Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-11

Inc french squadron at hOnSKong mas
sailed for Tonquin.
The Gambetta monument fund has reached
$4,000. Morton, the American Minister,
subscribes $500.
A Fort Worth special says: Twenty. four
prisoners escaped from jail, but all were re-
captured excepting four.
The New York State Convention of the
National Greenback Labor party will be held
in Rochester September 4th.
At Harrisburg, Pa, the House has passed
bill abolishing the contract system in pris-
ons and reformatory institutions.
Two active Socialists were arrested at vi
emma Monday. A Socialist manifesto has
been distributed throughout the city.
The Baltimore Coffee Exchange formally
opened Monday, and the first regular call was
made. G. Morton Stewart is the President
Babcock & WaterouP, manufacturers Of
wool and straw hats at Middletowp, n. Y,
have assigned. Their liabilities are I'M
known.
A Hamburg dispatch says that DR.. Hsver-
mann, young physician of Rostock, his
been appointed physician TO the Queen of
Madagascar.
The King of Italy has signed decree or
dering the formation as quickly as possible OF
seventy.two new companies of Territorial
and Alpine troops.
1t is stated that new jury will be drawn
fer another batch of New Orleans election
fraud cases, TO be called Friday in the United
States Circuit Court.
a Gibraltar dispatch says that four slaves
were sold on public street in Tangiers, near
the British Legation, and that the Europeans
of Tangiers are indignant.
Twelve hundred cigarmskers are en- STRIFE
in Cincinnati, demanding an increase of 81
per thousand, in consequence of the taking
the tax off of So per Thousand.
The Chief of Police, of Toledo, Ohio, has
ordered the arrest of Coy, chief member of
charge of embt zzling trust funds.
A large portion of the country 10 the south
ern part of Russia is covered with water,
owing to floods in the rivers. Traffic on the
railways has been suspended temporarily.
Washington and Henry Tobias. of New
York, two brothers, aged 80 and 30, are de-
faulters to the amount of $4,000. The
money belonged to their late fathers estate.
David G. Bliss, known to the country as
the doctor who distracted S35, 900 worth of
bonds from safe in the Office of E. B. Treat,
the New York publisher, has been arrested.
Accounts of dreadful domestic tragedy
have been received at Berlin from Cham, Ba.
varia. A rope-maker killed his wife, mother
in-law and two sons, and then poisoned him.
self.
The Finance Committee of Massachusetts
have unanimously reported in favor of voting
appropriations for public charitable institu-
lions, notwithstanding the veto of the Gov
ernor.
The AdjuSsnt. General of Texas has ad-
vices that Indians are raiding in the vicinity
of the Sacramento mountains, and that Cap
tain Baylor, with the coast rangers, is on
the trail.
At Atlanta, Ca, Monday night, Samuel
Lewis (colored), the murderer Of Jink Weems
(colored) was taken from Jail by mob of
70 blacks and six whites and hanged. He
confessed.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference in
New York oppose the appropriation by the
Legislature Of $4,000 to the Catholic Pro-
testory, and will petition the Governor to
veto the item.
The missionaries appointed at the Mormon
Conference at Kirkland, o., number 1914, and
their destination is the Southern and Western
States, Europe, Australia, Mexico and the
Sandwich Islands.
The police are keeping o close watch over
number Of Russian refugees at Paris, whom
they suspect of being connected with an al
legged plot to take the life of the Gar of the
time of the coronation.
Captain John J. Jones, late broker of
Boston, charges the police Of Chicago with
inhuman and cruel treatment. Jones is the
man who figured so prominently in the Pond
divorce case in Boston.
The bricklayers of Chicago are on strike,
Most of the master masons have few men
at work. and ne men are coming from other
cities. The strikers have begun intimidating
working non union men.
At Pit.sburg Henry Mepefy, the selfcon-
fessed murderer of Lord Leitram, was re-.
leased from custody yesterday, he having
been identified as harmless crank living IN
one of the outer wards of the city.
The Grand Army of the Republic, De-
partment of Maryland and Washington, has
decided to participate in the annual reunion
Of the Society of the Army of the Potomac
to be held in Washington May 10th and 17th.
The appraisers of the Otoe Indian lands of
Kansas and Nebraska have finished their
task and value the lands at from 81 to $40
per acre. Secretary Teller is satisfied that
he can protect all interests, and the sale will
be made about May 1st.
The Directors Of the Louisville Cotton Elk.
position have closed contract with the Sew
enth Regiment band, of New York, for the
first fifty days of the exposition. and with
Gilmore's baud, of the same city, for the re.
manning fifty days. This involves an ex-
penditure of S35, 900.
The London Times says that there WIS a
practical reason for the haste in which the
bill in regard to explosives passed through
Parliament Monday, and explains it by
stating that some members of the dynamite
party are believed to be on steamers now
coming from America.
A certificate of incorporation of the Rail-
way Telephone Company was filed in New
York Monday in the County Clerks office.
The object is to construct lines of telegraph
throughout the United States and adjacent
countries, aud to convey telephone messages
for railways and for other purposes, The
capital stock is fixed st 81. soc, 900, and may
he Increased Tn 81 600 00(l