Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-14
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
I,Ec1AL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UNos. |
The Cholera scourge.

malta, August 13th.-A weeks quaran-
fine has been decreed against arrivals from
Gibraltar, and it has been ordered that no
passengers from any Spanish or French
Mediterranean port shall be allowed 10 land
here at all.
HAIPHoNG. August 13th.-Cholera is de-
creasing The troops have been with
drawn, and dispersed along the shores of
the bay.
MARsErLLEs, August Thirty-five
cholera deaths occurred in this city to-day
Thirteen patients were admitted 10 the
Pharo hospital five Of whom subsequently
died.
MADRID, August l3th.-The ravages OF
cholera in Granada are horrible A score
of victims of the disease drop and die in the
streets, where, in many cases, they remain
for hours before they are gathered up al
night for a hurried and unceremonious
burial in a common trench.
Thirty-iivc new cases Of cholera ard
thirty-one deaths were reported in this city
to-day. In the provinces outside of the city
there were seventy-tive new cases and
eighteen deaths. The Director of Public
Works and the wife of another Govern
ment official have succumbed TO the dis
ease. The municipal authorities have de-
cided to dcmolish the Sums.
The london FIoGsing Sensation.
LONDON, August 13th.-Mr Francis, the
gentleman who yesterday hogged Mr.
Pearce for the alleged betrayal of the
formers daughter. to-day Instituted crimi-
nal proceedings against Pearce. Yesterday
the latter explained the difficulty to q re-
porter of the Pail HaU Gazette BY saving
that the charge Of seduction was entirely
false, and that il was a ease of blackmail Of
II peculiarly bad kind. For this statement
Francis brif,uG st9it Ha that Ia
thought Pearce had done him wrong suf1i-
GENTLY cruel in betraying his daughter I'M
der the guise of friendship, without adding
the insult of describing his family as black
mailers. Pcarce is 4 riclI Conservative and
had been selected by the Tories to stand as
their candidate for Glasgow in the coming
election. Mr.. Francis is gentleman of re-
spectacle standing in society, and is z mem
Der of the Government Civil Service, being
an Inspector Of Customs.
Rumor that Germany Has Occupied Car
inc Islands.
MADRID, August f3th.-Soine excitement
has been created here by report that Ger
many has occupied the Caroline Islands,
which are claimed by Spain.
THE Caroline Islands. or New Philippines, n
great archipelago OF the Pacific Ocean, are
claimed by Spain, and are practically indie
pendent They are regarded rs including the
ChlpclagO III the extreme east, but the CarOlines
proper lie between those extremes, and contain
hundreds of small islands, arranged in forty
eight recognized groups. In lis widest sense the
name Caroline Islands Is nearly synonymous
with MicIonesia.-EDs. REcoRp-UNION.I
SPAIN PROTESTS.
MADRID, August l3th.-The seizure OF
the Caroline Islands by Germany is pro-
tested against by Spain, which has ordered
two war ships to proceed Immediately 10
the disputed ground.
NOT BELIEVED ~ BERLIN.
BERLIN, August 13th-The report that
Germany has occupied the Caroline Islands
Is hot believed here. Spain has addressed
note on the subject to the German Gov
eminent.
PIucky Newspaper.
PANAMA, August l3th.-The star and
Herald was notified few days ago by the
Government that under the existing mar
tial law it would not be permitted to pub
fish any news relating to Government
affairs, except that furnished it by the Gov
eminent. The editor published the Motif
cation, and announced that unless allowed
to handle the Government news in its own
way it would not handle it ct all. official or
unofficial and that hereafter all mention of
the Government would be excluded from
its columns. 1t is understood the suppress
sion OF the paper was contemplated, but il
was abandoned when informed that the
publication was the property Of an Amer
lean company.
Exaggerated Reports.
PARIS, August 13th.-Rapors of the
massacre III Anam are greatly exaggerated
Instead of 10000, it IS now stated that only
few hundred Christians were killed.