Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-24
SATURDAYS NEWS.
lcoxDESsEn FROM SPECIAL nrsPArcHEs.l
Domestic

DDhtSuC.
General Durbin Ward is dead.
Stephen Pearl Andrews died at Chicago
on Thursday.
Dr. Dio Lewis left instructions that his
body should be cremated.
A call for 100000 of three-per-cent
bonds was issued Saturday.
Great damage to property has resulted
from floods in South Carolina.
Muldoon has challenged Moth to a
Greeo-Roman wrestling match.
The Telephone Investigating Committee
has decided to hear no more testimony
Lieutenant Corwin Sage has been dropped
from the rolls Of the army for desertion.
Senator Fair proposes to erect a residence
on Mob Hill, San Francisco, to cost about
100000.
The resignation of Major-General Alex
ander |. Shaler has been accepted, at AL
bany, n. Y.
Senator Stanford and Mrs Stanford, with
! friends from Albany, went to Mount Yer
non Saturday.
The Postmaster General has made the
| Postoffice at Ontario, Baker county, Or. a
| mOney-order Office.
Martin Irons is reported to be in hiding
| from the wrath of the ex-strikers on the
Gould system of railroads.
Mrs. Mary Ryan has been arrested in
! Omaha in response to telegram from her
husband, on charge OF insanity.
The House Ways and Means Committee
! favors the use of spirits in the fortifcatin
Of sweet wines designed for expectation.
A legislative committee is investigating
/ the alleged brutalities committed in LOUISE
ana under the present convict contract sys-
tenn.
a. Rodrigues and Billy Weldon. feather
weights, fought twenty-one rounds al Ho-
b0ken, \. j., on Friday, the result being
draw.
Frank NJ Convey, of Washington Terri
tory, and Frank l. Rising, of Nevada, have
been admitted to the United States Naval
Academy.
Baseball Friday At Detroit-Detroits g.
! Washingtons 3; at Kansas City-Bostons 5,
! Kansas City, I at st. Louis-St. Louis l,
! New York 7.
The United States steamer Nipsic, from
South America, thought to have met with
an accident, passed Sandy Hook inward
! bound Saturday.
c. NJ. Anderson of California beat John
Murphy of New York by four seconds, in
a twenty-five mile race with relays of
| horses, at New York.
Several Mormon missionaries had a mar
row escape from a mob of country people
in Washington county Penn, who OBJ
jectcd 10 their proselyting.
Only one of the Troy collar factories is
running. Between 10000 and 1900 people
are thrown out of employment by the
strike of the laundry girls.
Miss Pendleton, daughter of the United
States Minister to Berlin, has almost recov-
cred from the effects of her fall She was
| removed to her brothers house Saturday.
President Elijah Smith, of the Oregon
and Transcontinental Company, has issued
a circular letter to the stockholders solicit
ing proxies in favor of the present manage
meut.
The prosecution in the Maxwell case at
St Louis is nearing the end of their list of
witnesses. the evidence of whom they
think will c0nvict the defendant of murder
in the first degree.
Baseball Saturday: At Detroit-Wash-
ingtons 3, Detroits Is. At Chicago-Chi-
Cages ., Philadelphias 3. At st. Louis
st. Louis g. New Yorks 6. At Kansas City
Kansas Citys 9, Bostons /.
The following Postmasters nave been APP
pointed for California: Miss L. Conway at
| Cuffey's Cove, Mendocino county; j. H.
| PuryiS at Kingsburg, Fresno county; J. B.
Norton at Pacific Grove Monterey county.
II was announced Saturday that John r.
| Smith, Treasurer Of the Board of Domestic
| Missions of the Reformed Church in the
United States, had appropriated over $25,-
900 of the moneys of the Board to his own