The record-union., 1894-10-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The cash balance in the Treasury is
Sl22,l73,Oo9; gold reserve, S5S, ,S27, ,252.
Heury of Navarro, Domino and Clifford
will meet at Morris Park on Saturday
next at mile and an eighth, weights for
age, for purse ofSJ, 600.
More than seventy houses have been
carried away and many others damaged
by the flood at Sagua, Cuba. The water
IN the streets is now six feet deep.
The Brooklyn Eagle says there will be
an independent Democratic State tick ct
in the field headed without doubt by ex-
Secretary of the Treasury, Chas. S. Fair
child, for Governor.
At $50 o'clock Friday night the two
story house of Mrs. 9. V. Hobart in Chico
Veclno, suburb of Chico, was destroyed
by fire, together with the large water
tower. The total loss is $4,000.
Leander Cunningham, a native of Ohio.
aged 60 years, dropped dead from heart
disease at Modesto, Saturday evening.
lie was member of the Grand Army.
His son Is an engineer at the State capital.
There seems a doubt as to whether the
Prohibition candidates will be allowed
on the regular ticket at San Francisco.
the ProhIbitionists not having poIled
three per cent. OF the vote at the last cleo
ton.
The State of California has withdraw
missioner of the General Land Office in
the matter of certain school land indeIn-
nifty selections in the Independence Land
District.
A dispatch from Washington states as
on the authority Of man high in the
councils OF the administration that Mr..
Lyman will retire from the Civil Service
Commission this week. Mr.. Lyman was
one OF the original members of the COM
mission.
AT KalamS, Or, early Saturday morn
ing the engine OF the Northern Pacific
freight train No. 53 was backed off the
ferry into the river. Peter Cramer, the
hreman, was carried over with the en-
gine and drowned. His body was re-
covered. He leaves a widow and four
children at Centralia, WASH
That good California stwo-year- old
Diggs beat Cash Day at Harlem Saturday,
running six furlongs in 1:I24. AS the
two-year-old drew away from the three
year in the stretch, and with long and
easy strides passed In winner by four
lengths, he was greeted with enthusiasm
seldom seen or,heard about the local race
track.
| At Chaska, twenty miles south of
Minneapolis, Saturday evening Charles
| Sharp aud his family of tive drove upon
! the Jerry to cross the river. 1t being dark
he drove too far and the pole knocke
| down the apron and the team and family
| drove overheard into the river. Sharp
saved himself, but his wife, five children
and horses were drowned.
| The engineers private reports upon
| the performance on the private trial OF
the torpedo, boat Ericsson are that she
made twenty-one knots with $50 revolu-
| tions of her propellers. As the engine is
designed to run at full speed 400 reyolu-
tions the engineers have no doubt the
| boat will make the required twenty-four
knots per hour when III trim.
The iron bark G.. u. Wilcox, Wolters
Master, was wrecked at 4 P. NJ, on the
18th ult., upon the north shore of Molo.
kai, near the west point, about forty miles
from Honolulu. She was hove to-
heading ashore, and, in wearing around.
was carried IN shore by the current. The
! Captain and crew landed in two boats al
Honolulu early the next morning.
Acting Secretary Sims of the Interio,
Department has asked the Attorney-Cien.
eral to direct the proper United States
| attorneys IN California to institute pro-
ceedings against all trespassers on the
forest reservations in that State, 1t ap.
pears that sheepmen have torn down the
notices of the Government to cease tres.
passing, and have allowed their sheep tc
| pasture on the reservations. There is no
provision made for guardians and watch.
men for the reservations, and the only
way the Interior Department can preyen
trespassing is by prosecuting the offend
ers.