Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-24
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.


laide with typhoid fever.
The leaders of the Navassa riot, it is be-
| lieved, will all be convicted.
An expedition with supply stores has
started from Zanzibar for Bagomayo to meet
Stanley and party.
| Several head clerks in the Pension Bureau
have been requested to resign. They are all
| rerated pensioners.
L. Lum Smith has been sentenced to six
| months for ibeling Anthony
Comstock at New York.
The Portuguese Government has quashed
its contract with the company having a
monopoly of the wine trade.
The Paris Election Bureau, by vote of
Is to II, has invalidated the election of NJ.
Floquet and General Boulanger.
The Canadian Pacific officials are trying
to obtain control of the Inter. Colonial Rail-
way with view to making Halifax
winter port.
There is freight-car famine in st. Louis.
The farmers in Missouri are loud in their
complaint of not being able to get their
corn shipped.
The San Diego Spring Valley Irrigation
District has been organized The district
embraces 1000 acres. The vote was prac-
tically unanimous.
The Jury in the case of J. B. Barry, who
shot and killed George Harris, his brother
in-law, at Saratoga, Santa Clara county,
rendered verdict of not guilty. Barry
acted in self-defense.
The British steamship Edith Gordon
from New York for Montego Bay, found,
cred at sea November 10Th. The crew has
arrived at Montego Bay.
At North Middleton, KY, yesterday, a
fire destroyed the principal stores. The
classical and business colleges located there
were burned on the 12Gh.
Orson Bassett who was convicted at Red
Bluff of arson in the first degree, was
sentenced by Judge Brynard yesterday to
two years in Folsom Prison.
The friends of President Cleveland are
making up ticket for 1892 For President,
Grover Cleveland for Vice President Gov
ernor elect James E. Campbell, of Ohio.
George NJ. Pullman paid 81 600 for choice
of seats at the opening of the grand Italian
opera season at Chicago. Three others paid
81, 600 each. The premiums on boxes were
$4,000. =
The Directors of the Atchison met and
unanimously declared an effective plan of
reorganization, the majority OF bondhold-
ers having assented on both sides of the
water.
The work of the Chippewa Indian Com
missioners is practically finished and has
been entirely successful. This secures the
opening of 1000 900 acres of land in North
ern Minnesota to settlement.
Lord Fitzmaurice, son of Lord Lans-
downe, was married in London yesterday
to Caroline Fitzgerald of Litchfeld, Conn.
The bride was dressed in white satin and
4 al
Disturbances are expected in Dublin to-
day, when meetings will be held at several
places, in defiance of the Governments
proclamation, in memory of Allen. Larkin
and Gould, who killed policeman Brett at
Manchester.
A fire broke out Friday evening about Z
o'clock in Sewall's restaurant, Santa Paula,
entirely destroying the building and badly
searching and injuring the buildings on
either side. The losses are mostly covered
by insurance.
Some scoundrel at Ventura shot fine
Irish setter that belonged TO F. Charlebois.
The noble animal went through the surf to
the wreck of the Gualala two years ago and
brought a lifeline ashore, thus saving
every one on the vessel.
The tower of the new lighthouse on
Cape Mears is completed. The light will
be of the first order. The lamp. tense, ETC.,
weigh $4,000 pounds and cost $4,000. The
lamp will probably be lighted about the
middle of December.
Bland, negro charged with an at
tempted outrage on the IA year-old daugh-
ter of Senator Charles Kee, was taken from
Prince George County Jail. Virginia, yester-
day and lynched. After his confession his
body was riddled with bullets.
which the Earl of Euston is allowed to
bring a criminal suit against the North
London Press for alleging that his lordship
was implicated in the commission of I'M
natural crimes in the West End.
1t is learned that the Los Angeles Lowe
Gas Company has been absorbed by the
Los Angeles Gas Company, the latter con-
Germ buying the formers plant, etc. The
price paid was not made public. We may
now expect an advanced rate and inferior
gas.
The Oregon Transcontinental Company,
under control of Willard, has issued cir
cular The revision of dividends is said to
be practicable and the Sight with the Union
Pacific Manitoba combination and the
proposition to reorganize the company are
discussed.
At the opening Of Court yesterday morn
witnesses present, and the Court was ad-
journed uatil 10 A. NJ. Monday, whenr the
Judge said, if no witnesses for the defense
were present the State should begin evil
dence in rebuttal
A special from IshpemiDg, Mich, says:
About 900 pounds of quartz, carrying gold
at the rate of about $4,000 ton, was taken
from the main shaft of the Michigan gold
mine last night Assays of three, samples
OF quartz give $21 ,62n, $51 1858 and Ss10,958
per ton, respectively.
At Des Moines, Representative Ira ID
Shipley of Guthrie county, Iowa. had his
ear bitten off and features mutiiated with
the teeth of an Infatuated man named w.
L. Edwards. with whom he had had cleo
ton troubles oyer ihe Republican prima-
ries previous to the recent electien-
Senator Butles of South Carolina: in
speech before the survivors 81 the Ienth
Sonth Carolina Regiment az Georgetown,
severely criticised the action Of Abe Patter-
son Post, G. L. R., for protesting against
a monument to Maryland's dead at Gettys-
bnre. and Governor Beavers Endorsement
Of the protess.
The English Government has forbiddee
holding the proposed meeting at KILLARNEY
and Waterford to-day IN memory of ehe
Manchester Martyrs" The projectors of
the demonstration announce they will not
abandon their plans. The police have
been ordered to hold themselves IL read
mess to disperse the gatherings.
The Anti Slavery Conference. now in ses-
sion in Brussels, sent cable dispatches to
Stanley and Emin Pasha asking them to
telegraph an account Of their experience
with slaves and slave dealers in nterlor
NJ Necessary the conference VIII prolohhss the
session to receive the narrative.
The financial scandal in the London
School Board is assuming serious proper
lions. A number of contractors have re.
ceived over 100000 for the purpose Of
~ sraaifar builders, pocketing the differ
snce The result Is that some of the new
schools sJeo are already in ruirous condition,
and are positively dangerous. One con-
tractor, who drew fS5, 300, used balf-burned
br;sks and powder mortar. The news.
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