Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-03
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHIC BREF1TIES.
The Italian Consul hoisted the flag of his
| Government in Suakim yesterday.
The Atheistic Congress at Rome is a
| fiasco. No English delegate has put in an
| appearance, and very few others attended.
General Grant slept seven hours Monday
night, and DR.. Douglas stated Yesterday
morning that the General awoke feeling
first rate.
An imperial decree directs the COM
mander of the Black Flags to evacuate
Tonquin by the time agreed upon by
France and China.
The iron strike situation in Pittsburg re-
mains unchanged. No signatures to the
scale have been obtained since Monday,
and both sides are anXiously awaiting
developments.
The crowd at Victor Hugo's funeral in
Paris Monday was mostly composed of the
working and middle classes. They treated
the event as a holiday, and there was not
any great display of emotion.
A strike of Italian and Hungarian labor
ers on the Reading & Pottsvile Railroad
is in progress at Pottsville, Pa, and some
disorder has occurred, which was sup
pressed by the police. A renewal of the
| trouble is expected.
| Townsend Cook (colored) was taken from
Jail at Westminster, Md, early yesterday
morniny. by body of masked men. and
hanged to tree. Cook committed an out
rage on Mrs. Knott few days ago, and
confessed his crime.
| The German Liberal party had three of
its candidates defeated in Vienna, which is
a loss of three seats in that city alone. In
Leopoldstadt, Herr Sehevider anti-Semetic
candidate, was beaten out of sight. the
majority against him being 5000 votes.
| Emperor Francis Joseph has issued a
pardon liberating DR.. julius Rosenberg
from the remainder of the two years term
Of imprisonment to which he was sem
| fenced at Tamesyar, Hungary, on January
D. 1884, for killing Count Stephen Bat
thyanyi.
A barn was blown up in Denver, Col.
yesterday morning with giant powder or
| dynamite. The proprietor of the barn was
a -four mill man, whose employees recently
struck for an increase of wages, and were
refused. Several other attempts to blow I'D
property have been discovered there re-
Gently.
The experiment of shipping cherries by
| the carload from San Francisco to Chicago
| was inaugurated recently. 1t was not a
success, owing to the failure to give proper
attention to the ventilation of the cars and
crates: One carload brought from III to
% cents per pound, according to grade, and
were being sold by retailers at from 80 TO
40 cents per pound.
| In an interview as to the present condi-
ton of the Anglo-Russian controversy. Sir
| Peter LumSden says that it may be weeks
or it may be months before the nations are
again embroiled but the difficulty was sure
to break out afresh sooner or later, and be-
fore very long. The old frontier included
all that was best in eighty miles of desert
| land, which is now to be given up to
Russia.
r. NJ. Reynolds, late First Auditor of the
| United States Treasury, killed himself in
st. Louis yesterday morning at the South
ern Hotel, by throwing himself down an
air shaft which cuts through the different
| floors. Reynolds was on his way to Kan
sas to buy land. He left the United States
| Treasury only a couple of weeks ago He
was about GO years of age, and a fine
looking, healthy man.
Shortly before . o'clock yesterday morn
ing DR.. E. +. 10y, a well known physician of
| Cincinnati, shot and killed his brother-in-
| law, Harry Champlin at their residence.
| 81 West Seventh street. Champlin was an
| unmarried man. He has been addicted to
| drinking for some time past, and was abus-
| ing his mother when Dr. 10y interfered to
| protect her. Champlin attacked the doctor
with a knife. and the latter shot him dead.
Serious anti-Jewish riots have again
broken out in Vienna. They were renewed
| Monday with increased violence The in
| citing cause at the present time was the
| excitemento OF the people growing out of the
| election agitation. The shops of Jews were
! raided and ruined, and their owners VIC
lently assaulted. Not less than forty per-
sons were seriously wounded The police
were pow( rless to repel the rioters, and
were obliged to call for the aid of the mill
| tary. Other riots. with like violence and de-
| structiveness, have taken place in the
| Wienden and Neuban districts
| Dispatches from Bombay state that news
| has just reached there of disastrous earth
quake in Cashmere, a country of India.
The seismic shocks began on Sunday, and
| have continued at intervals of ten minutes
ever since. The shocks were very severe at
| Serinagur, the capital of Cashmere. Fifty
| are known to have been killed, while fully
one hundred were more or less injured. A
portion of the city has been demolished.
While very few of the remaining buildings
! escaped injury, many of them having large
| rents made in them. The terrified inhabj-
tants are now camped in the fields that sur
round the town. Serinagur is near the
center of the vale of Cashmere. and the
/ whole country experienced terrible earth
| quake shocks. The damage caused through
out the vale was enormous.