Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-17
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
Southern Dakota will possibly adopt the
Australian ballot system.
The Los Gatos prohibition ordinance will
probably be carried to the Supreme Court.
Frank Williams was accidently drowned
in the Columbia river, at Vancouver, Mon
day.
A Chinaman named All Jim was arrested
at Chico Monday for attempting to assault
two little girls.
Vigilantes at Springview, Neb., broke
into jail and shot to death H A. Maupin,
cattle-thief.
Mary Larsen, wife of JAMS Larsen, vine
yardist near Fresno, suicided Sunday in a
well. She had been suffering from typhoid
fever.
A supposed yellow fever ship named
Premier has arrived at Quebec The Cap
tain is dead and Two OF the sailors are down
with the disease.
A Washington dispatch SAYS: 1t is esti.
mated that $65 900 can be profitably ex-
pended on the improvement of the Vel.
lowstone river.
Andy White and Tom Holland, San
Francisco toughs, have been arrested ar
Marysville for stealing a peddlers valise.
White also knocked down another man
and robbed him.
A young woman named Ida Woody,
wanted at Bakersfield for shop-lifting, was
arrested in Fresno on Monday. The stolen
property, consisting of silks and satins, was
found in her room.
The Canadian Anthracite Coal Company
has sold its coal lands, consisting of $500
acres in the vicinity of Anthracite and
Banff, B. c., to an English syndicate for
100000. The Englishmen will develop
the property at once. They capitalized the
company at S5,000,o0O.
Judge Cooley, Chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and United States
Attorney Batter had conference Monday,
and as result number of railroad Of
ficials are to be indicted for alleged dis
elimination in carrying 1,S00 gallons of
alcohol from st. Paul to New York for All
cents per gallon.
George Nutting, Sheep Inspector of Crook
county, Or, has been missing for several
weeks, and fears are entertained that he has
been murdered. He started on foot several
weeks ago to visit large sheep camp be
yond Plneville for the purpose of inspect
ing sheep, but never reached the camp and
has not been heard of since
]. W. Howsell, well-known Texas and
Pacific conductor, shot and perhaps fatally
wounded j. j. Carswell, proprietor of the
Hotel Vendome, Ell Paso Texas. A dispute
arose over an affair of long standing. Both
were armed. Howsell fired twice, one shot
taking effect in the hand, the other in the
abdomen. Carswell did not fire at all. Both
parties are highly respected and the affair
is greatly regretted. Howsell. who is in
jail, says the shooting was in self-defense.
Theodore Knox, son of DIR. P. B. Knox
of Santa Barbara, and a member of the
hardware firm of Harsch & Knox, of Santa
Barbara, who disappeared July sth, has not
been found, but DIR. Knox has heard from
his son. The message came in a rounG-
about way-just how the father does not
state. 1t is to the effect that Theodore is
alive and well somewhere. but where the
message did not reveal. DR.. Knox cannot
or will not even tell who tine messenger
was. The mere fact that so mysterious a
message should come in such strange way
but strengthens the suspicion that there has
been foul play.