Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIgS.

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Demartini shot and killed J. LoyoInarino.
Salisbury and Chamberlain will leave
England on Saturday for a trip on tie con-
tinent.
Garvey L. Danford, from San Jose, Cal,
shot and killed a railroad brakeman at
Dixon, Ill. He says it was in self-defense.
Fred. Gebhardt's sister has sued for di-
vorce from her husband, Frederick Nelson,
in Rhode Island. Cruelty, drunkenness,
GeSertion and infidelity are the causes
alleged.
De Witt J. Sehgman, son OF James Selig-
man, the we'll known banker, contemplates
starting weekly journal in New York
city. He has long had an itching for
journalistic fame.
George NJ. Bartholomew. of the Charter
Oak Life Insurance Company of Hartford,
is said to have swindled various persons
and institutions to the amount of 81 2OOO,-
600. His son is among the sufferers.
James Potter has returned to Wabash,
Ind, after an absence of twenty-five years
in California and found his estate divided
up between his relatives. They settled
with him and he left for the Pacific coast.
Two American citizens of German birth,
named Schmidt and Steehr, who have been
spending several weeks on visit to their
old home in Kiel, Holstein, have been
ordered by the German Government to
leave by TIE Sth of October.
JEFF. Davis daughter, aged % years, has
recently completed an article for the North
american RerietC, which has been accepted
The article treats of the Irish question, and
it is said that in it she pleads eloquently
for Ireland's constitutional freedom.
John w. Mackay characterized as arrant
nonsense the statement in the Paris Meas
that he and his wife were estraneed because
he would not buy her $3.50, COO palace in
England. He says: There is no reason
on earth why | should purchase house in
England"
The Prince Of Wales proposal to SOL
emnize the Queens jubilee by establishing
a permanent Colonial-Indian Institute has
been received with Il chorus of praise in all
quarters. The proposal is a very remark
able evidence of the drift of public opinion
toward closer connection between Eng
land and her colonies.
q severe hail-storm has ruined the frui
crop about South Bend. Ind The North
ern Indiana fair was in progress near the
the storm broke including 1000 children.
a frightful panic ensued, in which many
women aud children were trampled under
foot, but no serious results followed.
The project is being seriously considered
OF sending Geronimo and his fellow-sava-
ges to Fort Jefferson, Fla, the st. Helena
of the United States. 1t is little coral
island of seven acres, five acres Of which
in ha isT Nf
group of eight called The Tortueas," and
a more isolated spot could scarcely be Sc
lected to which to send the Apaches. Ii is
situated some seventy miles from Key
West, or about half way between Florida
and Cuba.
Mohawk Soon to be Reached by Rail.
The outlook for Reno playing very
important part as q distributing point is
improving. One of her tribu-
taries has been, and is the country north,
which heretofore has been reached only by
slow freight The Nevada and California
Railroad has reached out certain distance,
and temporarily stopped at Moran. Soon
it will necessarily press northward. Near
the present terminus Of this road, the ST.
ezra Valley and Mohawk Railroad Com
pany starts out to the northwest, pointing
toward Mohawk. This company has been
quietly at work, and is pushing
along with most creditable zeal. Now it
has twenty-five miles of the line graded
ready for the ties and rails. The graders
are at work beyond Kirby, which is about
three miles west of Beckwith, where the
first sawmill of the California Land and
Timber Company is, and will press forward,
and should there be no unforeseen OBJ
stacles. will reach Mohawk before January
lst. The work OF grading will soon be fol-
lowed up by the ties and iron. Six car
loads of steel rails have gone to the front,
and Others will soon follow. Rails for The
forty-tive miles, between the junction and
Beckwith, have been contracted for. This
the Central Pacific Railroad
brought in six hat-cars, one hand car. and
two cars for the track layers, which will
soon be on the new road. A construction
engine has been arranged for and will be
at work in about two weeks, when track
laying will be pushed as rapidly as possible
into one of the best lumber regions of the
coast This road has arranged to connect
with the n and G. and Mr Heriot and
those interested in the S. V. and NJ. r. X.
went ont to Moran to-day to locate the
switches, etc, Of this new
feeder of the n. and G. and important
factor in Reno's prosperity Reno Gazette,
September 21a.