Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-21
TELEGRAPHIC RREVITIES.
DOMESTIC


Contributions to the Grant monument
fund are coming in very slowly.
A terrific wind and hailstorm swept over
Missouri aud Kansas on Saturday.
The New York District Attorney thinks
the Scotield murder case will be dismissed.
The Mills bill is to be laid over for future
consideration, so decided a Democratic
caucus.
The California horses did not start at
Gravesend on Saturday, owing to the
muddy track.
Estimates show that large majority of
delegates to the Chicago Convention are in
favor of Blaine.
A New York woman's clothes caught
fire on Saturday, and in her agony she
jumped from a third-stcry window and was
killed.
At Chattanooga a sensation has been
caused by the arrest of Charles C. McCul-
Tough, wholesale and retail oil and paint
merchant, who is charged with arson.
Frederick Marsden, the playwright, was
found dead in bed on Saturday at his resi-
dence in New York, having committed sui
eide by turning on the gas in his room.
Benjamin NJ. Lawrence and his son
Franklin mixed in the Diss de Bar investi-
CATION as DR.. Lawrence and son, ~ have de-
cided to sue the Sun and SIX other New
York papers for libel, placing the damages
at $500, 900.
Charles Stewart Parnell's mother arrived
on Saturday from England, very weak from
her long illness. She says of the suits
brought in Pennsylvania against her that
she owes nothing. The sole purpose of
them is to annoy her.
10 a., -
Hartford, Conn.,, Normal School, has been
ordered to leave on account of her intended
marriage to Wah Lee Chinese laundry
man. Ida was his Sunday-school teacher.
Yon Phon Lee married New Haven girl
year ago, and the girl has an Acknowledged
baby now.
Gladstone has addressed an adroit reply
to Balfour.
Uneasiness has been caused by the risipgs
in Macedonia and Crete.
China will answer the Australian legisla-
ton with retaliatory edict.
NJ Charles Francis Mangon, the dlstin-
guished French engineer, is dead.
O'Brien and John Dillon will speak on
the Papal rescript at Phoenix Park.
Nine. Wilson, NJ. Crews daughter, will
| take up her residence in New York.
Emperor Frederick spent considerable of
his time in the open air on Saturday.
England will modify the foreign wine
tax, one of the novel features of Goschen's
budget.
Blaine, it is asserted does not positively
| decline to be candidate, but only with
draws his name.
The first edition of Ignatius Donnelly's
I" Great Cryptogram book has not been
] sold. 1t is much criticised, but nobody
buys it.
During a furious thunderstorm Saturday
evening six persons were killed by light
ming, and immense damage was done to
property, in Glasgow.
The first credit of $1,000 900 for Eng
| lands national defenses will be followed BY
| others. If the chiefs of the War and Navy
Departments succeed in obtaining the salts
faction of all their demands the total will
reach s12,000,000. The war scare con-
tinues.
In spite of his legislative success it is not
believed that De Lesseps can raise the ad-
ditional money he will ask for The 720,-
100000 francs, estimated as the amount re-
quired to carry through the Eiffel Panama
canal contract up to June 80, 1890, means
neraly a million francs day.
PACIFIC COAST.
The steamer Yaquina is afioat.
The jury in the case Of Bartello Aroni,