Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-06
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.


A London dispatch says that Victor Hugo
is quite i'll.
= All the old officers Of the Michigan Central
haiiroad have been reelected.
Randolph Strickland, ex member of Con.
sfess, died at Detroit, Mich, yesterday.
A Vienna dispatch says that the recent
rumors that the Czarina is i'll are untrue.
The steamer Belize, from New Orleans to
copenhagen, fonndered at sea. All saved.
About forty artisan wells have been dug in
Dew York. principally by brewers the aver
age depth being 400 feet.
At Hazleton, Ind, Wednesday, a fire de-
stroyed the chief business block in town.
Loss, $1,000; half insured.
The success of the striking bakers at New
York Is almost beyond doubt. This week
viii probably end the strike.
Abe Frost, s. well-known Hebrew of Louis
vile, Ky. suicided by shooting yesterday.
FAMILY troubles was the cause.
a dispatch from Cape Town says: The
opposition refused to vote supplies, and the
tall OF the Ministry is considered certain.
A Constantinople dispatch says the Prince
Albanian leader, Hado Pasha, to Erzeroum.
A taannery owned by Mooney, four miles
from Montreal, and the largest in Canada,
s100, 600; partly insured
The whole city of Vienna is now devoted
to preparations for the reception of Princess
Stephanie, who is to be married to Crown
Prince Rudolph on the 10Th instant.
At Elizabeth, n. J., yesterday, the Albro
OH cloth factory was SGT on fife and DESTROYED
1t was owned by the Equitable Life Insnr.
ance Company of New York. Loss, So, 600.
A Colchester, Ont, dispatch says: A
three-masted vessel, bound down. heavily
laden, struck Colchester reef Wednesday
nighteand is still fast, flying signals of dis
tress.
The King of Holland has authorized the
offer OF the good offices of Holland. in con-
junction with France, England and Italy. 10
Chile, Peru and Bolivia for the restoration of
peace.
Five cases of giant powder exploded yester
day afternoon at 207 Fifty-ninth street. n
Y. Nobody was hurt, bat there was wild ex-
citement. M cause is given for the ex-
plosion.
At meeting of the bondholders of the
Oregon and California Railroad and Naviga.
ton Company at Frankfort, President Vii.
lard's plan for the organization Of the road
was adopted by 5S5 to 49,
There was received at the Treasury De.
partlnent in Washington to tie clc sing hours
yesterday, IS SIS 800 in six rer cent bonds.
Tor conversion INFO three and half per cen T..
Total amcnat received - date, $74. So, 100.
y New York di<Fatch says There is no
disgusting the fact that the Worlds Fair is
as good as dead, and the Commission is con.
sidering the most suitable means of closing it
uo. All the subscriptions do not exceed
81, 600, 600, and the money received will be
returned.
President Garfield yesterday nominated
George 2. Pomerov, of New Jersey, to be
Secretary Of the United States Legation at
Paris; Mrs. Julia p. Voolfolk. to be Post.
mistress at Jackson, Tenn; Malachi Krebo,
of Indiana to be Receiver of Public Moneys
at Boise City, Idaho.
. The Spanish Minister at London announces
that the distinguished jurors, who include
United States Minister Lowell, are unable to
award the prize for the poem on Calderon, as,
although the compositions sent in are meri-
torious, they are deficient in their special ap.
plication to the subject
TIE adjourned public sale Of the effects Of
the Jay Cooke estate took place at Philaiel.
phia yesterday. Some of the Western lands
and the county seat (0gontz) were disposed
OF, the limit on the latter having been re.
duced to 100000. ana the sale was effected
after lively competition at S1l3, 500 1t is
understood that it was purchased for Jay
Cooke.
The Senate yesterday confirmed William
Walter Phelps. of New Jersey, as Minister
to Austria; Cortez Fessenden, Of Michigan,
as United States Surveyor General for Da-
kota Richard W. Montgomery, as Receiver
Of Public Moneys at Bloomington, Neb.:
Lionel A. Sheldon, Of Ohio. as Governor oi
New Mexico Territory /; Edward S Meyer,
United States Attorney for the Northern
District of Ohio Henry Fink. United States
Marshal for the Eastern District of Wiscon.
sin Thomas Wilson, of the District Of Co
lnmbia, Consul at Client; John +. JENNIE, Of
New jersey, Consul at Nuevo Laredo.