Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-19

New York. Mrs. Agnew is woman of
middle age, and has taken an active interest
in the schools of the upper part of the city.
Miss Dodge has for several years been
Vice President of the New York Industrial
School, now in University place. 1t is the
largest industrial school in the city, and
during the illness of President Webb she
has had entire direction of it.
Exploring Greenland.
New York, November 1Sth.-The Her.
AIDS St. John IN. F.) special says: The
steam whaler Eagle arrived yesterday. She
was short of coal and water, and one half
her crew was on the sick list from the
hardships and exposure of the past two
months. The Eagle has on board Lieuten-
ant B. E. Peary, United States navy, who
went north in the Eagle last spring to ex-
anime the Greenland ice fields. He made
sledge trip hundred miles into the in
terror from Disco Bay with the young
Danish Governor, and reached an elevation
of 800 feet. He also visited Tassukstk
glacier, and crossed the base of Noursook
peninsula, from Tassukstk to the great
Kariak glacier interior, studying the coast
line. Captain Jaekman, of the Eagle, re-
ports an extremely unfortunate season for
the whaling fleet. The Triune was aground
for several days on the south Greenland
coast, in the early spring. The passage OF
Melville bay was more perilous than it had
been for years. The entire fleet was more
or less seriously nipped.
Sensational Developments in the Doodle
Alderman's Case.
New YORK, November 1Sth.-At to-
nights session of the trial of ex-Alderman
McQuade, Charles B. Waite 1.-THE informer)
testified that he had been an Alderman in
1854 and was a member of the Railway
Committee of the Board. He remembered
the petition filed in June, 1884, for fran
chise for the Broadway road, and he re-
membered a resolution offered by Alder
man O'Connor, in effect that all franchises
should be sold at auction, and that this res
olution was referred TO the Railroad Com
mission Committee, which, however, rec
commended that the franchise be granted to
the Broadway Surface Company. The
hearing before the Commission lasted sew
eral hours. The report drafted by the COM
mittee was put in shape by the Broadway
Surface Railway Company. (Sensation.)
Liberty's Light.
New York, November 18th. = Com
mander Picking, Secretary of the Light
house Board, has telegraphed to Com
mander Binham, Inspector Of the Third
Lighthouse District which embraces Bed
lows Island, to take steps for lighting the
Bartholdi Statue of Liberty as soon as
possible. 1t is estimated at Washington
that it will cost about $3.50 per month to
maintain the light, and it will require sew
eral days to arrange all the preliminaries.
New Surgeon-General.
WASHINGTON, November 1Sth.-Colonel
John Moore, of the medical department of
the army, was to-day appointed Surgeon
General by the President, to succeed Sur
geon- General Murray, retired. Colonel
Moore, who is in San Francisco, has been
directed to report at Washington immedi-
ately.
VIII Summer in Foreign" Land.
New YORK, November 1Sth-It is re-
ported that James g. Blaine has bought a
lot at Seabright. n. J., near that of w. w.
Phelps, and will build a summer cottage
there.
The Panama Canal.
New YORK, November 19th-A. M.-The
Columbian Consul here, Senior Calderon,
has received information that work on the
Panama Canal has practically stopped, and
there was trouble between the contractors
and the Canal Company in regard to pay
ments for work performed.
At the office of the company the Secre-
tary said: 1--WE have had trouble with
some of the contractors, because we would
not pay them more than they were entitled
to. Three months ago there were 1900
men employed on the canal. I do not
know how many are employed now, but
the work has not been stopped. We have
money enough to last for three years."
The Oregon Short Line.
New YORK, November 19th-A. M.-The
regular monthly meeting of the Directors
of the Northern Pacific Railway Company
was held yesterday. 1t was said after adj
journment that only routine business had
been transacted, and nothing was done
about the lease, jointly with the Union Pa
cifc Railway, of the Oregon Short Line
Railway and Navigation Company's
property. The discussion of the
subject is said to have been
prolonged and earnest The speeches made
are understood to have been warmly in
favor of the joint lease, and the opposition
to the project maintained silence through
out the meeting.