Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-28
TIE pAiLY RECORD UNION.


In New York Saturday Government bonds we're
quoted at 1893 for As of 1907 ll4 for AIS IO1 for
SIS; sterling 81 s3@4 So 100 fer 3s,.lOO for 5s
silver bars, Ill
Silver in London, SOLD consols, 1ol II l6d; per
cent United States bonds, sextended, lO5; As, 127
rs, 1l7I.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted at
s73@sS cents.
Mining stocks were generally weak in San Fran
cisco Saturday. The Mexican assessment of sec
went on, and the stock sold at 81 ~ but afterwards
declined to 81 S5, showing that the new burden was
not sustained Bode sold freely at about 81 50.
The death of ex Governor John Letcher, of Yir-
GINA, is announced.
Fire destroyed the State Prison buildings at
Saltwater SIinn., Saturday.
An entire block, except one building, was burned
Saturday at Buena Vista, Col.
The President returned to Washington Saturday
from New York.
Al Syracuse, N Y, Saturday night, man finished
the task Of walking 3O2 miles in 100 hours without
sleep
Fifty-s ven bodies have been recovered from the
Crested Buttes Coli coal mine, bat two remaining.
Two ships collided in the English Channel SatuI-
day, one being sunk, drowning TWENTY-FIVE men.
Furious gales are still prevailing throughout
Great Britain and Ireland
The missing mail steamer Plover has arrived at
St. Johns, n. F.
The remains OF Herr Lasker have arrived in Berlin
The rain which fell Saturday was general through
out the State
Fire at Vallejo resulting in the death of the Chief
Engineer OF the fire department.
a new paper mill has been completed at Taylor
vilIe Marin county.
Hlnan and Lee the sculers, have reached Vic
toria
}. V. Spader shot himself Saturday in Portland,
Or.
Fire and loss of lie 1T I,ne Amador county.
Washington Territory enjoys the distinction OF
having the first female notary ever appointed IN
America.
A teamster named Odd was crushed to death
under the wheels Of his wagon at Salt Lake Sat
urday.
At the Fisheries Exposition IN London, the Uuited
States received more awards than any other country
Fffty.fve Apache children leave Wilcox, A T.
to-day, Tor tine training school at Carlisle Pa.
Turkey has decided net to send troops to the Sou
dan
In a raid on Brooklyn ie7elry store, Saturday
night, burglars captured 5000 worth of goods
william Hutton, aged So, committed suicide in
New York yesterday.
The Lee and Cotsord boat race takes place at Vic
tora, b. C., on the 18th OF February.
y coIery explosion in Wales yesterday killed
eleven miners
Growing grain in eastern Oregon is in great dan
ger from the present freezing weather in that
region.
Telegrapbi- communication las been restored
between Cairo aud Khartoum.
At R,sita, Col. yesterday, o Kurtz was shot and
killed by Frank Wi lians and Johu Gray.
The Kentucky Senatorial contest is sill unde-
cided
Meetings of Natiooalsts were held in several
towns OF Ireland yesterday.
1t is reported from Khlrtoum that Ell Mahdi mas
lett 81 Obeii with 81, COO men.
Fire in san Francisco; loss, S4,jO0.
In preventing National League meeting at III
lanuleu, Ireland, yesterday, the police knocked
tao women down. breaking several nts of one Of
them.