Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.
DOMESTIC,

rough weather at sea.
The Fishery Commission has practically
accomplished nothing.
Two of the Indianapolis tally-sheet for
gers have been convicted.
The Office of the Chattanooga Chronicle
has been burned. Loss, 100000.
Suit has been commenced to enjoin the
production of She " in New York.
John Sullivan was fatally burned by an
explosion of naphtha at Binghamton, n. Y.
The greater portion of the crop of
Florida strawberries has been destroyed by
frost.
David Ounce, an Illinois murderer, was
taken from the Bellgren Jail by mob and
lynched.
At Nevada, Mo-, on Friday night, John
King (colored) killed his seven months old
child by beating it.
Commissioner Fink was examined by
the Railroad Commissioners on Saturday
regarding railroad rates.
Governor Wilson, of West Virginia has
been called upon for troops to suppress the
Hatfield-McCoy vendetta.
The trial of Cora Lee, at Springfield, Mo,
for the murder of Sarah Graham, termi-
mated in verdict of acquittal.
The Civil Service Commissioners on Sat
urday held a conference with the House
Committee on Reform in the Civil Service.
The Judge of Court, District Attorney
and other prominent citizens of Denver,
Col, are to be indicted for attending
prize fight.
Thomas Walsh attempted to shoot James
Britton in Chicago Court after the latter
had been acquitted on charge OF assault
ing his daughter.
| 1t is reported that the frost in Florida on
the night of January 10Th was sufficiently
severe to destroy nearly all the strawberries
ripening in that State.
The question of the protection of Amer
| lean transcontinental lines against the COM
petition of the Canadian Pacific for Cali
| fornia freights is likely to be brought up
before the Senate next week.
Returns from foreign commerce in De-
cember show that the excess of exports
over imports for that month was upward
| of $21 ,0000 Minor exports increased
| nearly 10 per cent. while imports fell 81
$4,000 below those of December, 1886.
FOREIGN.
The Pope on Saturday received 800 Amer
! lean pilgrims.
A heavy gale prevailed throughout Great
! Britain on Saturday.
| Sullivan and O'Brien are to be given a
| rousing reception in London.
! A number of prominent Socialists have
been expelled from Germany.
| Queen Victoria has presented an Indian
shawl to Lady Morrell Mackenzie.
Lord Augustus LOTUS has gone through
his fortune and the Bankruptcy Court.
Father McFadden and Alexander Blame,
| NJ. P, have been taken to Dunfanagby for
trial.
The British are growing over excessive
postal charges rendered necessary by large
subsidies.
Churchill passed through Berlin without
| seeing Bismarck, who remained away from
| the capital.
| The Roumanian Minister of War insists
upon more celebrity in the construction OF
military works.
| British politicians are beginning to gather
about Pail Mall in anticipation of the open
ing of Parliament.
Lord Durham has sued the London Mai
for libel, it having asserted that his brutality
drove his wife mad.
| Professor Virchow, in letter discussing
the latest phase of the Crown Princes i'll
ness, says he is of the opinion that the dis.
| ease is not cancer.
John L. Sullivan is in active training al
Windsor, Eng, and after finishing Mitchell
will continue to camp on the trail" oil
Smith and Kilrain the hippodromers.
| 1t is reported that the continued poor
| health of Parnell has caused the National
party to consider the advisability of re-
questing him to resign his leadership. He
| has not met in conference for month, and
has practically fallen out of active partici-
patton in the party councils.
PACIFIC COAST.
| The Petaluma authorities have located a
| pesthouse.
Commissioner Sherwood doubts that
Village suicided.
The State salmon hatchery on Hat Creek
is to be abandoned.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Charles, one of Sonoma's old
est settlers, is dead.
William Deerin, of Vallejo, committed
suicide on Saturday.
An iron bridge across Sonoma creek is TO
be built near Sonoma.
The Suffer Cannery, near Yuba City, is
to be greatly enlarged.
Cousins, the Marysville leper took an
opiate with suicidal intent.
| Steamers cannot yet reach Vancouver, on
| account of the ice in the Columbia.
1t is thought the Oregon railroad through
| the Siskiyou mountains will be opened to-
day.
The ship Iroquois was inspected on the
dry dock and found to be i'll poor condi-
| ton.
Confrmatory news has been received OF
| the rich gold find in the Blackhawk mount
aims.
The first election under the woman $
suffrage law will be held to-day at Van
| couver.
| Joseph Laveroni, hospital inmate, ran
| amuck at Santa Rosa, and stabbed another
| inmate.
1t is thought that the Santa Ana muir
derer is known in Marysville as an alleged
petty thief.
Frank Raynor committed suicide at
Healdsburg because his suit was rejected by
a young lady.
On account of vandalism, the old Spanish
Church at Paso del Norte has been closed
| to American tourists.
George W. Cox, who was convicted last
Wednesday of numbering his son-in-l law,
| Henry Cook, in Calaveras county, has been
sentenced to be hanged on March 23d.
Twenty-Five thousand head of cattle be-
| longing to Taylor, Crocker d Buford, on
the Promontory cattle range, Utah Terri
| tory, few miles west of Ogden, are suffer-
ing greatly from lack of feed and cold
weather. Hundreds persisted during the
recent cold spell, and it is expected that
| 10000 will be lost by spring.
How Men Die.
If we know all the methods of approach
adopted by an enemy we are the better en-
| abled to ward off the danger and postpone