Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-17
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Te1egraphic Dispatches Fror
All Parts of the World.

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The Mexican Congress has closed.
There are 2s,O0O people suffering from intiu-
| enza in st. Petersburg.
Santa Cruz is now illuminated with the incln
descent electric light
General Trevino is to build hotel at the City
| of Mexico to cost 81 100000.
George MeQuade Sheriff OF Tuolumne county,
died at Sonora yesterday.
| A Chinaman committed suicide yesterday in
| the County Jail at Carson City.
| The Tehama County Teachers Institute as
| sembled yesterday at Red Bluff.
| The Cologne Gazette says Emin Pasha is max
| ing rapid progress toward recovery.
Rev DR.. Reuben Jeffrey, an eminent Baptist
| clergyman of New York, is dead aged 62 years.
The United States steamship Dolphin reports
| her arrival at 1t. Nicholas MOLE Hayti. All are
| well.
Four burglars cut their way out of the Olym-
pia, 1hurston county, Wash, jail Saturday
night.
A fire at New Carlisle, Ohio, Saturday night
destroyed almost the entire town. The loss is
| $50, coo.
| In Cajon Pass, San Bernardino county, land
slides have covered the railroad track for about
one mile.
The St. Louis Pretzel Company has been fined
81 for sending dunnIng postal card through
| the postIffice
There are fears that the Mojave river, which
is booming. viii do great damage to bridges in
San Bernardino.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Tichenor,
who has been quite i'll, is convalescent and was
at his desk yesterday.
Professor Thomas Opie, Dean of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, is critically i'll with
pyfemia in Baltimore
Betty Emmons prevented a smash-up on the
railroad near Birmingham, Ala, Saturday, by
waving her red petticoat.
Heavy rains in Arizona have caused washouts
and consequent suspension of railroad lrafic
All trains were expected to be running again to-
day.
The breaks on the Yolo side, above Knights
Landing, are secured. The river and back
water are falling fast. The Fair ranch is safe
SO far.
Jack McAuliffe says he will leave for San
Francis o with Billy Madden as his trainer in
| two weeks to prepare for his fight with Jimmy
Carroll.
Henry W Grady of the Atlanta Constitution
was taken seriou-y Ill in New York Sunday
night and was hurried homeward on the mid-
night express.
A shock of earthquake was felt in Granada
Saturday night. AT the theater the audience be-
came panic-s;ricken and fed from the building.
All escaped without serious injuries.
Henry Varian, reporter on one of the San
Francisco morning papers, has been for several
days past seriously i'll from the effects OF blood
poisoning caused by the bite of a mosquito.
Sunday E. W. Trail, the oldest prospector 1es-
| ident Of Rough and Ready, was found dead on
the porch of bis house in that town. age sew
enty five years. He was native of Maryland.
Peter Morris, a noted Arkansas desperate,
who teIroriz. the people OF that State for sew
eral years. has been captured at Pc an Point.
Morris is the equal of the famous Rube Bur
rows.
DR.. Seth Psneoast, the well krown homeop
sthi,t, died yesterday in Philadelphia He was
a descendant OF one of the three Pancoast
brothers who came to this country with William
Penn.
The Board of Health of Oakland has requested
| the City Council and Board of Public Works to
compel the Contra Costa Water Company to
purify the water it delivers TO consumers in the
| city OF Oakland.
cable from Paris announces the death of
Hector C. Hayemeyer, President of the Have
| meyer Sugar Refining Company, of Brooklyn,
New York, OF Brights disease. He was aged As
years.
DR.. Edison, of the Board of Health, has been
: notified that six cases of influenza have oc
l CURED in New York. These are supposed to be
| the nrst cases of threatened epidemic frum
| Europe.
A letter from Charley Mitchell says: "Kilrain,
| in condition, can whip Jackson to a moral GER
| tainty. / saw Smith and jackson fight and
was convinced that Smith has turned out to be
8 rank cur"