Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Republicans are preparing FIR Wig
| oTous campaign in Nevada.
There are rumors OF an impending Indian
uprising in the Northwest Territory.
British Consul Sadler, now at Panama.
! has been gazetted as Consul at Chicago.
| Trials of the new Nordenfeldt gun were
made at hartford, England, on the 9th, and
were entirely successful.
| Young FoXhall Keene, a son of James R.
! Keene, rode three winning horses at the
| Cedarhurst races on the 5th.
| Manager Ellsler was arrested at Sand
wich, Canada, and kept in Jail one night
| for playing Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado.n
Joseph Chamberlain addressed an au-
dience of 5000 persons in Wales on the
9th. He spoke of the home rule bill as
| trucking 10 sedition.
Lord Salisbury, in an article in the
| Quarterly RcUieW, attacks Gladstone as a
| persistent political apostate," who is trueto
no principles whatever.
| Representative Morrow saws that there is
very good prospect of bringing up the bill
appropriating $3.50, 600 for a site for new
| Postoifice building in San Francisco.
1t has been ascertained that five persons
besides Leslie and Wilson were concerned
in the Chesapeake and Delaware defalca-
ton. The two named are said 10 have pro-
flied little by the gigantic thefts.
| The new ironworkers' scale of the Anal
! gamated Association at Pittsburg is being
generally signed this week by the firms
| who were not governed by the committee
representing the Cincinnati and Pittsburg
manufacturers.
John Warren, a middle-aged Canadian,
who with his son has been living in fat
ON Ninth street, New York, fer a few
months, Wednesday morning shot his son
dead, and then killed himself. No cause
for the crime is known.
The President has approved the Act to
forfeit the lands granted to the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad Company to aid in the
construction of railroad and telegraph
line from the States of Missouri and Arkan-
sas to the Pacific coast, and to restore the
same to settlement.
The Senate Committee on Finance will.
as soon as the report on the subject can be
prepared, propose several amendments to
tle fractional whisky bill, already on the
Senate calendar This will embody sub
stantially the legislation asked for by the
Viticultural Association.
The entire hamlet Of Romeo. Wis, was
burned at o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
including a sawmill, splaning mill, 5000,-
coo feet of lumber, store, clearinghouse
and dwellings of Wm. Van Hoosear. Loss,
| S150,000: insured for $50 coo. The woods
are on fire, and further particulars cannot
! be obtained.
| There is considerable ialk among men,
! berS of the House about adjournment A
| sort of understanding has been reached by
| Speaker Carlisle Morrison, Randall and
| others, that it would be well 10 bring the
session to close about the 18th or 10th of
| the month, which would wind up the busi-
ness inside of two weeks more.
From over 1000 crop reports from all
parts of the country. the Rural Nc1D Yorker
concludes that The winter wheat crop is on
the whole good. The probable yield is
295,000 600 bushels against 212,000 900 in
1885, with slight increase in the acreage.
Spring wheat has been considerably in
jured by drought and blight The yield
will probably be 40000,0 900 bushels, against
145 600 600 last year. The total wheat crop
will probably be 435 GOO, coo bushels. against
357 100000 bushels last year