Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-23
FLASHES.
Condensed reIegraphic Dispatches frol
All Parts of the World.

Condensed reIegraphic Dispatches from
All Parts of the World.
twenty-five acres have been planted to figs
at Chico.
San Jose banks after June LIST will close at
noon every day.
The railroad is expected to reach Pacific
Grove by June LIST.
A corner lot on Pacific avenue, Tacoma, sold
for S65, coo last week.
A deposit of tin of good quality has been dis
covered twenty miles from Topeka, Kan.
The population of Oklahoma is estimated at
10000. That is not bad, all things considered.
George p. Connors, of San Francisco. slipped
from a brake beam and was killed, near Ogden.
Irwin Coppie, who resided near Corralitos,
was on Saturday fatally shot by his son, by &C.
cident.
The rumored discovery of natural gas at Peta-
luna in large quantities is declared to be IN
founded.
naces in passenger cars has been defeated III the
Missouri House.
A remonstrance against an elevated road in
Boston is signed by a large number of prominent
property owners.
J. L. Freeman, a San Luis Obispo county
farmer, left 81 ,000 in paper money in his coat
| and it was burned.
The Illinois House has passed the bill appro-
priating 1000 for a monument to the late Cen
eral John A. Logan.
AL clccITlC llRIL cDIupduy HIS gone lQIO Court
TO compel the city of Santa Cruz to allow it to
erect poles in the streets.
Numerous localities throughout Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota, were visited by snow
fall and damaging frosts.
Providence gets its electric lighting at a cents
a light per night. This is q cents less a light
per night than Boston pays.
There were 1,2S3 voters in Iberia Parish, La,
who had to make their cross when they regis
tered, for they couldn't write.
Fort Worth, Texas, has eight national banks
| and eleven railroad out cts. Banks and rail
roads tell the tale of future supremacy.
Three big lager beer breweries in Newark,
one in Albany and one in New York have COM
bined, with a capital stock of 81 5O,000.
The property recently purchased at st Louis
by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy people
TOR terminals is said to have cost $4,000.
Advices from New York state that John f.
Pl1mmer has accepted the position of Govern
ing Director of the Union Pacific Railway.
The total number of liquor licenses granted
in Philadelphia this year is 1,2o3. against ,343
last year and 5.173 in 1887, before the high
license law went into effect.
At the Inman line office in New York City the
announcement was made that the City of Paris
mad broken the record for ocean passages by an
hour and thirty-ive minutes.
The shopkeepers of Paris are endeavoring to
have the Exposition closed three nights in the
week, that the serious competition with their
business may be partially overcome.
A virginia woman VINO keeps q toll-gate on
the Berrysville highway has had to shoot three
tramps thus far this spring, and she looks for
ward to an unusually brisk season in that line.
The boom for the Sioux reservation still con-
tinues, and the excitement is daily growing
greater. The prospects are that before sixty
days the boom will equal if not exceed Okla
homa mes.
Ex-Congressmen Rayner has determined to
cut loose from the German rule of Democracy
in Maryland, and his speech at Baltimore i
looked upon as the opening move in his fight
against the German element.
G.. n. Meredith, of Monticello, ILL.,, was tapped
for dropsy by DR.. aldwell. who removed seven
teen and one-half pounds of water from the
patient. Mr.. Meredith is rs years old, and has
undergone the same operation seventy.eight
times, he having been relieved of LOLA pounds
of water in all.
Detectives of Los Angeles have made the dis
covery that Springer. the notorious Cotton muir
derer, whose remains were supposed to have
been found in the mountains near San Bernar-
dino, is alive in a mining town on the coast.
he is reported to have said that he killed his
wife in anger, fed to the mountains. met n
tramp, killed him without warning, and
changed clothes with the dead man. The body
was subsequently found and declared to be
Springers. a result the murderer intended
| should follow.