Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

On the 7th three slight earthquake shocks
occurred at Summerville, S. c.
De Lesseps will attend the dedication
of Barthoidi's Statue of Liberty at New
York.
Comte Civri, grandson of the Duke of
| Brunswick, has been arrested at Paris on a
charge of swindling.
| The American residents of the City of
Mexico rendered a fattering ovation to
| General Jackson, the recalled Minister.
The Board of Foreign Missions, at Des
| Moines, Iowa, protests against the abuse
of Chinese in this country. The Board ad-
journed yesterday
The delayed Victoria steamer Ancon has
arrived at Port Townsend. She had struck
rock at Glacier Bay, and was compelled
to lie up for temporary repairs.
Mat Thorne, blacksmith at Tehachapi,
stabbed and instantly killed Emilio Ajala
on Thursday evening. Both were drunk,
but the killing was without piovocation.
Officials of the California Southern say
that the blockade on that road at San
Gorgonio pass, caused by landslide about
a week ago, will be raised and trains run
through by Sunday.
The home of Mrs. Collier, poor widow,
near Millville, Shasta county, was robbed
of jewelry and valuables on the 9Th and
burned to the ground. No arrests have
been made, but certain persons are strongly
suspicioned. There was no insurance.
Twenty three persons, all well-to-do citi-
zens of Marshalltown, Ia, passed through
Omaha on Thursday in Pullu an car for
California. Five cars of excursionists
passed through en- route from Chicago to
San Francisco. They are from Illinois and
Eastern Iowa.
United States Senator Austin F. Pike
died suddenly at Franklin Falls, n. H.,
yesterday. The Senator had been in his
usual health since his return from Wash
ington last May. While walking around
his farm mile above Franklin Falls, he
suddenly dropped dead.
Johnny Caldwell, an adopted son of the
well-known starter of race horses, and
feather-weight jockey attached to the Fair
fax stable lin which the ex-California
millionaire j. R. Keene is said to be inter-
ested), accidentally shot stable boy named
Patrick Lane at the Sheepshead race track
Thursday.
L. Specht has begun a suit in the Su-
perior Court against Fernando Lotte, to re-
cover $4,000 damages. He alleges that in
the month of September defendant ma
liciously and without probable cause pro-
cured his arrest on a charge of embeZzle-
ment of which charge he was subsequently
acquitted by magistrate.
A steel water tower near Sheepshead
Bay, twenty-five feet high, fell on Thurs
day. 1t was sixteen feet in diameter at the
! base and eight feet at the top, and was
I supposed to be capable of resisting press
| ure of $4,000 pounds to the square inch.
| 1t had Just been tested water to the hight
of 227 feet being forced into it. 1t seemed
secure but suddenly a steel plate broke
near the base, and Immediately plates were
broken in dozen places and the tower
| toppled to the ground. One man narrowly
escaped death The loss to the contractors
is $4,000.
The SUMS Greenyille special says: Mary
| Elizabeth Edgar, only child of the late DR..
Edgar. after twenty-seven years absence,
returned TO this place on Monday to claim
an estate left by her father, who died in
| January, 1882. Over quarter of a century
ago after stormy scene with her father,
she left home, and though afterwards
sought for far and wide, remained hidden.
Years ago citizen of Greenville saw her in
| Dayton, Ohio, and thither her father had
| sought her, but she was gone. Then she
was seen in California, and thence letters
| and advertisements were sent, but to no
avail. When she left she was beautiful
young woman of % years. Now she re-
turns gray-haired woman of 80. For ten
years she lived in Carrollton, Mo. She was
married TO a man named Hoyt, and has a
/ son. She will take steps to formally claim
| the property, which amounts to between
SIS 600 and $4,000.
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