Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-11
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Dispatches to the Record Union .
Condensed.

The Oder brought 1897, 900 in gold to New
York on Saturday.
The King of Italy has accepted the resig-
nation of the Ministry.
A convict named Evans killed another
named Goodwin, Friday night, in the Jail at
Clearfeld, Pa.
Hobart Pasha has been ordered to prepare
defense in the Dardanelles against vessels
creeping in at night.
The remains of Senator Carpenter arrived
at Milwaukee Saturday, and were received
by Governor Smith.
Four inches of snow fell ia Northern Vir,
pinia on Friday night, making the third
snowfall of this month.
The Bey of Tunis is disposed to make con-
cessions to France, but Is encouraged to resist
by the Italian Consul there.
Hattie Deuel. completed the forty-sixth
day of her fast at Iowa City, Ia, Saturday,
and appeared stronger than at any time for
the previous three days.
In the Readiusters' Convention at Harris
burg, Va, Saturday, a resolution was passed
indorsing and commencing Mahone's action
and votes in the United States Senate.
Delaware advices are all unfavorable for
the peach prospects. Not only has the peach
crop for the season been destroyed, but the
trees have on the whole suffered very badly.
The Grand Opera House at st. Louis closed
Friday night, and will be torn to pieces and
reconstructed as one of the finest theaters in
the country. 1t is an old landmark, having
been opened in 1852 by Joseph NJ. Field.
A Burlington Qowal special says: S. J.
Harrisons elevator was burned early this
morning. The loss is $4,000; insured.
Seventeen thousand bushels Of haXseed and
1900 bushels of grain were also destroyed.
The election Saturday for member of the
British House Of Commons from Northamp
ton. to fill the vacancy caused by the I'M
seating of Bradlaugh, resulted in the re-elec-
ton of Bradlaugh, as follows Bradlaugh,
S,37S Corbet, 3, 253.
The will of the late Thomas Carlyle, in
paragraph expressing strong feeling Of good
will toward America, and especially New
England, gives the books he used in writing
the lives Of Oliver Cromwell and Frederick
the Great to Harvard University.
In consequence Of the bursting of dam
near Merezel, Hungary, the river Thesis
flooded 100, coo acres Of arabic land. The
War Minister has ordered four battalions OF
engineers to proceed to the spot Forty
thousand acres were alsohooded near Szentes.
The Union Pacific authorities deny the as
sertion that the Union Pacific Company or
Jay Gould had any hand in bringing about a
refusal to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe road to receive freight for California on
the division of such freight to the Union Pa
cifc.
A destructive FIRE occurred at Mount Yer
non, o., Saturday. G. and &. Cooper & CO..
engine and iron.woIks building, 500 by 60
feet, and two stories high, was destroyed,
with a large stock The loss is S1l5, 600,
fully insured in the Ashland, Niagara, Royal
aud British Companies.
By the Ohio reapportionment neither the
Republicans nor Democrats gain much adj
vantage. However, as it now appears, in
the off years the Democrats might elect
enough Assemblymen to assure them
United States Senator. On the last October
vote the Republicans would have a good
many TO spare.
Mrs. Charles Baliou. of 'Saranac, Mich,
the far-famed fat woman, known as the
mammoth QueeD," died Friday. Her
weight when with shows was $40 pounds.
She has been at home for some time past.
Her weight before death was only 400 pounds.
THE casket containing the body was 65 feet
long, feet wide and 20 inches deep.
The Missouri river ct Omaha continued
rising all day Saturday slowly, and at 6
o'clock P. NJ. the water gauge showed twenty
one feet and a half above low-waser mark,
having risen about one foot in twenty-four
hours. A dispatch from Blair, fifty miles
north by river, states the river began falling
slewIy there Saturday afternoon. A dispatch
from Sioux City says the river fell there
Friday pight nineteen inches, and is still fall
inc fast. 1t has fallen fifteen feet at Yank-
tor. hut reports from there Saturday morning
saw that the big gorge, twenty miles below
Yankton, and reported to be ffty miles long,
has not yet gone out, and that it may cause
another.
The overdue steamship Australia, which
arrived at New York Saturday was supposed
20 carry among her steerage passengers the
Fsnian' Coleman, one of the parties charged
with Attempting to blow up the Mansion
Honse in London. Coleman, whose name
was on the list, turned out to be a mild look
inc Enplishman, native OF Great Var
mouth. Norfolkshire, AID resident OF Rich
field Springs, Otsego county, New York,
where he is engaged in the peaceful pursuit
Of farming. He had spent the winter in
FnoIand with relatives, and attending to
business. and was greatly surprised when the
r;Iot brought on board newspapers containing
The reports that the English government
~os irving to capture him before his arrival
here on charge of being implicated :, IN the
Esnian plot to biow up the Mansion House.