Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The structures of the Eastern press on
Senator Mitchell are very severe
L. A. Pires, an insurance adiuster of
| New York, has become violently insane
John 7. Musselman, a well-known eccen-
| trio character, died at indianapolis Sunday
A telegram from Sofia SAYS: The Ser
vians have bombarded Widdin, and that
| city is on fire.
Parnell has withdrawn from the contest
for member of Parliament for the Irish dis
trict of Liverpool.
] Parnell presided at conference of sixty
| Nationalist candidates for Parliament held
in Dublin yesterday.
Official and press kilograms from Bur
nah have been stopped. The reason is
| unknown in Calcutta.
The trial of Mrs. Eusebia Fitzgerald for
the Irvine grave robbery began at Elmira,
| New York, yesterday.
Mrs. Woodale of Quincy, H., has been
removed from a position in the Patent
Office because she kept a photograph of
Logan on her desk.
! Francis J. Labaron, a civil engineer of
Jacksonville, Fla, has received instructions
| from Captain Eads to make a preliminary
survey across the peninsula of Florida for
ship railway.
The Second Annual Convention of the
| National Cattle and Horse Growers Asso-
| citation assembled in the large music hall
of the Exposition building, st. Louis, yes
terday morning.
The British expeditionary force in Bur
nah has reached Silimys without opposi-
ton. King Theebaw has issued another
| proclamation ordering $4,000 troops to be
! held in readiness for action.
Sydney Dillon says: There will IN
! doubtedly be great deal of railroad build
! ing in China, but whoever engages in it
must be prepared to put his hand in his
pocket for the cash with which to construct
first section of twenty-five miles"
Lord Adelbert Percy Cecil, youngest son
| of the Marquis of Exeter and godson of
Queen Victoria, preached the gospel of the
Second Coming of Christ" to small
company of worshipers Sunday evening in
the Retail Groeers' Hall, in New York.
The steamer Iberian, which went ashore
| Saturday in Dunmann's Bay, Ireland, has
| broken up and her cargo is drifting. A
| boat containing fourteen men belonging to
the steamer is missing. The cattle which
composed part of the Iberian's cargo were
saved.
! The fire in the New York tenement
house, reported in yesterdays REcoRp-
| UNION, caused the death of Mary Tealka. A
| widow, and her two children, aged 6 and !
! years. Henry kohul has been arrested for
| setting fire to the building, and is charged
with arson and murder.
| An official report says King Milan has
! brought his main force into operation with
| the Drina and Moravia divisions, and that
q decisive attack on SliynitZa is imminent.
1t also states that if King Milan is victori-
Gus he will agree to an armistice so as to
allow conference of the Powers to settle
the terms of peace.
VIM. S. Warner, Ferdinand Ward and J.
Henry Work were indicted in New York
yesterday by the United States Grand Jury
for censpiring to defraud creditors and
stockholders of the Marine Bank Several
witnesses were before the Grand Jury, bat
Mayor Grace was not among them War
Warner and Work.
AUTOMATIC BRAKEs.-The Truckee Re
publican of November 18th says:
The efficiency of the Westinghouse auto
matte air brake was singuiarly illustrated
yesterday. As train No. reached point
about three miles from Truckee, wheel
broke. The axle of the car was violently
wrenched around, and happened 10 sever
the connection of the air brake. In an
instant every brake was automatically APP
plled. and the train brought to a dead halt.
NO one was injured. and no damage done
except as stated. A new set of trucks was
put under the car, and the train went on