Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREyFrIES,
Two fresh cholera cases are reported {
Toledo. Spain.

| Two fresh cholera cases are reported at
| Toledo, Spain.
| Truninger & Co., bankers and merchants
of London have suspended
Baggallays & Spence, warehousemen of
London, have failed for S600,0
| 1t is expected that the number OF houses
which will 90 out of business in New York
at the end of the year will be unusually
large.
| The police officials of Hamburg have
letter containing threats that the Imperial
Naval Observatory will be destroyed by
dynamite.
! Tonquin advices report daily encounters
| between the Chinese and French at out
posts. China continues pouring troops into
TOnquin and Formosa.
The London Ne,os' Berlin correspondent
| telegraphs that it is reported i'll diplomatic
circles that it is intended in certain intiu-
entail quarters, to transform Congo into a
Free State monarchy"
John f. Scholes, of Toronto, has ehal-
lenged Charles Mitchell to box for scientific
points, with the understanding that the
| contest will be strictly within the limits OF
the laws of the province.
Tom Sing, who served as officers steward
on the Jeanette Arctic expedition, and in
the same capacity with the Greedy relief
expedition, has been arrested in New York,
charged with the commission of several
murders.
| The present season at Vienna is the worst
ever experienced in that usually gay CAPT
tai. Business is terribly depressed, and
numerous recent failures have ruined the
credit and crushed the enterprise of many
mercantile houses.
| Yesterday was Gladstonc's seyenty-fifth
| birthday. The occasion was celebrated
with great festivity at Hawarden. Birth
day greetings reached him from all parts of
the empire. The Prince Of Wales sent cor
dial congratulations.
Peter Cameron's colossal painting of
-" Niagara Falls in Winter has been on
exhibition at Rochester, \. Y, for 4 fort
/ night. 1t was recently completed, and by
4 very good judge has been pronounced the
greatest landscape ever painted in America.
During the past week considerably more
California merchandise has been unlOaded
1T the New Orleans Exposition, and amOd
est representation OF the manufacturing in
dustries Of the State is now being made.
John Doyle of Sacramento, exhibits horse
shoes.
The New York Telegram appeared yester-
| udN lOT cent. L ne rulllOrS are reviewed.
that Amos J Cummings President of the
| New y ork Press Club, and so long of the
Sun, will be the new editor-in-chief of the
Star if John Il. Mclean succeeds in pur
chasing it.
James Mahoney, employed as porter in
a store in New York. has been held in
s., 900 bail in the Yorkville Police Court
for hgamy, he having two wives living.
The first wife appeared, who produced in
| Court marriage certificate showing that
she was married to Mahoney in St. Mary's
| Cathedral, San Francisco, February y,
1876, by Rev. T. \. insolvency.
A cable special from London says: The
reports OF shipbuilding i'll Great Britain for
the year show the enormous falling off of
nearly half million tons, which involves,
of course, idlcness for many thousands of
worllnen, among whom the distress is
simply terrible The returns showa largely
increased use of steel as a building mate
rial, and in a few years the use Of ii will be
| quite universal.