Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-02
Special Dispatches to the Record
Union Condensed.

centennial.
A man named D. D.: String committed
suicide at Junction City, Lane county, Or,
Friday, by hanging.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice drove to
Hushenden Manor Saturday to visit the
tomb of Beacons6eld.
1t is announced that Belvidere Castle, at
Warsaw. is being prepared for the Gar, who
will make heightened stay there.
The floods in the northwest are subsiding
Great damage has been caused by the high
water, and much destitution prevails.
A London cablegram says: The grand in.
ternational steep,echase of four miles was
won by Regal, Torpedo second, Fairwind
third.
War Dance. great thoroughbred sire, the
property of James A. Grinstead. died Satur-
day, at Bluegrass Park, from collie, aged 20
years.
The contract for Indian supplies in the
Northwest has been awarded by the Canadian
Government to J. NJ. Baker & Co. of St.
Louis.
The Carlton trial for the killing of Brum-
NETT the Hollister editor, is still progressing
at San Jose. 1t will go to the jury about
Wednesday.
The jury in the case of Miss Lastania
Abarta, for the murder of "Chico" Forster
at Los Angeles, rendered verdict Saturday
of not guilty.
The schooner Palladium sunk off Point
Judith. Z. l., Friday night. The captains
son, Frederick w. Chase, Jr and the mate,
Samuel Walker, are lost.
The Right Hon. William Henry Smith, NJ.
p, has purchased for g, 600 Milais' portrait
of Lord Beaconsfeld, now on exhibition at the
Royal Academy, London.
The death is announced of Edward Mall
one of the leaders of the Anti State party in
England, and editor and proprietor Of the
Non Conformist newspaper.
Men engaged in the different breweries of
St. Lonis have demanded reduction of
hours of labor, and unless their demand is
complied with by to-day will strike.
John w. Minturn committed suicide at
New York Saturday. He was possessed of a
large private fortune, his business affairs pros.
porous and family relations most happy.
The statement that the ex. Empress Eugene
will pass through Paris on her way to Milan.
to be present at the unveiling of the statue of
her husband, is wholly untrue. She has not
left England.
The Justification of the rebel war records is
being attempted in order to smirch the char
acter of General Logan. It has been discov-
cred, and the clerks in charge are being
watched or discharged.
It is possible that Sir Edward Thornton,
the present British Minister to Washington,
will succeed Earl Dufferin at St. Petersburg,
and that Sir Austin Layard will succeed
Thornton at Washington.
The new Normal School building at San
Jose will be opened to day. The work of re.
moving from the Santa Clara-street School
commenced on Friday. The formal dedica-
ton takes place in about ten days.
The reception to General Grant at the City
of Mexico by the American Minister was at
tended by the Cabinet, Supreme Court, Con-
gress, diplomatic corps and an immense
throng. There was great cordiality.
A little daughter of A. NJ. Witham, aged
8 years, living in Benton county, Oregon, was
fearfully burned Friday, by her clothes
catching FIRE while she was playing about the
stove. It is thought she will recover.
telegram from Galway, Ireland, says:
by a gang of disguised men and roasted over
a fire until he swore he would resign his
Office. Kings condition is believed hopeless.
The third annual picnic of the A O. U. W.
was held at Chico Saturday. An excursion
train was run from Marysville and way sta
tions sonth. consisting of six coaches, filed
with Workmen and their families and
friends.
A terrible epidemic, some what akin to
typhus, is making great havoc among horses
in Paris, France. The Paris Omnibus Com
pany is said to have lost 70 600 francs, and
the Compagnie des Petites Voitures over
million francs.
The Earl of Shrewsbury eloped with Mrs.
Miller Mundy. of Shipley, Derbyshire. The
fugitive pair fed to Strasburg, where the la
I,,;., h.
Earl sound thrashing and brought the lacy
back to England.
The British steamer Tararaoua, of Mel
bourne has been wrecked on the reefs off
Otago, New Zealand. She ran between Aus
tralis. Tasmanian and New Zealand ports,
carving passengers and cargo. Eighty per-
sons were drowned.
After several weeks animated debate of
the Superior Council on Education at Madrid
over which the Minister of Public Works pre-
sided, it was decided bya narrow majority to
admit women and girls to the lectures and
degrees of the Universities and Faculties.
There is no longer any doubt OF the drown
ing of four prominent business men from Mt
Clemens, Mich, who went fishing in Lake
St. Clair. Nothing has been heard from
them, and one or two packages known TO
have been taken with them have been picked
| up.
A dispatch from Algiers says that mes
sepger from Itarem, Chief of Saurrego of
| Hoggart, has been arrested, with a letter
| from Itarem to the Sultan Of Turkey an
nouncing the massacre of Colonel Flatters'
expedition, and asking the Sultan for the re-
ward.
| Michael Vollmers, of the William Tell
| House, Virginia, New, committed suicide
this morning by drowning himself in water
tank of the Odd Fellow Cemetery. Chas.
| Lawrence, partner of Vollmers, committed
suicide some months ago, shooting himself in
the head.
The Republican Caucus Committee ap-
| pointed to prepare programme for the pro-
posed executive sessions have held several
| meetings at Washington, the last one Satur-
| day afternoon, but did not complete their. la.
| bors, and hardly expect to be ready to report
to the caucus to-day.
Saturday morning, eight miles north of
Weimar, Tex, Sam Brown, while laboring
under temporary alteration of mind, cut his
wife's throat and then his own with a razor
She had recognized his condition and fled
across the fields, but was overtaken.> A little
nine year-old daughter attempted to take the
razor and was badly cut.
| The journeymen cabinetmakers of Pitts
burg have appointed a committee to call on
1 Tue pCopfittOfS VI IdCIOTleS ana demand an
advance of 15 per cent. on present wages, to
take effect from to-day. The journeymen
bricklayers of Allegheny and Pittsburg have
bean notified by the bosses of the concession
to be made for increased wages demanded
some time since.
The United States Circuit Court, now in
Isession at Petersburg Va, has discharged
Taylor Strouder lcolored), twice tried tor
murder and each time found guilty and SEN
terced to be hanged. This case has been be-
fore the United States Court for some years,
and involves question under the civil rights
bill, allowing colored men the privilege of
being tried by colored jurors.
The elegant new passenger depot of the
various branches of the Northwestern Rail.
road will be opened st Chicago to day. Be-
sid s being more accessible than either of the
old depots it is an architectural triumph. 1t
is situated or Wells and Kitzie streets, and
is of colossal dimensions. This binding cost
nearly quarter of million dollars, and Is
considered the haGdsomest ore in the city.
The ship Sumatra ran on sunken rock
Saturday in Bsynes Channel. ten miles from
Victoria, B. G. A steam donkey pump on
board was started, and the ship kept sh5at
until the Alexander succeeded in towing her
into Esauimalt harbor, where she was