Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-03
TELEGRAPHIC RREVITIES.

Negotiations between Russia and the
Vatican have proved fruitless.
1t is believed that general strike will
take place on all the Iowa lines.
A freight train went through bridge at
Hondo, Tex, and four men were killed.
Wallace Ross, the oarsman, started for
America yesterday, owing to a domestic
atfliction.
The Crown Prince will soon be taken to
Berlin, in order that he may not die on
alien soil.
The English Radicals were defeated in
an attempt to cut down the estimates for
the fishery mission.
A young child of Mr.. Labdell, of Grange
vile, Tulare county, died on Thursday,
from eating canned corn.
Joseph Chamberlain and the British
Fisheries Commissioners will be dined by
the Canadian Club of New York.
Conley, the Ithaca giant, and John P.
Glow have signed peculiar articles for a
fight OF six rounds at Ashland, Wis, April
7th.
The London Chronicle prints an absurd
story of an alleged attempt by an Irish
yacht to capture the Prince OF Wales at
San Reno.
General John Newton has resigned his
position of Commissioner of Public Works
of New York, in order to accept the ap-
pointment as Chief of the Coast Survey.
Peter Oper, carpenter, was probably
fatally injured at Los Angeles yesterday
The mud on his shoes caused him to slip
and fall from building, crushing his
skull.
At Reading Pa, ruffian entered the cot
tage of William J. Miller, and finding his
young wife alone, overpowered her and cut
off her magnificent brown hair close to the
scalp.
Judge Patterson, of New York, has
granted DR.. McGlynn permanent injunc-
ton restraining Henry George and his fol-
lowers from incorporating an Anti Poverty
Society.
a Baraeoa, Fla, dispatch reports the
murder by mother of her four children
She cut their heads off with ratchet
Two were drowned in a tub and all cut up
She said the devil tempted her.
News was received at Shingle Springs, Ell
Dorado county, that Willie Gaylord, while
working in his mine near Weaver creek
Tuesday last, was caved upon. When
taken out soon after he was unconscious
and died within a few hours.
A report comes from Carson, New, to the
effect that a portion of human skeleton
has been found near Genoa, which indicates
that the original possessor was fully twen-
ty-five feet in hight. He is supposed TO
have been the John l.. Sullivan of his
time.
Manager McVicker, of Chicago, has sued
Mrs. Langtry for $4,000 damages, for the
non-fulfillment of a contract in canceling
the remainder of her engagement in that
city. Mrs. Langtry's attorney says that
she was compelled to do so on account of
ill-health.
In a finished fight between Johnny Far
rell, the Harlem feather weight champion,
and Jack Havelin, the feather weight
champion OF Houston, near Savin Rock,
Conn, Thursday night, Farrell, who had
the best of the encounter at the beginning,
was knocked out in the seventh round.
A large number of unemployed working
men engaged in riot at Rome on Thurs
day. Bakeshops were broken into and
pillaged, and the police who attempted to
arrest the rioters were driven away with
stones. Finally the mob was dispersed by
troops. Many of the rioters were arrested.
There was no bloodshed.
A distressing accident occurred at Chico
on Wednesday evening. B. +. Young and
a fellow-workman were doing some repairs
at the foundry that required the pouring of
molten babbit metal into some boxing.
When the boxing was filed the metal ex-
ploded and threw the hot lead into Young's
face. His face was badly burned and his
eyes were blinded a rim of lead being
formed over each eye. He will lose his
sight.