Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITrrs.


The silver question is causing national
legislators little worry.
The Democratic Senators held a caucus
on Saturday on the bond-purchase bill.
President Cleveland attended the funeral
of ex-LieutenantG Governor Dorsheimer.
Postmaster-General Dickinson has filed
his amended estimate of postal expendi-
lures.
The appropriation for the Los Angeles
public building has been increased by the
Senate to S150,eo0.
Chief Justice Waite's estate is said to con-
sist of very little outside of the family resi-
dence at Washington.
Senator Stanford denies that he made
Nine. Diss de Bar an offer to have his sons
picture painted by spirits.
The bill to establish a quarantine station
at San Francisco has been favorably re-
ported from the Committee on Commerce.
1t is said that Blaine wearies of inactivity;
America, and would return home at once
were it not for the political construction
that would be put upon his coming.
The New York Commercial Bulletin says
The Oregon members of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
ton Company now refuse to ratify the joint
lease of their property to the Union Pacific
and the Northern Pacific Companies.
FOREIGN.
Emperor Frederick has Endorsed Bis
marck's policy.
1t is thought that Salisbury's health will
compel him to retire.
James Gilhooly, NJ p, is having a hard
time of it in the Irish prisons.
Matthew Arnold, in magazine article,
| roughly criticises Civilization in the
| United States"
Larry Donovan. the bridge jumper, made
another attempt to jump from the Clifton
suspension bridge.
| Sir Edward Watkin, M, P, will move
that the provisions of the local govern
ment bill also apply to Ireland.
The British ship County of Pembroke,
bound from Liverpool for San Diego, put
into Falkland Islands in distress.
A dispatch from Tangier criticises Secre-
| tary Bayard's recent utterances about Mo-
rocco. By publicly asserting that under no
! contingency will the war ship Enterprise
| be allowed to use her guns he renders the
display of force at Tangier by United
States vessels subject of ridicule.
PACIFIC COAST.
Two small houses were destroyed by fire
in Chico on Saturday.
The creek at Point Reyes is said to be
full of trout and salmon.
The International Range Association.
held at Denver, adjourned sine die.
A jury is being impaneled at Los An
geles to try Hattie Woolstein for murder
Abel Martinez shot himself at Santa Fe
because he had been Tilted, and will prob
ably die.
man named Lana, gardener, fell
through trestle at Niles on SATURDAY., and
was killed.
Michael Butterfly was arrested at Tacoma
for trying to force woman to marry him.
He used pistol to give weight to his
wooing.
John Fox, of Stanislaus county, one of a
large number of farmers who sued the
Stockton Harvester Works for damages, be-
cause the machines did not work as thew
expected, got judgment at Modesto for So
600.
w. d. Queen, an old resident of Sonoma
valley, was thrown from his wagon by a
runaway team on Saturday evening, and
striking on his head was rendered uncon-
scious. Upon being picked up the blood
gushed from his ears, nose and mouth, and
he is thought to be fatally injured.
Booth and Barrett ended on Saturday
night the most successful engagement ever
played in Salt Lake. People came from
hundreds of miles in every direction to see
them, and tickets for single seats sold as
high as $25. The theater was packed as it
never was before for the three perform
anceS.