Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-10-27
A Very Eat Take.

New YORK, October 26tb-A special
from ST. John, Newfoundland, says: Gov
ernor Blake has been appointed Governor
( of Queensland, Australia, and has accepted.
II is one of the richest plums in the gift of
the Salisbury Government. The salary is
900 year and the emoluments some
thing enormous.
Educating Their Heels,
New YORK, October 26th-In the fall
games of Columbia College students TO-DAY
A Vosburg beat the record for mile run
by one second. Time, 4;52 5. Moffatt, q
Canadian, ran a half mile in the fastest
time this season in open competition-2:2-5
For Uniform Reports.
WASHINGTON, October 26th.-As many
discrepancies occur III the reports of the
kinds of spirits in disiillery warehouses,
the Treasury Department today issued
new set of instructions so that the reports
would hereafter be uniform and correct.
California Pensions.
WASHINGTON, October 26th.-California
pensions granted: D. G. Mitchell, Perris;
w. ]. Williams and D. f. Fisher, San
Francisco; d. J. Bering, Hopetou; Edwin
Jones, Yuba City; John E. Burg, Oakland;
H. n. Richie, San Francisco.
Suicide from, Dementia.
New YORK, October Goth Mrs ]. 2.
Lynch, young married woman of this
city, suicided by jumping from the fourth
story Of o window in the Hotel Bristol this
afternoon. She was demented by long i'll
ness.
Aged and Despoudent.
BALTIMORE, October 26th.- Two old
ladies, inmates of the Aged Women's
Home, near this city, were found dead
from gas suffocation. They were embraced
I'M
Struck by Train.
CEDAR RAPIDS (fa.), October th.-Mrs
James Ditworth and Harry Pond were
killed and Mrs Isaac Larkin fatally injured
to-day by their buggy being struck by a
train of cars.
The Brotherhood Brakemep.
COLUMBUS, October 26th.-The Brother
hood of Railway Brakemen completed their
| session to-day, selecting st. Paul as the
next place of meeting, October IS, 1889
The federation scheme was dropped.
High-Priced Affections.
BosToN, October 26th-Mrs Mura Beats
was awarded verdict of $4,000 against
DIR. Thompson Lowell as damages of
alternating her husbands affection by
writing letters.
Suicide I'm the South.
BIRMINGHAM (Ala), October 26th.-J. B.
| Bali, of Kansas City, railroad man, sui
eided this morning at the Windsor Hotel
| by taking large dose of chloraI-hydrate.
| Il Cannot Help Them.
| ST. LoUIs, October 26;h The Browns de-
! feated the New Yorks to day, hitting George
with ease. Score-St. Louis Ia, New York
II. Pitchers-King and George
The President In New York.
NEW YORK, October 26th.-The President
and Mrs. Cleveland arrived this evening
and were driven to the residence of Secre-
tary Whitney.
Mrs. Blaine, DR., I'm Danger.
New YORK, October 26th 1.-The physician
in attendance on Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr.,
tonight said that her life was hanging on
thread.
Good News for the Small Boy.
NORFOLK (Va.), October 26th.-The Pea
nut Trust, which controls 80 per cent. of
| the peanut trade OF the country, is dis
| solved.
A Neck-Stretching Matinee.
COLUMBIA Is. c. October 26th-Ephraim
Mays was hanged at Edgefeld to-day for
| the murder last December of Jacob Burr
Not Bad Failure.
DouGLAs (Kan.) October 26th-Wilkies'
Bank failed to-day. Its liabilities arc $685.
900 and assets $4,000.