Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-04

market here the past week is the higl
price prevailing While the highest pric
paid last spring was 1911 cents for the bes
WOOL the fall clip thus far has been as higl
as 2l4 cents, with strong tendency TOWARD
: another upward move. Wool-groWerS o
course are delighted, but Eastern anC
Northern buyers are frightened off and dc
not take hold bTiskly.
dumped" His Bond.
CHICAGO, October 3d.-Considerable ex-
citement exists tonight The Inter Ocean
will say tomorrow II is rrmored that
W. G. Gallagher, the indicted accomplice
of Joe Mackin who is now in the peniten-
tiary for ballotbo stufflng has Jumped
his bond Of $4,000 and left the city to
escape the consequences of the piece of
dishonesty of which he is accused. 1t has
been discovered recently that forged orders
had been presented for vouchers at the
City Comptroller's Office for rebates due on
real estate special assessments. The
vouchers thus obtained have been pre-
sented to the City Treasurer and paid
These rebates on Chicago assessments
amount to $1,000 per month, and are so
irregularly collected by property owners
that upwards of 100000 have accumulated
/ in the Treasury. All efforts to find Gala
CHER tonight were fruitless, and. it is be-
lieved that the strong suspicious directed
toward him have frightened him into
jumping his bond"
Council of Doctors.
PITTsBURG (Pa.), October 3d-The annual
meeting of the American Academy of
Medicine will be held in this city October
18th and 13th About 200 delegates from
all parts of the country are expected to be
present. One object of the Association at
its Pittsburg Convention will be to en-
deayor to have passed laws-either by the
States or Congress-for the regulation and
admission of candidates to study medicine,
and the debarring of physicians who have
not graduated from first-class medical col
leges. They want the appointment of ma
tional or State Boards composed of sIillful
surgeons and learned physicians to ex-
! anime candidates for the study of medicine
A movement will also be made against
third or fourth-class colleges, which the
Academy says must go or else raise the
standard materially. The Convention will
also consider the application OF homeo-
pathistS for admission to the Association.
a General Stampede.
CHICAGO, October 3d.-Drexel Boulevard
| was the scene of great excitement this
evening, shortly before dark. A span of
powerful horses hitched to Il carriage con-
tanning two gentlemen became unmanag-
able and tore down the crowded drive at
frightful rate of speed. Three or four other
teams took friht and joined the runa-
ways, several carriages being overturned
| and with occupants scattered over the
drive. Contagion spread to nearly every
animal within the distance of a mile, and
| before the franticsbeasts were caught and
quoted half dozen eguipages had been
| demolished and some twenty or thirty per-
sons injured. Several sustained broken
limbs, others serious injuries, but no
fatalities have as yet resulted.
Gold in British Columbia.
! New YORK, October 3d.-The Suns tele-
| gram from Ottawa announces the discovery
of gold placer deposits, from which the
| value of 924 600 had been collected, situ-
| ated on or near the boundary line between
| southeastern Alaska and British Columbia
The exact locality of these diggings is not
| given but they have probably been found
upon the banks of one of the small rivers
| tributary to Siikeen, or one of the small
rivers beyond Revilla Gigedo Island, near
| the extreme southeastern boundary of
Alaska.
| knights of Labor Convention.
RICHMOND fWa.), October 3d.-There are
already between 500 and 500 delegates here,
| besides large number of nou-delegates TO
attend the Knights of Labor Convention
| The Executive Committee has not held a
session yet, but will do so tomorrow
morning, before the National Assembly is
called to order. The meeting will be for
the arrangement of preliminaries.
Railroads Purchased.
| ST. LOUIS, October 3d.-It is stated by
authority that the st. Louis and San Fran
cisco Railroad Company has acquired the
| st. Louis, Salem and Little Rock road, sold
| here last week, under foreclosure of mort
gage to Charles S. Freeborn and M. S.
| Taylor, for the oohdholders. The road has
five short branches running through rich
iron region which is fairly well developed,
and will prove valuable feeders to the st.
Louis and San Francisco road.
A Woman's Fatal Leap.
| ST. LOUIS October 3d-Alrs Craig Alex
ander. vile of formerly very wealthy COM
| mission merchant, and a man of great local
| prominence here, committed suicide this
morning at 6 clock, by jumping from the
| roof of her son-in-law's house, at No. $3.50
| Lindel Avenue. Alexander failed in bust
ness some time ago and afterward became
| insane and was sent to an asylum. Mrs.
Alexander became despondent, and often
expressed her desire to die.
Business Increase.
BosroN, October 3d-A table compiled
from special dispatches to the Post from the
managers of the leading ciearing-houses of
! the United States show the gross clearings
for the week ending October ID were Sl0,-
552, 462 20, an increase over the correspond
ing time last year OF 2f per cent.
a War Relic.
VIcksBuRG, October 3d.-The President
of the National Cotton Planters Associa-
ton has addressed circular letter to the
Governors of the cotton-growiag States,
asking their cooperation in efforts to secure
the return of $50, ,00000D collected illegally
directly after the war and known as the
cotton tax"
Church Dedicated.
WASHINGTON, October r3d.-The ceremony
of LAYING the corner stone and blessing the
new st. Pauls (Roman Catholic) Church
was performed to-day by Cardinal Gibbons
in the presence of q large assemblage.
Better Than Being Handsome.
New York, October 4th.-A special from
Auburn, n. Y, says the people there have
not yet got over the surprise caused by the
announcement that John II. Little, a local
canvasser for portraits, had fallen heir to
large estate in England The estate is only
ten miles distant from that of Mrs Mac
kay, the Californian, and is valued at
s., 100000.
a Gotham Sensation.
NEW YORK, October 4th.-The papers
print sensation this morning, to the effect
that Annette Schenck, a well-educated but
poor young woman, has sued Mr. Meyer
(ten times millionaire) for 100000 for
breach of promise. Meyer is to be married
to another lady this week.
Irish Leaguers Z" Kicking"
New YORK, October 4th.-Something in
the nature of an open revolt against the
Irish National League and Parnell took
place yesterday at a meeting in the Twenti- |
eth Ward Branch. 1t arose in the course of
discussion as to whether the Branch |
SHOULD respond to the circular issued by
Parnell to President Fitzgerald, of the Irish |
National League. The Chairman said |
q Not one penny more Of my money
shall go to the anti-eviction fund, |
or to any form of Parliamentary agitation
We want the accounting for a million and
more dollars that have gone into the
Treasury of the League from this country
before sinking any more money. 1t is not
long since | was in Ireland, and | can
safely say that in many of the western and
southern counties the unfortunate people |
who took the advice of the Ieapue and |