the pension bill, passed in the last hours OF
: the Legislature, retiring all the members o.
! the department sixty years old. 1t is be-
lieved Il was aimed chiefly at Superintend
, ent Walling, but ii will affect 125 members
Of the force likewise. 1t is asserted thai
five of the present Captains would come
: under the rule. 1t is alleged that the pro.
vision was inserted after the bill was passed
Ex-Commissioner Matthews, who drew up
the bill, disclaims all knowledge of the
alleged Interpolation. The bill will prob
ably 20 back to the Governor, and an in
vestigation will be demanded.
TaImage Favors Incarceration.
BROOKLYN, June 3d.-Preacher Talmagt
comes out in favor of cremation. He finds
argument for it in the words " Dust to dust
ashes to ashes" He says we have always
been going on the principle of dust to dust
Inflammation. Now comes in the other
part, ashes to ashes; that is incarceration
Did you ever see that point before?
never did I really think that resurrection
is easier after incarceration than after lnhu-
nation.
Colonel Craig Explains.
NEW York. June 3d-A charge has been
made and published that Colonel Craig, OF
Sedalia, Mo, who is an applicant for a
position as Postoffice Inspector at St. Louis
, in answer to request to go to Arlington
on Decoration day, replied that if he went
at all it would be merely for the purpose OF
throwing filth upon every Yankee grave III
the cemetery. Colonel Craig, who was q
Colonel in the Union army, says what he
did say in reply to the question to go ovei
| TO Arlington ON Decoration day, was "
might as well 90 over and throw filth on
the graves fer all the good it will do. The
idea he meant to convey was that the
decoration of graves accomplished nc
pTdCJlCdl result, anu lLdl tlIC COSI VI liiS
same could be better employed in aiding
needy families of dead soldiers.
Professor OdIum's Juinp-Verdict OF the
Coroner's Jury.
NEW YORK, June 3d-The Coroner:
: Jury to-day listened to testimony in regarC
to Professor Odlum's fatal jump from the
Brooklyn bridge. Among the witnesse:
examined were Paul Boyton and Cole
: ridge H, Herbert, an intimate friend of the
! deceased. Both declared that efforts hac
been made to dissuade Odlum from at
l tempting the feat, but he was determined
! to make the jump. His object they said
was to make reputation, which woulC
enable him TO obtain engagements anC
: give exhibitions during the summer at tht
seaside resorts. Captain Boyton said tina
there certainly were no inducements helC
out to deceased by any parties in this city
! Some parties in Philadelphia, who were
much interested in the undertaking, nigh
! have done so. Just previous to the nigh
Odlum attempted the feat, he was in con
slant Geographic communication with mel
: in Philadelphia, and party of men cam
on to see him jump. On hearing of it
fatal termination they returned home i'm
mediately. so that their connection will