Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-11
rELEGRApulC CONDENSATION.

Yesterday P j. Dent, w. Baker, NJ. r.
Mayor and f. Brannigan, Califoruians, were
registered at New York hotels.
At Chicago yesterday DIR. Charles Earll
the abortionist, vas convicted and sentenced
to five years in the Penitentiary.
A dispatch of yesterday from Sherhrook,
Quebec, says William Gray was hanged there
that morning for the murder of Thomas
Mulligan. He died protesting his innocence
Of the crime.
The Europe brought 2,OOo,O francs to
New York yesterday.
The condition of Nine Theirs is much i'm
proved.
A Berlin dispatch says: It is intended to
cover very large increase in the military
budget of the Empire by loan.
The Imperial Bank of Germany shows a
decrease in specie OF LA, 900 marks.
Another sharp shock of earthquake oc-
Cured at Agram, Crotia, Wednesday night,
causing terrible panic. No serious damage
was done.
The Governor of Albania is taking steps to
disarm the Albanians, and has forced the
notables to sign "a declaration Of fidelity to
the Sultan.
There have been very few subscriptions for
Panama shares at Alexandria Egypt.
Yesterday, at Versailles, KY. fire de-
stroyed fifteen buildings on Main street.
Loss between 81, 500 and SO. 600.
At Greenburg Iud, the County Assessor
and eight county officers have been indicted
for taking illegal fees.
Woods, tine Chicago hack-driver who drug
ged and robbed a Knight Templar during the
Conclave last August. was sentenced to the
Penitentiary for FIVE years yesterday.
The Anderson (Ind.) Court house was
burned yesterday morning, with all the rec
ords.
A number Of members of the Jesuit Order
expelled from France lately have arrived at
Montreal. and have taken up quarters tenn
porarily with their brethren in that city.
The jury in the scandal case of Rev. H. G.
Yates vs.. Swadtout, which has been on trial
for week at Dixon, H., gave a verdict yes
terday in favor of the defendant, who was
accused of ibeling preachers.
Senator Coke of Texas said yesterday at
Washington: 1.-THE people of Texas are al
most unanimously opposed to any division of
the State. The Democrats are all in favor
Of the continued unity OF the State"
A wreck yesterday on the st. Peters rail
road, says Sioux City dispatch, which
caused blockade near Maruld Junction,
bids fair to be serious. Three hundred and
thirty passengers were on beard the train.
The thermometer is 20 degrees below zero,
aud all communication is cut off.
Judge Drummond, at Chicago yesterday, in
the United States Court, decided that the
tax levied by the city on the street-car COM
panies of Chicago of $50 per car per year, Ia
valid. This will put about $40, 900 annually
into the treasury OF Chicago.
Interviews with members Of the House
Military Committee show that the scheme to
put General Grant on the retired list as Cen
eral will fail.
The New York Herald says that De Les.
seps' offer Of the Presidency Of his Panama
Canal Company to Richard w. Thompson,
now Secretary of the Navy Of the United
States, involves complete recognition Of the
right IF the United States to exercise an ex-
elusive prosectorate over any such canal in
the general interest Of the commercial world.
The widow Of General Sumner died az
Charlottesville, Va, on Thursday. She was
the mother Of two sons in the regular army.
and Of four daughters, who all married army
officers.
Az Scottstown. ireland, everything passed
of quietly. as the Orange meeting proposed
TO Re held was Abandoned at the earnest re-
quest Of the authorities that it be not held
The whole police Of the county, with bodies
from Armagh and Louth, the attachments
of the Second Dragon Guards, went to
Scottstown. Mesars. Dillon, Biggsr and
O'Kelly addressed the land meeting, which
was largely alteoaSu. MI a1heu dlu hos
appear.
On the farm lof Colonel John Morris, on
the Krazos river, Texas, Harry Williams,
wife and child, have died since Sunday from
poison eaten in beef. -Four others Of the
family are sick.
Captain Timothy Dacy, noted Fenian
leader, died yesterday afternoon of rheuma-
tism Of the heart, ct Lawrence, Mass.
Financiers advise the projectors Of the
Panama Canal to make an allotment Of shares
Immediately, in order to head off spectators.
Baron Dowse, in opening the Connaught
Assizss at Galway, ireland, yesterday,
dwelt upon the unusual prevalence Of crime,
and particularly on the difficulty of getting
people to give. information Of offenses con-
nitted.