Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-13
THE DAILY RECORD-UNION.
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Special Dispatches to the "Record
UnionD Condensed.

A Berlin dispatch says the Emperor Will
lam has gone to Ems.
An elevator. with $4,000 bushels Of wheat,
was burned at Faribault, Minn., Friday.
New York dispatch says that only five
firms now give any countenance to the strik-
ing brewers.
Two victims of Fridays explosion at Potts.
vile. Pa, died Saturday, and another is not
expected to live.
A very perceptible shock of earthquake oc-
Cured in the valley of the Upper Rhone
Thursday. and extended as far as Geneva.
A renewed shock of earthquake occurred
at Chios Saturday, and overthrew minaret
and several partly ruined houses. Two men
were injured.
Advices from Buenos Ayres of May 18th,
via Lisbon, announce that the Chileans are
withdrawing their forces from the city of
Lima, and all is quiet there.
A Stockholm dispatch says there are
twelve vessels in the ice at Oregrund, Gulf
of Bothnia, and two schooners have foun-
dered. The fate of the crews is unknown.
The American dory Little Western, which
crossed the Atlantic from Gloucester, Mass,
to London, last summer, will start on her re.
turn journey from London on the 14th in
slant.
A freight train on the Philadelphia and
Erie Railroad ran into landslide Friday
night, wrecking most of the train, and kill
ing one train hand, besides injuring several
others.
A London special says: No English paper
has heretofore had regular cablegrams from
the United States, but the Standard has
opened bureau at New York for daily spe-
cials, and thus forces the others to follow its
example.
The death is announced of Andrew Wilson
Traveller, the journalist who edited the China
Mail, the Star Of India and Bombay Gazette
He visited America in 1861, where he was
well known. He was the author of abode
of Snow"
A Toronto dispatch says that a race in lap
streak boats has been arranged between Wise
of Riverside and Edward Hanlan. The race
is for 81 600 side, and is to come off in six
weeks in Toronto Bay. The course will be
five miles with turn.
A Santa Fe dispatch says: Billy the Kid,
famous desperate, has killed three herders
of Chisholm's, and has sent word to the latter
that he was only getting even. Patrick Gar
ret, Sheriff of Lincoln county, has been on
the Kids trail since April 9th.
Edward Trickett, the Australian oarsman,
arrived at New York Saturday night in the
steamer Egyptian Monarch, with Kelly, his
trainer. He stated he expected to remain in
this country three or four months, and he
would row any man in a race except Hanlar.
Collector Robertson's commission will be
made out about the 23d instant, and he W II
enter on his duties July 1st as Collector at
New York. He believes the Senatorial con-
test will be ended by then. Should the Sena-
torial fight drag along, Merritt will remain
in office.
A newly arrived Swedish emigrant, named
Westegren, was found murdered in City
Hall Park, New York. Saturday morning.
cashed are suspected. They told his wife
they left him engaged in an alteration with
stranger.
J. E. Martin, prominent merchant of
Belknap, Tex, was called out of his resi-
dence Thursday night by party of unknown
men, who took him off about half mile and
shot him dead. They then went to his store
and robbed it of everything they could carry.
away. The Sheriff and several deputies are
now in pursuit.
Saturday morning, about 5 o'clock, Cap
tain Henry Kuhl, while on spree and suf-
fering from delirium tremens, entered the
office of the Davenport House at Omaha,
and suicided by shooting himself over the
right ear He had been soldier in Germany
and the United States, from both Of which
he drew pensions.
News has reached Halifax, n. S., of the
total destruction last Sunday on the rocks of
ST. Paul's Island, lighthouse station in the
Gulf of st. Lawrence, of the bark Mette
Margretha, belonging to Lerwvig, of Nor
way, and the drowning of five of her crew.
The vessel was on a voyage from London,
England, to Miramichi, New Brunswick.
A letter from Tunis says: The prevalence
of typhoid fever among the French troops
rendered a continued occupation of the
Regency difficult The temporary hospital
is full. Great efforts are made to conceal
the true state of affairs. The French have
withdrawn from Fernana without effecting
anything. They found the country almost
impenetrable, and were continuously har-
rassed by the Kroumirs and by typhoid fever
Southwest Missouri seems to have been
visited by the same storm that ravaged part
of Kansas Thursday night. The wind was
not 80 severe, but immense hail fell over
large area of country, and did great damage
to crops aud window-glass. A waterspout
broke in little valley in Barry county, and
before the people could reach the surround
ing hills a torrent Of water rushed down, TAX
ing with it houses, tents, household goods and
animals belonging to those living in the val
iSY. u woman uNe CDllQTCD, anu
q man and two women and two children,
were swept away by the food, but fortu-
nately all lodged in bushes and were rescued
some hours after.
Additional particulars of the tornado in
Kansas are as follows: The storm extended
into Lyon county. and did great damage to
crops, buildings, fences, ETC., all over that
part of the county. The town OF Americus.
near Emporia, is almost totally destroyed,
and every. building more or less damaged.
The United Presbyterian Church is literally
torn to pieces, and the Methodist Church is
blown off its foundation and almost totally
destroyed. Several houses in Emporia were
blown down, and the fences and other prop
erty ara damaged. The north and east addi
tions of the State Normal School are un-
rooted, and the walls partly torn down. The
wheat, which was just ready for harvest. and
the other crops everywhere in the track OF
the storm, were either blown away or beaten
into the ground by the hail, an immense
quantity OF which fell during the storm.