Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-21
1. o. o. f. Gran d Encampment.

SAN FRANcIsco, October 20th.-The Cali
fornia Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows
continued in session to-day. Yesterday
afternoon report was received from Grand
Treasurer Lamont, showing an expendi-
ture. on account of the general fund, of
So. 500 The mileage fund received $1,120
and expended 1922, which, with 1926 20 on
hand, left 1924 20.
The election of officers of the Grand En-
campment took place, resulting as follows :
J. f. Crossett, G. P; A. r. Lord, &. II. P;
John A. Mace, S. G. W.; w. 3. Lyon, G. S..
George w. Lamont, G. T.; Samuel B.
Trustees-Lewis Sober, H. S. VIM, W. H.
Barnes.
To-DAY's PROCEEDINGS.
The Special Committee on Distribution
presented its report, which was adopted.
S. B. Smith, Chairman of the Committee
on Relations, and L. D. Freer special Com
mittee on Honored Dead, presented re-
ports.
The following special committee, to pre-
pare a constitution as contemplated in a
previous report, was appointed by the
Grand Patriarch: c. C. Terrill, George T.
Shaw, F. H. Duffel, w. B. Lyon, E. B.
Cooper.
At II o'clock the Grand Encampment
went into secret session for the purpose of
exemplifying the secret work.
Hares and Hounds.
MERGED, October 20th.-The Pacific Coast
Coursing Club arrived here from San Fran
cisco at 10 P. NJ. yesterday. and to-day took
their first days coursing for the fall meet
ing. They found the ground in fair order,
the weather cool, and hares exceedingly
abundant. The hares ran well, and the
dogs performed satisfactorily. Everything
was agreeable there being large number
of spectators. The amateurs twenty-four
courses were run, resulting as follows: Old
bridge beat NJ Devlin's Miss Abbie Mer-
cedes' Kitty from Cork beat T. Halls Null
doom; NJ. Devlin's Elvira beat T. Cronin's
Rose of Tralee; T. Halls True Blue beat
d. Reaches John Mitchell: T. Cronins
Thornbill beat ]. B. Bakers Blue Boy; 7.
Halls Fannie beat p. J. Caravans Peasant
Girl; sEagan's Maid of Erin ran bye
NJ. Mercedes Boushie beat Shea's Lady
Hercules; T. Brady's Menlo Chief beat P.
A. McDonald's Camelia; H. Deans Spot
beat T. Cronin's Stranger ]. B. Bakers
Yankee Girl beat D. Roach's Shamrock
Lass; w. W. Halpin's Mazeppa beat T.
Cronin's Napoleon; ]. Eagan's Belle of
Waterloo ran bye; T. Brady's Oceanic
beat John Duggan's Sleepy Dick; W. B.
Browns Byron beat J. Duggan's Lilly; j.
Grace's Black Bart beat j. B. Bakers Lady
Washington.
Second run over-Kittv from Cork beat
Eldridge, Elvira beat True Blue, Thornhill
beat Fannie, Maid of Erin beat True Blue,
Menlo Chief beat Spot, Mazeppa beat
Yankee Girl, Oceanic beat Belle of Water
loo, Black Bart beat Byron. Night coming
on, the balance of the course was deferred
till tomorrow.
stabbing ARRAY Near Stockton.
STOCKTON, October 20th.-Thos. Acker-
son, a man having charge of a herd of
horses on Roberts Island, SIX miles from
this place, was stabbed by a sheepherder
named Peter Cunningham, about o'clock
this evening" at a saloon on the island. The
assailant is in Jail, and a physician has
been sent to care for the wounded man,
who it is believed will die, as the blade of a
large pocket-knife was thrust in his stomach
to depth of about three inches. 1t is said
the assault was unprovoked, and that the
prisoner had been huntinga fight all day.
The Orient.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 20th.-The Pa
cifc Mail steamer City of Picking arrived
to-day with dates from Hongkong to Sep
TENDER 22d, and from Yokohama to Octo-
Der I'd:
CHINA.
Reports of floods continue to be received
from all parts of the central and northern
provinces. In Liaotung, within circle of
800 miles, only one or two in every ten Of
the population have escaped drowning.
The Chinese authorities have admitted
that the Roman Catholics were not to blame
in the late Chunking riots. All is now
! reported quiet there.
Advices from Kuei-Chow report aggres-
sions upon French missionaries there.
British missionaries have been thus far I'M
molested.
II is rumored that the Government con-
templates engaging Germans as legal ad-
visers in every Governmental department.
The steamer Takata- Maru, from Haka-
dato for Niigota, foundered in Il gale. Ali
on board, ninety-six, were lost except one.
Reports of loss of life and property by
\ floods continue to come in.
| The cholera is gradually disappearing
| from Yokohama, and is decreasing in
| Toxic.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The French recently had a brush with
about 1000 pirates near HOoloc, Tonquin.
More than 500 Anamites were killed, their
! Notifications and magazines destroyed and
a lot of cannon and small arms captured.
The Segama gold fields, in North Borneo,
promise well. There is a prospect of the
development of rich and extensive dig
gings.
UTAH.