Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-21

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Forest fires are raging in the mountains
east of 0rovifle.
Peter Jackson, the colored Australian
slogger, has sailed for Europe.
While steamer was making trial trip
at Shanghai Monday her boiler exploded,
killing thirty men.
The postoffice at Linda Vista, San Diego
county, was robbed Sunday night of 81 OF
So worth of stamps.
The father and mother of Frank Wood
ruff are with the suspect in Chicago. Their
home is in Oakland.
An explosion occurred at Staub's brewery
Allegheny City, yesterday afternoon. Three
men were killed and number injured.
The betrothal is announced of the Duke
at Nassau to Princess Margaret, the young.
est sister OF Emperor William of Germany
Lachman, editor of q London weekly
newspaper printed in German, shot his
wife and child Monday and then suicided
A Chinese gambling and opium joint was
raided Monday night at Detroit Eleven
cinnamon and one white woman were
captured.
H. n. Pyne, of San Fernando. had fif
teen teeth extracted at Los Angeles Monday
and nearly died of hemorrhage. He is still
IN dangerous condition.
The banks of Turin and Naples advanced
AOOO,OOO lire to two Turin banks to arrest
panic caused by the suicide of Copello,
one OF the leading bankers of the city.
A committee of the Cincinnati Chamber
OF Commerce waited upon the President
Monday. He promised to attend a recep-
uon wednesday at noon in the Chamber of
Commerce.
Superintendent of the Census Foster has
appointed Charles E. Taft, of Little Rock,
Ark, special agent on ship-building.
Tart is civil engineer, and has made ship
building study.
The Senate Committee on Irrigation ar
rived at Salt Lake Monday and heard the
statements of various parties regarding the
need of irrigation i'll Utah and the results
of irrigation thus far.
The San Diego police raided tan game
in that city on Sunday night, and seven
chinese gamblers were arrested. Officer
White received cut over the eye during
the melee, but it was not dangerous.
The Credit Bank, which the Russian
Government established in 1886 to advance
loans to the nobility on mortgages, has
foreclosed on 1000 estates, which must be
sold at auction at the end of the year.
Judge Hoffman, in the United States
District Court, at San Francisco Yesterday
overruled the demurrer to the indictment
against Mrs. Sarah Althea Terry and al.
lowed her the usual ten days to answer.
A special envoy of King Humbert, of
Italy, yesterday, at Paris, presented Thomas
A. Edison with the insignia of Grand Of
icer of the Crown of Italy. Edison thus
becomes count and his wife countess.
Twenty Arabs, of both sexes, are detained
at Castle Garden until the Turkish Consul
can be consulted. 1t is said there are TO-
600 Arabs waiting to come to this country,
provided the twenty are passed through.
Dispatches from Crete report that fifteen
insurgent villages have submitted to Chakin
Pasha, the Governor, upon assurance If.
amnesty. The Porte has decided to in
crease the forces in Crete to thirty thou
sand.
The Phoenix Wooden Company, of East
Greenwich, Conn.,, has assigned. The en-
barrassment was brought about by the
failure of Brown, Steese & Clark, who held
the company's notes Tor large amounts.
The assets and liabilities are unknown.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico says
that Hon. ]. g. Carlisle and wife, accom-.
panied by United States Minister Ryan, left
for Gua6alsjara on Saturday night, where
they will be given reception by Governor
Casona, OF the State of Jalisco, SUNDAY
afternoon.
AT a meeting of the Ministerial Council
at Paris yesterday the Minister of War
stated that out of 600 officers of the army.
500 had been found GUILTY of participating
in political agitations and been dealt with.
Twenty-one non commissioned officers
have been chastised.
A liale five-year.old son of S. w. West
fall, of Fresno Flats, fell into well thirty
seven feet Deep which contained ten feet of
water, last Saturday. His mother tainted,
but Mrs. George Bayley lowered a bucket
by rope and the little fellow chung to il
until he was pulled out.
At San Juan, by-the-Sea Sunday, bulls
horns were sawed off and $40 gold piece
tied on his head for any one brave enough
to take it off. A mulatto made the at
tempt, but was terribly lacerated by the
bull. Finally number of Mexicans held
the bull by the tail while another removed
the money.
a dispatch from Missoula, Mont, saws
information has been received there that
the Indians are again menaciDg the whites
at Demersvilie. One white was killed
The Justice of the Peace at Demersville
telegraphed Governor White asking for
protection. He says the settlers are guard
ing their homes.
A Greensburg, Pa, special says: A fatal
disease has broken out among the cattle in
several localities in this county, and they
are dying to an alarming extent. 1t is
known among veterinary surgeons as Texas
fever. The disease is supposed to have
been transmitted through bringing car
load of Western cattle into the country by
farmer. Stockraisers and dairymen are
greatly alarmed.