Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-20


The missing steamer Quebec has been
steersd into Holyhead By tug.
The Liberal journal, the Tribune, has
stopped, at Berlin, after an existence of %
years.
There are no fewer than FIVE hundred Chi
nese ia New York who attend school reg
ularly.
The loss by the burning of the new theater
at Altared, Hungary, is estimated at Is, 900
horins.
A Constan.inopie dispatch says: A Sofia
Yesterday murdered an Imaum at prayer in
q mosque.
A Halifax IN. 81 dispatch states that
three miners were killed by black damp in
Cumberland county.
A hurricane at Zoor, Mass, blew down s.
depot, 60 by 20 feet, and moved the founda.
ton four feet. Nobody was hurt.
1t is proposed instead of monument to
Wagner that fund be collected to maintain
the Wagnef Taeater in Bayreuth.
The District Of Columbia appropriation
bill appropriates $40, 0G0, S115 900 less
than the bill appropriated last year,
The steamer Gray Eagle, while attempting
to crcsI the river at Peoria, Ill, Yesterday,
We caught in an ice gorge aud sunk.
A man named Thomas Welsh. living on
the West Side at Chicago, in a fit OF drunken
fury beat his wife to death yesterday.
John Q. Rutledge. author of "Dfear y
Eyes that Haunt Me Sill" and numerous
othar songs. died at Memphis Sunday.
TIE weekly statement of the Imperial
Bank of Germany shows an increase Of
specie to the amount of 100000 marks.
Francis Wardell Pension Agent at De.
troit, found guilty of forgery, was sentenced
to four years in the House of Correction.
Ga the reorganization of the Senate next
month it is thought that Iugalls, of Kansas,
will be called to the chair in place of David
Davis.
The vote for Senator in the MiohigansLeg-
islature Yesterday gave Ferry Is, Newton
Dem 80. Ths balance of the 81 votes were
scnttared-
An official of the Interior Department is
authority for the statement that Dr. Cox will
soon be suspended as Pension Agent at San
Francisco.
The Secretary of the British Embassy at
Teheran and his native escort have been at.
tackled on the Turcoman steppes, and eleven
of the escort killed and nine wounded.
The tidal wave predicted for March by
Virgins is such source of alarm at Rock
away Beach. L. l that The families of some
of the landlords will move st the end of Feb
ruary.
The Government has approved the calling
out of the Irish militia this year for the usual
training. They have not been called out for
several years, owing to the disturbed state Of
Ireland.
Garrett S. Boyce, Edward B. Shaw and
John N. Beach, defaulting officers of the de-
funct City Bank ct jersey City. yesterday
pleaded guilty. and we're sentenced to hard
labor in the State Prison as follows: Boyce
ten years, Beach four, and Shaw six.
J. j. G. Wall, who was associated with U.
S. Grant, Jr., and General John B. Gordon
il the Belmont coal mines of Alabama. and
who has been Superintendent for several
ySars, committed suicide Thursday by drown-
ing himself in the Tennessee. The cause was
speculation.
a Richmond special says: It has lust
leaked out that the New York steamer
Guandotse colli3ed with the United States
monitor Ajax in james river, near Richmond,
a day or two ago. The Guandotte was coz.
siderably damaged but evidently did not
wait to Learn the injuries to the Ajax.
The action OF the Ways and Means Com
mittes and of ifs members in the House
seems to settle the fact that the House can
not pass any tariff bill this session, MANY
persons who have been in Washington for the
past two months trying to look after various
interests, left Sunday, bsing convinced that
no bill can be passed this session.
The Rollins amendment to the naval ap-
Precipitation bill, which has the Endorsement
of the Secretary of the Navy, is the almost
exclusive subject of discussion among naval
officers in Washington. The amendment
proposes to reduce the number of line officers
fifteen per cent. the staff corps thrty.two
per cent, and tbs paymaster corps thirty
nine per cent.