Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-02
wIRkD WORDS IN BRIEF.

Gold has been discovered at Tilden, MINI.
Postmaster Sexton took charge of the Chicago
Office yesterday.
rich strike is reported in the quicksilver
mine In Lake county.
Caterpillars are infesting fruit trees in the
vicinity OF Santa Rosa.
Tie thermometers at Cotton climbed I'D TO
104o in the shade on Monday.
The protectionist Democrats of South Carolina
are fusing with the Republicans.
Postmaster Van Colt, of New York, assumed
the duties of his office yesterday.
The Native Daughters of the Golden West are
holding flower festival in San Bernardino.
The passenger rates on steamboats, between
Stockton and San Francisco have been raised.
Mrs. Langtry, who was playing an engage
ment in Boston last week, is reported quite i'll.
Rev. Andrew Higgins, D. D., Bishop of the
Catholic diocese of Kerry, died in London yes
terday.
Reuben Towle Fogg, OF Redwood City,
dropped dead in the San Francisco Postoffice
yesterday.
The schooner Mollie Adams has arrived at
Victoria with 900 seal-skins, the best catch of
the season.
The name of the Postofice at Los Gallicos,
Sonoma county, has been changed to South
Los Gallicos.
Jacob Burkhart. an invalid 20 years of age
and native of Switzerland suicided in An
burn yesterday.
In an explosion yesterday in colliery at
Dartmund, Germany, three persons were killed
and eight injured.
The high-license ordinance at Tacoma was
defeated by one vote. The tax, however, re-
mains at $500 year.
Eight hundred railroad coal miners in the
Pittsburg district went on a strike yesterday
against the new scale of prices.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation Com.
pany's iron bridge over the Snake river in al
most completed. 1t will cost S250,000
The German ship Stassfurt was sunk in the
River Elbe by a collision with 1.-THE German
steamer Oevelgonne. Both were from New
York.
Forepaugh and Barnum have concluded a
! circus trust. They have divided the United
States into two districts, and each will have ex-
elusive right to his territory.
The wife OF Robert ]. Blakely. miner at Vir-
ginia, at a frolic Tuesday evening refused TO
| dance with her husband, when he went outside
the ballroom and shot himself dead.
The British steamer Cotopaxi, from Liverpool,
via Rio Janeiro for Valparaiso, struck a rock
near the Straits OF Magellan ON the 18th instant
and foundered. There was no loss of life.
The annual meeting of the stockholders OF
| the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail-
| way Company was held in Cleveland yes.er-
| day. All of the Directors were re elected.
| Walker Blaine says there is not word OF
> truth in the report given currency somehow
| that Secretary Blaine had suffered paralytic
| stroke at his house in Washington yesterday.
President Carnot gave an audience in Paris
| yesterday to United States Minister McLane
| who presented General Franklin, a Commits
| sioner of the United States to the Paris Expo-
sition.
| Ex-Chief of Police Mitchell of Seattle claims
| that he was removed because he refused 10 be
bribed not to arrest gamblers. His successor
is now raiding the gambling places with much
\ ostentation.
While workmen were engaged Wednesday in
removing the debris at the scene of the recent
| railway wreck near Hamilton, Ontario, another
F, body was found, swelling the number of the
| killed TO twenty.
| Yesterday Dan Small, of Grass Valley. was
| going to You Bet in buggy, leading horse he
| hind, when the horse drew back, dragging Small
out. Two ribs were broken and other severe
| injuries sustained.
San diego has just had a successful foral
| festival tor the benefit of three noble home
| charities. Senator w. w. Bowers delivered the
| assembled multitude.
| Hon. John Sherman, Hon. John c. New, Con-
| sui at London, Hon. W. W. Thomas, Minister to
Sweden and Norway, and Lincoln Valentine
| Consul from Honduras, sailed from New York
for Europe yesterday.
| w. E. Masten of Portland, who killed John
Settleman at Kalama last December, has disap
Peared and it is supposed that he has fed to
| slaughter and was released on bail.
The direct examination of Parnell was con.
| cluded st Yesterdays session of the Parnell
| Commission. Parnell declared that he bad con.
Quoted the Irish agitation constitutionally. The
| cross examination was then begun.
| general strike of building trades was In.
| augurated Yesterday in Pittsburg for an average
| advance of twenty-five cents per day and union
| workmen have been suspended on almost every
| new building. The strike affects 500 men.
The Fire Tournament races will take place in
Santa Rosa next week. Entries have been
made by the companies of Petaluma, Heads
| burg and Napa. The races will be on Fourth
street, from the Republican Office to the Hail OF
| Records
| Two boys were drowned, while skating. IN a
Connecticut pond in 1881. Their relatives are
| now fighting for 500, 600 worth of property to
which the boys were heirs, and one of the main
| questions to be decided is which boy was
| drowned first.
| The special Senate Committee on relations
with Canada, consisting OF Senators Hoar Alli-
| son, Dolph, Hale, Pugh and Butler will leave
| committee expects to devote two months to the
| investigation.
William D. Kelly was shot and killed while
trying to rob a cabin at Black Diamond, near
Seattle. on Monday night. The building was
guarded, and when Kelly appeared at a window
and saw the guards he attempted to draw a
pistol and was killed. The Coroner's Jury rem
dered verdict of justiiable homicide.
Judge Hanford, of Seattle, has refused to
grant the writ of habeas corpus sworn out last
from Victoria, who was refused entrance to the
country by c. NJ. Bradshaw, Collector of Gus
| toms at Port Townsend. She will be placed on
| board the next steamer.
One of the large floats in the New York pro
cession in the shape of triumphal arch was
wrecked by an electric light wire on the way tc
| Join the procession. On it were seated twenty
young ladies, who were tossed about and
thrown to the ground, but none were danger
ously hurt.
| number OF towns in Vermont are preparing
| TO choose their Postmasters by popular vote
| The Republicans of Bradford Morrisville and
Sharon have already held caucuses to select
candidates for the places held by Democratic
Postmesters. and will send the result of the elec
tion to President Harrison for his considera
tion.
General Crook has received the following teIe
gram from General Merritt in regard to Okla
| homa: Everything continues quiet The
| local town governments are practically estab
| lished. propose to visit the Cherokee outlet
and after arranging matters there return tc
headquarters at Leavenworth if there are nj
other instructions
Some little excitement was caused by some O
the Tammany braves refusing or neglecting tt
salute the President as they passed BY in the
New York procession. At first shouts for that's
off were heard, but when il was seen that thi.
had no effect, the balance of the files were