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BLOODED HORSES. Some Valuable Stock Bought for a Los Angeles Stable. CINCINNATI, December 2d.-A private dispatch says: W. R. Wilson of Cynthiana, Ky., has just sold and shipped to Dr. K. D. Wise of Los Angeles, Cal., for $10,000 each, one weanling, two yearlings and one fiveyear-old, and the following trotters, all fillies, namely: Nevada, record 2:314, chest nut mare, six years old, by Simmons, 2:28, dam Marc Roze, by Smuggler, 2:151; Adelaide McGregor, bay filly, a yearling, by Bonnie McGregor, 2:131, dam Adelaide, 2:18, by Milwaukee (entered in the Spirit of the Times' $11,000 stake); Adelaide McGregor, bay weanling filly, by Simmons, 2:28, dam Adelaide, 2:18 (entered in the Great Horseman and Terre Haute stakes of $11,000 each); Bonnie June, yearling filly, full sister to Bon Ton, four-year-old record 2:26), by Simmons, 2:28, dam Bonnie Wilkes, 2:291, dam of Bon Ton (entered in the Spirit of the Times' $11,000 stake). These four were bought for the purpose of entering and trotting in big stakes in California and the East. New Railroad Combination. NEW YORK, December 2d. - Says the World: It is proposed in Wall street to form a new railroad combination to succeed several associations existing west of Chicago and St. Louis. The new association is to embrace all the roads west of St. Louis and Chicago to the Pacific coast, and it is to continue not less than five years. The association will regulate through competitive tariffs, the management of competitive business and conduct outside agencies for procuring tariff as well as routing it on the respective roads. Racing Questions. CHICAGO, December 2d.-The Board of Appeals of the American Trotting Association began its annual session to-day, and a number of cases were decided. In the afternoon an interesting case came up, embodying the question as to whether the Association, when giving guaranteed stakes, is entitled to the amount paid in by subscribers in excess of the guaranteed amount, or if such excess belongs to the running horses pro rata. The case was taken under advisement. New Hampshire's Legislature. CONCORD, December 2d.-The special session of the New Hampshire Legislature began to-day. The gallery was thronged with spectators, attracted by the extraordinary public exigency which requires a special session. The subject of the qualification of members was referred to the Judiciary Committee. This reference is understood to mean that a compromise has been effected by which the session may be speedily terminated. Rumored Truce. NEW YORK, December 2d.-A Mail and Express Albany special gives the rumor of a peace patched up between Cleveland and Hill. If it is true, Hill will be elected United States Senator, leaving the track clear for Cleveland in 1892, and Roswell P. Flower will be the Democratic nominee for Governor in 1891. Colonel Daniel Lamont is credited with engineering the truce. Smelters in Conference. CHICAGO, December 2d.-Representatives of the principal smelters of the United States met here to-day to form a combination to prevent such wide and rapid fluctuations in prices as the business is subject to. Considerable progress was made at to-day's meeting in formulating the general plan. The conference continues to-morrow. Sophie Gunzberg's Execution. NEW YORK, December 2d.-A strong protest against the execution of Sophie Gunzberg, condemned to death in Russia for political reasons, was made at Cooper Union to-night by a large audience. A resolution expressive of the sense of the meeting protesting against the execution was adopted. Train's Latest Freak. NEW YORK, December 2d.-George Francis Train has challenged Succi, the Italian faster, to fast one hundred days. He proposes not to take mineral water or any elixir, but only to open the window at times and breathe the fresh air. Succi has the proposition under consideration. Another Bank Assigns. WEST SUPERIOR (Wis.), December 2d.The Bank of Commerce assigned to-day.
