Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-04
SATURDAYS NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM SPECIAL DIsPArcHEs.l
DQlnesfic

The public debt decreased $90S9, $40 dur
ing December.
Two new cases of smallpox were dis
covered at Chicago Saturday
Several cases OF leprosy are reported to
exist IN Houston county, MINI.
Captain Gerroir is under arrest at Boston
charged with scuttling the schooner Racer.
At Poplar Bluffs, No., Tom Archer has
confessed that he murdered ]. B. Bunch
near Shoals, Ind, in 1881.
California Congressman are now in doubt
about obtaining as good committee places
as they expected week ago.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows has declared war on the Patriarchal
Circle, branch of the Order.
Senator Ingalls, of Kansas is confident
that the sentiment of Congress is in favor
of the continued coinage of silver.
Miss Elizabeth B. Van:Vorst, an elderly
resident of Murray Hill, New York, was
burned to death on New Years Day.
The mother of Pauline Markham, the
actress, is dead, leaving her daughter a
share OF an estate valued at $4,000.
PIGGY Q'Leary, of Chicago, who muir
dered his sister and another woman while
drunk, was on Saturday sentenced to serve
forty years in the Penitentiary
1t is reported that J. A. Stewart, Presi-
dent of the United States Trust Company
of New York, helped Cleveland to prepare
the financial part of his message.
Thomas Bogue, manager of La Blanche,
the Marine of Boston, has been in New
York for week trying to arrange fight
between Dempsey and La Blanche, but
without final result.
A fire Saturday destroyed one of the
wings of the insane asylum near Newark,
n. j. In the wing were 103 patients, but
all were saved without accident. The loss
is $4,000; fully insured.
Robert Hutchings has been appointed
Receiver of the General Land Office in the
Humboldt District, California. The APP
pointment was made on the recommended
ton of Congressman Henley.
A series of mysterious tragedies have oc-
CURED recently in Spring Wells, Mich, re-
sulting in several deaths. No convicting
evidence exists as to the perpetrators of the
crimes, though suspicion is strong.
The coal-miners' strike in Monongahela
valley, Pennsylvania, has ended, and the
diSaffected GOLFERS have decided to return
to work. The strike lasted four months
and fully 5000 men were engaged in it.
The Am rican Pasteur Institute filed its
certificate of incorporation in New York
Saturday. The object is the gratuitous
cure and treatment by the Pasteur system
of incubation, of all persons threatened
with or suffering from hydrophoba.
Treasurer Jordan, of the United States
Treasury at Washington, took charge of
the Sub-Treasury in New York Saturday.
There was considerable delay in the open
ing of the vaults, and for this reason bust
ness was at standstill for an hour or
two.
Information is wanted by his family of
Anthony Barnes, commonly known in the
profession as Tony Barnes, who left Boston
in 1870 with Barnums show, and who was
last heard of in Marysville, California, in
1879. An estate has been left him in New
York.
The time named for receiving bids for
carrying the mails on steamboats, and star
routes in the Western States and Territories
expired Saturday. A much larger number
of bids have been received than in previous
years. The contracts will be awarded on the
23d of February.
During January the commissions of over
hundred Presidential Postmasters will
expire. The terms of about the same num-
DSi lSiiullldlcu III DeCeIuDeT, Dul COUlpdrd-
lively few changes were made. 1t is said
that large number of nominations will
be made as soon as Congress meets.
Scofeld, Shurmer & Teale one of the
largest oil refining firms in Ohio, began
suit in the Common Pleas Court, at Cleve-
land Saturday, against the Missouri Pa
cific Railroad Company. Damages in the
sum of $3.50 are asked on account of
freight discrimination in favor of the
Standard Oil Company between st. Louis
and points in Texas.
Brddstreets has classified list of the boy
colts for the last two years. There were
237 boycotts begun. including Al against
Chinese and 40 against newspapers. The
boycotters claim success in 80 cases, in
Guiding Is newspapers and 40 Chinese
cases. They admit losing "a cases, includ-
ing 10 newspapers and l Chinese. There
are la cases still on.
A New York Democratic journal has the
following Boss Mclaughlin. of Brooklyn,
has started in to get square with President
Cleveland. The President has not given
the Democrats of Kings county the recogni-
ton they believe themselves entitled to,
and as consequence Governor Hill is to
be doomed for the Democratic nomination
for President in 1883.