Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-16
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.


All Parts of the World.
Fred Gebhardt is coming to California.
Ore yielding $3.50 to the ton is reported in
Cerillos, n. NJ, mine.
The Democratic chiefs have been in con-
sultation in New York.
Archbishop Labastida, at the City of
Mexico, is dangerously i'll.
There has been some slight improvement
in the condition of Wilkie Collins, the
novelist.
S. ]. Newald has disappeared from Chip
pewa Falls, having, it is said, raised 900
on bogus paper.
girl, is to be married in London to Lord
Edmund Fitzmaurice.
Kilrain says when he takes a rest he
may go TO California and try to get some of
the big prizes offered there.
Mrs. Terry, of Fresno, expects to start on
her occurring tour about August LIST. 1t
promises to be very sensational.
Andrew J. Milligan, private detective,
was drowned at Seattle Saturday in Lake
Union. being seized with cramps while
bathing.
Fearful storms are prevailing throughout
Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri and the
Mississippi river is booming. Crops are
considerably damaged.
A cloudburst near Baltimore did consid-
cradle Gamsge yesterday The bridge
across Herring run was swept away and
two persons were drowned.
A special from Bar Harbor says that Sec
rotary Blaine denies with his own lips the
story of his resignation, sent on. from
Washington Saturday night.
The Louisville and Nashville road has
taken the Kentucky and Indiana bridge at
Louisville to cross its traffic 1t formerly
used the Pennsylvania roads bridge.
A collision occurred at Grenoble yester-
day between passenger train and freight
train, on the Paris, Lyons and Mediterra-
mean Railroad. Twenty persons were killed
or injured.
The California contingent at the Mon
mouth races were pretty well satisfied with
last weeks work. Salvador and Firenzi,
this season, have already earned over $780,
600 for Haggin.
John Wyland, a laborer, was struck on
the head, at Portland, Saturday, by heavy
piece of frame work thrown out of the
fourth story of building. His skull was
fractured, but he may live.
Wine cards from the steamer Haytian
Republic washed ashore on Nantucket,
whereupon it was concluded that she was
wrecked. The steamer Haytian Republic
is safe at anchor in the harbor of San Fran
cisco.
Parties from the Columbia river report
twelve or fifteen Cinnamon having crossed
the line near Osoyoos lake. They are now
mining at the placers on the Columbia
river. This is the second lot known to
have crossed.
The reported resignation of Secretary
Blaine is positively denied by Walker
Blaine, who is at Bar Harbor to consult
with the Secretary upon matters pertaining
to the State Department. Blaine's health
is said to be good.
A fire started Saturday in a grain field
belonging to the Ware estate, Immediately
adjoining Colusa. 1t burned 10 acres of
standing grain and $50 sacks of wheat. 1t
was caused by a spark from an engine
There was no insurance.
Sunday morning Sam Bures, a negro,
charged with the murder of white man
named Whitehurst. was lynched at Inka,
Miss. A mob of 100 men forced the taller
to give up the keys. They took Bures q
short distance and hanged him to tree.
Mrs. DR.. Hays, of Oakland, latest bid for
notoriety is an intimation that she will de-
liver lecture upon What [ Know About
Sophie Search and Other People" Mrs
Hay will also sue Frank Moffitt in civil
libel suit and proceed against him GRIM
inally as well. This grows out of the
Sophie Search scandal.
Lizzie Hume was granted divorce from
Joseph Hume, the Berkeley capitalist, on
the ground of cruelty The testimony was
taken behind closed doors, and no opposi-
ton was made to the decree. Findings in
the case were waived, as the division of
property was amicably arranged. Hume is
worth upwards of $500, 600
James A. Patterson, Jr., of Waynesboro,
Va, made an assignment to-day. His as
sets are over 100000. The debts are less
than $4,000. Patterson owned and oper-
ated the largest Touring mill in the valley
He has left the country. No reason is as
signed for his absence or assignment. He
was prominent and influential citizen.
Millionaire Jim" Reschler, a we'll
known Western man who was partner
with ex-senator Tabor in the Little Pitts
burg mine, won $35, 600 at faro Saturday
night in the Pennsylvania Club House at
Long Branch. He played from o'clock
III TIC evening uutIi U ClOCA lne next
morning. His luck was extraordinary
from the beginning.
Willism Burnley, an eastern Pennsylva-
mia farmer, has invented combined tele-
phone and telegraph device. II enables
two persons to use one wire for the double
service of teiephoning and telegraphipg at
the same time. This had never been ac-
complished before, aud as Is well known
it has hitherto been out of the question to
string telephone wires on to telegraph
induction