Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-06
SATURDAYS NEWS.
Special Dispatches to the "Record
UnionD Condensed.

Vignaux will accept Slosson's billiard chal-
lenge.
The smallpox epidemic is increasing at
London.
Gabriel Gnoege, aged 20, residing at
Gilman's, Kentucky, shot his head off Satur-
day.
The Porte has received dispatches from
Messopotamia, saying that the plague has
ceased.
A Berlin correspondent says the Powers
are now pressing Turkey in regard to her OBJ
legations to protect the Armenians.
The jury in the Doyle bogus bond case, on
trial in Chicago Saturday evening, found
Doyle guilty. The verdict is sealed.
The Turkish troops, after an engagement
in SIGHT of Salonica. killed twenty-one
brigands, and brought their heads into town.
Rowell, the pedestrian, intends to try to
make 600 miles in six DAYS in London, and
will accept odds of 81, 000 to g. GOO that he
will succeed.
Boston still agitates the Worlds Fair ques-
ton, and the indications are that the move
ment towards holding it at " the Hub" will
be successful.
At sale ia Paris Saturday library chair
of Msrie Antoinette sold fer 5000 frances,
phin for G. 900 francs.
The remains of Emil Littre were buried in
Paris Saturday with religious rites. He was
baptized whilst dying. The circumstance
caused much comment.
tits stated from London that if applica-
tion for the removal of the remains of
William Perm is made to his relatives in En-
gland it will not be entertained.
Tall;l1 Aba Mrlr; fba
tor of the Milan Doab massacre during the
Kurdish invasion of Persia, was blown from
the mouth of cannon at Tabrees, Saturday.
I The London Economist says that the hopes
of an ultimate agreement on the Anglo
French treaty OF commerce, which will be
just and equitable to England, are growing
brighter.
A member of the Soldene Opera Company,
named Hersee, killed himself Satlr Jay
| morning by jumping from the bridge into
Clear creek, at Denver. He leaves wife,
who is also a member OF the troupe, known
as Maggie Duggan.
| The purchase of the Panama Railroad by
the French practically crowds all the Ameri-
can interests off the Isthmus of Panama.
We must henceforth look to Nicaragua or to
Tehuantepec for line of interoceanic transit
| under American control.
The London SPOKESMAN says that by all
rules of courtesy and fair-dealing the Henley
| Stewards are bound to admit the Cornell
crews entry, and the London Rowing Club
has written asking that the mistake of the
Cornell crew be overlooked.
John Reynolds, wealthy married man of
Andes, New York, has eloped with the pretty
wife of VIM. Gladstone of the same town.
Reyn Ids leaves wife and one child. Mrs.
Gla 1stone leaves two children. The guilty
parties started for California.
A Newport, r. l., dispatch says: Asa T.
Lawton is dead. The deceased was formerly
known in the business circles of New Bed.
| ford, and subsequently removed to California,
business, he amassed fortune.
W. T. Pearson & Co.'s sawmill at Great
| Works, eleven miles north Of Bangor, Me-,
was burned Saturday, with the stock of the
| blacksmith shop and 200. 900 feet of lumber
| threw 160 men out of employment.
Albert Williams (colored), convicted of the
murder Of Major Hutchins, was executed at
Livingston, Ala. Friday. He admitted the
killing, but expressed sorrow, and said he
composed, and died without a struggle.
City of Mexico advices say: Ex-Presideut
Diaz has resigned the portfolio of Public
Works. Whether he will go to France or
be elected Governor of Oaxaca, is still un-
| certain. General Pacheco, the former Sec
retary Of War, will take the place of Diaz
about the 9th instant.
Great Indignation has been aroused at
Canton, Ohio, upon finding vault in the
! cemetery broken open that had not been