Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

A storm in Moravia has immensely dam
aged the crops.
The Executive Committee of the Union
Pacific has decided to close the New York
office, except for transfers.
The British Resident, with the gunboats
Ranger and Arab, has left Alden to annex
Darbera, seaport of east Africa.
B. B. Buford & Co., a corporation owning
the Rock Island Plow Works, at Rock
Island, ILL.,. have made an assignment
Monday $4,000 bushels of No. corn
stored in boats at New York were found out
OF condition and posted on Change The
corn is musty.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs of
fers 5000 reward for the arrest of the muir
derer of Kashiway, chief of the Sac and
Fox Indians in Kansas.
The Bell Telephone Company is prepar-
ing to build a line of thirty copper wires
between New York and Philadelphia, to
be used as private telephone wires.
Lawrence Barrett, the actor, arrived in
New York on Monday He said: ." stay
here couple of days and then start for
California, where | open Immediately"
Receiver Jackson of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad has received permission
| from the United States Circuit Court to
| negotiate loan of $150,000, to pay the en-
ployes' back salaries.
Officers of the Northern Pacific Railroad
say that the annual report of that company
| for the year ending June Goth will show
| that nearly 100000 of preferred stock has
| been Cancelled from land sales.
Ferry and Lii Tong Pao, the Chinese Min
| lister, are discussing in Paris the question
| as to who fired the first shot at Langson.
| Payment of the indemnity demanded by
| France depends upon the settlement of this
question.
A special from Newport says: The first
| disappointment of the season is the an
nounced poStpOnement of the marriage of
Alice Coates, daughter of James p Coates,
to Theodore Frelinghuysen, son of the
| Secretary of State. No reason is given to
the public
The draft of the postal convention be-
| tween the United States and Mexico has
| been amended by the Mexican Government
| in several particulars, and the consumma-
| ton of the treaty will be delayed some
time by the necessity for its consideration
| by the Postotfce Department.
| The banking house of Fletcher & Sharpe,
| the oldest financial institution in Indianapo-
| lis, did not openits doors yesterday morning.
a nOtlce was posted on the door StatlnS tnat
| the suspension was the inability to realize
| on securities, and adding that the property
when converted will be ample to pay all
| depositors.
A Bloomington Qnd.) special says: A
| boiler at Carriers sawmill, in the southwest
| part of this county, exploded last evening,
| and blew the mill to atoms. Over a dozen
| men were in the structure at the time
John Carter, Wesley Carter, VIM. Graves
and G. c. Reever were instantly killed and
all the others seriously injured.
The new Cunard steamer Umbria, which
is expected to excel in speed all the steam
ers now crossing the Atlantic, was launched
Monday at the yards of her builders, John
Elder q Co.. Scotland. The vessel is the
largest ever built at Elders yard. She
measures in length $50 feet. The name of
the Oregon, lately purchased by the
Cunarders, is now the Wenivssia.
Hon. Vim. Purcell, editor of the Roches-
ter On. " Union, was granted a leave of
ab-ence until after November, at his own
| request, because he says he cannot with
| service to his party, credit to the paper, or
honor to himself, conduct the Union during
| the present campaign. He has also sent his
| resignation as candidate for Presidential
Elector to Chairman Manning of the Dem
ocratic State Committee.