Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-10


Hartford, Conn.,, Sunday, of typhoid fever,
aged So.
Gladstone arrived from Edinburgh yes
terday afternoon. AT Carlisle, Lockerby
and other places on the route there were
crowds of people so great as to impede the
starting of the train.
Baron Compagna, the richest man in
Naples, was attacked while out driving
Sunday, by five masked men. The driver
was shot and the horses bolted. The Baron,
however, escaped unhurt.
The Downs-Taber scandal, at Boston, is
to be raked over again in a more sensational
form. Pastor Downs Mrs. Taber and Miss
Davidson have demanded church investi-
CATION of the whole subject.
Trouble has arisen in the Society of Art
lists at Berlin over the case of Professor
Graef, who was recently acquitted OF the
charge of perjury, and of corrupting his
model and her 14-year-oid sister.
1t is stated that proposal has been made
at the Balkan Conference to appoint tenn
porary Governor of Roumelia and to re-
quest Prince Alexander to withdraw, pend
ing the settlement of the question.
Prominent New York railroad men are
now in Washington, seeking to interest the
Government in the construction of a rail-
road across the Central American isthmus.
in opposition to the Panama Railroad.
The Clearing house statement for the past
week shows exchanges amounting to 81
070000,000, being an increase of over 4S.5
per cent. San Francisco increase is 12.4 per
cent, the total business being about, Sill.
100000.
\ babe six weeks old, belonging to
Bridget Silk, the wife of a New York la
borer,was burned to death on Friday The
ire was attributed to a careless smoker,
who threw cigarette through a basement
window.
General Lew Wallace's visit to CONSTANT
nople is on business. He is endeavoringto
sell to the Porte a newiy-invented torpedo,
which was successfully tried at Washing
! ton in the presence of the Turkish Minister
and company of experts.
Prince Alexander has received kilograms
OF sympathy from some of the European
| courts. Russias action is supposed to have
been intended to goad Prince Alexander to
imprudence, in order that there might be
an excuse Tor a Russian invasion of Bull
garia.
Admiral Jouett has been ordered to
cruise along the South and Central Ameri-
can coast with the Tennessee and Galena
Tor few weeks and then return to Tampa,
Fla, where Secretary Whitney's rlans for a
grand drill Of the North Atlantic squadron
will be carried out.
The fund to be presented to Thomas
| Sexton, Nationalist member of the House
81 Commons, already amounts to nearly
9l,o0O. This movement was only organized
| on the 23d ult. Sections friends are conf
dent of their ability to raise the full
| amount Of 5000, as originally intended.
1t is stated that the Gar erased the name
OF Prince Alexander from the army list in
a fit of anger, without consulting his Min
listers, on hearing that Prince Alexander
had banded British Consul Lacelles papers
showing the Gavril Pasha intrigues with
Russia with a view that publicity would
justify revolution.
At reunion of members of the Elk
IRENE Lett at Paris, resolutions were adopt
ed protesting against the proposed i'm
parchment of the late Prime Minister
Ferry, the revision OF the Constitution, the
expulsion Of the Orleanist Princes, and the
postponement of the decision on RELIGIOUS
and financial questions
St Louis Lodge, No 9, of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, telegraphed
William NJ. Connor of New York, vester-
Gay, offering last resting-place for the
remains of John Mccullough, the tragedi-
an, AT Belfontaine Cemetery in st. Louis
In case the offer is accepted, the monument
to the tragedian will be erected there
The United States revenue cutter Bear,
which formed part of the Greedy relief ex-
petition, sailed from New York Sunday for
Puget Sound and Alaska. She will touch
at several ports on her way, and will hard
ly reach San Francisco before the middle
of February. The Bear will cruise along
the Alaskan coast for about two years.
Bliss, of counsel of Warner saws his
client cannot be tried for aiding and abet-
ting Ferdinand Ward in his swindles I'M
I'll the latter is convicted of the same prin-
cipal offense or is dead. District Attorney
Dorsheimer does not meet these views,
and will possibly put Warmers case before
the Grand Jury. 1t is believed that War
ner will soon make confession.
Roach's shipyard at Chester, Pa, started
up yesterday morning with 10 men, At 7
o'clock upwards of 1000 men assembled
around the gates, and when the whistle
gave Its accustomed toot at intervals of one
minute a deafening shout went up from the
crowd which drowned the steam whistle.
Women and children took it up, and the
huzza could be heard for squares away. All
fOremen of the departments were taken on,
and they selected about $50 workmen. The
tools were given out and about 60 men put
TO work on the Chicago Others were set
about different things in the yard All the
departments, except the foundry, started.