Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-14

Under call of the States the follow
ing bills and resolutions were intro
duced in the House and referred:
By Oates of Alabama-To prohibit
the appointment of Congressional
Committees to attend funerals, and to
prohibit the draping OF public buildings
in mourning, except by order OF the
President.
By NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. stating that
the rapidly accommodating surplus in
the Treasury is in excess of the needs
of the Government for its support and
the discharge of bonded debts; that
the coast defenses are inadequate to
protect lake and sea coast cities, and
that nearly one million men are I'M
employed, and declaring it to be the
sense of the House that a large pro-
portion OF the surplus in the Treasury
should be expended through liberal
appropriations for repairing and prop
erly equipping coast defenses and for
the construction OF ships.
Will Pass the Winter at Montone.
New YORK, Dec. 13.-In a letter
from Paris to the World, Lucy Fl.
Hooper says: The Prince and Prin-
cess Colonna, the latter formerly Miss
Eva Mackay, will leave in a few days
for Mentone, where they propose pass
ing the Winter. The Princess is
again in an interesting situation, and
her health, as we'll as that of her
little son, is suffering from the damp
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Mrs. Mackay will spend the Christmas
holidays with her daughter, and son
in-law, and take with her her two
young sons. Prince Colonna, on the
occasion of his wife's birthday, the
other day, presented her with 81 an
tique cross in sapphires and pearls,
which once belonged to the famous
Victoria Colonna, so worshipped by
Michael Angelo.
A Through Line from Chicago to
California.
CHICAGO, Dec. 13.-One Of the prin-
cipal incorporators of the Chicago,
Santa Fe & California railroad com
pany, incorporated last Saturday,
stated to-day that it was the purpose
of the company, which is composed of
Boston and Chicago capitalists, to be-
gin at once the construction of a road
from Chicago to Kansas City. He
declared that while the stock vas not
held by the Atkinson, Topeka &
Santa Ee stockholders in any exclu-
sive sense, the road would %unquestion-
ably fall into the control of that COM
pany, forming a through line from
Chicago to California. The incorpor-
ator would not state whether the
Chicago and St. Louis road had fallen
under the control of the new company.
The latter is already built from Chicago
to Peoria, Illinois.
A Four. Million State House Dam.
aged by Fire.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Dec. IL. - The
newly erected "a, 000, 900 State house
caught fire early this morning, and
the entire structure was soon filed
with a dense, black smoke. The
flames were confined to n apart
ment, but it is feared the smoke and
heat has ruined the rich ~frescoing
throughout the building. This is
denied by the custodians, who place
the damage at 10000 or less. The
fire originated in a pile of painters ma
~terials.
Washington Intelligence.
WASHINGTON, Dec Is. Secretary
Manning said last night that he had
no thought of resigning, and that his
health is improving daily.
The President to-day nominated
Louis K. Church, OF Dakota, to be
Governor of Dakota.
A steamer ON Fire.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. ia schooner
from Port Louis, Mauritius, reports
that 100 miles south of Sandy Hook,
she saw a steamer afire headed for New
York. AT moor she appeared to ex-
plode, the horizon was covered with
a dense smoke.
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