Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-15
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed TeIegrapIic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World,

Condensed TeIegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
The joint worm is injuring wheat in the
San joaquin valley.
A forest fire is reported near the Yolo
and Lake county line in the mountains.
Good plogress is making in the consuuc-
ton of the armored cruisers Maine and
Texas.
Massachusetts is to have its State House
repaired, and has provided $2,500,OOO for
the work.
William Semple, a millionaire merchant
of Allegheny, Pa, died esrly yesterday
morning
For stealing pot of flowers from grave
a colored man in Savannah has been sent
to Jail for one year.
An Indian in the Everglades, Fla, it is
said, is still holding in slavery negroes that
were his when the war broke out.
Fighting has occurred between French
and Italian navvies in the Department OF
Haute- Marne. Troops are there.
There are two cases of yellow fever at
Delaware Breakwater. They were taken
there by the steamship Baltimore City
from Havana.
Nellie Thornton, who was locked up for
drunkenness at New York on Monday,
June Sd, beat her brains out against the
walls of her cell.
A curious ceremony took place at the
White House on Saturday, June Ist-the
President Cleveland by cranks.
The present prospects are that the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Will, in consequence
u .I,,,, ! -,
mes rs Of water communication.
Silas Prather, a Tancher of Fresno county.
decided $1,000 worth of property TO Mamie
Rees, and now he says he will marry her if
she will restore half of il to him.
The Argentine Republic says that it has
enough of Italian immigrants. Italy says
that enough Italians have emigrated.
There is no chance for a disagreement
there.
The preliminary hearing in the case
of Minnie Van Horn and Charles II. Pot
ter, in which the latter charges the former
with attempted blackmail, is going on at
San Jose.
There is a prospect that the San Joaquin
ranch, near Santa Ana, Los Angeles
county, will be sold to an English syndi-
cate, and large colonies of Englishmen will
be settled there.
The celebration of Memorial Day has
reached even the City of Mexico. The
American colony decorated the graves OF
the soldiers of the War of 1S47, who were
buried in that city.
No agreement between the Democrats
and Republicans as to non partisan Con-
stitutional Convention in New Mexico has
been secured and the battle will be fought
out on party lines July 9th.
Field fires are now burning a few miles
southeastward of Merced, in the midst of
large wheat fields. The precise locality
cannot be ascertained yet. The damage
will probably be very great.
By direction of the Acting Secretary of
War, Major w. H. H. Beauregard, of the
Engineer Corps, will proceed from San
Francisco, Cal, to Ballast Point, San Diego
harbor, on public business.
Louisa Ohler domestic, was found in
convulsions yesterday morning at San
Diego. She had taken carbolic acid with
suicidal intent. Her death ensued at 6
o'clock. The cause of the act is unknown.
There promises to be an influx of visit
ors to Colorado this season which will ex-
ceed that of all other summers In former
years they came from the East; this year
the South and Southwest will be strongly
represented.
The last carload of oranges for the sea-
son was shipped Thursday. The total
shipments have been $50 cars, 45, 700 boxes
The value of the total orange fruitage for
the season is about $4,000 net, against
1000 last year.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Trave, from Bremen to New York, Tues
.dav sank the Russian schooner David in
the North Sea. The Trave rescued the
schooner s crew and landed them yesterday
at Southampton.
The striking dock laborers along the
Clvde show no signs of weakening Six
thousand have quit. After the strikers
stopped work Thursday they set fire to
van in which provisions were being carried
to the imprisoned laborers in the Anchor
line sheds.
McGrath, the engineer of the wrecked
train near Armagh, on which so many
children lost their lives Tuesday Parkin-
son, the fireman; Moore the guard, and
Elliott the Traffic Managers clerk, have
been held on the specific charge of having,
by negligence, caused the deaths.
The true name of the man arrested in
San Francisco Tuesday for swindliDg prom
inent Los Angeles people under the name
of A G. Williams, who signed the name of
Arthur Gorham to draft for $500, is said
to be Albert Sanguinetti, formerly of Jack
son, Miss. He is an adopted son of Mrs.
a. C. Williams of Vicksburg, Miss.