Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-26
SATURDAYS NEWS.
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The Chicago Inter Ocean has reduced its
price to cents on week days.
A grand eight-hour demonstration will
take place in New York May LIST.
Commodore Belknap will probably sue
coed Commodore Russell at Mare Island.
Six Italian laborers persisted in the flames
of a burning shanty at Mount Alton, Pa,
Saturday morning.
The House Committee on Commerce has
reported in favor Of the bill against taxing
commercial travellers.
The Union Pacific Saturday announced
an increase in freight rates to California to
30 per cent. of the old tariff
Secretary Whitney has gone to New York
for few days, and Commodore Walker is
Acting Secretary of the Navy.
A meeting of 1900 workmen at Wilkes
barre, Pa, yesterday resolved to ask that
their hours of labor be reduced to eight.
Several new employees of the Third
avenue surface road in New York were
brutally beaten by the strikers Saturday
night.
The Senate Committee on Public Lands
has ordered favorable report on the bill
to forfeit the Atlantic and Pacific land
grant.
The remains of Father Ryan, the Poet
Priest of the South" who died on Thurs
day, will be inferred at Mobile with mill
tary honors.
The retiring Chinese Minister will take
official leave of the President tomorrow,
and probably his successor will be pre-
sented at the same time.
II is said that of the $4,000 distributed
by Secretary Evarts in the We'll award, not
dollar has been received by the widow of
We'll, all going to the lawyers.
The House on Saturday passed the bill
dividing the State of California into two
Judicial districts; also the bill regulating
the fees of clerks of Federal Courts.
Charles Croker continues to improve
steadily but slowly. His physicians de-
cided late Saturday not to remove him
nom the hospital for some days yet.
Janeway e Co., of New Brunswick, Nj,
have obtained verdict for $40, S04 dam
ages against the Pennsylvania Railroad for
losses by fire caused by collision.
Senior Gilmore, who has represented the
Government of Peru at Washington for
the past five years, has been recalled, and
viii take official leave of the President this
week.
Miss Eva Cummings refused to finish her
part of Lucia di Lammermoor at Chicago
Saturday night denied her managers story
of her illness and said that she had not
been paid.
The official figures from the Denver Mint
give the mineral output for Color do tor
1885 as follows: Gold, 100000; silver,
sl3,50O,O00; copper, 81, 100000; lead, So SOL
COO; total, S23, 561, 600.
Civil Engineer Robert NJ. Perry. U. S.
y, has been granted leave of absence for
one year for the purpose of exploring the
interior of Greenland. He will leave St.
Johns early in May for Disco, and be ac-
c0mpanied by three men. 1t is private
enterprise.
The dinners to be rendered to Colonel J.
d. stevenson by the survivors of his fegi-
ment and by the California Pioneer So
ciety, have, at the request of Colonel Stey-
enson, been consolidated, and will be given
at Martinelli's Fifth avenue, New York,
on the evening of May 9th.
Representatives of C. P. Huntington
state that some of his friends in Cincinnati
purchased the controlling interest in the
Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton road, but
tEat Huntington had very small interest
III the purchase as compared with that of
the other parties. 1t is believed the pur-
chase will not materially affect the trunk
line pool.
During the first nine months of the pres
ent fiscal year, ending June 80, 1886, there
was an increase of over 81 900, 900 in the
revenues of the Government as compared
with the corresponding period last year.
and the expenditures for the first nine
months of this year were over SIG 900 600
less than the expenditures for the same
period of last year, making a net gain of
over so, 0000 600.
Festus j. Wade, Secretary of the ST Louis
Fair Jockey Club, has received the follow
ing letter from E. J. Baldwin Inciosed
| hand You my entries for the Eclipse
stakes-Lucky B., Volante, Rapido and
Silver Cloud. You may depend upon it, if
my stable reaches your city in good FORM
that l shall certainly start one or more
The starting of Miss Woodford and Free
land will not deter me from starting. In
fact it will be disappointment should
they fail to come to the post"