Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-05
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

dations in Texas.
Senator Leland Stanford and wife are at
the Windsor Hotel, New York
Catholic opposition to the knights of
Labor is very pronounced in Canada.
The confirmation of Sylvester Hull, TO
be Register of the Land Office, is being OPP
posed.
The ex-Chinese Minister and suit passed
through Omaha Monday, en- route to San
Francisco.
James D. Edwards has been arrested in
Alabama for the murder of his wife thirty
two years ago.
The semi-annual Conference of the Jew
ish Ministers Association opened in New
York Monday
Louis Wan, adesperate criminal. escaped
from the prison at st. Vincent de Paul, in
Canada, Monday.
Colonel Lamont authorizes positive
denial of the statement that Mr.. Manning
has ever even limited at resigning.
The management of the Money Order
Department of the San Francisco Post
office is severely criticised at Washington.
In an attempt to break jail at Winfield,
Kansas. Monday night, one prisoner was
killed and others injured. -Four succeeded
in escaping.
President Strong and Director Burr, of
the Atchison, are in Galveston, arranging
for the final transfer of the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe road to the Atchison
Governor A. p Swineford, of Alaska, is
in Washington. The primary object of his
visit is to consummate an engagement of
marriage between himself and a Washing
ton lady.
Maxey Cobb, the champion trotting stall
lion, died Monday of inflammation of the
bowels at Belmont Driving Park, Phila-
delphia. lie was owned by Isadore Cohn-
field of New York.
The new Grand Jury in New York has
been invited by Judge Cowing to investi-
gate corruption III Office and to consider the
labor troubles, so far as they seem likely to
affect the public peace.
The issue of standard silver dollars last
week was 1881 1896 During the CORE
spending week Of last year the issue was
$1S3999. The shipments of subsidiary sill
yer during the month of April were 1884,,
S57.
The baseball games Monday were as fol-
lows: hington-National, H. Bos-
ton, II. Philadelphia-New York Is );
Philadelphia. 6. Kansas City-Detroit / | (;
TNdliSaS Wy l. 81. Ioulo ~. LOUIS . :,
| Chicago, Z.
Five important California cases will be
decided by the United States Supreme
Court next Monday. Among them are the
railroad tax cases, a boycott case, laundry
case from Stockton, and the Mount Diab.o
coal land case.
The Queen formally opened the Colonial
Exhibition in London yesterday. The
weather was beautiful. Crowds gathered
along the route taken by her Majesty from
buckingham Palace, and greeted her with
enthusiastic cheers.
A rumor prevails in Paris that beauli-
full young girl, bearing a remarkable re-
sembance TO eX-EmpreeS Eugenie is about
to begin law proceedings to compel the
recognition of her claim 10 be a daughter
of that unhappy lady.
Blaine was invited by William Walter
Phelps to be present at the dinner which
he gave to the most noted Republican
leaders in Washington last Thursday.
Blaine declined, giving as a reason that he
did not desire TO come TO Washington this
year.
The powers have instructed their Minis
tiers at Athens to remain at their posts 1t
is believed that the powers will accept the
guarantee from France that she will secure
the disarmament of Greece, and they will
not fix the actual period for its accomplish
ment.
A Paris special says The funeral of Paul
S. Forbes, for long time United States
Consul at Canton, and a we'll known Amer
lean, took place yesterday in Paris, at the
American chapel in the presence of large
number of representatives of the American
| colony.
Tho co,,nlt,daI
Carter of the Hawaiian Government and
the Secretary of State for an extension of
| the present Hawaiian treaty for ten years
has been reported formally to the Senate
| that the chances for its ratification are not
| favorable.
| The Traders and Travellers Union of
| New York is working hard to secure the
passage of what is known as the James
| bill, to permit commercial travellers TO
solicit orders for goods in the several States
and Territories without paying the local
license fees.
The President has Withdrawn the nomi-
nation of Warren Green, now acting as
Consul-General at Japan. The reasons
given for this action are based upon certain
scenes which took place around the card
table since Green's appointment, ami in
which he was concerned.
Joseph Newman, or San FRANCISCO, Will,
in company with the Commissioners of
Agricultural, appear before the sub-commit-
tee of the Senate Appropriation Committee
this week to ask an appropriation of S25,-
900 to begin the establishment of three
sericultural schools in California.
The story extensively telegraphed from
Washington that Chaplain Milburn, in his
| lecture on Goethe, at the residence of Sena-
| tor Hearst, last Wednesday, dwelt upon
the German poets amatory experiences in
such manner as to painfully embarrass
the three-score of ladies in attendance, is
pronounced by those present to be false.
The bill for new Federal Judiciary dis
trict in California is now before the Senate
Committee on the Judiciary. Edmunds,
the Chairman of the committee, is opposed
to the bill. Representative Markham has
undertaken the almost hopeless task of
carrying the measure through the Senate
in the face of the opposition of Edmunds.
Boycotting finds little favor in the New
England Courts In the case of walking
delegate, arrested in New Haven for intim-
idating business houses from advertising in
the local papers, the Judge of the City
Court yesterday gave a long opinion on the
legal meaning of the word " boycott end
ing as follows: The Court finds that a
threat to boycott, as qualified in the COM