Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-02
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

All PartS OF the w Orld.
The Governor and Captain General of
Cuba are about to resign.
Sugar trust certificates have declined
within few weeks from 126 to so.
Billy Edwards whipped j. Semirchy in
four rounds at Salinas Saturday night.
The British steel bark Queen Island, the
largest bark afoat, is in the San Francisco
harbor.
Alexander Montgomery has made pres
ent of 81, 500 to the Astronomical Society of
California.
Prince Victor Dhuleep-Singh, it is re-
ported, is going to marry Miss Turnbull OF
New York.
The Minister of the Interior of Belgium
has prepared a measure for the protection
of children.
The brewery workmen of San Francisco
are fined IS for each Chinese-made cigar
they smoke.
Frank Clabourne, of California, has been
appointed to 81 GOO clerkship in the War
Department.
The Mexican Central is reducing freight
rates in order to meet the competition Of
the International.
The trial of Mrs. Hannah Southworth,
the slayer of Major Charles Pettus, will be-
gin on the 10Th inst.
Catlemen estimate that nearly 10000
head of beef cattle are now being fed al
Reno for the California market.
England says she cannot write the songs
for America s children to sing, but she will
make the beer for her men to drink.
Nine persons were baptized by INNER
4, n Il.
Sunday. They all belonged to one family
There is great rejoicing in Salt Lake City
among the Gentiles. They say the Gov
eminent has jumped on hydra-headed
polygamy with both feet"
The Delavan House, Leonard & Sons,
paper house and the Albany Casket Com
pany were burned at Albany, n. Y, Satur-
day. Other buildings were damaged. The
loss is $4,000.
The Marysville committee in charge of
the exhibit to be made at Oroville during
the State Citrus Fair has raised about $500
for that purpose and will raise as much
more.
The six New Orleans breweries have been
finally sold to a British syndicate at the fol-
lowing easements Southern, $3.50 000;
Louisiana, S725. 600; Crescent, $3.50, 600;
Weckerling, Lafayette and Pelican, each
$500 ,000
E. W. Drummond, the Los Guilicos
farmer who is charged with criminally
assaulting his 17-year- old step daughter,
Mabel Snow, was held for trial by Justice
Brown, of Santa.R Rosa, Saturday. He gave
So 900 bonds.
Poison, instead of medicine, was given
to a number of the inmates of the Belem
Hospital, in the City of Mexico, on Thurs
day night Four persons have died and
several are not expected to recover. The
nurse and Two students in charge of the
ward have been arrested.
The Governor of Lang -Kwang has been
appointed Viceroy of the Hoo Province
He is prime mover in the railway pro-
iect, and it is expected that. the construc-
ton of railways will be no longer DELAYED,
nese company with foreign capital
The steamer Pensacola, with the United
States expedition to observe the eclipse of
the sun, arrived at st. Vincent Saturday
evening, All the members of the expedi-
ton are we'll. The steamer sailed yester-
day for st. Paul de Loando. The prospects
are favorable for reaching her destination
by December 5th.
Snphus Goth dropped dead on the ranch
of Thomas Jensen, near EIkhorn, Friday.
His body was taken to Fresno, and an
autopsy revealed the fact that death re-
sulted from acute congestion of the lungs.
The deceased had only been in the country
fourteen davs. He was an officer in the
regular army of Denmark.
1t appears from an investigation of the
Chief of Police which is taking place at
Tacoma that officers have been receiving
Of Ea1I L.
houses, and that former Chief Of Police
had $3.50 a month to overlook Morgan's
gambling house. Officers have been fire.
quently drunk and off duty, and recently
Mayor Wheelwright found an officer on the
main business thoroughfare, late at night,
so drunk that he could not walk and took
him to the station house.