Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-24
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed relesraphic Dispatches from
All Parts of the World.

4eAcShoPhAS
All Parts of the World.
Parnell will visit Edinburgh in June.
Lord and Lady Lonsdale have sailed Tor Er-
rope.
A number of French Cardinals will be named
to-day.
demonstrating is active on the field of
Gettysburg.
Cecil Healey has mysteriously disappeared
from Los Angeles.
Southern farmers are organizing against high
prices for jute bagging.
An attempt is being made to galvanize the
copper syndicate into life.
jeremiah Lynch has gone to Egypt to get out
of the way of Buckley's lambs.
The late Alexander Folsom, of Michigan, left
S354,o00 to charitable institutions
The poolrooms at birmingham, Ala, have
been closed by the authorities of that city.
The exports of products for April show en- in
crease of about p per cent. over last year.
The great Pilsbury -four mills at Minneapolis
are being negotiated for by English capitalists.
A Chicago engineer proposes to build an ele-
waited railroad OF stilts eight or nine stories
high.
six thousand dollars was contributed by sub
scription in ct. Louis for the Parneu defense
fund.
There are now less than half as many persons
in Oklahoma as originally went there on its
opening day"
Bouianger's enemies claim to have discovered
that he is infected with treason. his doctors
say 1t is diabetes.
sensational report from Washington reports
a rupture between the President and thee
members of his Cabinet.
There are over 5000 applications for Consul
ates on file at Washington, but there are only
800 of those offices to fill.
The centennial ball and banquet in New
York cleared about $1,000. The deficiency on
The parades will be $4,000.
The gold medal for the best marching in the
New York centennial parade has been given to
the public school children.
Contracts were let at Omaha last Friday for
the building of an overland electric motor rail
way, to cost $4,000, exclusive of the.track.
The bill authorizing the construction of ele-
waited roads i'll Boston was killed in the Massa-
chusetts Senate last week by Il vote of 20 to Is.
A vigilance committee has been organized to
suppress "mooshining" in Alabama. Promi-
nent citizens are at the head of the movement.
Preparations are completed at Victoria for the
two days celebration of the Queens birthday.
A military and naval sham fight will be the
chief attraction.
The accounts of A. Leonard Meyer, the miss
ing Mayor of Phoenix, A. T., who was also
wells, Fargo e. Co.'S agent at that place. are
nearly $4,000 short.
Up to date, it is reported, less than one-ifth of
the land in Oklahoma has been taken up. and
people are beginning to ask what all the rush
was about, any way.
Several suits to recover large sums of money
are to be commenced in New York against ex-
financier James d. Fish, who was recently re-
leased from the penitentiary.
Information reached Robert Shields, OF Ia
coma. on Wednesday, that the Supreme Court
had upheld his claim to 100 acres IN the heart
OF Omaha, valued at SD, 000, 1000.
At Sequachee, Tenn, Wednesday night. at an
ice cream supper at J. B. Poetius' house, hall a
hundred people were poisoned by verdigris.
Mile Hayes and Jack Dugan are dead; the
others will recover.
The Mayor of West Superior, Wisconsin, has
closed all the saloons in the city in anticipaticn
OF trouble between the striking coal heayers
and the new men imported to take their places
The new men are working under strong police
protection.
The President is said to be wayering a little
to Il seat on the Supreme Bench. Mr.. Miller
would like the place, and it would please the
President to crafty him, but there are several
considerations that make him hesitate.
Mrs. Matilda Christisnelli became crazy on a
train at Watersmeet, Mich, Wednesday. she
had several thousand dollars with her. Her in
sanity is due to loss of sleep. Her anxiety TO
watch her wealth caused her to try to travel
from Washington Territory without closing her
eyes.
Emperor William yesterday appointed the
Crown Prince of Italy a Captain in the Thir-
teenth Huzzars. He also presented a portrait
of himself to Crispi. The Emperor and King
Humbert made a visit to the toni of the late
Emperor Frederick, upon which King Hum
bert placed a wreath OF flowers.
A current of 600 volts viii be used in the ex-
eertion of New York criminals by electricity.
1t has been found that less than 200 volts would
be sufficient, but a larger number will be en-
ployed to provide for all contingencies. If q
much stronger current were sent through s.
man the body would be burned. Criminals
viii be killed in the one hundred and iftieth
part OF q seccnd.