Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-29
WIRED WORDS IN BRIEF.
VI is well on the Congo.

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Kentucky.
More Nihilists have been arrested in ST
Petersburg.
Bismarck hopes the Samoan Conference
will be brief.
Colonel D. B. Dyer has been elected
Mayor of Guthrie.
The King of Holland is said to be i'm
proving in health.
General Merritt reports that good order
prevails in Oklahoma.
Maggie Crow, of Dayton, o., has gone on
the road as horsethief.
The grape vines in the San Gabriel val
ley are suffering from blight.
The Spreckels brothers have purchased
an interest in the Coronado Hotel.
Grants birthday anniversary was OBJ
served in Pittsburg and New York.
Grass Valley was visited on Saturday by
thunder and lightning and binding hail
storm.
Lampke. colored jockey, was killed by
his horse falling on the Lexington track
Saturday.
The license law in Boston limits the
places where liquor can be sold to 800. 1t
closes over 1000.
Lady Lonsdale sailed from London Sat
urday to join her husband, Lord Lonsdale,
| in San Francisco.
The new Christian Church of Woodland,
| which was erected at a cost of $25, 900, was
dedicated yesterday.
The American Commissioners to the
Samoan Conference called upon Prince
Bismarck Saturday.
The Postoffice Department at Washing
ton will be closed hereafter even to en-
ployes on the Sabbath.
1t is stated on reliable authority that
| Frank Palmer, of Chicago, is not candi-
date for Public Printer.
The International Anti-Slavery Congress
will be held at Lucerne in July next. The
Papal delegate will preside.
! Attorney General Miller, the law partner
of the President, may be appointed to the
vacancy on the Supreme Bench.
| The Parnell investigation will be re-
sumed to-day. Parnell is expected to tes-
| tlfy four days in his own behalf.
| Douglas V. Shoemaker was injured by
a blast at the Empire mine, near Grass
Valley, Saturday. He will recover.
Letters received from the Congo report
all well at Stanley Falls. Four hundred
/
The Postof1ice at La Harpe. Illinois, was
entered by burglars Saturday morning and
| $23, 900 in money and securities stolen.
Commander Joshua Bishop is detached
from the Navy-yard at Norfolk, Va, and
ordered to the command of the Iroquois.
The floral festival at Santa Ana closed
Saturday evening. The proceeds are to be
applied to replenishing the City Library.
Editor Weber of the Republican Daily
Leo.Ret attem ted to shoot General Powell
Clayton at Little Rock, Ark, on Saturday.
| The Lowell carpet mills were burned on
| Saturday. Loss quarter of a million.
Two thousand employ es are thrown out of
work.
| A sensation has been caused in Chicago
by the circulation of an indecent photo
graph taken in the dissecting-room of a
| hospital.
A newspaper, the Get Up. was started in
Guthrie yesterday. The editor is a long
| haired Missourian, and he carries a razor
| in his boot.
Miss NJ. A. CLANCY, passenger from
Texas to Alhambra, CAL, died of consump-
ton in Pullman car near Chrystoral, A.
| T., yesterday.
The rumors in regard to the contem-
| plated hllbustering expedition into Lower
California are the cause of some uneasiness
| in New Mexico.
| Mrs. McKee's dress for the inaugural ball
is made after the pattern of the centennial
times, and is of white silk and embroidered
mousseline de sole.
Charles j. Golf has been appointed Spe-
cial Agent of the Treasury Department for
the Fur Seal Islands, in Alaska, vice Geo.
r. Tingle, resigned.
The Paris News Agency states that an Of
| fcia, OF the Foreign British Office visited
! Boulanger to acquaint him with the condi-
tons upon which he will be permitted to
stay in London.
Harry Maynard offers $4,000 in addi-
ton to the purse to have the Sullivan Kill
rain battle occur in California. If they &C.
cept, he will erect a big amphitheater in
| San Francisco.
d. G. Hackett, the missing Napa editor.
| is reported to have been seen in San Fran
cisco Thursday afternoon by R. C. DeBoom,
and the LEICESTER thinks the missing mans
mind is wandering.
1t is asserted that Robert Burns, an in
mate of the Illinois Insane Asylum, was
murdered Saturday by one of the attend
ants OF that institutions. His body, espe-
|
King Christian, in recognition of his
heroic conduct in rescuing the passengers
and crew of the Danmark, has appointed
! Captain Hamilton Murrell, of the steamer
Missouri, knight of the Order of Dane
brog.
| Friday night a body of masked White
| Caps administered a whipping with long
willow switches to Frank Gehrline. at
| Riverside Ohio. Gehrlines offense is said
to be general worthlessness, while his wife
supports him and the family.
| Henry G. Mcpherson, an Oklahoma set.
| tier from San Jose, Cal, struck water in a
well Friday morning at depth CT twenty
tive feet. This is the only good water in
| Guthrie, and it is proving regular bonanza
| to its owner. who peddles it around at five
cents per gallon.
Mrs. Harrison's ball dress is trained
princess robe of rich white faille franchise,
of which the back and train are composed.
| The sides of the skirt are of silver brocade
in fine design, and this divided from the
front of the skirt by two rows of outside
feather trimming.
Dispatches from st. Petersburg say that
arrests of Nihilists are constantly being
made. The police of st. Petersburg believe
that the bombs secretly manufactured at
| ZURICH, SWllZerldnu, nave been conveyed
TO Russia, and that the plotters are await
ing favorable opportunity to use them.
Friday the stage between Guaymas and
Alamos while near Currorit, midway on
the road, was assaulted by Yaqui Indians,
who stole everything. destroyed the stage
carried off the horses and beat two lady
| passengers almost to death. The driver
escaped and telegraphed the news to the
authorities at Guaymas.
/ A dispatch from Richmond, Va, an
nounces that Alfred s. Kidder, young
lawyer who formerly lived in Portland,
| Oregon, has committed suicide. Some
time since he fell heir to fortune of about
$4,000. As soon as he got the money he
began dissipating, and on the day of his
death he lost his last $500 in poker game.
A schooner is fitting on. at San Diego to
fish in the waters of Lower California in
] spite of the proclamation of the Mexican
I Consul. which reserves all fishing rights
for the International Company. The
| schooner is mounted with small cannon and
q crew armed with Winchesters. 1t is pro-
posed TO start q second schooner shortly,
and negotiations are now under way for g.
pound ordnance.