Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREYI1IES.

W L. Strong has been elected Director of the
| Denver and Rio Grande road vice H. L. Sprague,
/ resigned.
The Paris lie Temps denies that there has been
/ a rupture of the friendly relations between
/ France and Morocco.
! During the sojourn at Darmstadt of Queen
| Victoria, the Emperor of Germany sent Her Maj
| esty an autograph letter.
| A general order has been issued by the War
| Department directing the Tenth and Twenty
third regiments of infantry to exchange sta
tons.
James \. Connolly, whose nomination as So
! licitor of the Treasury was on Monday con-
! frmcd by the Senate, has formally declined to
accept the place.
The preliminaries of the Egyptian conference
have been settled. The conference will meet
in London the first week in June. and is expected
| to last three weeks.
A private dispatch from Ottawa says: Sir
Charles Upper has resigned as Dominion Min
] lister of Railways, to become High Commits
| sioner at London, England.
Charles Ford brother of Robert Ford, slayer
of Jesse James, shot himself through the heart
| at Richmond, Mo-, yesterday morning, dying
instantly. No cause is assigned.
a private telegram announces the safe arrival
] at Yokohama OF Captain Morris and crew, of
! the ship RAINIER, which was wrecked on one of
| the Marshall Islands i'll the Pacific
The Berlin Courier states that the Empress has
suffered relapse. and grave fears are enter
tanned Win regard 10 ner cOnultlOn. PRAYERS
were offered at the Domkirche for her recovery.
Russia. Germany and Austria are discussing
common measures looking to the supervision of
the production and sale of dangerous explosives.
England and France are not invited to particle
pate.
From several New York coffee brokers it has
| been ascertained that in more than half the re-
tail groceries Maricabo and Rio coffees are col
ored to initiate Java and sold as Java at large
profit.
The boom in oil went to pieces at Pittsburg
yesterday morning, owing to the rumors of the
New York bank failures and unfayorable field
news. The market is excited and panicky, and
the selling heavy.
The firm of Grant & Ward, of New York. an
nounce their closing account of the failure
General L. S. Grant, James ID. Fish, L. 5. Grant
Jr.. and Ferdinand Ward.
The Marine National Bank of New York has
closed. J. D. Fish is President of the bank. A
year ago the bank purchased Booths Theater.
The Clearing House is considering the suspen-
sion. 1t is thought the failure is bad one.
There is considerable excitement in Detroit
over the elopement of Miss Lillian, daughter of
c. J. Whitney, manager of opera houses in that
city, Chicago and other places with Mr.. Whit
neys coachman, who protested to be an English
baronet.
There was a rise of three feet and one inch in
the Red River at Shreveport, La, for the forty
eight hours ending at midnight Monday and
ed above, ard heavier floods than in February
are anticipated
The Siamese Embassy called at the White
House in Washington yesterday and paid for
NAL visit TO the President. They were accom-
panied by Secretary Frelinghuyscn, Consul
Smith, Rear-Admiral Rogers, and Lieutcnants
Mason and Potts.
The report of the visible supply of grain, as
prepared by the Secretary of the Chicago Board
of Trade, shows decrease in the supply of
wheat during the past week of 500, 900 bushels .
decrease in corn, 1,i95.000; decrease in oats
~ 900 decrease in barley, 21i 900.
The Pail MAI Gazette, in an article under the
headline, Disgrace and Something More"
says the Government after having compelled
General Gordon to commit his Khartoum friends
to support him. now suggests the climax of
meanness, that he shall abandon his friends.
The North German Gascte of Berlin, comment
ing upon the recognition by the United StsFtes of
the African Association OF Congo, asks: .'Who
and what is this Association? Its statutes are
not published and 1t is not even known whether
il possesses any corporate rights Who Is the
Association in the>eyes OF the law? From whom
has il acquired its rights ~
A Berlin special says the report that Louis
w.. Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt and SON
in-law Of Queen Victoria, had contracted NOR
gariitic marriage with Madame Kolamine
daughter OF Count Adam CZapski, and the
divorced wife of Russian diplomat, is caused
Standard, the Story is generally believed in Lon
don.
The American Medical Association convened
in annual session at Washington yesterday
morning. Delegates arrived in such numbers
that previous to the hour of meeting the yesti-
bule of the church and entrances were crowded
with long lines of members waiting TO be regis
tered. over 500 delegates had registered yester-
day morning, and new names are constantly
added to the list.