Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIEs.

A dispatch SAYS: 1t is ascertained be-
yond doubt that 50 900 rebels are march
ing on Dongela.
Anthony Fricke, a well-known sporting
man of Reading, Pa, is dead. His estate
is valued at 100000.
The Treasury Department issued yester-
day warrants for the payment OF s9,Ooo,ooo
on account of pensions.
A large fire occurred in grain stores at
Geneva, Switzerland destroying immense
quantities of corn and -four.
The Directors of the Pacific Mail in New
York yesterday morning declared q quar-
tery dividend of one-quarter per cent.
AT Conshohocken, Pa, body-snatehers
have carried off the body of John May, who
murdered his daughter and suicided last
week.
A dispatch from Ironton, O., announces
the failure of Hiram Campbell u Sons IRON
manufacturers, and places the liabilities at
100000.
During hurricane in the Philippine
islands the Spanish ironclad Gravlno was
wrecked Two officers and seven OF the
crew were lost.
George S. Scott, Commodore of the Amer
lean Yacht Club at New York, has sold his
steam yacht Viking to Samuel j. Tllden,
the price being reported $4,000.
Edward Yard, Jr lace merchant at 81
Leonard street, New York, assigned yester-
day morning to William Freedman and o..
W. Vanderpool. Preferences, S55O,0O0.
At Philadelphia the strikes of the jour
newman plasterers and Knapp & Co.'S shoe
hands have ended. The plasterers got the
advances asked, and the shoemakers COM
promised.
Speaking of the wonders of the telegraph,
it is proved that the nomination of Cleve-
land was really known in New York two
minutes before it was known in the Con-
vention hall.
The recent large purchases of Pacific Mail
in New York are said to have been for &C
count of London. J. C. Flood, the Califor-
MIA mining operator, is also said to have
purchased largely.
A Toronto Globe cable special says: The
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
has decided that the boundary award is not
legally binding, and are proceeding to form
new boundaries for Ontario.
A foreigner who spat upon the French
flag in the Place de CoEcorde Monday, and
afterwards escaped from the crowd, has
been arrested and an inquiry ordered. He
is a German theological student.
The police in Vienna have been
ordered to arrest all Mormon missionaries
detected in endeavoring to secure converts
Warrants have been issued for the arrest of
missionary Paul Hammer, of Nevada.
Although the Quebec Courts refused to
extradite John f. Emo and ordered his
liberation, American detectives are still
watching his movements. This former
millionaire can't walk the streets without
being Swallowed.
The fight in New York between the
boarding house-keepers and shipmasters is
q lively one and it is thought that in the
course of a week the Dingley law will be
winked at, and the sailors will be glad to
ship at the masters own terms.
Andrew Carnegie, a millionaire ironmas-
ter, says the report cabled from London in
regard to quarrel between himself and his
partner, Mr.. Storey, NJ P, who owns sev-
enteen English newspapers, is untrue. Sto-
rey comes here next month ON visit.
The Treasury Department has been in
formed by one of its agents on the Canadian
border that paper rags, supposed to be col
lected in the cholera-infected districts of
Egypt, Turkey and South France, are being
imported into the United States through
Canadian ports. They are distributed as
low grade and likely to contain germs of
the disease. A large lot was recently shipped
to this country from Liverpool.