The record-union., 1892-01-04
kilograms In Brief From Various Sec
lions of the Globe.

kilograms In Brief From Various Sec
lions of the Globe.
Disastrous floods are reported in Upper
Austria.
King Leopold's attack of influenza is
only slight.
The Phylloxera Board reports that the
| disease has been eradicated throughout
! Victoria and New South Wales
Will Council and o. Crutcher were
killed by a snow-slide in Colorado Friday
night. The bodies were buried under
thirty feet of snow.
Very cold weather is reported on all the
lines in the Northwest, especially in
North Dakota and Montana, where the
thermometer has gone below zero as far
west as Livingston. On the western
division of the Omaha road the tempera-
ture on Friday ranged from % to 90 above
zero, and in Wisconsin it was A. below
zero.
The new Spanish tariff doubles the
duties on coal and petroleum and aug
mentS from 80 to $50 per cent. the duties
on cotton, wooden, linen and silk goods,
An equally heavy increase is made in
the duties on iron and copper goods, cut
lery, machinery, tea, coffee, breadstufis,
wines and liquors. The duty on alcohol
is l60 pesetas per hectoliter.
Special dispatches from Guatemala an
taken place in the streets of Quesalte-
mango and Guatemala, two of the most
important places in that republic, and
that the probabilities favor the election of
Senior Lain Fiesta to the Presidency. The
dispatch says, however, that the police
claim to be able to keep order.
Advices received from Tangier, Moroc-
co, report that the tribes in that neighbor-
hood are in open rebellion against the
Sultan. The reason of this is thought to
be the recent dismissal in disgrace at Fee
of all the Morocco Ministers and court
officials. A British gunboat and a cruiser
have started from England to protect
British residents and interests in Morocco.
Henry Gerkin, a native of Bremen,
Germany, aged 62 years, froze to death at
Iruckee Friday night. He had been IN
lll-health for some weeks and was
slightly deranged. Friday night he
sprang out of the rear window of his
cabin and went eighty feet toward the
Truckee River. The snow was five feet
deep and he was found dead in the morn
ing.
Fourteen firms at st. Petersburg have
announced their intention of sending ex-
hibits to the Worlds Columbian Fair at
Chicago i'll 1893. Their exhibits will con-
sist chiefly of carriages, jewelry, silver
enameling, furs and spirits. The society
Of Russian ladies who sent a display to
the Moscow Exhibition will send to Chi
cago a large collection of lace fancy
work and gold, silver and silk en-
broidery.
Friday evening while the miners at the
Eureka coal mine near Livermore were
knocking the props from under the heavy
tlmbers large mass of rock came down,
breaking the leg and arm of Louis Knud-
sen and slightly injuring others. The
accident occurred about 1000 feet in the
tunnel. Several miners We're imprisoned
behind the mass of rock, but were dug
out by midnight uninjured.
Senator Perkins of Kansas when asked
if his position on tariff and silver would
be radically different from that of Sena-
tor Plumb, replied: Senator Plumb
had radically changed his views on these
questions within the past year. voted
for the Mckinley bill and Plumb against
it. But he had lately given it as his opin-
ion that it was a wise piece of legislation
AS far as the silver question is concerned,
l do not think that anything will be done
at this session."
Ex-Governor Boyd of Nebraska re-
ceived a telegram from Washington Sat-
urday morning confirming the statement
that the Supreme Court would decide the
Goyernorship question in his favor The
Governor said the dispatch stated the in
formation was given under conditions
that the informant's name was not to be
disclosed, and that the matter was not to
be published until the time he would in
dictate. Governor Boyd further stated he
did not place implicit confidence in the
report, but was inclined to wait until
Monday, when the decision would be
rendered. He was inclined to think,
however, that his chances were good.