Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.


The Australian cricketers have left Mel.
bourne for England.
T. A cyclone did considerable damage in
Mississippi Tuesday.
The Havana Savings Bank has decided
to go into liquidation.
A report from the Creek Nation says
things are quiet there at present.
The Governor of Mississippi has ap
proved the railroad supervision bill.
A box addressed to the Count De Paris
and seized in Lyons contained dynamite
sufficient to kill many persons,
Commander Schley, Of the Greedy relief
expedition, says he has lot the slightest
doubt that he will return with the party
next fall.
j. F. Mckinney, ex-member of Congress,
and H. Fl. Smiley, of Piqua, o., have been
indicted for reserving an unlawful amount
of fees in pension cases.
A duel with swords was fought at Lisbon,
Portugal, yesterday morning between Wis.,
count Roberdo and Major Ssrpa Pinto.
The former receive FIVE wounds.
The Salvation Army is being raided
again in Bridgeport, Conn. Three persons
were fined SIT each yesterday morning for
parading. They have appealed.
At Odell, ILL.,, Tuesday, GalIus Egger-
berger, leading citizen, was found dead
on the railroad track with two bullet-holes
in his head. The murderers are unknown.
The Council of Empire at St. Petersburg
approves, By a large majority, the pro-
posed concession to the Russo-American
company, which contemplates the erection
of grain elevators throughout the country.
The Canadian Government has intro
duced bill in the House of Commons re.
curing Canada branches of American mu-
tual life insurance associations to take out
licenses and deposit security fund of
$50. 0O0
The Committee of the French Chamber
of Deputies, to which the question Of the
importation of pork had been referred, has
decided to submit the proposal OF the Gov
eminent to the Councils General of the
various Departments.
Information from Shawnee, StraitsvilIe,
Corning, Jacksonville and other points in
Ohio, shows that the strike in the coal
mining region of Hooking Valley has been
made general, and will continue. The last
men went out Tuesday.
Efia Ellsler, the actress, has brought
suit in New York against Joseph Brooks
and James B. Dickson, theatrical mana
gers, for Sc, $50 damages for forfeiture of
theatrical contract. The plaintiff has been
ordered to furnish bill of particulars.
Senator Farley has introduced bill ap-
propriatirg 500. 600 for a Postofiice at
Sacramento. 1t is the same bill that Glas-
cock introduced in the House, and on
which the House Committee on Public
Buildings has made a favorable report.
The marriage of Lieutenant John Dan.
enhower, of Jeanette fame, and Miss
Helen Latin Sloan daughter of ex-Speaker
Sloau, occurred at Christ's Church, Os.
wego, n. Y, at II o'clock yesterday morn.
inc. After bridal trip they will reside
IN Washington.
The Galveston Ne5gs San Antonio spe.
cial says: Ben Thompson and King Fisher
are lying side by side in the Vaudeville
Theater, dead, both shot in the left eye.
Joe Foster, who attempted to separate
them, was shot in the leg and probably will
die OF hemorrhage.
The Mexican Central Railway will be
opened for traffic to the City of Mexico by
March 20sh. Arrangements are completed
by which Pullman cars will be run from
st. Louis TO Mexico with only one change,
and that at Ell Paso. 1t ia expected the
trip from New York to the City of Mexico
will be made in six days.
The alleged detectives working on the
Pacific Express robbery case have obtained
sufficient clue to the whereabouts of
Teller, or one Of his confederstes, to jus.
tify sending email special train with
officers to some point in southern Texas,
with view, it is said, to prevent the fugi-
tive from entering Mexico.
Mrs. General Fitzpatrick, with her two
daughters, now in Chile, are in reduced
circumstances. 1t has bsen proposed in
New York 10 raise enough money to take
up s., 900 mortgage upon the Kiloatrick
homestead farm in Sussex county, n. j., so
that Mrs. Fitzpatrick may have an unin-
cumtered home Twenty persons have al.
ready subscribed 500 each.
Meigs' elevated railroad bill has passed
the Massachusetts, Legislature. 1t NOM
inally permits the construction, under GER
tain restrictions, of elevated railroads,
under the Meigs system, through any town
or cities Of the Commonwealth, subject to
the approval of Selectmen or Aldermen,
and especially authorizes the building of
an experimental section from Cambridge
to Boston.
The annual report of the st. Louis and
San Francisco Railroad shows the gross
earnings for 1888 to have been SO, S96, sos,
an increase of 1924, 324 operating ex-
penses, 81, 592, l59, an increase of Sl37,-
1893 Improvements, Sl37, POP, an increase
of 1881; taxes, 1913, 76S, an increase of
So G42 earnings, after paving operating
expenses, taxes, etc, g. 073 1856, sn in.
crease Of Sl26. 977.