Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-01


New YORK, February 29th.-A sealed
verdict was returned to-day BY the Jury in
Frank B. Stearn's suit for 100000 dam
ages against the ST. Louis and San Fran
cisco Railroad Company. The verdict will
be opened tomorrow. Stearns contracted
in 1876 with the Atlantic and Pacific Rail-
way for the purchase of $500 acres of min
eral land in Missouri, for 1927 600. He al
leges that the st. Louis and San Francisco
Railway bought out the Atlantic and Pa
citic and repudiated the contract.
A Brewery Trust.
copyigh, 1855, by ute California associated Pres
New YORK, February 29th.-lt is now
reported that the formation of Brewers
Trust, 10 pool .he entire brewing interest
and control production and prices, is nearly
perfected. Purchasers exclusively from the
pool are To receive reduction of so per
cent 1t is claimed that nearly all the New
York brewers are in the pool. Part OF the
scheme is to boycott all dealers in hops,
etc, who sell to brewers outside OF the
combination.
Sentence of an EmbezZler.
copyfgi4 1855. by tie California associated Press
New YORK, February 29th.-Joseph C.
Knight, aged "a years, the embezzling book
keeper of the Manufacturers National
Bank, was to-day sentenced to pay fine of
So, 500 and TO serve seven and half wears
in the Penitentiary. knight has been q
clerk for over thirty years in this bank, and
and for about twenty-four years had stolen
the banks money, amounting in the aggre-
gate to over $4,000, before he was found
out.
Patents TO Public Lands.
Ecopyri0h 1885, By tie California associated Fr,ssJ
WASHINGTON, February 29th.-Senator
Call in the Senate today offered resolu-
ton, which was laid over, instructing the
Committee on Public Lands to report bill
declaring all patents for public lands issued
by the Secretary of the Interior without
authority of law to be absolutely void and
requiring the Attorney General TO bring
sulIs to vacate and set them aside.
Fatal Collapse of Bnilding.
KANSAS CITY, February 29th.-At noon
to-day portion Cf the roof of the nearly
completed Midland Hotel collapsed and
fell. OF the sixty men in the building all
escaped with their lives, except Frank Ed
ison, who was instantly killed. Jack
o Brien was fatally injured, and ten others
were hurt The hotel was the project of
Norman B. Ream and other Chicago cap
italists. The loss by the crash is $4,000.
The Burned Theatre.
Icopyi9. 1883, by the California associated Press;
New YORK, February 29th.-Itis thought
that the Union Square Theater can be
restored in thirty days if the present walls
are permitted to remain. If the walls are
taken down it will take sixty days for the
theatre to be once more reaoy for business.
Building will begin at once.
Action of the Trunk Lines.
9pytght 1888. BY tte California Associated f'ress
New YORK, February 29,h.-At meet
ing of the Executive Committee of the
trunk lines to-day it was decided that pI O.
rating with western roads shall cease after
March Sd. Bureaus of billing and weigh
ing will be established at once at all the
western terInini of the trunk lines, to pre-
vent underhanded dealing concerning ex-
port rates.
The Oklahoma Bin.
tCcpyight. 1885, by The California associated Pres
WASHINGTON, February 10Th. - Repre-
sentative Warner, of Kansas CITY, is pre-
pairing speech in favor of Springers Okla
homa bill. He said to-day that he felt
Ii will probably come up before the end of
the week.
Trouble at shinnecock.
Icopyig, 1885, By 1e California associated Press;
New YORK, February 29th. Masked
men from Southampton, L. L. armed with
shotguns, drove away the watchman from
the Shinnecock Canal, which is TO connect
Shinnecock Bay with the ocean, and de-
stroyed the entire winters work.
New Life-saving Station.
lCopyisht, 1Sss, blythe California lssociated Press
WASHINGTON, February 29th.-A bill has
been reported for the establishment of a
Life-saving Station four miles from the
Cliff House, near Point San Pedro.
Talmsge Becomes a Soldier.
tcoPy7eht, 1885, by The California Assoc.aed Taressl
New YORK, February Godfrey. t. De-
witt Talmage will be installed as Chaplain
of the Thirteenth Regiment next Wednes-
day.
Rathbone Stin on the Ragged Edge.
WASHINGTON, February 29th.-The nomi-
nation of Major Rathbone, to be Consul
General at Paris, was to-day recommitted
to the Committee on Commerce.
A Prima Donna's Life in Danger.
WILKEsBARRE, February 29th.-During
concert here this evening Lima Di Murska
tainted away on the stage Late Tonight
her life was said to be despaired of.