Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-14
WIRED WORDS.
SEYEREST STORM IN YEARS ON
THE ATLANTIC COAST.
No Coal Famine in Wyomine-Yel.
low Fever at Acapulco
New York Politics.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE anconD-Usro
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Postmasters Take WARNING


regard OF the postal regulation which
( requires Postmasters RENTING surplus
money order funds to the repositories in q
registered package, to be able, in every
! case, toprove by at least one disinterested
! witness that the money was actually in
! closed in proper registered package, prop.
| erly addressed locked in the mail bag and
! dispatched. If the Postmaster fails TO com.
! ply with these requirements, he is com.
PEELED to make good the money if it is lost
or stolen. Many Postmasters finding it in.
! convenient to have witness to the dis
! patch of funds, have, in cases of losses OF
I thefts, made claims for credit which have
| been disallowed, the Postmaster-Ge General
holding that the precautions above noted
are necessary, not only to establish the fact
that the money was actually RENTED, but
| to secure proof, if necessary, for the con-
! vlchon of those persons charged with its
| theft.
New Postal Ruling,
WASHINGTON, October 13th.-The Post
master-General has made a ruling to the
| effect that in cases where railroad compa-
MES carrying the mail are obliged to de-
liver it into and receive it from Postoffices
(Which requirement applies to stations
where the Postoffice is within eighty rods
Of the stopping place of the train, en-
ployes carrying the mails between the sta
tion and Office are not employees in thepos-
! tai service, and need not be sworn in. The
! Department, however, requires the railway
company to employ for this purpose per.
sons over the age of Is years, and of suita-
bic intelligence and character, and Post
masters are directed to report any violation
OF this requirement.
Patents to California Inventors.
WASHINGTON, October 13th.--The fol.
! lowing patents to California inventors were
issued from the United States Patent Office
| to-day San Francisco, Julius Finck (as-
| signOr to William Finck), Incorporating
| device George II. Heusel (assignor of one
| half to e. IL. Heusel, electric belt-releas-
! ing device; Henry ". Wheeler (assignor
| to Tatum d Bowen, saw. Elk Grove, J.
! t. Chinnick, windmill head. Santa Rosa,
| William c. Nelson, pounding and washing
machine. San Jose, G. F. Wing assignee
| of Justin E. Page, of Rosedale, ks, corn
planter. Oakland, Shuball Park delivery
wagon. Modesto, Richard +. Williams,
| pipe wrench. Two trademarks were is
| sued TO H. Levy & Co., of San Francisco,
for plug chewing and smoking tobacco.
The Civil Service Commissionership.
WASHINGTON, October 13th-The Post
tomorrow will say: Beyond the fact that
tl4O lleALiiC VI MI NlldS. OOuUllll, OF lSOS-
ton, has been suggested to the President as
mt person to succeed Mr.. Eaton, there is
no foundation for the story that he has
accepted the Civil Service Commissioner
ship. There is no probability that he
would accept the place offered him. and
there is no probability of its being offered
to him. 1t has not been offered to anv one.
and the President has not determined upon
any one to whom he will offer it.
Capital Notes.
WASHINGTON, October l3th.-Reports re-
ceived at the Marine Hospital Bureau show
that yellow fever has appeared in AGA
pulco.
Captain Healey, commanding the reve-
nue. steamer Corwin, reports to the Treas
ury Department from San Francisco where
he has just arrived, that the explorations of
the headwaters OF the Kowaz and Noataz
rivers, IN Alaska, were pushed to success
lul completion on the last cruise of the
CorWin.
The Treasury Department to-day pur-
Ased 195, 600 ounces of silver for delivery
at the New Orleans and Philadelphia
MINIS, for coinage into standard dollars.
Robert b. Roosevelt, of New York; Au-
gustus S. Merriman, of North Carolina. and
William Stevenson, of Pennsylvania. have
been appointed Commission TO examine
and report upon twenty-five miles of the
Northern Railway, lying between Eagle
Gorge, Washington Territory, and the south
bank Of the Pujalluk river.
The new mail service between san Fran
cisco and Australia and New Zealand, to
replace the Pacific Mail service, will begin
November 2lst, and a steamer will sail ev-
cry four weeks thereafter.
New York Politics.
NEW YORK Ootohar 19tb Tho TN.
warmly commends tho actio, ~ tbo CO. ',,,0
tv Democracy Last rigbf in rof,isi,l[, IT,,
many's 0yertures and saws If has a;I-an
the Democracy of tbis cify on ore,a,;safie,l
and its leaders can annaaI with conf da,,na,
to the neonIe TheY have deI;barat laIr
placed themselves in a position in which
it is necessary to nominate capable honest
men Tor ONCE, IN order to have any hope
OF success, and at the same time making it
of - ~ d ltFa; oIiniZatioll 10 carry
Offices and politlcaI natrnnaga occordirg 10
the will of few seIf-consfitnted bosses
With the exomnIa of tho Connt,- Da,,,,,e
racv before them the Times homes Tho Pc
publicans of the citv and county will throw
off the trammeIs of tba n,ach;1o " "1d
mate better ticke+ tba, o;tIar 90 +hn a.,
posing parties This vaar there is a oodd
chance for the Renn6Iicans IN como e oI,t
ahead in a triangTIIar figbt but oil denond nd
on the strength Of the ticket to be named.
THE PRoHIBITIoNIsTs
ALBANY, October 13tb.-A letter from
Fred +. Wheeler. Chairman of the pro
hibition State Committee. addressed 70 G
S. Cole and John. O'Brien Cbairmen re.
spectiyelv of the Republican and Demo
cratic State Committees. is made nublic To-
night In it he charges that both parties
are pledged in their platforms against nro-
hibition. and challenges them to ARRANGE
for triangular Joint discussion bv t6e
three candidates for the Goyernorship on
the questions at issue. He SUGGESTS five
meetings at different points in the state
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natidns Of Az Co,,,t3.. Tue hohii-
''''''0N' u VIC Oo'tiity Deiiiocracy'
TAMMANY AND IRVING HALL.
New YORK, October 13lh.-Tbe commit
tees of nine each. representing Tamman,,
and Irving Halls. were in session ali this
afternoon, but reached no settlement as to
a division of the offices on the joint county
ticket. Irving Hall demands the Sheriff,
and there comes halt. The committees
will meet again tomorrow, and if no con-
clusion is reached, committees of twenty
four from each hall Will settle it.
stoc,,s IN No. vu,.
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