Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-14

Major Merritt Barber has been ordered
from Arizona to San Francisco for special
duty.
Charles Miller, Wyoming cowboy, was
killed in drunken row in Lusk few
days ago.
Two men, supposed to be those who re-
Gently robbed the Reno stage, have been ar
rested in Plumas county.
Judge Wallace, of the United States Cir
cult Court, has decided that the shares of
national banks are taxable
The New York Sun announces that it has
paid the bills of Holmes 81 Co. for $500 for
embalming the body of General Grant.
A student of the North Carolina State
University was killed in an ARRAY between
students and negroes at Durham, n. C.
Collector Hager has called the attention
of the. Treasury Department to the evasion
of the Restriction Act by the Chinese in
transit.
Andrew Snyder, who was stabbed by
George Dietrich in a barroom affray at Los
Angeles, is still alive, and there is chance
of his recovery.
Dion Boucicault, Mrs. Boucicault and
several members of the company with
which the veteran actor is going to play
Jilt through the country, have arrived
from Europe.
The reduced copy of Cleopatra's Needle
erected over Lieutenant Commander Cor
ringe's grave in Rockland Cemetery, Spark
hill, was unveiled on Tuesday. The shaft
is single stone of Vermont white granite
% feet high.
Rev. w. H. H. Murray was married last
Monday to Miss Frances NJ. Rivers, of
Montreal. She is a commitment of the
Catholic Church, and it was by a compro-
mise that the ceremony was performed by
civil officer.
1t has been arranged that there is to be
public Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey
on the afternoon of June 20, 1887, on the
occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of
Queen Victoria's accession. The services
will be a function of much state.
Since June at least twenty Siberian pris-
oners have escaped. The precautions
which are observed throughout Siberia are
so stringent that the Government is per-
suaded that escapes could not have been
effected without connivance with prison
officials.
The remains of woman were found in
an oak box at the Allegheny dump this
morning. The body was nude, and in an
thorities are inclined to think the body was
shipped from Europe, but no definite in
formation has been learned in regard to it.
Thomas Brown, the man who was chased
across the Rio Grande by Mexican police
men, shot at, brutally beaten, and forced
back across the river without the Formally
of extradition papers, was released from the
Paso del Norte jail, and Immediately crossed
to Ell Paso on Tuesday. He tells hard
story of his treatment by the Mexicans.
The Tombstone Epitaph learns from
reliable source than Mangus and eighteen
bucks were depredating in the Animas
valley recently. They stole fifty head of
horses in that section. They were pursued
by large armed force, numbering some
fifty men, but they managed to escape into
Sonora, where more of their deviltry will
come to light in the near future.
There are many indications that look
like a secret understanding between Austria
and Russia, through Germany, to partition
the Ottoman Empire in Europe between
them. This would leave Bismarck clearly
in possession still of the key of the situa-
ton, as he is firm in the resolve TO allow
nothing to happen that would throw
Russia into the arms of France.
At the Glenview (Ky.), stock sale forty
two horses were sold. Nutwood, the great
est living stud and representative of the
Hambletonians, was sold to f. D. Stout, of
Dubuque, Ia, for so, 900, and Pancoast of
the great Mambrino Chief was purchased
by John H. Schultz, of Brooklyn, for
$4,000. j. R. Crosier, of Pennsylvania,
paid $500 for Wickliffe, and the prices
ranged downward. ]. /. Case made three
purchases. The forty-two head realized
$122,935.
The grossest extravaganza is charged
against the managers of the Panama Canal
enterprise. 1t Is said that 100000 600 has
been expended in excayating 100000
cubic meters. ST. 100000 going for car
riages, horses, houses and other luxuries
for those in charge of the work. The man
ner in which the managers live is simply
princely. Gorgeously furnished bouSes,
horses, carriages and palace cars are what
are considered to be essentially necessary
10 the companys chiefs. One man who
dealt in furniture, etc, made in two years
$780, 600 out of jobs, and that is a sample
of the corruption existing in the ranks,