Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-12
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
Midway, Wasatch county, U. T., has had
an epidemic of diphtheria
The Spanish wsrship Pase foundered of
Cape Trafalgar. The crew was saved.
The little steamer Bee was burned al
NewelIs mill, Seattle, on Sunday of last
week.
The entire class of forty eight West Point
cadets passed their examination creditably
and all graduated.
Bateman, the eminent engineer who has
been in charge of extensive works in
Buenos Ayres, is dead.
Gilman Goodell had a fight with his part.
ner in mine at Poker Flat, Sierra county,
Saturday, and killed him.
There will be yacht race from the Coro-
nado Hotel, ten miles down the coast and
return, on the Fourth of July.
The town of Sebataz, in Austrian Galicia,
was almost entirely destroyed by fire yes.
terday. Many lives were lost.
Near Toulouse, France yesterday. a re-
jected suitor murdered farmers daughter,
father and mother and man servant
Mamie Schleutes, of Corning, two years
old, got hold Of bottle of carbolic acid
last Tuesday, and burned herself terribly
| with 1t, but is recovering.
The infant son of Charles Carty, of Pet
aluma, fell from the steps in front of mis-
fathers house and was so badly injured
that his life is despaired of.
Max Cohn, of the firm of NJ. A. New
mark 4 Co., of Los Angeles who had gone
TO Falkenstein, Germany, for his health
1fp1 1hapo nv, tho aOth Of Nav
The Los Angeles Supervisors have re-
solved to pay from the county treasury the
expense OF introducing more Australian
lady-bugs 10 fight the scale and fruit trees
The ferry-boat plying across the upper
Columbia at Wenatchee drifted on some
rocks Sunday and was sunk. The crew
| escaped. Several valuable horses were
drowned.
The Austrian clericals are deeply offended
by the Bruno affair. The Bishop of Linz
has ordered public prayers to be offered in
| expatiation of this outrsge on the Pope and
the Catholic Church.
Z. 2. Turner, son of the late Admiral
Turner, fatally shot Robert Turner, his
brother-ln.law, at Richmond, Va, yester.
day. The cause of the quarrel concerned
the treatment of the formers wife.
J. J. Roberts, an old and esteemed citi,
zen, died of heart disease at Los Ga,os yes.
terday, aged 66 He had lived in this val
| ley over quarter of a century, and was
the Oldest mason in the county.
Msjor c. A. Comstock. of Red Bluff, dice
yesterday morning at o'clock. He haC
been a Justice of the Peace about fifteer
years, and was a Mexican war veteran
he was highly-honored and much loved
| citizen.
| E. D. Favor, furniture-dealer of Albu
| querque, n. NJ, has made an assignment tc
| A. NJ. Uodington, for the benefit of hi.
creditors in st. Louis San Francisco anC
Kansas City. Cause, dull times and poo
collections.
| A French fisherman who was reported
lost, and whose property was divided up
returned all right after an absence of TIVE
years, but the French Courts hold that b,
is dead, and he has got to take a new nam,
and be somebody else.
At a meeting of the Los Angeles Bar As
sociation, held yesterday morning, tn,
name of Judge Walter Van Dyke OF tn,
Superior Court was unanimously indorseS