Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-05
DAILY RECORD UNION
NEWS OF THE MoRNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 1915 for As of 1907; 1929 for 41s;
sterling, 81 s7@4 50; 1929 for SIS; silver bars,
1855.
silver in London, sod; consols, o. lid; 5
per cent. United States bonds, extended, los; As,
l24224; rs, HES,
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at S4@S434 cents.
The middle COmstocks opened with sharp
decline in San Francisco yesterday morning, but
later on had q strongertone. Hale and Norcross
closed at St. The others were from to 10 cents
stronger. Among outside stocks there was fiTm
feeling.
The President. Secretary of War, Secretary OF
the Navy and Postmaster General left Washing
ton yesterday for the Gettysburg battlefield re-
turning in the evening.
Mrs. Vanderbilt, widow of Commodore Van
derbilt, died in New York yesterday of pneu-
monia
The firm of James R Osgood & Co. the we'll
known publishers of Boston, have failed.
A fight occurred at Lamont, Ill, yesterday,
between the striking quarrymen and troops, in
which two of the former were killed.
The dispute between China and Russia in re-
gard to the Manchcra frontier has become seri-
Gus.
England and Russia have agreed to submit
the Afghan dispute to the arbitration of friendly
powers
The Gar goes 10 Moscow to-day. to celebrate
the jubilee Of the Russian nobility
The public in India are dissatisfied with Eng
lands concession to Russia, and trouble is
feared
The Mahdrs men continue to harrass the
British in the Soudan.
Mount Vesuvius is again in a state of erup-
ton, the lava flowing in great streams.
4 shocking story of iendish cruelty comes
from Tartan, Mexico.
At Atlanta, Ga, W. II. Jones shot his wife
dead and then killed himself
! girl gymnast fell Il distance of thirty five
feet in Trenton, n. j.. and was fatally injured
c. ?. Huntington's New York residence mar
rowly escaped destruction by fire Sunday
an entire famiiy-husband, wife and child
were burned TO death Sunday al Waterloo, " Y
C. A. Shields was found dead in his bed at San
jesse yesterday morning.
Archer, the famous iocGy won ten races in
England last week.
! delegation OF Mormons LEFT Salt Lake fol
Washington yesterday, to present To the Pres
ident the address recently adopted
The FL Dorado Good Templars he'd DiStric
meeting yesterday in PlacerviIle.
4 city election was held yesterday at Hollis
ter, San Benito county.
Between 400 and 500 employees OF the Denye
and Rio Grandc Railway struck yesterday il
Denver
DIT. J. Wallace McWhinnic, prominent physi
clan, died in petsluma last evening.
\ serious fire occurred yesterday at EsQui
mault, B. c.
An unsuccessful attempt was made in Eas
Portland. Or, to kill Mrs. Wilkfe, by placin,
powder in her stove.
\ colony of forty German families arrived il
Portland yesterday from Illinois. to settle il
Oregon.
Three prisoners escaped from the Jail at Rose
burg, Or, yesterday.
II was ruInored in Washington last night tina
the President had been shot at while returnin.
from Gettysburg, but the report was quickly
denied.
observation-disclosures Johnson, just re
turned from Washington, gives his views in al
interview regarding the condition of Californi,
politics at the national capital
Henry Watterson highly praises the Admins
tration of President Cleveland i'll a dispatch t.
the Louisville CotriasJoapol