Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-28

ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From

| Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
The dervishes are advancing on Wady
Halfa.
The hop pest has re-appeared in Central
New York, and it is feared the fields will
again be devastated.
Since the slaughter of the sparrows, song
birds have re, appeared in the Capitol Park
| at Harrisburg, Penn.
Governor Hill has signed a bill allowing
| the street railways of New York TO use
| cable or electric motors.
The defeat of prohibition in Penhsylva-
| MIA has strengthened the bigh-license
movement in Maryland.
Tiegen & Robertson's New York ware
| houses stored with oil, have been totally
| burned. The loss is $500,000.
The State Council of Switzerland has
| unanimously sanctioned the new measure
| to better restrain the Socialists.
A Grand Jury at Decatur, ILL.,, refused to
| return indictments against persons who
have been conducting ball games on Sun
| days.
Hatfield, Mass, is to have big time on
| September 10Th, that day being the 2l2th
| anniversary of the Indian attack on that
town.
Governor Beaver will be asked to name
day for memorial services in all the
churches of the State on account of the
| floods.
AT the annual meeting of the Harvard
| Alumni Association officers were chosen.
Horace Davis of California being made one
of the VIce-Presidents.
The United States steamship Adams, at
| Honolulu, has been order to Samoa, to
take the place of the Alert and Nipsic, now
on the way to San Francisco.
| The aged Empress of Germany and the
Sultan of Turkey were the only two royal
| personages who personally contributed to
the relief the Johnstown sufferers.
| The prevalence of the grain-plant louise
| on wheat in Southern Illinois is causing
| great uneasiness among the farmers, who
fear the loss of most of their crop.
A dynamite explosion at Johnstown
lately blew open the door of a wrecked
house, releasing large black dog, which
had been imprisoned for nearly two weeks.
The Sullivan Kilrain fight will take
| place at some point near the Mississippi
line, and probably at Honey Island. A
contract has been drawn up for {, 1000 tickets.
| The first license for the marriage of a
white man and colored woman has lust
been issued in Pittsburg, although there
have been a number of colored men
licensed to wed white wives.
| Two more bodies were recovered from
the railroad wreck at Latrobe, Penn, YES
| terday-EDgineer Caldwell and Fireman
| Fralich. This makes twelve recovered.
1t is expected others are in the creek.
| The Secretary of War has issued an order
that the offices of the Department be draped
in mourning thirty days, on account of the
death of the former Secretary, Simon
Cameron, and be closed on the day of his
| funeral.
| The Secretary of the Treasury has in
formed the Collector of San Francisco by
telegraph that the war ships at that port
are entitled to the privileges conferred by
Section 29S2, Revised Statutes, relating to
the withdrawal of bonded goods free of
duty.
! The State rested its case in the Curran
! murder trial at Waupaca, Wis, Yesterday.
| About half the witnesses are held over for
| rebuttal. Thus far no sensational features
have been developed. The defense claims
to be able to prove that Hazeltine was the
sggressor.
The London Times is iubilant over the
| fact that Irish emigration 10 America fell
off greatly in the month of May and is
much below what it was at this time last
year. 1t is expected that the extra steam
ers which have been for some time past
calling at Queenstown will have to be dis
continued
| Commodore Captain A. B. Cooke, Com
manders Henry Glass and G. NJ. Chester,
| Lieutenant Commander Thomas Perry,
Lieutenant ]. P. Meiggs. Duncan H. Ken-
needy and Charles Z. Callahan have been
appointed a board by Secretary Tracy to
consider questions of general organization,
tactics and drill of the navy, rendered
necessary by the advance of modern navy
appliances.