Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-24
IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Queen Victoria WaiFeS Her Claims 10
Certain Royal Grants.
PARNELL GIVES HIS TESTIMONY.
Boulanger aud Count Dillon are
Deprived of their Civil and
Political Rights.
In FOREIGN LANDS.
PARNELL GIVES HIS TESTIMONY.
PARNELL ON THE STAND.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-UNIoS.I
PARNELL ON THE STAND.
Ho Denies that He Has Withheld Any OF
His Correspondence.
LONDON, July 23d.-Parnell to-day again
appeared before the special commission 10
examine the Times charges a,ainst the
ParnelliteS. He denied that any letters
which passed between himself and Harris
had been withheld. The letters have all
been sent to Soames, solicitor for the Times.
Attorney General Webster intimated that
there was an intention TO call every witness
necessary 10 trace the missing books of the
Land League.
Continuing, ParnelI said he instructed
Lewis, counsel for the Parnelites, to sub
pena Mrs. Maloney, Treasurer of the
Ladies League, to prodnce the books of
the Land League in her possession. He
could not say what amount of money Egan
and other trustees invested in his name in
France. It might have been 100000, $50
600 or E500O.
Attorney Webster" But You, a
man OF business, surely knew"
Parnelt-"l am not a man of business
l never was. In October. 1852. Egan sent
me the accounts of the relief fund. showing
expenditures of $4,000 and a balance of
e3l 800"
Parnell stated that he had not taken any
steps to discover the documents relating to
the Ladies' Land League, nor would he.
Egan sent from America, through La
bouchere, valuable clues in connection
with the Pigott forgeries
Justice Hannen asked Would Won
instruct Munro & Co, the Paris bankers, to
produce an account of the trust fund ?"
Parnell-"I decline to give anv infor-
nation concerning the fund TO friend or
foe"
VictOria's CIains to Grants.
LONDON, July 23d.-The Queen has
waived her claim to grants for children of
her daughters younger sons, but the re-
port OF the Committee on ROYAL Grants re.
talns her right to ask such grants, should
occasion require. Morley insisted upon a
distinct renunciatiOn OF this claim and
would doubtless have been supported nv
Gladstone but for personal feelings. The
majority of the Liberals coincide with
Morley. Thirty Radicals have signiffed
their intention of speaking in the great
debate, which is expected to last two
nights.
The London Grain Market
LONDON, July 23d.-The Mark Lane Er
l'S'o; III us REVIEW Vi the BRUSH grain
trade for the past week, saws: English
wheat is firm white is Sd higher. Prices
OF foreign wheat favor sellers, owing to the
diminished deliveries of spring. Corn is
strong at Sd advance. Grinding barley is
sd cheaper. Oats are Ga dearer. At to-
days market English wheat advanced Cd.
Foreign whites were q fraction better
Prices of flour and corn were in sellers
favor. Rye is Cd dearer.
Wonders of ELECTRICITY.
ST. JOHN On. b.. July 23d.-The Sum-
mer Carnival opened yesterday. The prin-
clpaI feature is the electrical exhibition.
which began with the firing of cannon.
The first was fred from Montreal bv w. G.
Van Horne, President of the Canadian Pa
clhc Railroad, who pressed a telegraph kew
connected 0y wire with the gun. Ten
seconds later Superintendent Openheimer,
OF Vancouver, B. c., fired the second can
non from the Pacific coast, a distance of
SOU miles, IN the same manner.
France and the Pope.
LONDON, July 23d.-The Standards cor
respondent at Rome says: Il am author
lied to state that the principal reason for
converting the recent secret Cousistory was
the fact that the French Government had
advised the Pope to quit Rome, and had
offered him an asylum in France
The Pope told the Cardinals he had re-
fused the offer, because he would not cause
France to declare war against Italy for his
sake, he being personally well disposed
toward Italy.
Burke's Tactics.
WINNIPEG (Manitoba), July 23d.-This
morning Burke's attorneys made applica-
ton to Judge Killam for writ of certio-
rari, asking that all evidence in the case be
produced. The writ was issued at once.
Counsel also gave notice that tomorrow a
rule nlsl for writ of habeas corpus will be
asked for. The case will be argued Thurs
day.
Additional Time Granted.
PARIS, July 23d.-The trial of BouIanper
Dillon and Rochefort before the Senate
Court has been fixed for August Sth. Gem
eral Boulanger and his colleagues have been
gwen an additional ten DAYS in which to
answer the summons of the Court before
being outlawed
Zintgraff is all Right.
LONDON, July 23d-Advices from Africa
are that Zintgraff, the African traveller, has
arrived at hi on Central Branch river
bends, in good health.
Buying Up Africa.
LONDON, July 23d.-The German South
west African company IS said to be ne
gotiating for the sale of all their African
possessions to an English syndicate.
Railways for Ireland.
LONDON, July 23d-The House of Com
mons tonight, by vote of 230 to 76,
agreed to grant a lump sum of $500 GOO. or
as an alternative $50 900 annually, to build
railways in Ireland.
Stricken With Apoplexy.
BELGRADE, July 23d.-Regent Ristics is
reported seriously ill. He is said to have
had stroke of apoplexy.
New Congo Railway
BRUSSELS July 23d.-The Chamber of
Deputies to-day voted 100000 for the
new Congo railway.
Gladstone's Golden Wedding.
LONDON, July 23d.-Residents of Hawar
den are to erect monument in honor of
Gladstone's golden wedding.
Will<ie Collins.
LONDON, July 23d.-The physicians in
attendance on Wllkie Collins pronounce
him out of danger.
Made Duke.
LONDON, July 23i.-The Earl of Fife.
who is about to marry the Prince of Wales
eldest daughter, has just been made Duke.