Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-27
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Special kilograms to the Record-Union
Condensed.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
There are 5,733 postofices in operation in
Canada. -
! A heavy fall of snow occurred at Danville,
| Va, Saturday.
james E. Owens, the champion wrestler,
died Friday at Fairfield, Vt.
John Kelly, the ex-Tammany boss, is said
| to be very testy over his downfall
President and Mrs. Hayes spent quiet
| Christmas at the Executive Mansion.
A son and daughter of Alexander Carlson
| of Brooklyn, n, Y, have been kidnapped.
Mrs Whine was fatally burned at Brook
lyn, n. Y, Saturday by a kerosene explo-
sion.
Emil Hoya committed suicide in the
County Jail at Omaha Saturday, with NOR
phine.
Peter Mukes stabbed Harvey Bell through
the heart at Louisville, KY, Saturday. Both
colored.
Two children were burned to crisp Friday
night near Weston, o., during the absence of
their parents.
James Howard was horribly mangled and
killed by an engine Saturday at Braunsfels,
Tex, while intoxicated.
| A fire in Elkhart, Texas, Saturday morn
lag, destroyed almost the entire business part
of the town. Loss, 100000.
Miss Ada Hebdep, young lady of %
years, shot and killed herself at Chicago
Saturday, leaving no explanation.
| A locomotive on the Long Island Railroad
went down an embankment Saturday, and
| George Rich, engineer, was killed.
| At Rockaway Beach, Saturday, III. L. Crit
| fin shot and mortally wounded a man named
Mahon, who attempted to stab him.
| General L. K. Scott, ex Governor of South
Carolina, shot and killed young man named
Drury at Napoleon, o., Friday night.
| The President of the New Orleans City
Railroad Company has been sent to the
Parish Prison for five days for contempt of
Court.
| Mrs Henry johnson was burned to death
| by fire in her dwelling, on Front street,
Trenton, n. j., Saturday. Her husband has
been arrested.
| Twenty prisoners in the County Jail at
Columbus, o., mutinied Saturday, but were
subdued by cold water and chunks of coal
thrown at them.
At Ogdensburg, N. Y, Saturday, the I'D
yGnce newspaper was burned, and at Norway,
| Me-, the Neao Religion newspaper office was
destroyed by fire.
In fight at st. Louis Saturday evening,
Joseph O'Brien, Joseph Gavier and Joseph
Kelly were stabbed, the two former being
mortally wounded.
| Corporal Norton, of Battery b, Second
Artillery, and Jacob Klein, citizen, were
| drowned at Fortress Monroe Saturday, by
the capsizing of boat.
| A brief dispatch from Pacific, Missouri,
says: Andrew Beal (negro) shot and killed
Pat Crow, switch brakeman, at that place,
Saturday. No particulars are given.
| A. NJ. Conkling, editor of the Sun, was as.
sassiuated in the presence of his wife at So
corro, n. NJ, Christmas eve, by two Next
cans. Serious trouble is anticipated in conse-
quence.
The Massachusetts Railroad Commission
ers rendered an adverse decision on the petit
lions for the establishment of elevated rail-
roads through Boston, and to various points
in the vicinity.
r. P. Jones and wife and DR.. J. II. Rogers
were shot Saturday at Meeleyville, Mo-, by
an unknown man, who escaped to the woods.
Mrs. Jones was dangerously and the others
slightly wounded.
The New York Police Commissioners have
passed resolutions generating Superintend
ent Walling from blame in sending out an,
order on November LIST relative to the serv.
| ing of warrants on election day.
An audience of 1000 listened to the Ora
torio of Handels Messiah" rendered at
Chicago Saturday night by the festival chorus
of 600 voices, Theodore Thomas director,
with the Cincinnati Orchestra of 60 pieces.
| ln6 EdllIOduS 6nDTaC6u III WudL Is Cdlleu
Gould's consultations consist of 9649 miles.
In addition to this there is 1856 miles of road
| in course of construction in Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa which will enter into the Wabash
system, when completed, and nearly If not
quite 2, 900 miles are under contract or pro-
| jected.
| A review of the business of Chicago for
the year shows unparalleled prosperity and in
crease in aggregates. Hundreds of new in
dustries have been established. A thousand
dwellings and business houses have been
erected; manufactures have in some cases
more than doubled in value and the amount
of bank clearings have increased over last
| year, which was the heaviest in the history of
the city, by 1886, 000,000 the total for the
year being 81 sos, 600, Co., and the banks give
| q hourishing financial exhibit. But tine chief
increase is in the grain trade. Elevator room
has been increased over 100000 bushels.
There has been an aggregate OF grain re-
ceived of 161, coo, 600 bushels, against 1885,
600. 600 in 1876 and 10000, coo in 1870.
FOREIGN.
M. Desprey, ambassador of France to the
Vatican, will start from Paris for Rome
January LIST.
| The London Electrician states that the
Postoffice Department has ordered 10000
telephones for the postal service.
At Pembroke, Ont, Saturday, fire de-
stroyed the Masonic Hall and adjoining
property. Loss, S25, GOO; partly insured
! The Russian Minister at Athens has been
summoned to st. Petersburg to enlighten the
Gar on the Greek question and receive in-
structions.
Anderwert, elected President of the Swiss
Confederation for 1881, committed suicide at
Berne Saturday evening, on the public prom
enade, by shooting.
4 IL. C L. al A..
sembly of Eastern Roumania was Saturday
closed by the Governor General in presence
of the Consular body.
The proposal for arbitration between
Greece and Turkey is regarded as acceptable
| by all the Powers, on the basis indicated by
the North German Gazette of Berlin.
! The wife and two sons of the Russian Grand
| Duke Nicholas have arrived at Athens, and
are guests of King George. They were en-
| teTtair ed at state banquet on Friday.
| The Tribunal of the Seine has sentenced the
! Wostyne to % francs, and the managers of
remaining journals to $50 francs for libelling
Madame De Kaulls.
| A London dispatch says the situation in
Ireland is essentially unchanged, though
steadily growing worse, as the tyrannical
conspiracy of the Land League tightens its
grip on the community.
| a London special says: Information re-
eeived within the last few days by the Gov.
eminent has been of character to leave no
doubt that an organized and general rising in
Ireland had been arranged by the 26th of
| this month.
Comparatively few subscriptions for De
Lesseps' Panama canal scheme were rendered
at London, but French and Spanish buyers
have been most enthusiastic, and applications
have been made for nearly thrice the number
of shares to be allotted.
A census of the Dominion of Canada is to
| be taken the first Monday in April next, and
the population to be recorded is to be the
population in existence on that day. Every
person is to be counted as belonging to the
place where be is found the 4th of April.
The London Times acknowledges that the
Queen no longer rules over one.half of the
island of Ireland, and the Land League is
growing in power daily. The truth is, that
the Irish question seems to be much better
understood in New York than in Downing
street.