Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.
DOMESTIC.

RoWell has challenged Albert and Little
wood for six days match.
A gold and silver quartz ledge has been
discovered at Glens Falls, n. Y.
Blaine has not heard word from In
dianapolis about entering the Cabinet
The Whisky Trust is preparing to make
big reduction in prices on January 1st
Minister Preston denies that he has sent
a crew to bring back the Haytian Republic.
James Delametter, of New York, was
waylaid and robbed in that city in broad
daylight.
Charley McGlynn defeated Joe Fay in
twenty seven rounds on Long Island on
Saturday.
The vagrant dogs in New York are here
after to be asphYxiated by gas, instead of
by drowning.
Engineer Samuel Showalter was killed
by railroad accident near Morgan's Run,
w. Va, on Saturday.
AT Milwaukee on Saturday night Tom
Connors outwrestled D. A. Mcmillan,
catch as-cateh can style.
Mr.. Morton has left indianapolis. Gov
ernor Gray denies having slighted General
Harrison and Mr.. Morton.
Conclusive evidence has been found to
tanooga was the work of an incendiary.
The Treasury Department has purchased
SOL 1896, $50 in per cent. bonds, and 49,
1850 in Al per cents. since April 18th.
John J.. Sullivan is to act as s'bouncern
at ball and reunion 10 be given by the
dramatic profession in New York on New
Years Eve.
Guerrero the California pedestrian, is in
hoA fIa
He 'hunked' in match last week and lit
out for Boston.
In Elkhart, Ind, every gambler, saloon
keeper and courtesan was arrested on Sat-
urday. The Law and Order League is en-
gagged in purifying movement.
An attempt was made on Friday night to
blow up the residence of Rev. Mr.. Holmes
at Rockford, ILL.,, by dynamite bomb. He
had previously been warned" by White
Caps.
Dispatches from various points in Dakota
report the greatest enthusiasm among the
people on account of the recent action of
the Democratic caucus agreeing to the adj
mission of Dakota as State.
A thief smashed Thomas Kilpatrioks
show window, on Broadway and Twenty
second street, New York, about o'clock
Saturday evening, and stole a diamond
! worth $4,000. He was captured.
In New York, on Saturday, j. S. Mitchell
tossed 56-pound cannon-ball 10 feet in
the air against a suspended tambourine,
breaking all previous records. He also put
| the 24pound shot 81 feet inches.
FOREIGN.
Heavy firing continues at Suakim.
Great uneasiness exists at Panama re-
gardiDg canal affairs.
| Admiral Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carig-
nan is dead, aged y years.
Mrs. Mackay gave a big reception in
London on Friday evening.
Prince Alexander of Hesse uncle of
Grand Duke Ludwig, is dead.
A complete translation of Osman Digna's
letter is expected i'll London on Monday.
The latest American arrivals in Paris are
Mrs. Coils P. Huntington and Miss Hunt
ington.
The French copper syndicate has de-
clared war against the owners of the Ex-
| celsior mine.
Further discoveries of gold have been
made IN Wales, showing an average yield
| Of six ounces to the ton.
AT Sydney over 10000 people witnessed
| the first game of baseball between the All
America and Chicago Mines They ex-
pressed themselves as well pleased with
| the game.
Gladstone made a speech on Saturday
congratulatory of the Frightening prospects
of the Liberals. He protested against the
attempt to conquer the Soudan as an adj
venture as hopeless as an attempt to fight
nature.
PACIFIC COAST.
Five cases of smallpox are reported from
MERGED.
A number of Eastern people are in Red
ding looking for locations.
Charles E. Boyle, Chief Justice of Wash
ington Territory, died at Seattle.
Bell Boy, the trotter, will try to break his
record at San Diego on Christmas day
Alvin S. kellogg died under suspicious
circumstances near Grass Valley on Friday.
The Alameda county delegation has pre-
sented the Los Angeles Republicans with
banner.
George Lord, Republican candidate for
Sheriff of Nevada county, has commenced
suit for recount.
Two members of the McKanlas Theatri-
cal Company had a shooting affair in the
street st Temple, A. T., Friday evening.
A motion to dismiss the case against H.
1. Kowalsky, for libsling D. S. Terry, has
been denied in the San Joaquin Superior
Court.
The Santa Clara Valley Agricultural So
eiety has fixed the date for the next fair
for September 2d to It'll, Immediately after
the Oakland Fair and before the STATE Fair.
John McQuade, laborer, who was re-
Gently convicted of an assault on a little
colored girl at Stockton, mas been sentenced
to pay fine Of $500, or serve 500 days in
the County Jail.
The body Of Gustave Carlstrom was
found thursday on Catalina Island after
search of two weeks. The unfortunate
man was lost while hunting two weeks ago,
and it is supposed he died from starvation
and exposure.
Rev. Edward Lewis, who recently re-
signed the rectorship of the Emmanuel
Episcopal Church at Grass Valley, is suing
10 obtain divorce from his wife, alleging
| as enc ground of complaint that she is adj
dicted to the use of morphine