Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-19
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches Fr
All Parts of the World.

! Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
A valuable horse was stung to death near
! Santa Cruz Monday.
A deposit of zine ore of workable cual-
| ity has been discovered in Marion county,
| Ark.
The Government has resumed operations
at Flood Rock improvements, He'll Gate,
Ny.
There was a satisfactory test of the pneu-
matte gun carriage at Annapolis, Nd, last
week.
The schools in Wollaston. Mass, have
been closed owing TO the prevalence of diph-
liberia.
Natural gas has been discovered at Nil.
waukee and has caused boom in real
estate.
Boston is reported as leading America
with its educational exhibit at the Paris
Exposition.
People in Erie county, n. Y. want day
set apart for the wagingiof general war on
caterpillars.
A fire was burning in the wood-piles near
Sessions yesterday. About ninety cords of
wood were destroyed.
A gas well has been drilled in at Findlay,
Ohio, with capacity of over seventeen
million cubic feet per day.
Forty indictments were found by the
Federal Grand Jury at Indianapolis for
violation of the election laws.
About two hundred members of the
American Pharmaceutical Association are
en- route from the East to San Francisco.
The feminine defendant in divorce case
at Rockford, Ill, was defended by woman
lawyer, probably the first instance of the
kind on record.
The Mormons who are flocking into the
northwest of Manitoba are said to claim
that they have right to practice polygamy
if they want to.
John Meyer of Auburn, ex- Recorder of
Placer county, was stricken with paralysis
Sunday and died Monday He was anatiye
of Germany and So years old.
1t is reported Kilrain's hackers are get
ting very sick. They hoped John L. wonld
go on booze" but be is behaving him
self and says; Tell Jake I'll fool him
The City Council of Los Angeles has re-
pealed the tax on dogs. Untagged ours can
now perambulate the grass-grown streets
OF the City OF Angels at their own sweet
will.
Kansas will harvest the largest wheat
crop this season that has been produced in
that State for years. 1t is estimated that
the, yield will be fully thirty million
bushels.
A steer belonging to Green & Wilson,
butchers of Colusa, escaped from the pasture
Monday, and hooked a Chinaman in the
stomach, killing him. II also wounded
horse badly.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works rolled
and shipped the greater part of 900 tons
OF rails within twenty-four hours to repair
the Pennsylvania Railroad Immediately
after the Johnstown disaster.
In consequence of the decline in the sup
ply of gum arabic, the Postoffice Depart
ment has been obliged ID abandon its use
as a sealer of letter envelopes. In lieu of
gum arabic a foul-tasting compound has
been substituted.
In order to prove to court in Chicago
that memory is a treacherous thing, a Law
yer told ten different men of an accident
and when each came to tell it no two had
the incidents alike, and not one of them
told II as 1t had been told to him.
A telegram from f. S. Babcock, Jr., from
New York, states that the English svndi-
| cate which purchased the San Diego water
works and the International Company's
| land interest have decided 10 elect a Board
of Directors from San Diego citizens.
Latest accounts in regard to the Cedar
Creek, Texas, shooting affray are quite
conflicting, one report stating that six men
were killed, four mogtally wounded and
| three seriously hurt. Another account
says that only three were killed and four
wounded
A convention of ex-Confederates was
held in New Orleans a few davs ago, 10
organize an association embracing all the
| surviving Confederate soldiers The Con
| tederate Veterans Association" " was the
| title adopted. General John B. Gordon, of
| Georgia, was elected President.
There is no truth in the report that John
| l.. Sullivan is spreeing The fact is that
| Friday, while Sullivan was exercising with
| Muldoon, the latter proposed more work
Sullivan demurred, but Muldoon insisted.
sullivan got mad and left the quarters and
went to neighboring hotel. Muldoon had
| the bar closed, fearing Sullivan would
| drink. Sullivan finally returned to his
quarters, apologized and Immediately re-
sumed training. Muldoon anticipates no
| further trouble.
Early Monday morning, while it was
quite dark, George Anderson, a wealthy
| orange-grower who lives near Duarte,
! heard some one attempting to break into
his house. He seized pistol and ran out
of doors to attack the burglar IL the dark
Anderson ran upon the splinters of a broken
board that was projecting from scaffold-
ing about the house. One long splinter
was run into Anderson's right eve, and he
fell to the ground. He was found uncon-
scious. The eye is blinded, the fluid from
the eyeball having run out. The burglar
escaped.