Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIEs.

The Fitz John Porter bill will be reported
to Congress within ten days.
The schooner Swallow is wrecked at
Fleetwood, England, and all on board
drowned.
| The merchants of Texas are making an
effort 10 secure the abolition of the free zone
on the Mexican border
General Manager Porter, of the Burling-
ton road, says his line needs and must have
better facilities west of Denver.
| Among Wall-street rumors, it is stated
that engagements to ship gold this week
have been made by one if not two houses.
Commodore Flynn murdered his wife in
Chester, ILL.,, Wednesday night, and then
made an unsuccessful attempt to kill him
self.
In the House Thursday Delegate Voor-
hees introduced bill for the admission of
Washington Territory into the Union as a
State.
A hurricane has prevailed along the
| north coast of Great Britain, causing serious
damage 10 property. Several small wrecks
are reported.
The Swedish bark Bygnus, Captain Mil
I son, from Galveston, November 31st, was
wrecked at Worhngton and nine of the
crew drowned.
| 1t is alleged that the absconding ieweler
| Pickard, of Montreal, was interested with
! e. Sandose d Co, OF Geneva, in a scheme
to defraud the Custom-house.
A meeting of 5000 unemployed work
! ingmen was held in Glasgow, Scotland,
yesterday. Speeches of a socialistic charac-
ter were made. The sufleringof the people
is very great.
Raine, United States Consul-General at
Berlin. denies that he is in any way con-
nected with the Cincinnati correspondence
defaming Pendleton, the United States
Minister to Germany.
The business failures throughout the
country during the last seven days were
336, being larger aggregate than for any
week since January, 1885. The casualties
We're exceptionally numerous in the South
ern States.
The Mccullough Monument Committee
has decided to bury the dead actor in Phil
adelphia, but left the place for the monu-
ment open. Captain Connor favored st.
Louis. Mackay expressed no opinion and
| others favored Philadelphia.
The st. James Hotel at Batavia, n. Y,
was entirely destroyed by fire early yester-
day morning. There were many narrow
escapes. Two men jumped from the fourth
story and We're severely injured. The loss
| is about $4,000; insured for $4,000.
DIR. E. NJ. Nelson, President of the West
Rutland (Vt) Marble Company, was ar
rested while in bed yesterday morning on
suspicion of completely in the Lancaster
Bank embezzement. He is prostrated by
excitement and is under guard at his house,
Sixteen convicts, who had been employed
in the mines at Coal Hill, Ark, effected
their escape Wednesday, They tunneled a
distance of thirty-fve feet. Two were cap
tured, but the fourteen others made their
escape. Bloodhounds and posse are in
pursuit.
a dispatch from Tamatave says the ne
gotiations for settlement of differences
between France and Madagascar are still
in an elementary stage. The Malagasy
officials stubbornly reject some of the con.
ditions recently submitted by France, and
it is expected that the negotiations will end
in failure.
The Womans Suffrage Committee, al
its meeting in New York Thursday even
ing, passed resolutions denouncing the
pending bill to take suffrage from the
women of Utah, calling on the New York
Senators and Representatives to oppose it
and declaring that woman's suffrage is the
true cure for polygamy.