Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The danger of Greece precipitating war
is not over.
1t is believed that the nomination of
Judge Powers, of Utah, viii be rejected.
Parnell is confident that the country will
sustain Gladstone's plan for Irish home
rule.
Logans war novel, "Uncle Daniels
Story, is being doomed in the New YORK
Star.
The benefit at the Academy of Music in
New YORK, Tor Leonard Grover, netted
$500.
w. R. Wheaton, Register of the Land
Office at San Francisco, has been requested
to resign.
Serious anarchist riots are occurring in
Belgium, and large number of people
have been wounded.
Speaker Carlisle does not think that the
present Congress will pass any bill sus-
pending silver coinage.
Alice Walker has been sentenced at
Galveston, Tex, to one days imprisonment
in the Penitentiary for bigamy.
Clark Whittier, millionaire, has induced
| about twenty-five families to settle on
worthless lands in North Carolina.
cave in tunnel near Pottsyille. Pa,
yesterday buried twenty workmen. two
being killed and several seriously injured.
The sister of the "Only Leon has been
admitted to Bellevue Hospital. insane. She
says she is pehniless, and her brother will
not help her
The exodus of Jews from Russia and
Poland reached an extraordinary figure
during 1888. No less than 20, $50 left the
country for America alone.
General Robert Schenck has lost his
$4,000 year smecure at Washington.
where, supervising the publication of
laws, he has been since Hayes appointed
him.
| Masked men to the number of $50 en-
tered the round-house at Dennison, Tex,
Sunday night, and disabled all the engines,
ana II VIII require many days to repair the
damages.
A valuable mineral-bearing ledge, three
miles long, has been discovered in the
towns OF Peru and Worthington, near
! Springfield, Mass. This ledge contains
two parallel veins of gold and silver.
1t is proposed to rebuild Richard Wag-
ner's old house at Leipsic, which has been
demolished. The intention is to adhere
closely to the original plans, and to con-
vert the new building into Wagnerian
museum.
The leading clearance houses of the
! United States report that the total bank
exchanges for the week ending March goth
were 1928, 433 S07, an increase of 40 per
cent. compared with the corresponding
week last year.
The California claimant TO the Tichborne
estate in England is in Washington. He
has succeeded in securing from the Pen
sion Office pension arrears to the amount
of S4 900 for wounds received in the Fed
eral service during the war
1t is believed in Washington that Gen
! eral McClernand will be offered either the
! Governorship of Utah Territory or the
Presidency OF the Utah Commission. A
dispatch has been sent to him at Spring
! held ILL.,, asking him to go to Washington.
| Franz List, who narrowly escaped being
murdered by mob OF Socialists at Liege
on Thursday last, has not yet recovered
from the shock, and is greatly upset. He
has resolved to keep his engagement at
Paris, where he will ne the guest of Madam
Erard
Ross Winans is again making himself
disagreeable in his management of his
Scotch estates. lie threatens to close the
Hotel Struy at Strathglass, the only hotel
| in that tourist district An effort is to be
made before the Licensing Court to keep
/ the hotel open.
| Gladstone is reported to have said to
! trusted friend last week ~ am afraid to
! state the whole case for Ireland, lest Eng
lish opinion should be so moved that the
English people would compel me to 20 fur
iher III its settlement than l myself am
prepared to do"
c. A. Burgess, local Chicago broker.
and well known in New York and San
Francisco, has lnysteriously disappeared,
and it is feared that dsreputable charac-
tiers, learning Of his having received large
and valuable remittance, are implicated in
his disappearance.
! The fire at the Murraysvlle pa Gas
well was effectively extinguished yester-
day by means Of an immense smokestacl
which was placed over the pipe and the
flames smothered. The air about the town
is impregnated with gas, but no serious re-
suits are apprehended.
About o'clock yesterday morning the
| north-bound Iron Mountain Railway pas
senger train was stopped at the long trestle.
two miles south of Little Rock, Ark, ow-
ing TO the discovery that the trestle was
| burning. It was soon destroyed, and the
train was unable to proceed further.