Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-30
Tine Melhonrne Strike

MELBOURNE. August 29th.-Special Con-
stables have been enrolled to guard the
city in view of threatened riots. The city
is without gas, and the suburbans are
dimly lighted The mail service and over
sea traffic continue. The shipping COM
panies are employing non unian men.
The wharf men of the New Zealand ports
have struck. The officers of five of the
New Zealand Compapy's steamers refuse to
join the strike.
MELBOURNE, August 29th.-The employ
ers of the union sent q letter to the Mayor
of Melbourne saying that no partial settle
ment of the labor disputes will be satisfac-
tory. The position, the letter says, requires
thorough and simultaneous settlement.
Crew of Schooner Drowned.
ST JOHN IN. b., August 29yh-Captain
Blink horn of the schooner Bessie Walker,
in from Black Point to-day, said that
Wednesday, in company with the schooner
Wave, the Bessie Walker sailed from
Apple river. During q storm that night
the vessels collided, the Bessie Walker
going ashore. The crew drifted ashore on
RATS, and fifteen minutes later the vessel
broke into pieces. The Wave struck on a
reef and soon went to the bottom, all
hands on board, including girl named
Smith, being drowned.
EvadiDg the Exclusion Act.
OTTAWA, August 29th.-Fifteen China
men arrived by steamer last week at Vic
toria from San Francisco, where they had
been refused landing.
They say they will work their way across
the Sound into Washington, thence south
| to their original destination, San Francisco.
Within the last month large number of
Chinese arrived at Victoria, from which
point they lay plans for smuggling them
selves into the United States.
Terrible Stories of Distress.
VIENNA, August 29ih.-Terrible stories of
| distress are pouring in from Tokay, where
the fire is even now not extinguished.
| Heart-rending scenes are of common oc-
currence, and official appeal has been made
| for aid for 6000 people who are without
| food and shelter. Men, women and chill
| dren are constantly running about the de-
| solated streets, wriDgiDg their hands and
calling on heaven for help.
Italian Socialists.
| LONDON. August 29;h.-A dispatch from
| Rome states that big socialistic intrigue
has been unearthed in that city. Concealed
| in the houses of workingmen belonging to
| secret societies, the police have found
bombs charged with powder and dynamite.
Correspondence of dangerous character
with foreign Socialists and republican fsgs,
intended to be used in case of an outbreak,
were also found.
The Behring Sea Question.
LONDON, August 29ih.-The Herald pub
fishes an interview with lawyer Webster,
on the Behring Sea controversy. Webster
gives it as his opinion that the best settle
ment of the dispute is by an appeal to the
American Courts, and finally to the Su-
! preme Court at Washington. He says that
certainly that plan is better than to sub
NIT the m after to arbitration.
Could Not Agree.
VIENNA, August 29th.-The NoUe Ere
Press says that Emperor William and the
Car bad disagreement, in consequence ol
which the German Emperor shortened his
visit and hastily Quilted Petershof day
early than he had expected to do SO.
Foreign Wheat Excluded.
PARIS, August 29th.-De Freycinet, Min
lister of War, hes decided that foreign
wheat shall be excluded in the contracts
for supplying the army.