Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

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| The Italian poet Careano, is dead.
Field Marshal, Bittenfield, of Germany
died Wednesday.
Growing activity is apparent in the Ger
man electoral campaign.
| A Prussian was arrested at Nice Wednes-
day while sketching the fort and works.
The completion of the telegraph line
from Canton to Tonquin progresses rapidly
AT Nicosia, Sicily, a fire occurred in q
! sulphur mine, and twenty persons per
| ished.
| The report is gaining ground that new
| German ambassador will soon be appointed
| to London.
Samuel j. Randall has been renominated
| for Congress from the Third District OF
Pennsylvania.
Thomas Reel fatally shot man who was
| assaulting a woman in the cemetery al
| Scranton, Pa, Wednesday.
The steamer Servia. from New York, ar
| rived at Queenstown yesterday, making the
passage in seven days, five hours and five
minutes.
The Associated California Pioneers OF
New York city will celebrate Admission
Day by an excursion and clam-bake TO
The United States Government has in
structed its Minister at Lima to protect the
property of the Central and South Ameri-
lean Cable Company.
Alphonso Taft, the new American Min
lister to Russia, was accorded & reception on
Tuesday by the Gar and Czarina when he
presented his credentials.
At Lloyd's Insurance Agency London,
Wednesday, trading vessels for China were
insured for per cent. The steamer Imbros,
with a cargo of guns and munitions of war
for China, was required to pay 20 per cent.
Word has been received from the expe-
dition steamer Neptune, which was at
Ford's Harbor, thirty-four miles from Main,
Labrador. July 30th. She reports all hands
we'll Seven stations have been cstab-
lishel.
The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs does
not credit the report of q threatened Indian
outbreak in northwestern Montana, and
believes the stories are circulated by stock
men. who wish to have the Indians re-
moved.
The North German gazette attributes 10
Bismarck the design to create political
blockade against England by the forma-
ton of Il coalition of Powers, unless her
egotistical policy OF colonial extension is
abandoned.
About POO Americans are present at the
Evangelical Alliance now sitting in Copen-
hagen. Among the number are Philip
Schaff. John Hall, William Taylor, Ed
ward Bright and Wilbur f. Watkins, all OF
New York city.
Upon the occasion, Tuesday. of the ami
versary of the battle of Sedan, the En-
peror sent Bismarck the order of Pour lie
Merite, surrounded by oak leaves, and an
autograph letter expressing the deepest APP
probation of his services.
The Cologne Gazette states that private
dispatches received from the gold coast of
Western Africa are to the effect that France
has annexed Pctro NOyo, and DR.. Nachtigal
has annexed Little Popo, on the Dahomey
coast, to the German colonies.
A dispatch from London says: The in
habitants of the CImeroons country, West
ern Africa are about to present protest to
the London Foreign Office against the an
nexation of that district to the German
possessions, as they prefer British protec-
lion.
1t is understood that PinkertOn's detec-
tivcs have positively learned Of eighteen
New York Aldermen who received brides
in the Broadway Railway franchiSe-steal,
| and that the man who gave the money and
| the men who received it are known. Each
| Aldermen received $4,000 in cash and 915,-
| 600 in stock at par.