Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-09
TELEGRAPHIC BRLvITIES.

The total losses by the fire in Jersey City |
yesterday morning aggregate about S5oo,oVs
Great anxiety is felt at New J. ayen.
Conn. over the non-arriyal OF sew ,.ral over,
due vessels.
The friends of General Toward are now
pushing his claims as. successor of Major
General Pope.
The Germs,i opera season closed in New
York Sunday. IL lasted six weeks and was
very successful.
Dispatches received from Maryland coal
regions reported that all the miners, num-
bering nearly 5000 men, are out.
Roscoe Conkling is candidate for re-
election as Chairman of the Governing
Committee of the New York Athletic Club.
Malcomb Wood, now Chief Constable of
Manchester, England, will succeed Sir Ed
gand Henderson as Chief commissioner OF
the Metropolitan Police Force.
c. B. Meeker, for many years General
Passenger Agent for the New York Central
Railway, died in Schenectady, N. Y, yes
terday morning, from paralysis.
Four thousand members of the United
| Order of American Joiners and amalga-
mated Society of Carpenters and Joiners
stopped work in New York yesterday.
The local differences between the knights
of Labor and their employers on the South
ern Pacific Railway have been settled, and
! the strike at San Antonio, Texas, is at an
end.
AT Twins, Pennsylvania, 1000 miners,
employed in the mines of the Pennsylvania
Gas and Westmoreland County Coal Com
pany, came out this morning for an in
crease
The progress of the debate on the spirit
monopoly bill in the German Reichstag has
disclosed the fact that there is no hope of
the measure being passed, unless ii is ma
terially amended.
The strike upon the Missouri Pacific
road has had the effect of rendering it i'm
possible for the ST. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad to handle any freight delivered al
the Union depot in st. Louis.
A Pittsburg dispatch says An extensive
strike of coal miners of Federation No. 3
comprising the soft coal districts of the
East, has been inaugurated for the uniform
scale of wages adopted at the convention
on February 10Th.
A London cablegram says: The boiler o
the tug Rifleman exploded in Cardiff har
Dor this morning. The vessel and crew O
six persons were blown to atoms. Tie cyl
Under of the engine struck passing Italian
the pilot.
Mary BECKER, relict of Ex-Governor
Horatio Seymour, died at the residence O
Roscoe Conkling, in Utica, n. Y yesterdal
morning. The late Governor removed
Mrs. Seymour from his country home t,
Mrs. Conkiing's on account of her illness
and while attending her was attacked b,
his fatal illness.
Documents which have been seized at tn
house of a man named Prohl at Kiel. dis
closes the fact that he was engaged in
conspiracy having for its object the sale o
plans of mines in the harbor of Kiel an.
the fortresses of the Baltic. Prohl had al
accomplish in France, and the purpose wa
TO sell the plans TO the French Government
Mrs C. R. Mabley, widow of the Detroi
merchant prince who died suddenly las
June. was married Sunday in New Yor
to Rev. j. w. Spiers lately in charge of 81
Joseph's Chapel, on Medbury avenue, De
troit. Spiers is a man of about 30 years
Mrs. Mabley is the mother of thirteen chill
dren, several of whom are old enough 4
have become the minister's wife,
At the secret meeting of the Central AS
sociaiion of German Manufacturers, he'll
in Berlin, resolutions were adopted agains
limiting the hours OF work in factories
and i'll favor of the creation of Government
work bureaus and workmen's chambers
An exception was made in the case c
women and night workers, the association
recommending that limit be put to thei
hours of labor