Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-07
HOME AND ABROAD.
TWO FATAL GIANT POWDER En-.
PL0SI0NS YESTERDAY.
Half Orange Crop in Fiorida-Bul-
garian Soldiers Favor Russia
Quarreling Knights of Labor.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD rsIoS.l

Quarreling knights of Labor.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD UNIoN.l
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Work of the Utah Commission.
WASHINGTON, October 6th-The Utah
Commission, by its Chairman, A. b. Carl
ton, has filed with the Secretary of the In
terror its annual report Of which the fol-
lowing is synopsis. During the year the
law regarding the disfranchisement of
polygamists and those living in unlawful
cohabitaticn has been fully and success
fully enforced. All such persons, with
very few exceptions, have been excluded
from voting and holding Offices. A large
number have been fined and imprisoned
in tine penitentiary for polygamy, or un-
lawful cohabitation, chiefly for the latter
offense II is reported, and believed by
many resident non-Mormons, that during
the year large number of polygamous
marriages have taken place in the temples
in Logan City and st. George. We have
no means of verifying such reports, yet we
have no doubt that considerable number
of such marriages have been celebrated
with the knowledge, appreciation and
active cooperation of the leading men
of the Mormon Church. Upon the whole,
whether polygamous marriages are on the
decrease in Utah, is matter on which diff
ferent opinions are expressed, but undoubt-
edly many have been restrained by fear of
disfranchisement and the Peniten,iary, and
we think it is safe to say that in the more
enlightened portions of the Territory, as,
for example Salt Lake City and its vicinity,
very few polyganrous marriages have oc-
CURED within the last year.
They Can't Hold Office.
WASHINGTON, October 6th.-Amolg the
officials directly affected by the Presidents
conclusion-that candidate Tor an elect
oral office SHOULD relinquish his Federal
office-are A. X. Delany, United States At
torney for the Eastern District of Wiscon-
sin, and A. Hurst, United States Attorney
for the Southern District Of Ohio. Mr..
'Delany was appointed to his present Office
bv President Cleveland, mainly through
the efforts of General Bragg and has been
nominated to succeed that gentleman in
Congress. Mr.. Hurst is a Republican, and
was appointed under the previous admins
tration He has been nominated for Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamil
ton county. After he accepted the nom-
ination he wrote to the Attorney-General,
informing him of his nomination, and said
that if his retention of the District-Attor-
neyship, pending the result of the State
election, conhicted. in any way with the
Presidents policy of civil service reform,
ne would resign his present Office. AS al
ready stated, the Cabinet considered the
question at to-lay's meeting, and decided
that, as general principle, an official de-
string to enter the politi cal field had better
give up his Federal office. 1t is therefore
likely that changes will shortly be made in
both the offices mentioned.
Turn the :" Rascals" Out.
WASHINGTON, October 6th.-James L.
Williams, who was arrested at the White
House IN March, 1885. while insisting on
the President paying him 100000 on a
claim against the Government, and who
was sent to the insane asylum, was to-day
brought into the District Court on a writ
of habeas corpus and released. The Court
decided that no person can be restrained of
his liberty as an insane person unless the
question has been passed upon by'a jury.
There are but about 20 per cent. of the 200
patients in the Government Insane Asylum
whose sanity has been passed upon by a
jury dc tallaticO inguIendo.
Our Red Elephant.
WASHINGTON, October 6th.-It is believed
about the War Department that the Cabi-
net will finally conclude that there is suf-
ficient precedent for trying Geronimo and
his fellowmurderers by q military COM
mission, as was done in the case of Captain
Jack and his Modoc companions, and that
he will soon be brought before tribunal
which will try the case. Old army officers,
that there is no parallel whatever between
the act for which Captain Jack was tried
and hanged, and that with which Geronimo
is charged.
National Bank Reserve gents.
WAsuIHGrox. October 9th The Comp
troIler to-day approved tire following re-
serve agents for California national banks ::
Los Angeles National Bank, Crocker &
Woolworth National Bank OF San Fran
cisco, Sacramento National Bank of d. o..
Mills & Co., San Bernardino First National
Bank, aud the First National Bank of San
Francisco.
Indian Agents.
WASHINGTON. October 6lh.-These Indian
Agents were appointed to-day Round Val
ley, Cal, j. F. Wulsey Two Rivers, Cal,
G. G. Belknsp.
Crush of the Curious.
WASHINGTON, October 6th.-The Presi-
dents reception this afternoon was the
largest held since his return from the
mountains The callers numbered 500.
Brakemen On a Strike.
CLEVELAND. October 6th.-The freight
brakernen on the Washington division of
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad made demand several days ago
for an increase OF wages from 81 70 to 81
per day, and presented several other griey-
ances. Among other things they asked
that they be allowed pay for all the time
over 10 hours consumed in making q round
trip. At present they get extra pay only
when it requires more than 20 hours
to make the trip The engineers and fire.
men come within the nineteen-hour limit,
and the brakemen ask for the same. They
also demand one-quarter OF day for time
lost when called to go out with train
which fails to start, as is frequently the
case General Manager Shaler forwarded
the demands to the Erie headquarters in
New York, promising to give them reply
to-day. This morning the officials sub
mitted a proposition to the effect that
they will agree to pay wages as
high as any other road competing with the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Rail
way, the men to be given time to investi-
gate for themselves to ascertain the prices
paid by competing lines. II satisfactory
arrangements could not be made, each
party was to select man, and those two a
third TO constitute an Arbitration Com
mission, whose decision was to be consid-
ereu final, and for both to bind themselves
to abide by the decision rendered by that
Commission. The committee refused to
accept the proposition, and ordered the
brakemen to quit work at noon. The order
was complied with here, and about sixty
men struck. Freight is bIockaded in the
yards here. 1t is hinted by the strikers
that the entire Erie system will yet be in
voved.
For Tricks 1hat Are Vain, the Demo-
crat is Peculiar.
New York, October 6th.-The JfaI and
Express Washington special says: A Cali
fornia politician, just returned from the
Pacific coast, says thai Senator German OF
Maryland has gone to consult with the
leading Democrats of California and try
and devise plans by which the Legislature
can be carried by the Democrats. He says
German is of the opinion that he knows
political trick or two which can be adj
vantageously used on the Pacific coast, and
thus gain a Democratic successor 10 the
late Senator Miller. German has the vain
hope that he can change the political COM
plexion of the Senate in 1888, and if Cleve-
land is nominated and reelected he will be
again on top. To begin, German is now
working California, and he intends TO stop
ov-or M, his Uav hack in Nebraska and