Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-06
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts Of the World.
James G. Blaine passed his Fourth of
July in Augusta, Maine.
A Chinese laundryman was murdered by
unknown persons in Buffalo, New York,
yesterday.
The English Institute of Mechanical En-
gineers holding session in Paris gave a
banquet Thursday night to the American
Engineers.
The valuable trotting stallion Romero,
owned by Owens Bros, died yesterday at
Fresno. This owners paid 81 900 for him
when yearhng.
Advices from Apia under date of June
25th are that the German gunboat Wolf
was going to Marshall islands to bring
Malietoa back to Samoa.
Frank Hoyt, paying teller of the First
National Bank of Hoboken, was arrested
this morning. charged with being a de-
faulter 10 the extent of SIS, 900.
Theodore Schmitt the Dutch Consul at
Hamburg, has failed. His liabilities
amount to IL 900, 900 marks assets, ,00O, 900
marks. 1t is probable private arrange
ment will be made with his creditors.
At San Diego on the Fourth of July in
the squadron r. gatta the first prize was won
by Annie, the second by Sappho. The
Southern California prize was won by La
Paloma. America won the scrub against
Aggie.
Captain Stanhope E. Blunt of the Ord
nance Department has been relieved from
duty at the headquarters of the army as
inspector of small arms practice and Or
dered to report in person to the Chief of
Ordnance.
The Pope has sent copy of his recent
allocution to each of the Powers, asking
whether or not they would interest them
selves in his position. His decision as to
his future action depends upon the nature
of the replies received.
At Marysville Thursday Fred Ritter, q
youth about 20 years of age, lately from
San Francisco, where his mother resides,
shot himself in the breast at the residence
of his aunt, Mrs. Keck, in Suffer county.
He is not expected to live. The cause was
dependency.
Palmer, the American Minister at Mad
rid, entertained the American Minister at
Portugal, who is en- route to Lisbon, and a
number of American residents of Madrid at
dinner Thursday evening in celebration
of the Fourth of July. Patriotic speeches
were made and much enthusiasm was
shown.
The Gazette de France and Cocdrde assert
that DE Reaurepaire, Procureur General,
refuses to prosecute Boulanger that he has
resigned; that De Freycinet, Minister of
War, refuses his consent to holding court
martial in the case of Boulanger. 1t is also
asserted that there are other serious dissen-
sions among the Cabinet, and that minis
terial crisis is imminent.
A. Waite, editor and proprietor of the
Herald of Santa Ana, fell dead yesterday
morning as he was about to arise from bed.
The deceased was aged 81 years. He was
one of the Oldest settlers and pioneer news
paper men of the city. During the late
rebellion he was editor of the Daily NeGs,
the first daily paper in Los Angeles. Death
is attributed to heart trouble,
Hadji Hassin Ghooly Kahn, the Persian
Minister to the United States will shortly
leave this country for Europe. In an inter
view he told reporter that he had been
driven out of the country by uukind, I'M
generous things which have been written
about him and his sovereign in the Amer
lean newspapers. The Minister said he
had no fault to find with the Government
or its officers.
Judges Harton, Tully and Collins, sitting
in bank, in Chicago, yesterday refused to
dissolve the temporary injunction to pre-
vent the Board of Trade from withholding
its quotations from the bucket shops. The
decision was made on the ground that the
largest quotations are of such importance
as to be public property. Whereas, if the
injunction were dissolved the tendency
would be to create a monopoly of the
Board
Thursday afternoon President Carnot
went to lie de Cygnes to unveil a replica
of Bartholdfs statue of Liberty Enlighten-
ing the World. An immense crowd wit
messed the ceremony. W. Spuller, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, delivered an address.
He referred to the old and cordial frindship
binding together France and the United
States for century. and said the Inaugural
ton of the statue had both political and
social significance as further bond. The
speech was received with loud cheers.