Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-30
ELECTRIC FLASHES,
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
The French Atlsntic cable was completed
yesterday to Nova Scotia.
Abraham Wakemsn, an ex-Postmaster of
| New York, died yesterday.
killen and half dozen pugilists are en-
route from st. Paul to San Francisco
The War Department at Washington was
closed yesterday in respect to the memory
OF Simon Cameron.
The Sonoma County Agricultural Park
AssOciation will not hold fair in conrec-
ton with the fall races.
Mellow, who was on trial at Charleston,
S. c., for the murder of Dawson, the editor
was found mot guilty"
Susanville has on an average a dozen
earthquake shocks daily. The inhabitants
are looking for volcanic eruption.
John P. Hudson, of Smyrna, Del, lead
ing peach grower, places this seasons yield
of the peninsula at 100000 baskets.
The French Government has ordered in
quiry concerning the recent large purchases
of cattle in Savoy for shipment to Ger
many.
Visalia is holding Merchants Car
nival." Sixteen young ladies had COM
evening.
Candidates for office in the new county
OF Orange are plentiful, and the coming
week will see at least three organized par
ties in the field.
Large quantities of gold coin from South
America are passing through Antwerp for
Russia and Austria, the same as in the
| Franco German war.
oh Of II
| strewn with timber and wreckage carried
into it by the great floods of the Susque-
hanna and its tributaries.
The diningcar on the Northern Pacific
train going East was burned near Eldredge
yesterday morning. Loss, $4,000. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
The local physicians of Johnstown, after
carefully going over the returns of the peo-
pie rescued from the flood, still place the
estimated loss of life at 10000
The Chicago will soon cross the Atlantic
| to join the European squadron, and it is
said she will convey the remains of the in
ventor Ericsson to the shores of his native
land.
The ship railway, which is to transport
loaded vessels across the lsthmus of Chig
necto n. B., is progressing rapidly. Seven
| hundred men and 200 horses are at work
upon it.
Rear Admiral D. L. Braine and Civil En-
gineers Asserson and Craven have been
appointed Board to prepare plans and
estimates for the improvement of the New
York Navy Yard.
The Chicago city authorities are making
arrangements for compliance with the
alien law, which goes into effect July Ist,
and which forbids the employment of aliens
by the city or under its contracts
The negotiations between the British
Government and Mr.. Anderson of London
for the establishment and maintenance OF
a fast steamship line from Quebec to
Plymouth have ended successfully.
Advices from Altoona, Pa, yesterday,
say the indications are that the strike
among the mountain miners will be far
reaching. About 10000 men are already
out and others are expected 10 follow.
While passenger train was passing 10.
seph Smith at Myers Cave Station, Va, on
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, he threw
a rock at it, which rebounded with great
force against his head, killing him in,
stantly.
News comes from Grand Coulee t.
Helena, NJ. T., of prairie fire of grea
extent, which has spread over an area o.
10S square miles, destroying the best hay
ground left in that place. This fire spread
to the east and is also working westward
and threatening the whole area of Crane
Coulee. No such fire has been known il
years.