Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-19

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An Unusual Sunday in Omaha.
OMAHA (Neb), March 1Sth.-Although
the rain poured down steadily nearly all
yesterday, it was the dryest Sunday Omaha
ever saw. Not saloon in the city was
open.
On Friday the Legislature passed bill
amending the city charter, placing the
licensing CT saloons in the hands of the
Fire and Police Commission. Only three
arrests for drunkenness were made during
the day, against an average of over thirty
on the other Sundays of the year.
Railroad Retrenchment.
CHICAGO, March 1Sth.-The Chicago
Burlington and Quincy has taken off a
number of Its local passenger trains in
Illinois and Iowa, reducing this service sos
miles day. 1t has also been decided TO
discontinue running on Sunday trains Nos.
and between Chicago and Council
Bluffs. These changes are made in the in
terest OF economy, the company having
adopted policy of retrenchment with a
view to retrieving portion OF its losses the
past year.
Jealousy Among Mili;iamen.
New YORK, March 1Sth.-The veteran
mililiamen of this city, numbering 1880,
are offended because they were not invited
to take part in the Washington Centennial
next month. Tonight they met and
adopted resolutions denouncing the out
rageous slight and demanding position in
the line, following the active militiamen.
1t is part of the old quarrel between
active and veteran militiamen, which has
caused some amusing complications in the
past.
Strangely Out of Place.
New YORK, March 1S,h.-A Boston dis
patch to the Herald says: Union Pacific
affairs are in curious shape again. There
is an activity in the Construction Depart.
ment strangely out of place in company
| which has been posing as bankrupt and
asking Congress for an extension of its
debt. Surveying parties are out, and a
| number of new lines are projected. The
most important is direct outlet to the
Pacific Coast. at or near San Francisco.
Ireiand's Patron Saint Honored.
New York, March 1Sth.-The st. Pat
rick IS Society of Brooklyn observed the
great festival of Ireland tonight by a
grand banquet in the Academy OF Music in
| that city, and by making additional con-
| tributions to the Parnell fund. The
speeches of the evening were by Hon.
Amos Cummings, of the New York SIN,
and by Very Rev. William Keegan, Vicar
General of the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Railroad Commissioners Powers.
ST. PAUL, March 1Sth-The Supreme Court
| has decided that the Railroad Commission
ers of this State has no authority to pre-
scribe rates for transportation by common
| carriers between two points in this State
over a route extending across neighbor-
| ing State. Such power is vested exclusively
, in Congress. The case in question was the
Minnesota ex-Railroad Commission VS.. the
Omaha Road.
The Republicans Opportunity.
NEW YORK, March 1Sth.-The Herald
| has an interview with General Roger A.
| Pryor, who says the solid South will go to
pieces on the rocks of protection; that
| Southern manufacturers need protection,
! and her people will stand by the Republi-
| can party if the white men of the South
| are permitted TO ntrol their State govern
ments and the bloody shirt is not waved.
Changes in Railroad Officials.
CHICAGO, March 1Sth.-C. A. Parker,
Freight Agent of the Chicago, Santa Fe
and California Railroad, is to be promoted
! to the position of General Freight Agent OF
| the Santa Fe lines west of Topeka, and S.
B, Hines is to be General Freight Agent OF
| lu6 ScutIdi anu QUILL
| ern.
Died from Injuries.
MOUNT CARMEL (Pa.) March 18TH
Peter Nearshalsky, who was liberated on
| Saturday after being Imprisoned fifty
| hours in the Black Diamond colliery, died
| to-day from nervous exhaustion and in
ternal injuries.
| A Good Long q Respite"
] WILMINGTON (Del.), March 1Sth.-Gov-
| ernar Biggs to-day granted respite for
| twenty-five years to William J. Calhoun,
sentenced TO hang at Newcastle on Friday
next. The cause of the clemency is the
extreme youth of the culprit.
At the End Of His Rope.
| VAssAR (Mich.). March 1SIh.-Fred ]
Leland, the notorious whitehead swindler
| was arrested here to-day on a charge OF
| forgery. He has swindled numerous paint
and whitehead manufacturers all over the
country.
| Death of Prominent Sport.
| New ORLEANS, March 1Sth.-John G..
Hardy, Familiarity known as . Honest Jack
| Hardy" one of the best-known sporting
men in the country, died suddenly to-day
| of paralysis of the brain.
| A Burning Steamer.
PoRr JEFFERSON On. W, March 1Sth.-A
steamer was seen on fire in the middle OF
| the Sound at o'clock this evening. She
was apparently bound west. Other steam
ers could be seen offering assistance.
| Terrible Boiler Explosion.
POUND wis }, March 1Sth.-The boiler
| in Whitney & Tuttle's saw-mill exploded
| this forenoon, killing August Regel AID
Otis Clement, and badly iDjuring five
others.
Ruptured Biood-yessel.
| New ORLEANS March 18th. Captain
Jack Hardy, who was the referee in the
Sullivan-Ryan fight, died this afternoon
from rupture of blood vessel.
| Possibly 1t Knows.
| NEW YORK, March 1Sth.-The Star says
| the next big railroad combine will be the
Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Atchi-
son systems.
| The Man That Licked Germany.
| CHICAGO. March 18th.-Jack Klein, the
well-known newspaper reporter, has re-
| turned from Samoa and arrived in Chicago
tonight
Gould at New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, March 1Sth.-Jay Gould
and party have arrived mere on tour OF
| railroad inspection.
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