Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-27
WIRED WORDS IN BRIEF.
Blaine has nearly recovered.
San Leandro has a Chinese lener

| WHEEL hOtSDS IN BRiEE.
} Blaine has nearly recovered.
San Leandro has a Chinese leper.
It rained in Washington yesterday.
Murat Halstead is rapidly improving.
The is q religious uprising in Laluz,
Mexico.
Liquor license has been raised in Santa
Cruz TO 500 year.
The San DIEGO Supervisors will prosecute
Tax Collector Narnum.
All the breweries in st. Louis except two
have been consolidated.
H. B. Spotford, the historian, died at
Rutland, VT, yesterday.
julius kosioski was crushed to death by
cave in sewer at Helena Thursday.
Bob Adams miner, was killed at Fl
Paso on Thursday by powder explosion.
A bill has been introduced in the Michi-
gan Legislature TO restore the death penalty
A Chinese theatrical troupe has been or
ganized at Portland TO make tour of the
East.
Carrier pigeons made the trip from Hay-
wards to Los Angeles in seven hours and
a quarter.
Eight carloads of barley were portion
| of the steal of the latest levanter from
| Eusenada.
The Postoffice at Arroyo Graude was
| burglarized Thursday night. The thieves
stole $l25.
Viscount Vaudeville of London was YES
terday arrested for fraudulently obtaining
about S., 600.
The Italian, Canepa, who chopped Mag
nolia into mincemeat at San Diego, has
been acquitted.
Delegate Dubois says that Idaho will be
admitted into the Union at the coming ses-
sion of Congress.
Smallpox has broken out in Provo. Utah.
1t is said TO have been brought from Mex
leo by Mormon elders.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, has
paid the late Crown Princes debts, which
amounted to 50 100000.
The Connecticut House has passed a bill
making ii a penal offense to make or sell
oleomargarine or other imitation of butter
Preacher James, of Long Beach fame
was arrested yesterday at Los Angeles on
charge OF threats against life. He is in
Jail.
Congressman Vandever thinks the action
of the English company in Lower Califor-
mia calls for the attention of the State De-
partment.
Frank Weeks, boy about is years of
age, was drowned at Healdsburg, Thurs
day, while bathing in Russian river The
body was recovered.
1t is now deemed certain that the Union
Iron Works of San Francisco will receive
the contract for the construction of the
coast-defense vessel.
barkeeper named Irving tried to COM
NIT suicide at Victoria, B. c., Wednesday
evening, by taking laudanum while tenn
porarily deranged. He was restored.
Fred. Byers the champion pool player,
was found dead outside a Chinese opium
joint in Boston Yesterday. Two Cinnamon
were arrested. Byers had been hitting
the pipe"
The movement to secure the cessation of
Sunday trains meets with the co-operation
of the Grand Trunk of Canada, which will
hereafter run no Sunday freight except live
stock and perishable goods.
L.. N. Reavis, of st. Louis, known
throughout the country as persistent ad-
vocate or moving the capital from Wash
ington to the Mississippi valley, died from
the effects of surgical operation.
Governor Humphrey, of Kansas, on
Thursday issued requisition on the Gov
ernor of Missouri for William D. Little,
editor of the st. Louis Chronicle S. H.
Foss. of Wellington, charges Little with
criminal libel.
The suicide of John Krewzry at Bridge
port, Conn.,, wealthy German, served to
bring to light that there has existed for sew
eral years secret organization known as the
Suicide Club. -Four of its six members
have suicided.
At the Unionist Conference at Birming-
ham yesterday resolutions were adopted
affirming that the land question is at the
root of Irish discomfort, and urging the
Government to introduce a measure to en-
able the tenants to become owners of land.
The conference of ministers of the Angli-
can, Presbyterian and Methodist churches
at Toronto, to consider the question of the
organic unity of all Protestant bodies,
closed last evening. After full, free and
harmonious discussion, it was recommended
that the churches appoint delegates to an
| other Conference to be held next year.
In an interview Boulanger reiterated his
dlsavowal that he bad any intention of pre-
| cipitating war between France and Ger
| many. Nevertheless he did not consider
the future of France settled forever by the
war of 1870. He declared he would never
| consent that France should be insuted. He
was anxious to cement Frances friendship
with Russia and England.
w. I. Garrett, ex-President and a Di-
rector of the California Steam Navigation
Company, emphatically denies the truth of
! a telegram from Stockton to the effect that
| the Directors of the Navigation Company
| and the San Joaquin improvement Com
pany, whose boats have been running so
| long in opposition, would meet in that city
to consolidate the two companies and cease
| fighting. He says that the war will go on.