Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-18

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The Government has asked Congress for
power to expeud SLY, 600 in the construc-
ton of various branch telegraph lines in
connection with a main one to run from
Iquiqui to Cancte, in Arauoo.
A company mas applied to the Chilean
Government for permit to establish line
of tug steamers in Magellaus Straits. 1t
is believed sailing vessels would willingly
employ the tugs in preference to going
round Cape Horn, whilst their services
would be of great value in opening up the
resources OF Patagonia and Terre del Fuego.
The Chilean authorities have given
written promise 10 the Bolivian Govern
ment and to the authorities in Arequipa
that the troops landed at Mollendo will not
take active steps against the Peruvlans
unless they are first attacked.
PERU AND ECUADOR.
General Lynch has issued decree at
/ Lima permitting communication with all
| the northern ports which have been closed
to commerce since March last, when the
/ fever epidemic was at its hight.
A shocking infanticidal mania is reported
/ 10 have broken out at Pissgua, where nine
women are under arrest accused, on the
| clearest evidence, of having strangled nine
children of different ages. The children
were all murdered in different parts of the
"pampas, or barren districts, which are
| go general in that part of Peru.
The President of Chile advocates the i'm
mediate annexation OF Tarapaca. Both for
eigners- and Chileans support the measure.
| There are but few Perugians there. Some
own and work nitrate properties, and, as
| they have capital at stake, they cannot
avoid desiring annexation.
Five men have been lynched by the peo-
pie at the Galapagos Islands. They had
| determined to plumber the inhabitants, but
| the latter turned the tables On them. The
| islands are spsrsely inhabited, and as no
soldiers are maintained there by the Equa-
J dorian Government, crimes have frequently
been committed by bands of outlaws. The
Guayaquil papers demand the establish
ment of military post on the islands.
BOLIVIA.
News has been received from Tarija of
the massacre OF a French scientific explor-
ing expedition on the banks of the Pilco.
mayo. The canoes containing the explorers
were attacked by mob Of TOBIAS Indians,
and all the party were killed. 1t mum.
| bered fifteen persons, four Of whom were
! Frenchmen, Jules Crevaux, Lois Bittet,
| Ernest Haurat, Lean Demigron, two Ar
! geutines and nine Bolivians. They left
| 0miste on April 18th, in three launches,
and succeeded in reaching Teyo, the CAPT.
tai of TOBIAS, and there met their death.
Congress has been convoked to meet in
| La Paz on August Ssh. The peace party
is augmenting in power and influence, but
the Government appears undecided as to
the course to be pursued.
A letter from La Paz, Bolivia, says The
papers of Cochahamba, La Psz and Oruro
are almost exclusively occupied by articles
respecting the financial crisis the Republic
is passing through, the poverty OF the la
boring classes, the political situation, and
the difficulties in the way of the Govern.
ment coming to an honorable arrangement
with Chile.
a letter from the Cerro de Pssco mines,
June lst, says : The Chilenos are again in
cur midst, and the peaceful and quiet peo'
pie of this district are again alarmed al
the prospect before them. In April, 1881,
one Colonel Aduvien, under Pierols's or.
ders, entered this city and robbed us Of al
| least half a million. He was followed
within a few days by the Chilenos, who
levied n war tax Of S500,0 900 silver, hui
their plundering was, at the lowest calcu
lation, far in excess of the tax they i'm
posed. For the past fortnight we have
had some 500 troops who modestly demand
S25, 900 silver every month where thin
money is to come from is a mystery. Tit
other evening petty officer and two sol
diers entered the house of one Of our hac
endas, league and half outside the
town, and after being Hospitality treated by
the owner, Don Ramon Tobias, a Spanish
gentleman, resident here for the past thirty
years, they shot him in cold blood, at hi
own fireside, as well as his stepson and hi
administrator, an Austrian. The laborers
hearing the firing, rushed to the door
when six of them were likewise assassin.
ated. Mrs. Tobias was also shot.