Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-27
TELEdRAPHIC BREYITIES.


Louis 7. Haggin has decided to withdraw
ais application for the Austrian mission.
Mother Hubbard costumes are Gre
ating much excitement in Burlington. n. J.
! 1t is doubtful if the Morrow ti-Chinese
bill will be called up IN the House this ses-
! sion.
An American vessel has been seized off
Cape Breton for breach of the fishery
! laws.
Ferdinand Ward has gained TWENTY-FIVE
pounds since he went to Sing Sing prison
to reside.
A stampede of elephants caused a sensa-
ton at Barnum's circus in New York on
Saturday night
Senator Stanford will speak on the inter-
state commerce bill, which will be before
! the Senate this week.
| James Forester was fatally stabbed in a
street car at jersey City, Sunday evening,
by an Italian named Cervasso.
1t is officially announced that Greece.
yielding TO the advice of France TO refrain
from war, will Immediately disarm.
The strike on the Third-avenue surface
railroad in New York still continues un-
changed. Sixty cars were running yester-
day. -
Three bicycIists left New Orleans ON
Saturday, for Boston, On ;heir machines.
They expect to reach Boston inside of thirty
days.
II is rumored in sporting circles that Jack
Dempsey is engaged TO be married to
wealthy and highly connected lady of Port
land, Or.
Fourteen sailors of the ship H. B. HYDE,
who shipped from the San Francisco Sail
ors Home, claim to have been swindled at
/ that institution.
The New York weekly bank statement
shows a reserve decrease of 81, ,399, 900. The
banks now hold $l3, ,324, 600 in excess of the
% per cent. rule.
Colonel Abner Tibbets, President of the
III Paso, st. Louis and Chicago Railroad
died IN Pullman car on the Mexican Cen
tral road Sunday.
! The widow of Edmund Randolph wants
, Congress to pay her $4,000 for her hus-
bands services as counsel in the New AL
| MAIDEN mine case.
Many Eastern business men, in anticipa-
| ton OF dull summer in consequence of
the labor strikes, are preparing to spend
| the next three months abroad
Inquiry among leading real estate men
in New York shows that rent for all classes
OF property for living purposes has been
reduced from 10 to 25 per cent.
| The Easter maneuvers at Dover and
Portsmouth, England, were very success
ful. The weather was brilliant, and the
| exercises at both places were witnessed by
crowds of people.
The United States Commissioner yester-
day sold under foreclosure of mortgage,
| by public auction, the Wabash. st. Louis
and Pacific Railroad, the total paid for the
entire property was $620,00l.
A London correspondent says: Oppo-
sition to the land bill is steadily increasing
in strength. The fact is noteworthy that
among the strongest objectors are some of
the earnest supporters of Gladstone's gen.
eral policy.
| A three days annual meeting of wheel
men will be held in Boston, beginning on
the 9th of May. 1t is expected that fully
| 5000 wheelmen will be present. The ex-
ercises will include a grand reunion and tri-
cycle and bicycle race.
The merchants and other white residents
| on the Fort Pierce Reservation, Dakota.
| have resolved not to obey the order of the
Agent for their removal, unless they are
forced to go at the point of the bayonet.
and trouble is expected.
| The London Globe has the following
| The completion of the Canadian Pacific
Railway has given fresh excitement to
the discussion among russians of their
| own long -talked-of-line to the Pacific.
across Siberia to Vladivostock.
The sloop yacht Atlantic, built by the
Atlantic Yacht Club of New York, to race
against the English cutter Galatea this
summer. will be launched Saturday next.
She has been visited by immense crowds
daily since her construction was begun.
A special from Newburgh, N. Y. SAYS:
The Erie Railroad Company will Law off
100 men at the shops in Susquehanna, and
a number at the Port Jervis shops The
reduction will take effect May 1st. Other
men will be laid off elsewhere for economy.
destructive wind swept over Fort
Smith, Ark, Saturday night, accompanied
| by rain and hail-storm, about o'clock,
which continued over an hour The storm
unroofed houses and stables in various
parts of the country The damage is esti-
mated at $50 600. No lives have yet been
reported lost.
Forty-five boys employed as helpers by
the Western Gas Company in st. Louis,
struck for higher wages yesterday, throw
ing out of work seventy-five who were de-
pendent in performing their duties upon
the services of the boys. The latter have
no grievances against the employers. and il
| is supposed they have simply got the strike
| fever.