Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-18
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIEs.


-Four schooners are reported to have been
lost off the Maine coast.
Jennie Rice defeated a New York barber
i'll four-round glove fight.
! At San Antoine, Wednesday, Mrs A. E.
| walker shot two men who were intruding
on her property.
| Alfred Hawks murdered Fred Smith at
Paint Rock, Ala, and was lynched on
Wednesday night.
Jack McAuliffe has been awarded the
| lightweight championship of the world,
Billy Frazer having failed to appear and
| fight for it.
Two men hunting in the Bad Lands dis
tr1ct OF Wyoming claim to have seen lately
volcano shooting up flames thirty ieet
| into the air
Cardinal Gibbons will probably start for
Rome soon, and it is probable will have
something to say about the Corrigan-Mc-
Glynn affair.
Surveyor Beattie, of New York, who was
shot by Louis Bieral in his office at the
Custom-house November 1st resumed his
duties Yesterday.
1t is rumored that Emperor William has
written to the Car, advising him to accept
| Prince Ferdinand, and thereby end the
Bulgarian trouble.
Elias Speidel has sued the Trustees of the
Harmony Society of Beaver county, Pa,
for division of the community property,
valued at 5000, 900.
The headquarters of General Miles will
hereafter be at Los Angeles his depart
ment having been extended so as to in
clude southern California.
Merlaiti has completed his fifty-day fast.
| The doctors in attendance gave him small
| quaDdty of specially prepared wine before
| giving him food. He is in good condition.
Pelissier gave banquet in Paris on the
| 10Th to United States Minister McLane and
| the French delegates to the ceremony of
| the dedication of the statue of Liberty En-
tightening the World.
At Switz City, Ind, on the 18th port
able engine blew up. A. H. Shop;aw,
| owner of the mill, was instantly killed,
also his son James and nephew William
| Shoptaw. The boys were horribly mutt
lated.
Governor Alger. of Michigan, will give
each of the Detroit newsb0ys suit of
clothes for Christmas present. The boys
will be measured next week, and the suits
| delivered at their homes on Christmas
evening.
The Sierra Valley and Mohawk Railroad
is being built at the rate of one mile day.
This company has over 400 men employed.
They expect to have the road completed
into Mohawk valley and in operation by
| Christmas.
The London Times says: "The Govern
ment must show that they, and not a secret
conclave sitting in Dublin or New York,
are the Government of Ireland, and in
doing so they will be supported by the ap-
| of ctlt,i Of tha IL
values law as a guarantee Of freedom"
The Committee ofthe Reichstag to which
the Governments military bill was refer
! red, to-day rejected the clause proposing to
fix April next as the date to put into effect
the contemplated increase in the German
army. The Commission also fixed the
! peace effective force at 4500 900 men for
| three years.
Letters inclosed in pockets have been
| found behind the furniture in the reading
room of the Grand Hotel in Brussels. The
letters are part of the mail which was re-
| Gently stolen from the 0stend express. The
walters in the hotel recognize a photograph
sent here by the London police as that of a
former guest of the house.
The middle-weight combination of pugi-
lists, composed of Dempsey, Burke, Costi-
gan others, left Portland Yesterday for New
York. The exhibition given by the pugi-
lists in Portland, Or, recently, was fnan-
cially grand success. Arrangements are
now being made in the East for fight to a
finish between Burke and Dempsey
A duel with swords was fought Thursday
morning in Humboldt Park, Chicago. So
little skill was manifested on either side
that both the duelists were soon wounded,
one through the breast and the other re-
| ceived slash across the face. The cause
of the affair was the disputed right to the
hand OF a lady and the rivals are the editor
of pharmaceutical journal and medical
student.
The Dublin Nation learns that in connec-
ton with the proposal to send a British En-
yoy to the Vatican, Lord Iddesleigh asked
the right of objecting to undesirable ap-
pointments to Catholic vacancies in Great
Britain, and that the Pope answered him
that persons who in any way violated the
law would not be encouraged anywhere, as
spreading the gospel of peace was the OBJ
iect of the Church