Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-20
ELECTRIC FLASHES,
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

Condensed TelegrapIiic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
Henry W. Grady is still sick and in bed.
Kilrain will not fight McAuliffs for less than
$500.
The Pan American delegates passed yesterday
in Brooklyn.
Relations between Portugal and England are
badly strained.
The Government OF Brazil has ordered TIVE
new gunboats built.
Sandusky, O., had a natural gas celebration
Wednesday evening
English hospital and marine stores have been
removed from Lisbon.
Parkinson Reed, aged 81. died yesterday at
San Andreae, Calayeres county.
A bitter fight over sectariauism in the public
schools is about to break cut again.
Consul William Z. Lewis has been recalled
from TaDgiers, at the request Of the Meors.
Tifin Bros, the largest wholesale grocers in
Canada, have failed at Montreal for $4,000.
Three thieves managed TO steal 5000 from
the Pawtucket, z l., National Bank yesterday.
Thomas Cayanagh, of Vermont, has been ap-
pointed Deputy Sergeant-at-Armso OF the House.
Port Huron, Mich, has notified workmen that
they cannot cross the river from Canada to
wo.k there
Hog cholera is prevalent in Kansas. In
Greenwood county alone the losses roll up into
the thousands.
Inc 6rAlG army men Oh new AOTk propose
to try and have the Grant monument ready fer
dedication in 1892
The Board of Supervise s-of Tuolumne county
has appointed D. &. Hart Sheriff, vice George
McQuade, deceased.
There are now /, AS convicts in the main and
branch State Prisons of Tennessee the largest
number the State has ever had.
doc" Jones, an owensboro colored barber,
while drunk Wednesday shot and killed white
man. Yesterday he wGs lynched.
The Penteeost Band OF Faith lHealeTs were
beaten and driven away from the vicinity of
Tuscola, Ill, by the enraged citizens
Two farmers were MORALLY wounded by rob-
bers near Waco. Texas, on Tuesday 0ae of the
hisbwaymen has since been arrested.
Constable Welsh Abaugh left Greensburg, Pa,
for Scranton yesterday to arrest Powderly on
the charge Of conspiracy mace by one Callihan.
Lordsburg, Los Angeles county. Land has been
purchased and ths hotel will be turned into a
college.
Louis Clyton. the dramatist and critic, ed
yesterday in London. His right name was Cliff
ton Lyme. He was the author Of Lady Lone
love, Marjorie, etc.
The Board appointed to examine distractions
in the Columbia river iavoIs d ship railroad
which viii transport a vessel above Mile
Falls. The works will cost nearly S{C0O,OOO.
There appears to be dissatisfaction at Mime
Gpolis at the appointment of Eugene g. hay TO
be United States Attorney. Hay has resided
diana.
Work on the Santa Rosa and Sebastopol road
has been resumed. Track ayng will be com
menced next week. Tie road viii be in run
nIng order in about three weeks il not delayed
by rain
A French and Belgian syndicate is about to
build a railro ID nom point on the lower
Congo river to the french Congo possessions.
with the object of working the copper district
OF kataAaga.
rf..o.b-- GO o,o 81 Tho l,oet l.,,o,,.r, bota1
proprietors in New York, shot and killed him
self Wednesday. The act was the result OF
temporary insanity, induced by illness and pro-
tracted insomnia.
Marshal Mcmahon is going to visit Rome for
the purpose OF presenting to the Pope the &C
count which ne has written for private cireula-
ton of his Presidency of France, with his Iea-
sons for accep ing and those for resgnlng It
Hanlan, the oarsman, is said not to have re-
tired from the ranks Next season he will be
prepared to row. He has already cabled TO
Australia that ne will meet any oarsman of that
country on the Thames next spring for $500 a
side.
Vienna paper says that number of procla-
nations addressed to Russians in Galicia were
found in the possession of a man disguised as a
peasant, arrested at Podwoloczyski. Letters
compromising many members of the Russian
Church were found on him.
The State Department has been advised that
Venezuela has increased her mission here from
that Of Charge d Afaires to Envoy Extraordinary
aIC Minister Glenlp3Jentldry+ IL Is thought
that the present representative, Senior BOla
Persze will be promoted and directed 10 re-
main.
Last Thursday Mrs. Fulweiler, of Auburn,
while watching some of her fowls scratching
the moist ground of her garden for angie
worms saw q bright object that the who e
brood tried their bills upon. she took il into
the house and 1t proved to be solid chunk Of
gold worth Sj7.
John Cameron of Plainfeld, N Y, . railroad
contractor, was arrested at the instance of the
kinderhOOk and Hudson bailroad. The charge
is stealing about $40 900 wages due Italian labor
ers The latter when they learned that their
wages were missing, threatened to burn and
plumber the town.
1t is rumored in New York that the City CT
Kingston, the river steamer which was recently
purchased by the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company to ply en- Puget Sound, has been lost
at sea with all on board. 1t is difficult to find
the origin of the rUmor. The steamer was
formerly used GA the Hudson river.
An important reform in regard to the cur
rency OF Mexico is about to be put into effect.
President Diaz has approved the regulations for
the redemption of worn coinage and The reissue
in the form Of decimal COINS whose use viii
become compulsory. This does away with the
fractional coinage of 1219 cents, 81 cents, Lilo
and ether coinage intricacies.
Charles Lacy Plumb Of Chicago has filed a
complaint in the United states District Court Of
Carson City, against William Whalen of eureka
charging him with dsfrduding him by means o.
saltel mines near Eureka. He claims SIS, COG
damages. 1t is aimed that the mines are moi
what Whaen represented them to be, aut
Plumb therefore seeks to recover,
London cable announces subscriptions t
the 5 per cent. Mexican Government golC
bonds, is.ued for the construction OF the Te
huanUepec Railroad and OF which only 81 $50,
600 were offered By Seligmsn Bros. Of londoI
and the Dresdener Bank of Berlin were opened
and closed. The public subscriptions amounted
to over { g 100000. The loan was nearly twelve
times over subscribed. his is considered
signal success for the Mexican loan.