Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08
SPARES FROM TIE WIRES.

! Chadwick's Park mills, near Manchester,
Eng, were burned yesterday.
A Hongkong dispatch says that the
French forces have begun an advance on
BacDinh.
Two thousand weavers have struck at
Manchester, Eng, owing to = threatened
reduction in wages.
Daniel Andersons steam sswmill ut Wa.
terside, n. B., was burned Thursday.
Loss heavy; uninsured.
A boiler exploded in J. f. Dearborn's
steam mill at Bryant's Point, Me-, yester.
day morning, killing four men.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
has purchased in New York twelve loco
motives, at a cost of SI29, 80.
The office of the Psymaster of the Chi.
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, in
Chicago, was robbed of S27, 900.
British imports for February show de.
crease, compared switn February of last
year, of f2S9 600. The exports Increased
f627, 500.
Augustus Harris was robbed at the Ho.
tel Continental in Paris, yesterday of A
check fer 81 900 and a quantity Of bank
notes and diamonds.
The commander of the Black Flses in
Tonquin has offered reward of GIG for
each head of French soldier and $50 for
the head of an officer.
Proposals are invited for the purchase of
the vessels Benicia and Cysne, at Mare
Island, at an appraised value OF $40, 900,
and Sl2. 600, respectively.
The Psrnellites are irritsted at the re.
fusal of the British Government to reopen
the Irish land question. They intend to
begin forthwith great agitation in Ireland.
1t is reported that fresh Dutch expedi.
ton has been dispatched to Acheen. in
Sumatra, with the hope of securing the
release of the crew Of the wrecked steamer
Nisero
The sailors attached to the United States
ship Speedwell, charged with hsvingrobbed
the dead bodies recovered from the wreck
of the steamer Columbus, have been hon.
orably acquitted.
Nellis, the Irishman who surrendered TO
the Greenock police recently and professed
to give the names OF the murderers of the
Earl of Lsitrim, has been adjudged insane
and sent TO the madhouse.
A letter from Bismarck was read yester.
day in the Reichstag notifying it that the
Deputy for Murahdle.z had been sentenced
to six months in prison and loss of his
seat, for insulting the throne.
The Treasury Department at Washing
ton, in view OF the reported prevalence of
the foot and mouth disease in Great Brit
ain, is considering the propriety of prohib-
iting the importation of neat cattle from
that country.
A Norwalk. o., special says: County
Treasurer Van Fleets shortage is found, by
an examination, to be S47 COS. Opinion is
divided as to whether he took much money
with him. The general belief is that he
lost all in speculation.
Senator Walker has introduced a bill to
grant the Kansas City and Gulf Railway
the right of way through Indian Territory
from point near and south of the city of
Baxter Springs, Kan, to point near the
city of Fort Smith, Ark.
James L Dougherty, mail ;agent on the
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, shot and
seriously wounded Professor Nuttiug, a
music teacher of Emporis, KS, yesterday
afternoon. The affair created great SEN
satiou, and grew out of the well. known
between Nutting and Dougherty's
wife.
Thirty.fve families, Austrians and Ital-
ans, landed at Galveston, Tex, yesterday,
in destitute condition, by the steamship
Harris, from Braz1s, Santiago They
claim to have been induced to emigrate to
Mexico on promises of land and assistance
rom the Mexican Government, which
we're not fulfilled.