Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-31
Great Calamity.

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YOKOHAMA, July 30th.-Dispatches to.
day from Nagasaka report frightfuI earth
quake IN the western part of the Island of
klu-Siu. The town of Kumamote was en-
tirely destroyed. Large numbers of people
persisted and an enormous amount OF
properly was destroyed. [Kiu-Siu is thu
soathernmoSt of the three principal islands
of Japan, in the Pacific Ocean, separated
from Corea by the Strait of Corea and from
Hondo by the Strait of Shikoku.l
Almost 10 the center of the town a deep
ravine opened and swallowed up the
Governors palace and the principal I'm
perlal officers. Hardly a house is left
standing. The Governors wife and six
children are missing. 1t is believed they
were killed.
have lost their lives, but the last dispatches
from Nagasaki put the number at 5000.
Almost the whole town, which formerly
contained IS coo inhabitants, is DESTROYED.
Many villages in the neighborhood, with
their inhabitants, have entirely disap-
peared
War in Lotteries.
VIENNA, July 30th.-Dr. Roser, a mem
Der of the Reichsratb, who, for twenty five
years has been fighting the Government
lottery, has just introduced, for the twelfth
time, bill abolishing all State lotteries.
He IS confident the measure will pass. Re-
Gently stranger won 100000 of the Gov.
ernments money by what appears to have
been clever trick. Two lottery officials
were arrested. The lottery is identical with
the American game of policy"
BouIanger Surprised.
LONDON, July S0th.-Boulanger is greatly
surprised at his overwhelming defeat in the
French hn ho
by no means discouraged, as he knows well
the vacillatirg character of his fellow
countrymen, aud is waiting and hoping and
laying plans for future glory.
Canadian Guarantee Wanted.
LONDON, July 20th-The Financial Ne1Cs
states that the new Anglo-Canadian Cable
Company has applied to the Canadian
Government for guarantee of 100000 of
the proposed issue on its bonds. The Nelys
SAYS this guarantee will insure the raising
OF the requisite capital.
Cretan Difficulties.
CoEsTANTINoPLE, July 30th.-A Minis.
terlal council, over which the Sultan pre-
sided, has resolved TO send new Commits
sion 10 Crete to endeavor 10 settle the diff
cultles there. Eight battalions of troops
will also be sent to the island.
Struck Blind.
MONTREAL, July 30th.-Four sailors of
the bark Thomas Marshall were suddenly
struck blind soon after the vessel reached
here, a policeman is also afflicted in a
similar manner. The first symptoms is
dizziness, quickly followed by total blind
ness.
Dredging for Gold.
LONDON, July 30th.-The British Column
bia Gold Dredging Company has registered
with capital of 100000, in order to pur-
chase Gibson's rights to dredge for gold in
forty-tlve miles of Fraser river.
British Bark Wrecked.
BRISBANE, July 30th.-The British bark
Malesga,s, Captain Spratt from Newcastle,
n. s. w, for San Francisco. has been
wrecked on MiddletoNn reef. Part of the
crew Is missing
England and Japan.
LONDON, July SOth.-The British Foreign
Office is negotiating a commercial treaty
with Japan. BY the terms of the treaty
Great Britain surrenders her present Judi
cal privileges over her subjects in Japan,