Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-25
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Stringent economical measures have been
adopted by the Mexican Government.
| Joseph Taylor, father of the late Bayard
| Taylor, died at kennett Square, Pa, Mon
day, aged 90.
An agent of the Theater des Italiens, of
Paris, is in London negotiating with Nine.
Patti for the season.
Harry A. Myers received twenty lashes
at the hands of the Sheriff in Baltimore
yesterday for wife-beating.
Insurance Commissioner Tarbox of Mas
sachusetts declares that the Peoples Bene-
| fit Company OF Boston is fraud.
A rumor has reached Cairo that Kassala
has not fallen. The garrison, it is asserted,
still refuses to surrender to the forces of FL
Mahdi.
The Notifications around Herat, designed
| primarily to protect that city against assault
[ by Russians, are being rapidly pushed to
completion.
The Russian Government has issued an
| order forbidding newspapers to make any
| reference whatever to the action of Russia
| in the Afghanistan affair.
Many gun factories are in active opera
| ton in Batoum, Asiatic Russia, on the
Black Sea coast, under such Disgusting
names as hospitals asylums, etc.
The jury in the Riddle and Reiber con-
spiracy case at Pittsburg rendered verdict
of not guilty." and placed the costs on
| Directors Cavitt and Carroll, the prosecu
| tors.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr, addressed
| the Select Senate Committee on Interstate
Commerce at Omaha Tuesday, in opposi
| ton to Government interference with rail-
roads.
Vice-President Hendricks arrived in
| Boston yesterday morning. He was met
| by the Governor and escorted 10 Harvard
| College to participate in the commencement
| exercises.
Policemen raided the stale beer dives in
Mulberry street, New York, Tuesday night,
and arrested nearly 800 men and women.
The places had been complained of by the
Board Of Health.
Ex-District Attorney Waddell has been
arrested in Richmond. Va, charged with
being about to engage i'll q duel with c. A.
Swanson, editor of the Hanover Ners. The
latter is also to be arrested.
Robert Phillips, a colored laborer, who
had been married but three months, cut
his wife's throat i'll indianapolis yesterday,
killing her, and then severed his own wind
pipe, inflicting a fatal wound.
james Richard Hill, who a few years ago
inherited 100000, died in Nashville re-
Gently after having squandered his fortune
and become dependent upon his relatives
for the absolute necessities of life.
Lord Garmoyle has settled down at his
late fathers residence at Bournemouth,
Eng, and has resumed a CORE spondence
with Miss Fortescue. 1t is expected that
they will be married within the year.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff. at present
the Member of Parliament for Portsmouth,
will go to Cairo forthwith as British Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotenti-
AIRY, with the rank of Pfivy Councillor.
President Grevy has issued a decree
which makes the French Minister 10 TuniS
ex ]tlicio General with the command of
the whole land and sea forces, and having
the entire administration OF the regency.
Advices from Port Stanley and Falkland
Islands to May 9TH say: The bark Her
mine, Captain Jones, will sail soon for her
destination. The Captain has been ac-
quilted on the charge of homicide III ki1i-
ing seaman. FL
Judge Wallace, of the United States Cir
cult Court at New York. yesterday gave al
decision in the suit of the Bell Telephone
Company VS.. the Molecular Telephone
Company for infringement Of patents. The
Court decided in favor of the Bell Company
Charles Warren Adams and Miss Mil
dred Coleridge, daughter of the Lord Chief
Justice of England, were married in Lon
don yesterday. The maternal uncle was
the officiating clergyman. The marriage
was private Lord Coleridge was asked by
his daughter to attend the wedding, but he
refused.
The gambler, Truman. denies in New
York all his wifes accusations, and added
that his wife has an income of $1,000 a
month from man in the West. He him
self had given her about 5000 in jewelry.
He had sold all his jewelry to enable him
to live. He had no property of any kind
except his clothes.
The New South Wales contingent, which
took part in the Soudan campaign, arrived
home Tuesday. They were given a ire
mendous ovation. The day was made
public holiday. Delegates came from oil
the colonies in Australia, and all the avail
able troops were drawn up TO welcome the
returning soldiers.
1t is reported in Bombay that the arrest
by Russians of the clerk of the British
Consul at Reshd, Persia, while the bearer
of the note from the Consul to the Russian
commander at Sara6hs was deliberately
designed and carefully planned affair on
the part of the Russians. The arrest
exciles a good deal of indignation in certain
quarters.
Burchard, Director of the Mint, has de-
cided to test the power of the President to
remove him from his office. There are two
offices in the Treasury which were created
by special statute, the tenure of which, ii
is assumed, makes it impossible for the
President TO suspend The incumbents unless
the Senate shall consent. The offices are
those of the Director of the Mint and
Comptroller of Currency.
A member of the Salvation Army named
David Williams created an uproar in
Wiikesbarre, Pa, Tuesday morning by
rushing out of his house into the street
with q butcher-k knife in one hand and a
revolver in the other The people fled be-
fore him terror-siricken. An old woman
named Davis was seriously stabbed, and
little girl hurt. Williams has heretofore
been a hard working and industrious
miner He only joined the Salvation Army
last month. 1t took eight policemen to
capture the lunatic. who delied the 200
people surrounding him to touch him.