Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-28
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

All Parts OF the World.
A new morning paper is TO be started st
San Diego.
A fire in Chicago Thursday burned
twenty-five buildings, valued at 100000.
At noon yesterday the temperature at
New York was $50; New Orleans, 74o;;
Cincinnati, $50; st. Louis, 660; Chicago, $50.
A tract of land will be purchased in
North Carolina upon which will be placed
Geronimo and his little band Of Apache
braves.
John n. Quinn, who cruelty murdered
his young wife at Alton, Pa, Thursday
morning, suicided in the County Jail Fri
day night.
Wissmann has destroyed two Arab
camps. He is situated about four DAYS
march from Bagamoyo, and is now march
ing toward Mpwapwa.
Burglars broke into the store of Pincus
& Co., at Wheatland, Thursday night and
stole $500 worth of goods. They dug hole
through twenty -four-inch brick wall.
twenty-five Cinnamon left Boston yes
| terday by the Canadian Pacific en- route TO
their home in China. They had each coin
| they had saved ranging from $500 to
$40 900.
The dead novelist, Wilkie Collins, will
| DS lO-udy dI UT6Sl ZEN 6IGIy,
and the funeral will be of a very simple
character, in accordance with Mr.. Collins
| own wishes.
In view of the charges that the stallion
| Nelson did not win the recent trotting race
in Massachusetts, on its merits, his owner
offers to trot match against Alcryon Tor
$500 to $4,000.
| At San Jose, Thursday evening, a young
man named Daniel Murphy was shot and
probably fatally wounded by Archie Tis-
| dale, companion, who was fooling with a
pistol he supposed to be empty.
Mrs. Galton, agent of the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie road at Brighton, was bound
and gagged by masked robbers Thursday,
who robbed the safe. She will probably
die from her injuries.
Rufus l. Eckerson, of Montana, clerk of
class three in the office of the Second As
sistaDt Postmaster General, has been ap-
pointed Assistant Superintendent of the
Railway Mail Service.
John Conley, editor of the Atlanta, Ga,
PIowboy was almost beaten to death by
three lawyers, Frank Arnold, Colonel
Reuben Arnold and Reuben Arnold, Jr
The trouble grew out of an old feud.
The Lees and the Wongs, two high,
toned Chinese families, are at war in the
Celestial Empire, and the factions in the
United States will take up the fight. Ii
will be war to the knife aad the knife tC
the hilt.
The Cigarmakers' National Convention
in session in New York, spent yesterday il
revising the constitution. Hundreds O
amendments were offered, but few were
adopted. The instrument remains practi
cally unchanged.
The delegates from South and Centra
America to the International Congress, t.
be held in Washington on the 22d of DC
tober, visited several Washington ex
changes yesterday. They were afterwarC
entertained at lunch at the Lawyers Club
A Salt Lake City special to the Time
says: Fisher aud Nary, the men arrested
for robbing the Rio Grande express a
Thompson Springs, Utah, several week
ago, pleaded guilty. Fisher was sentenced
to the penitentiary for seven and Nary fo
five and one-half years.
Grand Cross Commandery of the Legion
of Honor has been bestowed upon Thoma
A. Edison at Paris. Spaller, Minister O
Foreign Affairs, in confeTring the decora
i ton, said it was given in honor of the serv
, ices rendered to science, and for the par
taken by him in the Paris Exposition.
Alfred Barnett and Allan Pettus of Co
lumbus, S. G, rivals for the hand of CarIi
Black, met to talk the matter over. SooI
, after the body of Barnett was found in tn
i, woods. Pe,tus is missing. The CIR, OF
being informed of the murder. swallowed
laudanum and died shortly afterwards.
The chief officer of the Pueblo of Acomi
hauled up all the children in his vilag
F., the other day who expressed desire to q
to school and soundly hogged them H
also took their parents to task and pun
) ished them for permitting their children t,
wish for knowledge of books and men,
The Calhoun Williamson affair comes [,
the front by the arrest of the principals ant
seconds. Governor Gordon granted requi
) sitions and the two principals were pu
under arrest. They will go to Alabama anC
be tried for dueling the penalty for which
e is imprisonment in the penitentiary no
r less than one nor more than ten years.
The election to fill the vacancy in tn
House of Commons caused by the accept
) ance of Hon. Henry Chaplin of the Office O
Minister of Agriculture took place Thurs
. day in London, and resulted in the return
of Chaplin, beating Francis Otter, Glad
: stonian, by over 1000 votes. In the las
election Chaplin was returned without op
position.