Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-04

u hie ILiuay III 1QuIquS' cru, ue-
stroyed the warehouse OF Bodoga. Eek,
Trenor & Co., containing $4,000 quint,ls
OF saltpeter; it was insured.
Rsvenhill & Nelson, proprietors of the
! Victoria Straw and Felt Works, Montreal,
! are financially embarrassed. Their liabili-
ties are believed to be heavy.
The advance of Bake: Pasha to the relief
OF Takar was postponed until yesterday.
| The original intention as telegraphed by
| Colonel Sartoris, was to start Friday.
Grave fears are entertained in London
for General Gordon's safety 1t is expect I'd
that the debate on the Egyptian question
in Parliament will be long and bitter.
The Merchants Marine Insurance Com
pany OF Halifax, n. S., has made a call for
S25 per share, owing to the large amount
Of losses in marine underwriting in that
city during the past year.
The Vienna police have completed list
OF foreigners who are to he expelled from
the country. They have also closed Ja-
cobi's printing Office, at which the Social
istic paper, the Future was published.
The Directors of the Mexican Central
Railroad announce that the road will be
completed to the United States by the
middle of March, and open to through
traffic between the lst and 18th OF April.
The foundry at LEM, Bavaria, where
the statue OF Garfield for San Francisco is
being cast, is the scene of great activity.
The work is being pushed forward, and an
srtistlcsly successful result is hoped for.
The Queen held Cabinet council Satur-
| day morning at Osborne, Isle of Wight,
where she is now residing, preliminary to
the opening of Parliament. The subjects
to be considered in the Queens speech
were discussed.
Head Constable Doyle and several
| Orange prisoners have been committed to
the St. Johns IN. FL penitentiary, to
await trial at the spring term CT the Su-
| preme Court on the charge Of murder dur
ing the Harbor Grace riots.
A deputation of members of the Do
minion Parliament waited upon the Finance
Minister Saturday, to procure reciprocal
| arrangements with the West Indies and
| the Hawaiian Islands. The Minister prom.
ised to do all he could to bring about reci-
procity.
The Italian police are seeking the origin
of the enormous fortune left by NJ. Di
Cesare, lately assassinated. 1t has been
| discovered that he was paymaster of the
NeapoEtau soldiers and brigands sent in
1860 and 1861 into the Kingdom of Italy
by King Francis of Naples.
Captain Austin, Americas crack shot.
gave an exhibition of his skill at Leicester,
Eng, Thursday. He shot potato from
! the head of his daughter twice successfully,
but the third time he attempted it the ball
J ploughed her scalp and caused serious
| injury. Austin was arrested.
VIM. Mesgle, All important witness in
| the Phoenix Park murder trialg, complains
| that he is made miserable, owing to the
| continued prosecutions and frequent as.
| saults which he suffers at the hands of SYM
pathizers with the asssssins of Lord Fred.
erick Csvendish and Mr.. Burke
A Paris special says: "The secret has
at last been revealed of the author of the
! famous La Societe de Berlin, whose nom
de plume of Comte Won Nasile was at
first supposed TO be that of Count Beust
then of II. DeMaupusiant The author is
N. Gerard, formerly Secretary of the
French Legation at Washington"
PACIFIC COAST.
A foot.race at Petaluma Saturday, be.
tween James Gilbert and Michael Geary,
was won by the former.
Edwin Foss, aged about 80, living near
Santa Paula, Ventura county, committed
suicide Friday night by shooting himself in
the head with shotgun.
The Sullivan Sloggng Combination ap.
peared Saturday evening at the New
market Theater, Portland, Or. The au-
dience was not very enthusiastic.
a party of fifteen capitalists from Hell
ens, Montana, is in San Diego, with the
purpose of investing in fruit lands, and
probably $780, 900 Will be invested the com.
ing week,
The missing package of SIS, 900 from the
Northern Pacific express office at Aims.
worth, W. T., has not yet been found, nor
any OF the money supposed to have been
contained therein.
William T. Scott, an American, aged IS
years, was injured Friday in a coal mine at
Newcastle, W. T., and died Saturday. lie
was a member Of the Odd Fellows and
Knights Of Pythias.
John Z. Greene, aged 20 years, While
hunting on his fathers farm near Slsugh.
ter, W. T., accidentally discharged the
contents Of double barreed shotgun into
his abdomen. He died in one hour.
The Los Angeles police raided the gam.
bling games Saturday night A faro lay.
out and about dozen players were taken
at one place and private poker game at
another. A tan game, with all implements,
was also captured.
julius c. Hahn miner employed in
the Tough Nut mine, Arizona, on coming
home from work and on reaching his house
fell heavily to the floor and died in few
minutes. The deceased was married, and
formerly resided in Virginia, Nevada.
Seventeen hundred Chinese, at work on
the Green river extension OF the railroad
in Washington Territory, struck Saturday,
not being willing to accept a reduction
from 81 to 50 cents per day. 1t is prob
able that a compromise will be effected.
The Sullivan combination showed in
Astoria, Or, Friday night. Sylvester La
galof, the Astoria champion, lasted Just
twenty seconds before the Boston boy,
when he was knocked down. lie then
threw up his gloves and refused to stand
mp again.
Judge Wallace, of the Napa county Su.
perior Court, has Just tiled his decision IN
the case OF the City Of Napa against A. y.
EAsterby in favor of the plaintiff This
suit has been ia the Courts for years, and
was brought to collect an assessment for
street impre Vements.
Stephen Stats, an old pioneer Of Ore
gon, was found d. ad in his house pear
Princeville, Waco county, with bullet
through his head and a rifle lying by his
side. Whether suicide or accident is not
known, Stats was at one time quite
prominent politician in Oregon.
A shooting affray occurred Saturday
morning at Lafay cite, Or, between DR.,
Edgar Poppleton, prominent capitalist,
and F. W. Rogers, ex.County Clerk, over
the former having foreclosed a mortgage on
the latter's farm. Poppleton drew knife,
when Rogers fred a revolver, the bullet
striking Poppleton on the side of the neck.
Dobe WIiloughby and V. E,queta,
Chilean, quarreled at a faro game In Can
delaria, New, Saturday evening. After
scutllng a few minutes the former shot the
latter, seyering the femoral artery. Ell
quota was unarmed, and in a few minutes
bled to death Willoughby is in Jail,
and the public feeling is strong against him.