Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-27
THE Potato BLIGHT.
Starvation Staring the Poor of Ireland il
the Face.

Starvation Staring the Poor of Ireland in
the Face.
DUBLIN, August 26th.-At a meeting of
the National League here to-day. Timothy
Healey, referring to the potato blight, said
that nothing stood between the people and
starvation during the coming winter. The
Government was represented as being most
anxious to provide employment through
the building of new railways, but how
could the railway Act recently passed be
held to prove the Governments intention
to meet the coming famine. Besotted
stupidity marked the whole conduct of the
Executive. 1t might not be legal for the
tenants to withhold their land rents during
the period of distress, but the man who
should pay his rent and leave his family to
starve would be little better than an assas-
sin. Let the landlords supp ort the rent
payers.
A Town Destroyed by Fire.
PEsTH, August 26th-A fire broke out
yesterday at Tokay, the entrepot for the
noted Tokay wine. The whole town, ex-
cept thirteen houses, was destroyed.
There were in the town Roman Catho-
lie cathedral, Lutheran Reformed and
Greek United churches, also Piarist and
Capuchin converts. The population of the
pldCc 10 duOut OiOOO.
All the public buildings were destroyed.
The greatest distress prevails among the
Inhabitants. The fire is still burning.
Hundreds of head of cattle persisted in the
flames. Kaba Hatfield, Saro and other
villages near Temesvar are also in flames.
| Ten persons have persisted at Kaba and
| three at Saro.
The Jews in Russia.
| New YORK, August 26th The Iribune's
London special says: The real truth about
| the Russian ukase against the Jews is that
| it never has been promulgated, because
| upon the morning of the day on which it
was to have been signed by the Emperor
| NJ de Giers received an alarming dispatch
| from Baron Monreheim, warning him that
|. if the ukase was issued the Rothschilds
and all the other Jewish financiers upon
whom the Russian Government depends
would declare war against the Empire, and
| that the result would be most DISASTROUS,
both financially and politically.
Providing Against Cholera.
CAIRO, August 26th.-The Sanitary Com
mission has decided to send all pilgrims re-
| turning from Mecca to a spot on the Ara
bian coast fifty miles from Suez, after they
| have undergone quarantine at Eitor The
Government has established second quar-
antine station at Ras Mallac, on the Gulf OF
| Suez.
There we're thirteen deaths from cholera
| at Jeddah yesterday. There were no deaths
| from the disease at Mecca.
Condition of British Miners.
| BERLIN, August 26th.-The messengers
| who waited upon Woods, President of the
| Lancashire Miners Association, for the
purpose of soliciting information as to the
condition of British miners, were not sent
direct to Woods by Emperor William, as
| Woods stated at the recent meeting of the
| Federation. The messengers represented
to study English mining.
The Melbourne Strike.
MELBoURNE, August 26th.-The Seamen S
Union has called out the crews of the
| Union Steamship Company. whose vessels
ply between Sydney and New Zealand. At
an immense meeting of the employees to-
port the ship owners.
socialistic Collision.
BERLIN, August 26th.-When the Social
list meeting broke up at 2 o'clock this
| morning a serious collision occurred be-
tween the Socialists and the police. Swords
were drawn and stones thrown. Many
| were injured on both sides.
An Exploring Party's Fate.
BERNE, August 26th.-Count Villanova,
| accompanied by a guide and porter, re-
Gently started to make an ascent of Mount
| Blanc. Nothing has since been heard of
| the party, and it is feared that all persisted.
Struck by Tornado.
ROME. August 26th.-The city of Perugia
and the surrounding country was visited by
| a tornado. Four churches in the city were
blown down and many houses wrecked. A
| l6rge number of persons were injured.
The Ex-Khedive Poisoned
PARIS, August 26th.-A rumor is current
| here that Ismail Pasha, the ex-Khedive of
Egypt, has been poisoned in Constantinople.
Two villages Destroyed by Fire.
ALGrERs, August 26th.-A fire has swept
| the Soukaras forest. Two villages were
destroyed by the conhagration.
Princess Leopold Dead.
BERLIN, August 26th.- The Princess
Leopold of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha died at
Diepe to-day.