Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

China has sent 10, 600 achievements from
| KERN, in the province of Manchooria, to
Pekin.
The control of the United States National
! Bank of New York has passed into the
hands of Cyrus w. Field.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe have
declared a quarterly dividend of one and q
half per cent, payable November 10Th.
French cruisers have stopped and board
ed English merchant steamers plying be-
| tween Annoy and the island of Formosa.
The Hamilton powder works 1t Cum
minsville, Ont, were blown up yesterday.
-Four men were killed and two wounded.
Near Roaring Creek, Pa, James Casson
and Henry Boyer We're fired upon from an
ambush by Levi Heilner, and both killed.
A dispatch from Hopedale, Labrador,
announces the loss on the 9TH Instant of a
fishing vessel and all hands, numbering
five.
Over one hundred and fifty small wooden
portable houses for the Panama CanafCom-
pany have been built in Quebec and are
being shipped.
The English Tory papers say the whole
excitement about the Beers and the Trans
vaal is trick to withdraw attention from
|
A duel was fought in Brussels yesterday
between NJ. Gardie, editor of the hldepcnd
ence Beige, and NJ. Volders, editor of the
National Beige. Neither was wounded.
! Eleven graves have been opened at
jamestown, o., and the corpses stolen.
| Other graveyards have been desecrated in
the same manner, and great excitement
prevails.
- IL,
| Northwestern Pennsylvania, Northeastern
Ohio and Western New York is fully
| twenty-five per cent greater than it has
ever been.
| Orange disturbances are again developing
at Harbor Grace, \. +. The gates of the
| Convent were torn down and flung into the
! sea- and one Riverhead man was beaten al
most to death by Orangemen.
Charles e. Hinckley, who went to New
York about three years ago from San Fran
cisco and engaged in the canned goods
| business, disappeared from his office We'd
nesday last. He has gone TO Canada.
The reported reduction of 124 per cent,
in the wages of the employees of Oliver
Bros. & Philips, at Pittsburg, has been
withdrawn, and work in the mills is to be
resumed Immediately at the old wages.
The Supreme Court of Wyoming Terri
tary has sustained the decision of the lower
| Court in the case of George Cook, for the
murder of James Blount. at Laramie City
| in 1888, and he will be hanged December
| 18th.
At the South African Conference held in
London to consider the violation of the
treaty by the Beers, a firm, decisive policy
was advocated. a resolution was adopted
demanding that the Government enforce
the Transyaal treaty
] 1t is now claimed that Mrs. Georgiani
| Heustis, under arrest in Boston for the
| alleged larceny of $4,000 worth of dia-
monds from Theresa Lynch, Of New York,
| dealer in diamonds, is victim of an at
tempt to extort money.
| The safes of Noble & Sons and Tomlin-
son & Son, at Perry, n. Y, were blown
| open by burglars Tuesday night and robbed
of S21 ,000 in Arkansas State bonds, besides
large amount of other securities and
money. There is no clue.
The official paper of Havana states that
the situation OF the Cuban army, owing to
the suspension of its monthly pay, is really
| pitiable and must have an early solution.
Six months have passed since they received
any money. Some of them have had none
! for much longer time.
The Director of the Mint estimates the
amount of gold and silver coin in the
| United States October 1st at 1915, 000, 900.
| OF this, $55S, 000,0 600 is in gold and $l82, 000
900 in subsidiary silver-a gain from Octo-
Der l, 1883, of SO, 100000, $13 O00,00 being
in gold coin and SD ,o00,G 600 in silver.
The Supreme Court of the United States
will meet on Monday next for the October
| term. Six Justices are alreadyin Washing
ton, and ali are expected to take their seats
when the Court reassenbles. The number
of cases of the docket is 1,025, or 400 less
than at the corresponding time last year.
The University at Kieff, Russia, which
| has been closed by the authorities, will not
reopen until January. One hundred and
| siXty-eight students have been arrested for
alleged connection with the NihiliSts.
| Three Socialist journals which were sus-
pended some time ago are about to reap
| pear.
The strike of stove moders at Pittsburg,
which was inaugurated nine months ago,
| has been declared off, and all who can get
work will return at reduction Of - per
J cent. The manufacturers have agreed to
| take the strikers back, provided they make
application as individuals, and not as mem
bers of the Union.
The New York Tribune speaking of the
incident at Jerome Park Tuesday, where
one Ct Bcrgh's officers was driven Off the
ground by mob of scoundrels who hang
around racing stables" says The cruelties
inflicted on race horses by the vicious little
rascals who use the whip and spur without
stint should be sternly suppressed.
Richard Clark, of Caledonia, Canada, an
cmploye of Forepaugh's circus, while open
ing ventilator in the cage, at Watertown,
Conn, had his hand seized by tiger
| While trying to release himself he was
seized by two tigers and dragged inside the
cage The animals were finally driven off
with iron bars. Clarl<'s arm and legs were
crushed and mutilated.
SUPERIOR COURT.