Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The yacht Coronet will sail for San Diego
next Saturday.
There is no change in the Burlington
strike at Chicago.
III. d. Slaven says the Panama Canal is
more than half completed.
Conkling declares he is not a candidate
for the Presidential nomination.
A number of wealthy Chicago men pro-
pose to COLOMBO Ventura county, Cal.
Cartwright won the ~ hour walking
match at Boston, having covered 1906 miles.
A desperate fight occurred between a
dozen bulls in freight car at Newark, n
j., several of which were killed.
The sum of $4,000 has been raised for
the purpose OF buying for the widow of
Admiral Nicholson her old home.
One of Barnum's elephants, during pa
rade in New York on Saturday night, went
on rampage and injured several persons
Eastern seedsmen are saving postage by
sending their packages and pamphlets TO
Canada and reshipping them through the
mails to their American customers.
The switchmen on the Kansas City, st.
Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad and the
Hannibal and st. Joe, both of which are a
part of the Burlington system, are ON the
eve of a strike.
The striking engineers at Denver have
notified the officials of the Denver, Utah
and Pacific that all their engineers and fire.
men would go out at noon to-day. The
road is the narrow gauge running from
Denver to Lyons, and is controlled by the
Burlington by lease.
FOREIGN.
The Pope is indisposed
Denmark does not want American bacon
nor sham lard.
King Humbert met Emperor Frederick
at Pier dArena.
Monsignor Persico is in favor of home
rule for Ireland.
The Car of Russia will attend Emperor
Williams funeral.
An outline of the Tory home rule bill
has been published.
Minister Phelps has obtained leave of
absence to return home.
The continued absence of news from
Stanley causes much anxiety in Europe.
A high military officer and suite will
represent France at the funeral of the
Emperor.
Emperor Williams remains have been
removed from the palace to the Cathedral,
where they lie in state.
Three men were killed by a Canadian
Pacific train plunging through a high
trestle, near Port Arthur.
The Prince and Princess of Wales silver
wedding reception at Marlborough House
was very largely attended.
The death of Emperor William, saws the
st. Petersburg papers, is not less deeply re-
GREETED III Russia than in Germany.
The United States warship Enterprise
has arrived at Tangeir and demanded salts
faction from the Moorish Government
PACIFIC COAST.
Stockton citizens have started fund for
the purpose of advertising San joaquin
county.
A locomotive and two freight cars were
| derailed near Tehachapi on Saturday by a
landslide
Leon Heifca, a negro, was arrested at Ell
Paso for the murder of an Americanized
Chinaman named William Young.
Elk Governor John 2. st. John, of Kan
sas, has purchased tract of land in Butte
county, and states that he will build a
home there for his family.
The Directors of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company have filed demurrer
to the petition for an injunction against the
lease with the Northern Pacific.
The foreman of the Pinole Powder
Works on Saturday, contrary to the rules,
struck wooden nitro lycerine tank with
an ak, and he and one Chinaman were
blown to atoms.
The foundation of the Chico Branch
Normal School for Northern California is
completed and the corner stoDe of the neu
structure will be laid with imposing cere-
monies next month.
Albert E. Wilson, an inmate of the Con-
ira Costa County Hospital, aged 26 years, a
native of Taunton, Mass, deliberately shot
himself through the heart on Saturday.
The young man was suffering from pa
ralysis.
pleasure party, including members of
the Akron (O.l Match Company, while the
train stopped for breakfast at Albuquerque
on Saturday, accidentally met George w.
Hill, the firms defaulting New Orleans
agent, and he was arrested.