Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-05
SATURDAYS NEWS.
IcosDESsED FROM SPECIAL DISPATCHED
Domestic.


Domestic.
The river and harbor bill will be ready
this week.
Chief Justice Waite will spend the spring
in California
The Socialists are creating considerable
alarm in Chicago.
All is quiet again among the Hooking
valley (O.) strikers.
Lord Randolph Churchill will return
from India via San Francisco.
Silver, lead and copper have been dis
covered near South Canaan, IA.
The recent storm did little damage to
stock in Colorado and Wyoming.
severe earthquake shock was expert
enced Friday night at Laconia, n. II.
Frank Hurd has begun the contest OF the
election of Romeis to Congress from ONO.
The present Congress is not likely to de,
clare the forfeiture of any railroad land
grants.
Patrick Egan is charged with robbing the
vault in the City Clerks office at ST. Louis
of $1,000.
Mrs. Walter NJ. Fleming was badly
burned in New York Saturday evening by
her clothing taking fire.
Sharon's agent in Washington offers to
give a warranty deed to purchasers of prop
ertv from the ex-senator.
AT Bay City, Mich, Saturday, Jabez
knight cut the throat and fractured the
skull of a woman named Lou Hall.
Police Lieutenant Mullen has been SEN
fenced at Cincinnati to twelve months i'm
prisonment for preventing men from voting.
The mother of Miss Frances Z. Willard
President of the w. C. Z. T., celebrated
her 60th birthday at Evanston, ILL.,, Satur-
day.
A number of Eastern hotel proprietors
have offered to board naval officers on
credit until an appropriation is made for
their pay.
A fire in the works Of the Plymouth
Cordage Company, at Plymouth, Mass,
Saturday, caused loss of 100000. Several
persons were badly injured
The New York weekly bank statement
shows that the reserve has decreased S924,-
900, and that the banks hold $4eOO0,00O in
excess of the legal requirements.
Many Of the Piegan Indians in Montana
are reported as having been frozen to death.
The losses at Helena consisted, for the most
part, of frozen feet, ears and fingers.
DR. D. w. Bliss, the physician in charge
of the White House during the illness Of
Garfield, is said to be in such precarious
health as TO seriously alarm his friends.
A confirmed inebriate at Dallas, Tex, re-
Gently ratified himself Off for years peon-
age at ten cents chance. His name Is
understood to be Arthur Gordon, and he Is
well educated.
Bernard Billings, an inmate of the hos
pital at La Junta, Col, wandered out on
the prairie Friday night during a severe
snow-storm When found he was so badly
frozen that he died soon afterward.
The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
Saturday adopted resolution directing
the committee to frame a bill and present
the same TO the Legislature to prevent rail
way discrimination against that city.
The Civil Service Reform League of Chi
CagO decided Saturday afternoon to send Il
delegation to the State Capitol during the
next session of the Legislature to urge the
passage of d civil service bill for Illinois.
An earthquake shock was felt in the
southern section of Frederick county, Md,
on F1day night causing great consterna-
ton among the people. At Buckeyestown,
Limelliln Switch, Hicksville, Adamstown,
was very pcrcephble.
Proceedings in Iunacy have been COM
menced against Williams the manager OF
the Denver private founding asylum, at
which three young children recently died
for want of medical attention, Williams
and his assistants believing solely in the
power of prayer to cure the sick.
Cleveland has written his letter of resig-
1lr,ff 10 ,ft,f, Z l,a 9Th
10 attend charity ball and to wind up his
private business He will then spend q
week or So in New York, TO receive calls
from distinguished visitors, afterward re-
turning to Albany and remaining there
until he goes To Washington.
The Western Union Company has dis
charged the whole force OF statsticianS, a
number of messengers and several oper-
ators, and has abolished extra work in the
operating department ut New York. An
executive officer OF the company said that
the salaries of all the officials, not includ-
ing clerks and operators, would be reduced
from the 18th of the month.
Sixty colored people from points along
the Carolina Central Railroad took the Air
Line for Little Rock, Ark, Friday. They
said they were going there on promise
made them by ths agent that the Govern
ment would give them each forty acres OF
public land in Dat State At least 1o0
families have left North Carolina for Ar
kansas and the promise of forty acres has
been held out to all of them.
Mrs. Lucretia Garfield owns a gold mine
in Stanley county, y. c., about seven miles
from Albemarle. Some Northern prospect
ors spoke Of this mine to President Garfield
who, in conjunction with a friend. bought
the property and appointed an agent tC
work the mine. 1t was about the time thai
the mining operations were getting vel
under way that the President was shot
The mine has been regularly paying Mrs
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