The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 25-The Gaiety The
ater in this city was burned this morning.
MADRID, Sept. 25.-At Cabinet meeting
to-day it was decided to adopt the MauSer
rife for the army.
BELGRADE, Sept. 25.-It is reported the
King OF Servia has been bgtrOthed to Prin-
cess Helena of Montenegro.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-The President
has appointed Charles w. Erdman of Ken
lucky, United States Consul at Stockholm.
NEW YORK, Sept. 20. = Mr.. aud Mrs.
Cleveland have returned from BuzzaTds
Bay, and are busy preparing for family
event.
SusoUEHANNA Psnn.). Sept. 25.-While
workmen were prospecting for gold on
farm in SuSQuehanna County,e paying vein
of gold was discovered.
PANAMA, Sept 26.-Advices from Peru
report the murder by natives of four Cali
fornians, who were prospecting for gold.
The natives took them for'spes.
LITTLE Rock (Ark.) Sept 25.-R. Lamar
committed suicide last night by taking a
dose of morphine. He was a nephew of
Associate Justice Lamar of the Supreme
Court
OTTAWA. Sept 25.-The majority report
adopted last night in the Canadian Paria-
ment exoneraled Sir Hector LaBgevn
from alleged completely in the Doodle con-
tracts.
AsHvILLE On. C), Sept 25.-Fred Taylor,
a railroad engineer, was last night shot md
fatally wounded by'a negro named Rankin.
A crowd of railroad men caught Rankin
and hanged him.
OTTAWA (Ontario) Sept. 25-It is ascer-
tanned that the British Government Will have
to pay Canadian sealers damages on account
of the modus vivendi to the amount OF
$500, 600, and may be as high as 100000.
NEWARK On. j., Sept. 25.-Later returns
from the explosion at the Italian celebration
last night place the number OF dead at six
and the wounded at twenty. 1t is not likely
the death list will reach more than seven or
eight.
BosToN, Sept 25.-The will of the late
Allen Thorndyke Rice of New York is to be
contested by relatives because it is not
signed by three witnesses, as stipulated In
the will of Mary Nj. Bourne, who left him
some property to be held in trust for her
relatives.
MELBOURNE, Sept. 25.-Inquiry made
into the affairs of the Australian Mercantile
Loan Company shows the institution is
hopelesslv insoivent. The assets are placed
at $500. 900. and the liabilities are estimated
to be S690,000.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-There is yet out
standing SO, 143,00 OF the 1 Y per cent loan
which has not yet been continued or re-
deemed. The Government deposits in the
national bank depositarie5 have now been
reduced to S13,699,0o0
VALPARAISO (Cnlie), sept. 20 ne
whaleback steamer Keweenaw, which sailed
from San Diego for Valparaiso. lost her pro-
peller and was towed by the German steamer
Theken into Cor0nel. The Keweenaw is
expected here Saturday.
GRAND FORKS On. Dak.), Sept 25.-The
United States Marshal made raid yester-
day afternoon on all the Chinese laundries
in this city and captured three Celestials
who have been smuggted across the line
from Manitoba recently.
OKLAHOMA CITY %. IT, Sept. 25.-
Owing to the rush to the land opened to
settlement, only few delegates to the Okla
homa Statehood Convention, to be held here
yesterday, were present and the convention
WAS indefinitely postponed
CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 25.-President
Barrllas of Guatemala is afraid of assassi-
nation, but he Is determined to declare HIM
self Dictator before surrendering the Presl-
dency, and he even may provoke war with
Salvador in order TO realize this dream.
LEXINGTON, Sept. pa race between
AllertOn and Nancy Hanks at the Lexing-
ton meeting next month is now certainty,
both Williams and Doble having accepted
the associations offer of $1,000 fer the first
horse. The race Will be trotted either
October 18th or 14th.