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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-01

THE WEATHER AND CRoPs.-Farmers in
some localities are beginning to get fright
ened about the long delayed rains. The
uneasiness comes, however, not so much
from fear of dry season as from the
fear that the grain now sprouted will die
and rot in the ground. 1t is said that some
farmers on the adobe lands are already be-
ginning to make a second sowing. 1t is a
fact that wheat will sprout at least four
times. We have tried that. As long. then,
as wheat is sound in the ground it will
come, even if the top does die down. The
difference between the adobe land and the
sandy, alluvial soil is, that the first is cold
and will rot the grain quicker than the
other. 1t is easy to wet a small portion OF
a feld-a few feet square-and test the seed
in the ground. As for the question of a
dry or wet season, no man can tell thing
about it. We have often seen it too dry at
Christmas to pillow and q good season fol-
low, and all remember that the rains once
kept off till January with a good crop
season following. Better dry fall than a
dry spring. With canal system for Co
lusa county, however, most of the farmers
would never be uneasy.-Colusa Sun.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-01

MAXWELL, November 30th.-At shutdown
last night, Oracle, youngest daughter of w.
F. Baker, farmer near town, was kicked
by horse in the right temple and instantly
killed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-01
NAME.

Baldwin. W. H..
*Briggs, W. AGO..
Briggs, VIM. Ellery
EBrune, A. H.........
Cluness, w. R.-......
$Gardner, M.........
Huntington T. w.
Lame, J. R............
%Nlsgill, Mary J.-...
Merrill, Z. r. .........
Oatman, /. En-.
parkinson. J. H..
Simmons, G. L.....-.
Simmons, Junior.
Snider, A. H...........
Snider, T. A...........
Tyrrell, G. Comm.
Voeller, H...............
White. g. Am.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-01
Railroad Items.

The Redding Free Press says Colonel
Scobie was down from the front this week,
and in the way of news reported that his
headquarters are now at Butteville, in
Shasta valley. The grading has been COM
pleted over the summit, six miles above
Sisson, and the iron is laid to the top of
the summit. For the next fifty miles the
road will be run over level country and
rapid progress will be made.
The storms OF the past few days will no
doubt hinder railroad work to some extent,
and, if continuing, will cause a suspension
of work in extending the road further
northward than Butteville. The force at
work, however, will be needed to go back
on the road between Delta and Shasta val
ley, which was built hurriedly and will
need considerable fixing over, as the rain
and snow along the line will undoubtedly
cause the grade to settle in many places.
1t is believed that when a railroad is
built to eastern Oregon that it will make
connection with the California and Oregon
road in this county, either by way of
Klamath river from Linkville. or via Grass
valley to the divide between Shasta and
Strawberry valleys.
The railroad company having a larger
force at work now than actually needed for
the work over the level valleys in this
county, will send some of the men back
over the road towards Delta to strengthen
and improve the same Yrekd Journal.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-01
From Sacramento valley to the Coast,

WILLOWS, November Both urton e.
Knox, of Sacramento, contractors for the
West Side and Mendocino Railrad, COM
menced work to-day with large force of
men and teams The work will be rapidly
pushed, and it is expected that thirty miles
of road will be completed within ninety
DAYS
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-01
A Poisoner Sentenced.

Los ANGELES, November 30th.-E. W.
Jones, aged 81 years, was sentenced to-day
to four years at San Quentin for attempt
ing to poison his family with poisoned
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-01
A Clergyman,s Loss.
Wants the Right of way.

SAN DIEGO, November 30th.-Proceed-
ings were renewed in the Superior Court
to-day by an attorney for the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company to condemn the
old Texas Pacific right of way through the
west part of the city. The Southern Pa
cific succeeded, by purchase, to the rights
of the Texas Pacific in the premises. 1t is
DIEGO
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OFFICE
N. E. cor. I'd and +

.No evening hours on sundays.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01

sula no other power would be entitled to resort
to armed Intervention or to the establishment
of a protectorate there; also, that no change in
the constitutional or territorial relations of the
Balkan countries can be effected without the
consent of the powers signatory to the treaty OF
Berlin. These the outlines of our aims,
which we hope will be successful and will be at
tanned in harmony with the other powers, and
without disturbing the peace of Europe. We
shall not endanger the success of our endeavors
by any premature declarations in grandiloduent
phrases. To attain this end, we shall labor with
camness, which is doubly necessary in these
critical times; we shall labor with moderation.
but at the same time with earnestness and reso-
luton"
When Herr Tisza finished he was greeted with
cheers from all parts of the house
All the Deputies were dlspleased by the Pre-
miers statement Deputy Howath maintained
that Hungary did not want such place as that
which the German alliance secured.
Others asserted that Russia had violated the
treaty OF Berlin. A proposal to reopen the dis
cussion was rejected.
In reply to requests Of Deputies Howath and
Apponyl that immedia debate be granted, the
possible dis explanation, he said, was far fuller
thaa that of the British government. For in
stance, should the. Austro Hu garian policy be
modified he would know his duty. He was un-
able to name date on which papers on the ques
tions at issue would be submitted to the House.
NO binding engagement had been entered into
IN regard to Russia's candidate for the Bulgarian
throne. He asked the house not to make the
pending questions subject for debate, adding
that such course would be tantamount to a vote
OF want OF confidence in the government
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
ENGLAND's LATEST TROUBLE.
The Question of Possession of the New Heb
rides Approaching a Crisis.

The Question of Possession of the New Heb
rides Approaching a Crisis.
LONDON, Sept. 30-The New Hebrides ques.
tion is approaching a crisis. The colonial agents
general in London are almost daily pressing the
government to present France with what would
be tentamount to an ultimatum, ard are COM
tape in the exchange of communications and
transaction of business between the Colonial and
Foreign Offices. Scarcely morning fails to bring
lengthy correspondence between the two de-
partments, but nothing seems to come of it.
Lord Iddesleigh is accused of employing
evasive tactics and neglect of colonial interests
through fear of committing the Conservatives to
foreign policy which they could not success
fully defend in Parliament. but as a matter of
fact, Lord Iddesleigh and Mr.. Stanhope, Colo
nial Secretary, have agreed between themselves
to insist upon French evacuation of the New
Hebrides. He will make allowances, however
for the delicate position in which NJ. De Frey
cinet is placed, believing he will act justly in
the matter, if not too hard pressed, and is per-
mitted to defer his action unil after the present
excitement in Paris has subsidized
Before M. De Freycinet started on his trip to
the g7uth of France, Lord Iddeseigh urged him
to HsAme date when complete evacuation of
the New Hebrides by the French would be con-
summated, NJ. De Freycinet pleaded for delay
alleging that further inquiry into the merits of
the case would be necessary, and this being
granted his decision was thus shelved for sew
eral weeks, pending his return and the subse-
| quent inquiry, or pretense of one.
Meanwhile, the temper Of the coonsts is be-
coming dangerous. and the colonial agents have
| guardedly limited to Secretary Stanhope that the
colonial governments are prepared to expel the
intruders upon receiving the slightest word of
| announcement. Mr. Stanhope. 1t is said, was
horrifed by this display of determination. and
| warned the colonial agents of the dire results of
hasty action on the part of the colonial govern
menus. 1t is certain. however. that the latter
wink at the preparations for numerous 6libus-
tering expeditions about which curious rumors
are af1oat In London.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
GERoNIMO's SURRENDER.

The Terms Granted by General Miles Unsat-
isfactory to the War Department
WAsHINGToN, Sept 30-General Mes's an
nual report, embodying the story OF the surren-
der of Geronimo. has been received by the acting
Secretary of War. General Miles, it is said, re-
ports that he accepted the surrender of the saw
age chieftain agreeing, as among the conditions,
that he should not be surrendered to the civil
authorities of Arizona for trial, and that he
should be taken away from that vicinity. The
report shows that Geronimo and his companions
not captured, but surrendered condition
ally. He Acknowledges that he promised the
hostiles that they should not be turned over to
the civil authorities of Arizona and that their
lives should be spared by removing them from
the country Immediately. This accounts for
General Miles's failure to obey the instructions
of the War Dep artment to confne the hostiles
at the nearest post The Star says:
The fact that General Miles accepted conditional
surrender when the positive instructions of the gov
ernment were that nothing but capture uncon
d tional surrender should determine the Apache
paign raises very grave question for the consiera
tion of the President and Secretary of War. What
the result will be only be conjeetured but unless
there some very extenuatng circum stances, not
apparent the outside reprimand is the least that
be expected. The report shows that the hosties
before had been driven to such stage of des
peration and that they could not have stood out
against the troops much longer but nevertheless the
War Department would undoubtedly have preferred
the Indian to last another year rather than that
the hostiles should surrender upon their own terms
It is said that General Miles's campaign did
not practically differ from that of General Crook,
and that the latter could have secured the hos
tiles on similar conditions to those accepted by
General Miles, last January, when Geronimo
expressed willingness to surrender, bat
capped when he found that he could secure no
assurance of safety from General Crook. Gen.
MIles's report is very long and interesting He
devotes the greater portion of it to account OF
the pursuit of the Indians since he took COM
mand He shows how his campaign differed
from that of General Crook. The latter used
friendly Indians to fight the hosties, while
General Miles pursued them with United States
troops using only few Indians as trailers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
Mother and Child Killed.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

EpcCIaI 10 LHe InuIanabOIlE J0ur1aA
ALLENTowN, Pa, Sept 30-A frightful accident
occurred at B Bngen Station, ON the North Pennsyl
vania railroad at noon to-day. Several hundred per
sons had assembled at the depot for the purpose of
taking train for this city, and among whom were
Mrs Mary Wagner wife of wealthy citizen, and her
four-year'old daughter. While standing near the
track Mrs. Wagner observed special train ap-
preaching, running at high rate of
speed and turning around to her child she was horr
fed to see the little playing in the middle of the
track The woman shreked to the child to get off the
track but finding that it failed TO heed her she sprang
IN front of the train She succeeded in reaching the
child but before she could get OFF the track the train
whirled by. The child was thrown high in the air
and landed on the foot-board Of the engine Mrs Wag
ner was thrown under the wheels and manged in a
horrible manner.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
A Mean and Cowardly Subterfuge by Which
He Aims to Throw Discrediton Republican
Employees Remaining in the Office.
Gen. Miles Likely To Be Severely Cen.
sured for His Leniencyto Geronimo.
The Proposed Change Concerning the Civil
Service Examining Board-Rumor that
Geo. H. Pendleton Is Loaded for Bear.
PRINTER BENEDICT.
Criticism of His Despicable Course in the
Matter of Removals.

Criticism Of His Despicable Course in the
Matter of Removals.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WAsHlNGToN Sept 30.-Everybody is re-
marking the cowardly way in which Public
Printer Benedict is going about the wholesale
removal of Republican employees found in his
Office. He has declared time and again that he
is waiting on the reports of the foremen and
uperintendents in the Office TO ascertain who
can best be dispensed with" and never fails to
add that 'These men who are to report for dis
missals are Republicans, and there can be no
politics in it."
Men who have watched this Office for years,
and who know all about its operations. say this
is a mean subterfuge, and q design Of the Public
Printer to remove Republican employees and
throw the responsibility on Republicans in the
ofice-Republicans who are already marked for
decapitation. The feature that makes this work
of removals so despicable is. the assertion that
to Republicans to determine. wien it is we'll
known here that not Democrat is selected for
decapitation The list of reported employees for
removal is carefully criticized by men in the
Office and out, who know how to discriminate,
and the faithful partisans are left.
The idea is to reduce the force to minimum
while work in the Office is slack, and then. when
Congress meets, in December, employ Demo-
Gratis. Thus will the design of putting only mep
who vote the administration ticket into the Office
he fnlflled
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
HEAVY FAILURE AT CHICAGO.
Suspension of A. s. Gage & Co. Liabilities,
$4,000; Assets, 100000 Less.

CHICAGO Sept 30-The firm of A. S. Gage
& Co. confessed judgment in favor of the First
National Bank. this morning, for $97 0OO The
firm occupies one of the finest blocks on Wa
bash avenue, at the corner of Adams street. and
has been carrying on a wholesale business in
millinery and fancy goods. The frm during the
forenoon, made an assignment of its entire
stock to Fl. j. Mcfarland, and its large establish
ment was at once closed. The liabilities are
placed at $750,000, and are owing almost entirely
to Eastern houses The assets roughly esti-
mated at $650G00 Six months ago. in addition
to its wholesale department., the firm opened a
large retail dry goods store 1t was surmsed in
business circles that the firm was pressed, but
the failure did not appear to be anticipated.
When the assignee took charge this forenoon,
the store was crowded with lady customers, and
there was some excitement among them when
the swinging doors were double locked and they
were penned in. The clerks were ordered to sell
no more goods, and the customers were IN
structed to pass out at the rear entrance, which
they did after awhile. being followed By most of
the employees, to whom the news of the failure
had been a shock of the most startling nature
BY 1870 o'clock only the members of the firm,
the confidential clerks, the assignee and the
deputy sheriff remained In the store. Nearly
three hundred customers were detained in the
store for nearly two hours. owing to the desire
of the assignee to prevent any representative of
the sheriff from obtaining an entrance to the
building and levying on the stock on behalf of
the bank. Deputy Sheriff Nickerson, with three
assistants, took possession of the establishment
at about o'clock, in behalf of the First Ma
tional Bank, H. B. Clafin & Co. and other judg-
menr creditors.
Judge Pendergast was called upon this after
noon to adjudicate between the contestng claim
ants, and decided that the sheriff had no right to
remove any goods from the premises. He or
dered matters to remain in statu QUO, and is
considering petition of the firm for the assignee
to continue the business. a suspension of which
would involve loss of 81, 900 day The as
signee has been directed to give bonds in ST.
900, 000
The firm ascribes the necessity for its closing
down to the haste displayed by the bank people
They expressed the view, this evening" that they
would probably be able to resume tomorrow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
TRE cIyIL-sERyIoE RULES.
Effect Of the Change Proposed I'm Reference
to the Examining Board.

Effect of the Change Proposed in Reference
to the Examining Board.
WASHINGTON, Sept 30.-Civil service Com
missioner Oberly says that the proposed change
in relation to tho examining board is intended
directly to guard against any possible favoritism
in making examination papers 1t is to correct
serious defect in the old practice of leaving the
examination aud marking of examination papers
20 the local examining boards. Il is impossible
to get an examining board in any of the various
towns and small cities where examinations are
held that will not be personally acquainted with,
or at least know something about nearly every
applicant who comes before them for examina-
ton. It is very easy for them to regulate their
marking to suit their preferences. Moreover,
different local boards mark differently, so that
man who would pass with high percentage be-
fore one board would fail before another. What
the new rule proposes is. in place of depart
mental board of fourteen here, to have a board
of seven, whose duty it will be to mark all the
papers for the whole country. without knowing
the names of>any of the applicants This will
secure uniform grading and perfect fairness
The proposed rule concerning examinations is in
accordance with this law, and provides that per-
sons who have been promoted without examina-
ton may be examined if reported by the head Of
the bureau as inefficient
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
Cable Notes.

Franz Adam, the historical painter, is dead.
James Brapley at one time a conspicuous Fenian
leader, died in the Liverpool work house yesterday.
1t is rumored that plot to blow up train on which
the Gar was travelling has been discovered at St.
Petersburg.
The Pope has given orders prohibiting the transfer
of the Jesuit journal Avta Catholca to the parties
who recently sought to purchase it.
Jockey Webb, while riding at Newmarket, yester.
day, was thrown and broke his collar-bone. He will
be unable to ride again this season.
Herr Schwabe German merchant, long residing
in England, has presented art hall to Hamburg
with 12S oil paintings many of them very valuable
by modern German. English and French artists.
Dissension has broken out between the only two
German anarchistic clubs in London and threatens
to lead to violence One of the clubs has the Freihe
its organ and Belgian named Dave as its leader
Dave is an intimate friend of Johann Most. The
other club named Autonomic. has the Anarchist as
its organ and Austrian named Penckert as der
Only three weeks ago the two clubs met in Cleveland
Hall and expressed sympathy with the Chicago An
archists. Now they have drawn dsggers against each
9th
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
The Attitude of Austria.

PEsTH, Sept. 30.-The Unterhaus presented a
lively appearance during the Prime Minister'S
speech. The day had been looked forward to as
an eventful one, the Premier having several
days ago announced his intention of publicly de-
claring the attitude decided upon by the empire
towards the threatened aggressions of Russia in
the Balkans. Every seat in the cham Der was oc-
cupied and the galleries were crowded. Herr
Tisza commenced by refuting the assumption
that Austro Hungary had either planned, or had
been aware of, or in the slightest degree had ap-
proved of, the plan to depose Prince Alexander.
Neither was Austro Hungary aware that Prince
Alexander, as was made evident by his telegram
to the Gear, regarded his crown as having been
received direct from the Car, or that Prince
Alexander made his stay in Bulgaria dependent
on the Cars consent. No agreement whatever
exists between Austro- Hungary and Russia re-
garding the exertion of their respective influence
either in the western or in the eastern portion
of the Balkan states. Austro- Hungary firmly
adhereS to the Berlin treaty, which, whilst it is
upheld, sufficiently corresponds with Austro
Hungary S interests. Austro- Hungary has taken
no steps on behalf of the kdnapers of Prince
Alexander. She has merely warned Bulgaria,
in her own interest, against the adoption of any
hasty resolution, and the results that would be
sure to ensue therefrom. SAID the Prime Minis
ter: SIN 1868 stated in reference to the East
question that it was my private opinion that
in event of chRnges occurring in the East,
interests would require that the
nations inhabiting that portion of Europe
should form themselves into independent states,
according to their separate individualities This
opinion is now shared by the Austro- Hungarian
Foreign Ministry. We hold that this view best
answers the interests of the monarchy, which,
repudiating all desire of sggrandizement or con-
quest, would concentrate its efforts to promote
the Independent development of those states and
prevent the establishment over any of them of
any protectorate not provided for in the treaty,
or the assertion over those countries of the
permanent influence of any one foreign power.
AS regards Austro Hungarys alliance with
Germany, there has been no change in Aust-o-
Hungary's foreign relations We stand with
Germany on the old basis. We have no doubt
We shall be able to preserve the mutual condi
tions necessary to the existence of each state,
without endaugerng the general peace. We re-
gard the treaty of Berlin as still in force, al
though it has been violated in certain cases, the
most serious of which occurred last year in East
erp Roumelia. We believe the treaty of Berlin
ought to continue to be maintained; nor has any
power informed us of its having assumed con-
trary position. Austro- Hungary adheres~to her
repeatedly declared opinion thar should Turkey
claim the right accorded her in the Balkan penin
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
Failures for the Quarter.

NEW YORK, Sept 30-The number of busi-
ness failures for the quarter ending with Sept
80. as reported to tho mercantile agency of r. G.
Dun & Co., is 1892. as compared with 2 173 for
the third quarter of 1885, showing decrease of
241 failures. The liabilities. however, snow
considerable increase, amounting in the quarter
just closed to $27 800 000 as against $23, ,874 900
in the corresponding quarter in 1885,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
Edgerton objects TO oborly.

washington Special.
It is rumored that Commissioner Edgerton, Of the
civilservice Commission will soon tender his resgna
ton to the President. Judge Edgerton is not in
the city so 1t is impossible to confirm this rumor.
has been asserted however that he has not been we
pleased with the way the Commission has been
aged. and wants to retire. The Commissioner is at
his home In Indiana where he has been for the last
two months. lie has written 70 his hotel whore ho
lives when here that il is doubtful about his return.
ing 1t is said that Edgerton is not ovepleased with
the manner In which Oberly is running the machine,
the two do not get well together Edgerton thinks
that he is the older in the service of reform 0berly
should not make himself conspicuous in the naias