Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-29
ELECTRIc FLASHES.
Condensed Telegrsphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

Smallpox is raging at Guatemala.
Malarial fever is playing havoc with horses
in Chicago.
Eastern men have bought the biggest brew
cry in Montana
The population of the town of Alameda Is
estimated OF s, 500.
Secretary Proctor has gone to Vermont to visit
his son, who is seriously ILL.,
| The Parnellites' local government bill comes
up in the House of Commons to-day.
| Seventeen-year locusts have made their ap-
pearance in Highland county, Ohio.
1t is claimed that there are defects in the con-
str1ction of parts of the new Postcffice building
at Baltimore.
| A peculiar disease, resembling malarial fever.
| is prevalent among horses in the vicinity of
| Indianapolis.
| In the May parties held in Central Park New
York Saturday week, there were no less than
| II 979 children.
| In the election for Senators in the Depart
ments of Aisne and Doubs not single vote was
cast for Boulanger.
| 1t is reported that the Assembly of the Island
OF Crete has adopted resolution in favor of an
nexation to Greece.
The Galveston Neacs says that more cattle have
| been shipped from Texas to the North this sea-
| son than for many years.
| All members of the committee to represent
| the striking miners at Boohum have been ar
| rested, and their papers seized.
Inc postmaster at Cosnocf0n, N. Y. has been
| arrested for Withholding official communics-
! lions from his successor in office.
| Six clipping couples were married at Jefferson
\ vile, Ind, in one day recently. One Justice
married them all. His fee amounted to 1913.
| A thief in Carlisle, Pa. steals nothing but
| Bibles, and has taken ninety-three from the
people of that town without being discovered.
The old historic building in Charlotte, N. c.,
known as Lord CORVALLIS headquarters, was
| burned by an incendiary one day last week.
! A Mrs. Fry of Columbus, Maine, gave birth to
| four children two boys and two girls the other
Gay. AT last accounts the youngsters were
| thriving.
! The steamer Gaelic made the trip from San
| Francisco to Yokohoma in fourteen days and
nineteen hours beating all former records by
| four hours.
Iowa farmers are. engaged in a war of ex-
| termination against the gopners, which threaten
to ruin their crops. In Boone county is 600
have been killed
Two large mains supplying Missouri river
| water to Kansas City have been washed away
| by rains and that city will be short of water
for two weeks or more.
The airing ofa Saratoga scandal is threatened
| ia the suit of John H. Wallbridge of that place,
| for divorce from his wife, who has filed coun-
ter-suit. Both petitions are filed in Los Angeles
California.
The Tapeworm Railroad, commenced by
Ihaddeus Stephens half century ago. was
finished few days ago. 1t connects Gettys-
burg, Penn, with the Blue Ridge Summit on
| the West Maryland main line.
| Reports received at Ottawa state that the Nor
mon lnnux into the Northwest continues. No
proof has been obtained that the new arrivals
who already form considerable colony, are
given to the practice of polygamy.
Great excitement prevails at North Baltimore
Ohio, over an Oil we'll drilled in the town which
illed an 00-barrel tank in an hour 1t is I'M
doubtedly the largest oil well in Ohio, and lots
| IN the town have advanced from sl25 to 81, 90 0
The Connecticut Senate has passed the Secret
Ballot bill, which the House previously passed.
All tnat now stands between Connecticut and
the secret ballot law is Governor Buckleys Sig
nature, which it is thought will not be with
| held
The locomotive which the Pennsylvania
not given satisfaction. The engineers have in
formed superintendent Pitcairn that it is not as
! good as the engines now in use on the Pennsyl-
vanla lines
The British American Association has issued
a protest against the appointment of Patrick
Eagan as Minister to Chile, on the grounds that
he is fugitive from British justice and unfit to
represent the United States in the capacity of
Minister to any country.
The orders dispatched to the Adams to pre-
pare for cruise in Behring Sea make it evident
that the American control of the sea is to be
maintained by force if necessary. The fleet will
| now include the warships Iroquois and Adams
and the light-armed revenue cutters Bear, Rush
and Thetis.
Ex-senator Thomas C. Plat and General Rus
| sell A. Alger have determined to spend the
summer in Alaska. They will leave on June
10Th in General Ayers private car, journey by
rail to Tacoma and there embark in steamer
| which will convey them to Alaska. They ex-
pect to be away two months or more.
| Mrs. Bruce, an artist, in painting on china
met with a singular and fatal accident at
Memphis. She was preparing to fire a dozen
plates decorated as a gift for her daughter, and
while leaning over the kiln the naphtha gas
rushed into her lungs with such sudden force
| that she was overcome and died.
| The New York Times, referring to crop pros
| poets and other elements of national prosperity
states that the prospect for fair returns in ali
kinds of business conducted with intelligence
enterprise and prudence, is better than it has
| been for long time, and this for reasons of q
general and relatively permanent character"