Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17
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TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

There were thirty-two arrests for excise
violations at New York Sunday.
Dispatches from ST Petersburg state that
Sebastopol is to be made free port
The coinage of one and five-cent coins
has been suspended for the present.
w W. Astor, American Minister to Italy,
will resign his position at the end OF Feb
rlary.
Wallace Ross, oarsman, emulating the eX-
ample of Paddy Ryan, will open Il liquor
saloon in New York.
Neil Coiway, once champion clog dancer,
has been sent to the New York Workhouse
as confirmed vagrant
1t is stated that the Canadian Govern
ment has agreed to increase the duty on
flour to 10 cents per barrel.
Mrs. Langtry is reported to have thrown
Gebhardt aside, and transferred her affec-
tons to Charles Coghan, the actor.
A terrific explosion occurred in powder
magazine at Gibraltar yesterday, killing
seventeen men and doing considerable dam
age.
Prospects for business among the rolling
mills at Youngstown, o., are very much
improved. Nearly all the mills have
started up.
1t is reported in Washington that Arthur
will not be present at Cleveland's Inaugural
ton, but will leave for New York at 2
o'clock P. NJ, March 4th.
Five destitute Hungarians were landed
by the Salier Sunday at New York. They
will be sent back to their home with forty
five of their countrymen and women.
4 British brig is ashore on Cold Spring
bar n. J. A heavy sea is running. Life
saving crews are going to the rescue. 1t is
feared that the crew is lost. Life-saving
crews are awaiting the abatement of the
storm.
The London correspondent of the Dublin
Freemap'S Journal states that the Govern
ment has decided to reform the present
system of the Judiciary in Ireland, and
bill for this purpose has already been
drafted.
Speaker Miller, of the Canadian Senate,
has issued an order excluding everybody, the
press included, from visiting any of the adj
iacent rooms to the Chamber, no matter
what their Grand may be. 1t is said he is
afraid of dynamite.
General Boiling was arrested on his ar
rival at Petersburg, Va, Saturday, from
Richmond, charged with being about to en-
gage in duel Boiling gave 1000 bonds
to keep the peace for three months. He is
Postmaster of Petersburg.
Ten thousand dollars worth of diamonds
were recently seized in New York on the
person of a passenger from Europe. The
stones were hidded in soap, sewed in bon
nets, reset in old gold, etc. All were de-
clared coniscated Saturday.
During the debate in the German Reich
stag yesterday on the subject of increasing
Il l.. l. L.. IL
reliable data which would warrant his
stating that majority of the Reichstag
approve the duty of three marks on wheat
1t is reported in Berlin that the Russian
Government has ordered 1000 Krupp guns
for the purpose of Strengthening its posi-
ton in Central Asia the guns to be of the
largest pattern. They are evidently in
tended for service in fortresses of supe-
rior build.
Coles hotel and w. C. Kress' residence,
in Wellsboro, Pa. were burned early yes
tertlay morning and the Methodist Church
badly damaged. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
S25 600. Twenty persons narrowly escaped,
many in their night clothes. All lost their
personal effects.
Eight cases of dynamite have been stolen
from a magazine of American dynamite in
Westchester county, \. Y Every effort
is being made to locate it. As dynamite is
not marketable product, the thieves are
believed to be connected with socialistic or
other organizations of dynamiters.
A printed paper was distributed at the
doors of all the churches in Fall River,
Mass calling on the Irish to boycott the
Herald 1t insinuates that the manage
ment of that paper is in the employ of the
English Government, and in an effort to
arouse the peoples prejudices, recites
Cromwell's cruelties to the Irish and the
sufferings of the Irish in England in 1868.
1t is reported that the French treaty with
Burmah cedes to France the Shan States
and the Mogoung ruby mines. Five hundred
French soldiers are allowed TO guard the
miners. Burmah is permitted to import
arms and munitions through Tonquin, and
a Burmese ambassador will reside in
Paris and French Minister Resident be
located at Mandalay. France promises
Burmah protection against British en-