Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-03
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| FIashes OF News from all Parts Of the
World
Three inches of snow fell in the northern
| part Of Franklin county, Maine, Saturday
night.
The Athletic Baseball Club of PhiladeI-
| phia won the championship of the Americas
Association.
The order for the assembling of the French
Cabinet yesterday under President Grevy
was countermanded. a reported Ministerial
crisis exists.
The Interstate Levee Convention, in which
three States Arkansas, Louisiana and Mis-.
| slssippi-only are represented, is in session at
Vicksburg.
The police of New York made three ar.
rests of persons engaged in the wholesale rob-
berry of the poetoffices of Massachusetts, and
Connecticut.
Mrs. Henry K Henry and Mrs Conrad
Best, 20 and 70 years old, were killed by
railroad train while walking on the track near
Trenton, n. j.
The British Consul at Saturis, Albins, was
fired st while on hunting expedition few
days since, but was not hurt The would-be-
assassin escaped.
The Omaha Board of Education decided to
try the experiment of the kindergarten sys-
TEN in some of the lower grades of the
Omaha public schools.
Monday night Mrs. Mary Davis sprang
from the fifth story window of house corner
York and Harrison streets, Chicago, and died
within fifteen minutes
AS cage was being hoisted in the Nelson
coal pit at Leigh Eug., yesterday, the rope
broke, precipitating the cage to the bottom of
| the shaft, killing six miners.
A city bailiff at Montreal was pitched
through plate-glass window in q restaurant
by sailor of the warship Canada, for having
uttered deprecatory sentiments regarding
Prince George.
General George W. Getty, in command of
the artillery school at Fortress Monroe was
yesterday placed on the retired list. He will
be succeeded by Colonel John G. Tidball Of
General Sherman's staff.
st. John Lodge, F. and A. M. of Boston.
celebrated Monday night the 150tb anniver-
sary of its organization. 1t was shown that
Pennsylvania. claimant for seniority, re-
ceived its charter through st. Johns Lodge.
Doctor William Shine, well-known sur
geon Of the elevated railroads in New York.
and who many years ago was Deputy Cor
oner when Flynn was Coroner, was Monday
placed In the Bloomingdsle Asylum for the
Insane.
A severe storm in Kansas City, Mo-, Mon
day night flooded the streets, and many
houses were damaged by the wind. The
same kind of reports are received from Law
renee, Leavenworth and other points in
Kansas.
The Court of Appeals at Albany, N. Y,
has decided the Hatch. Williams cases ia
favor of the Western Union Telegraph Com
psny. The decision of the general term is
reversed and judgment of the special term
affirmed.
Application has been made to the War De-
psrtrnent by survivors of the Confederate
brigade residing at Norfolk, Va, for permis-
sion to use their old battle-Asgs, now in pos
session of that Department, on the occasion OF
their reunion, to take place in a few weeks
The Pspsl decree regulating procedure be-
fore civil tribunals Of the Vatican has been
published. The decree ignores italian lspr
and ordains that contracts between any pO-
tion of the Pope's household and parties out
side shall be regulated solely by Pontifcal
law.
Benjamin Wilson, colored, was fatally
shot while fleeing from Charles McCulloch's
Hotel Bridgeport, Pa, which he and others
had attempted to rob. Wilson escaped to
his home, and died in bed from the wounds.
Coat robberies in the hotel made Wilson
known.
day near Oakland, Ill, and as the patient
was visited by large number of neighbors
without their knowing the character of the
disease, fears of an epidemic prevail and the
public schools have been closed as a pre-
cautionary measure.
The Coroner's inquest at Oxford, Ind, in
the case of Ada Atkinson, who was so mys-
teriously butchered, is conducted with the
utmost secrecy. The Coroner went to the
scene and interviewed Jacob Melting, who is
closely watched on account of bloody hand
kerchief found in his possession.
The Executive orders consolidating In
| ternal Revenue Districts was completed Mon
day by the merging of the Fourth California
and the State of Nevada into one District.
The order in regard to New Jersey and Wis
consin was suspended by the President, and
unless he should change his miId, the reduc-
| ton of the Revenue Districts is ended.
Alfonso, in declining the invitation of
Grevy to prolong his stay in Paris, remarked
that Grevy's apology for his treatment by the
| people might make him forget the bitterness
| of his entry, but Spain would long remember
| the Kisses of the populace, who would not
fail to see that, behind the King, il was the
nation they were kissing.
A Convention Of representatives of various
Free Trade organizations of the country was
held at the Polytechnic building in St Louis
yesterday morning Ex-Governor Phelps
appeared and opened the Convention with an
address. He spoke of the necessity Of thor
ough organization, and outlined the object cf
free trade. He said free trade was neces.
sity.
Edward Lobell. alias James Faulkner, was
arrested at New York on board the steamer
Lydisn Monarch, application Of the
British Consul, charged with forging in
Bristol, England, check for e2S0. OF this
sum, e230 in gold were found with him. He
; was arraigned before the United States Com.
missioner. and sent to jail to await examin.
alton.
The London Times gives report from an
Upper Navik correspondent Of the Copen-
hagen Journal that Lieutenant Greely, of
the American Arctic Expedition, was mur-
dered by mutinous crew. The report comes
from Ham Hendrick, an E:quimsux with DIR.
Natherst. Hendrick states he got the news
from Eso uimsux at Cape Hsrk. The Times
considers the report improbable, as DR.. Nat
herst has never mentioned it.