Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-12-13
western Union Earnincs.

| The statement shows that the gross earn
| ings OF the quarter ending September 30th
amounted to s., ,3Q5, ,703. The operating ex-
penses were $685., ,324, and the net earn
ings 81, ,707,37S, an increase of S40O. .46S over
the corresponding quarter last year. The
estimated surplus on January 1st will be
IS, ,291, ,75S.
| Federation of Labor.
/ ST. LOUIS. December 12th-The Ameri-
can Federation of Labor resumed its ses-
sion this morning. A special committee,
| to report on that section of President Com
ber's address referring to the eight-hour
law, was appointed.
| The President suggested the formation of
| eight-hour clubs III all cities and towns TO
| concentrate the movement, and that on
! February 22d next mass meetings on the
subject be held all over the country.
Volunteer Naval Militia Urged.
New YORK, December 12th.-The Board
OF Trade this afternoon resolved to ask the
State Legislature to pass bill authorizing
| the enrolment of a volunteer naval militia,
to act in conjunction with the land volun-
teer forces in defense of the coast and har-
bors. This action was taken after consul
! tation with Secretary Whitney and promi-
| nent naval officers.
A resolution was adopted asking Con-
| gress to pass the bill now pending IN regard
10 the Nicaragua Canal Company.
A Remarkable Case.
CANAJoHARIE IN. ", December 12,h-
| Miss Flora France, % years of age, has for
20 months been unable to retain food, and
| her body wasted until she weighed only
so pounds. A few days ago she announced
| that it had been revealed to her in a vision
that she would have no further trouble.
| She was given supper and ate ii with ap-
! ifgl, -
has gained gradually until now it is be-
lieved she will ultimately recover.
An Express Messengers Steal.
WACO Tex, December 12th.-H. T.
Have, an employe of the Pacific Express
Company, was to-day arrested at Denton,
Tex, while on his way TO New York. The
charge on which the arrest was made was
the robbery of the express of a package
| containing about s., 900 last September
He admits the charge. Only So 900 re-
mains, the rest having been squandered.
Resigned in Disgust.
| INDIANAPOLIS, December 12th.-United
! States District Attorney Sellers has resigned
| his Office. He is disgusted with the way
in which the Democrats brought on the
| Dudley election case, claiming to have
| this and that proof to sustain their charges,
| but which has failed to materialize. He is
satisfied he has not the necessary evidence
to insure success and in his disgust has re
| signed.
| Big Union Pacific Contract.
PITTsBURG (Pa), December 12th.-The
big steel rail contract of the Union Pacific.
for which Andrew Carnegie and the North
| Chicago Rolling Company were bidding,
has been secured By the Chicago firm. The
| figure at which it is taken is not exactly
known, but is not over $27 per ton-cer-
tainly not in excess of $27 so. The contract
is for 1900 tons.
Depew's Friends.
BUFFALO, December 12th.-An interview
is published in the Ne,cs this afternoon
| with leading men of Buffalo on the subject
of Chauncey NJ. Depew for Minister to En-.
gland. Politicians, city officials, Supreme
Court Judges, bankers, lawyers, physicians
clergyRen and merchants are quoted in
favor of Depew's appointment.
Actually Afraid of Our Navy.
New YORK, December 12th.-Adyices
from Port-au-Prince say that General Le
gitimet claims to have good reasons fol
holding the steamer Haytian Republic, bu
doesn't wish to fight for her. He leaves the
settlement of the case with the United
States Government.
Pardon Refused PeIjurer.
ernor Oglesby to-day refused to pardon
Josh G. Mackin, sentenced to the peniten
tiary for five years, for perjury committed
| while testifying before the Grand Jury IL
reference to election frauds, III which ht
was supposed to have been particepS Grim.
inis.
Two Men Lynched.
KANSAS CITY, December 12th.-It is re-
ported this evening that two men were
hanged by vigilantes nine miles south OF
this city. The report was confirmed later
by call for the Coroner and two coffins
The men were probably hoIsethieves but
no particulars are at hand tonight.
An Insane Mothers Terrible Deed.
New YORK, December 12th.-An insane
| German woman, residing with her hus.
band and two children in tenant flat il,
! this city, tonight threw her children down
| the air-shaft and jumped down herself
upon the bodies. The children are dead
| and the mother will die.
Rough on Yankee Smokers.
New YORK, December 12th.-Word comes
from Havana that an English syndicate
has bought several of the largest cigar fac.
tories and will form a monopoly of all the
fine cigars made in Cuba for the European
markets, thus shutting out the United
State completely.
Two Shocking Deaths
TRENTON IN. J, December 12th.-Brake-
man John Wharton, while irving to put
a tramp off the Pennsylvania Railroad
train this morning, fell between the rapidly
moving cars, dragging the tramp with him.
Both were killed and horribly mangled.
Three Mariners Lost in a Gale.
NORFOLK (Va.), December 18th. - The
| schooner Sis Church, bound from Cape
Charles to Norfolk, light, was sunk in the
storm on Monday night, Captain Frank
Enoch, male Harris one of the crew, name
unknown, were lost.
Postal Crooks on Trial.
CHICAGO, December 12th.-The trial OF
| Oberkampf and Mack, who will be remem-
bered as having been engaged in the most
extensive robbery of letter-b boxes ever
known, last summer, was begun in the
| United States Court to-day.
The Situation at Bevier.
BEv1ER, December 12th.-Officials de.
| cline to say what the military will 90 in
| the event OF an attempt being made by the
strikers 10 erect fortifca;ions, as they
| threaten. They claim 20 have lumber com
ing for that purpose.
The Burlington Dynamite Cases.
GENEVA (Ill.), December 12ih.-Several
| witnesses were on the stand to-day in the
| dynamite case. Alexander Smith, the in
| former, testified to putting an explosive on
the track, under orders from Baureisen.
a HeIlIsh Deed
NEW YORK, December 12th.-This morn-
ing a colored painter named A 81. Knight
Drained with an AK his colored paramcur,
Laura Dixon, in Brooklyn tenement.
He gave himself up to the police.
A switchman's Terrible Death.
NEW YORK, December 12ih.-William
| Newman, 20 years cid, a switchman on the
| Third Avenue elevated road, was run over
this evening by an engine on the elevated
structure and instantly killed.
! Suspicious Case.
| New YORK. December 12th-Andrew
| Anderson, a Swedish sailor, died suddenly
at Brooklyn. 1t is not known whether
he had yellow or Chagres fever. He came
| from Aspinwali on Monday.
| Serious Charge Against Doctor.
| CHICAGO, December 12th-Dr Frank W.
| Stebalts was arrested to-day and charged
| with causing the death of Mollie Schuberg,
who died yesterday rom the effects OF
malpractice.
An Actor Drops Dead.
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