Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-22
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches F
All Parts of the World.

condensed Ieiegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
Henry Willard has sued Noah Davis to
recover $4,000 and interest on account Of
stock transaction.
Three burglars, George Reese, Alfred
Gress and G. Mcdonald, escaped from the
county Jail at Oroville in mysterious man.
ner Tuesday night.
The steamers Teutonic, City of New
York, Saale and City of Rome started upon
race across the Atlantic yesterday. There
was much betting on the result.
q. P. Huntington says he knows nothing
about the engagement of his daughter to
Prince Hatzfeldt. Mr.. Huntington and
wife sailed for Europe yesterday.
A special meeting of Northern Pacific
Directors was held in New York YESTERDAY,
Wizards scheme for placing consolidated
mortgage of Sl60,000,0O0 was unanimously
approved.
Governor Hill, of New York, has refused
| to interfere with the execution of the muir.
derers, Nolan and Lewis, which occurs to.
day. Chas Giblin, also under sentence OF
death was granted sixty days respite.
A bad wreck occurred on the Erie road
| at Big Flats, Tuesday night. Two freight
| trains collided, and a faguan was sent
| back to stop passenger train No. ., bui
| failed to obey orders, and another collision
was the result.
News has been received that the stage
between Canyon City, Or, and Baker Civ
| was held up Tuesday and the entire mail
captured and ritied. Nothing is known as
| to who the robbers were nor the amount OF
money and plumber they secured.
The strike of London dock laborers is
spreading. One thousand men in the Com.
| mercial Docks joined in the strike yester.
| day. The Socialists are trying to lead the
movement, a red flag being displayed
Thirty thousand dock men marched
through the city.
A young man of Perry, Mo, committed
| robbery some time ago, but it could not
be fastened upon him. A spinster lady
however, secured proofs of his guilt, and
| gave him his choice of marrying her OF
going TO Jail. He married her. He re.
penis now and wants to go to jail.
The gasoline still at the oil refinery of A.
D. Miller d Son, Allegheny City, exploded
yesterday morning. The entire plant took
| fire and was destroyed. Thornton Miller,
| an engineer, is missing. He probably per-
ished in the flames, and Perry Herich, the
! Waterman, was blown many feet and badly
| DbiAASa oAAN VI uASSO. AC lOoS ID at 1c6Sl
| S225, 600.
Two hostlers got into row at Glen
brook Park, near Nevada City, and one OF
them brought pistol into action His
aim was bad, however, and instead of hit
ting his adversary, the bullet glanced on
| the forehead OF bystander named Worth,
and, continuing on its way, struck another
hostler. Both were pretty badly hurt, but
not fatally. The shooter was arrested.
Rev. D. NJ. Helmick, a Methodist preacher
of Nicola, Ia, is in Jail charged with having
shot down young man named Carl Palmer
without provocation or excuse. The shoot
ing grew out of feud epgendered between
Helmics and Palmer over a romantic at
tachment which the letter had formed with
Miss Ella Porter, beautiful young lady of
the neighborhood, and which Helmick Bit
terly opposed.
A feeling of restlessness prevails in
Hayti. Hippolyte's camp, north of the
city, grows daily. His scouting parties
have been inside the city, but have not
come into contact with the enemy. The
only killing lately was when two squads of
Legitime's troops, going on their nightly
rounds, ran into each other in the dark,
| and blazed away, each thinking they had
met the enemy. Seventeen were killed
and many wounded. On July 26th the
gunboa,s bombarded Hippolyte's camp