Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-25

west, and st. Louis, started tonight fol
New York. He expresses himself as well
satisfied with the condition of his roads
| In regard to the Missouri Pacific shops
being removed from this city to Kansas
| City, Mr.. Gould said that absolutely moth
ing had been decided upon.
Forest Fire.
DOVER On. H., October 24th.-The ex-
tensive forest fires which broke out yester-
day in Great Darlington ragged all night
and until this afternoon, when the flames
showed signs of abatement. owing to lack
of material to feed upon. Some !, 200 acres
were burned over, and several hundred
cords of wood destroyed. No estimate of
the loss can be made
Wizards Return.
New York, October 24th.-Among the
passengers who arrived from Europe to-
day was Henry Willard, formerly President
of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
He is expected to remain in the city for
some time. He refused to grant an inter
view, but his Private Secretary said that
Willard had completed negotiations with
German capitalists to make investments
TOR them IN American securities
Sunday Horror.
SYRACUSE, October 24th.-Mr. and Mrs.
John MCGOWAN were found living on bed
in their house to-day covered with blood.
Their year-old child was in bed with
them. The mans arm encircled the
woman's neck. Both had deep gashes in
their throats. The woman was dead, and
the man died without explaining the
crime.
Clearing House Exchanges.
BosToN. October 24th.-A table compiled
from dispatches to the Post from the man
ayers of the leading clearing houses in the
United States gives the gross exchanges for
the week ending October sd at $10.639,-
OBS 99-a decrease of ga per cent for the
corresponding period of 1885.
Great Sale of Railroad Lands.
New YORK, October 25th-A. M.-The
Tribune says that an important legal step
has just been taken in the tangled aff,irs of
the Houston and Texas Railway Company.
The company is now in the hands of three
receivers, Charles Fillingham, n S. Easton
and ]. Grintoul, the two latter being trus-
tees of the first mortgage. Various at
tempts have been made to reorganize the
property, but they have failed because of
the refusal of the bondholders to meet the
demands of the stockholders. The bulk of
the stock is in the hands of c. P Hunting
ton and his friends The bondholders re-
fuse to scale down the interest to within
what the stockholders regard as the earning
capacity of the road. The company has a
valuable land grant from the State of
Texas, covering over 100000 acres. By
the terms of the grant it was provided that
q part of the land should be alienated in
fourteen years from the date of the grant,
and the other part in twenty-one years
after. The bondholders have supposed
that the placing Of the bonds in the hands
of Trustees was lawful and proper alien
alton, but the Attorney General, under
direction of the Governor of Texas, has
investigated the matter and taken the
ground tkat 442l sections of land in the
possession of the Receivers must be sold
before November Goth, else they will revert
to the State. Unwilling to run the risk of
forfeiture, the Trustees and company have
petitioned D. A. Pardee, United States Cir
cult Judge for the Fifth Judicial District,
to order forced sale prior to the date fixed
as the limit of the holding of the lands. A
private dispatch received here on Saturday
announced that the Court had granted the
petition.