Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.
DOMESTIC.

Secretary Endicott is very sick man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is daily growing
weaker.
The New York club has 70 games to its
credit, and Chicago 65.
Pretty Hattie B. Flack ofSt. Louis eloped
with and married negro.
Walter Grantham and his two sisters
were drowned in Fox river.
The steam barge st. Joseph was burned
while shooting the st. Clair rapid.
There are reports out that Professor
Proctor did not die of yellow fever.
DIR. Tanner believes he can hibernate, in
bear style, for months, without food or
drink
Dominick McCafrey says he has $1,000
backing him to fight either Kilrain or
Mitchell.
st. Louis leads in the American Associa-
ton games with 75 games, against 50 for
Brooklyn.
Leila Farrell, an attractive burlesque
actress mas sued Nat Goodwin for $4,000
for breach of promise.
Mrs. Cleveland has been presented with
fine Russian staghound. Some one may
yet send her an elephant.
Haggin's Firenzi won a grand mile and
an eighth race at Coney Island on Satur-
day, with 125 pounds up, in 1:56-1:564.
Sixty nine men were overcome by gas in
a railroad tunnel in Massachusetts and
narrowly escaped being run over by
train.
A Quincy, Ill, man who violated the
fishing law, was arrested while going to
church, although he carried a shotgun to
defend himself.
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, is lying
critically i'll at Trenton Cottage, Crescent
Beach. He is suffering from a very severe
attack of gastric fever.
An attempt was made by mob of 800 at
Pittsburg to break down the doors of the
lookup at Rochester, Pa, and lynch John
Nicoli, an Italian charged with assaulting
two little girls.
terrific explosion occurred on Satur-
day at the National Milling Companys
mill in Cleveland. There were eighteen
people in the mill at the time. Seven men
are uneccounted for, and 1t is feared three
are still in the ruins. The mill took fire
from the explosion and was entirely de-
flames. -Four others were severely burned
and bruised.
Natalie.
The Socialists will hold an International
! Congress.
The relations between the powers are as
sensitive as ever.
The shortage of the French wheat crop
is estimated at lO0,000000 hectoliters.
| Premier Mercier has caused sensation
| by raising the cry, Quebec for the French"
1t is said that Mr.. Langtry will not now
oppose the granting of divorce to the
| Jersey Lilly"
Striking workmen were charged by the
military at Pierre Bouf1ierre, France, and
seven persons were wounded.
The Porte's protest against the Italian
| annexation of Massowah was surprise to
the Central European powers.
Several important changes in the Sails
bury Ministry are undoubtedly pending.
The change will probably include the dis
placement of Hon. W. H. Smith, First Lord
| of the Treasury, and Home Secretary
| Matthews.
Advices from Samoa state that the ma
tives have rebelled on account of the at
tempt of Herr Branders, German official,
to induce them to confirm the name of
Malietoa upon Tamasese; also because tax
alton is excessive.
PACIFIC COAST
The Santa Maria Fair is ended.
Rain fell in many towns in the State on
Saturday.
Orland has voted in favor of issuing irri-
CATION bonds.
The loss by the Spokane Falls fire will
reach 100000.
Major Glenn died st Willows from the
effects of a fall.
Political conventions and many meetings
were held on Saturday.
John Mcclure, Mexican war veteran,
died suddenly at Santa Rosa.
The telegraph Office at San Pablo was
struck by lightning on Saturday.
The residence and soda factory of George
W. Madison, of Red Bluff, was burned on
Saturday.
Bernard Conway. convicted of murder in
the second degree at Mariposa, has been
sent TO Folsom for ten years.
| Two burglars were discovered in DR.. ].
| w. Goodwin's residence at Pomona, and
one was shot, though both made their es-
cape.
The delegates to the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of Odd Fellows at Los Angeles az
rived on Saturday, and were received with
typical California hospitality.
t. E. Beck, the witness and perhaps ac-
complice after the fact in the case of the
murder of Henderson by Lee Sykes in
Shasta county, who escaped a short time
ago from the Tehama County JAIL has
been recaptured.
B. f. Neah, of Neah City, Or, was acci-
dentally shot near that place by his COM
panion, George Archibald, who mistook
him for an animal. Deceased was highly
respected citizen. He leaves wife and
several children.
John Payne met dreadful death in Pine
canyon, near Fillmore, Utah, on the 5th.
He was taking home load of lumber, and
in some way, by the slipping or breaking
of the brake rope, he was thrown under
the wagon, the wheels passing over him,
crushing the skull and breaking the bones
| of his body. The horses took the load
home, and search was made for Payne and
his dead body found in the road He
probably died instantly.