Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-16
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.


All Parts of the World.
The Union Pacific earnings this month
show a net increase of S204 ,989.
The rainfall in New York City for the
present year has been over 81 inches.
The report of fighting on the Mexican
side of the Rio Grande has no foundation.
The oil mill at Demopolis, Ala, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. Estimated loss,
100000.
The report that Jefferson Davis is seri-
ously i'll is contradicted by his nephew,
General Joseph Davis.
The Mexican Government has placed in
Europe the amount of interest due on the
| national debt January LIST.
The traffic agreement between the Union
Pacific and Fort Worth has been signed,
but particulars are withheld.
The official count of the Pennsylvania
vote gives Boyer, Republican candidate for
State Treasurer, 60,926 plurality.
| Stock bonds of the Comstock Tunnel
| Company of Nevada were listed at the
| Mining Exchange in New York yesterday.
A. W. Morris & Bros, plaster and cord
age works, of Montreal, are financially
| EN- barrassed. The liabilities reported ex-
| ceed $1.000,000.
The James a. Smith & Sons Ice and Fuel
| Company, of East st. Louis, Ill, made an
assignment yesterday. The liabilities are
estimated at sol 900.
Charles Peters, Government contractor
has commenced work On the Indian school
| at Carson, New He will cover the main
| building before snow flies.
The Mexican Government has author
| lied the construction of railroad from
Baedad, on the Gulf of Mexico, to Mata
moras, opposite Brownsville, Tex.
The report for nine months shows the
earnings of the Oregon Short Line and
| Utah and Northern system OF the Union
| Pacific to be 81, 1913, $50, an increase OF
| SAT 900.
Miss Elizabeth Bisland left New York
Yesterday for San Francisco in the interest
| of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, bound
| around the world in an attempt to beat the
record of Miss Cochrane ('Nellie BY" for
a round the-world trip.
! Jimmy Hope, the bank robber, was
brought into the New York Court yesterday
| on writ of habeas corpus. The hearing
was set for to-day. Hope in his petition
sets forth that he was about to start for
San Francisco from Auburn prison when
! arrested.
! Secretary Tracy has appointed Board of
| Officers TO supervise the test of the con-
| trollable automatic torpedo under the terms
| proposed by Secretary Whitney last winter.
| The torpedo is driven by a carbonic acid
gas engine, and its movements are con-
| trolled by electricity.
Colusa is worked up over anonymous
communications coming apparently from
an organized body or coterie of women.
! That means is resorted to to correct the
morals of the place. So far but one street
assault has resulted, but there is no know
ing when and where the fires will break
| out. A detective undertook to- discover
the authors Of the letters, but he failed.
Annie Besant, who was candidate for
membership in the London School Board,
brought an action for libel against the Rev.
Hoskyne, who, the plaintiff alleged, at the
time of the election issued circular IN
which he asserted that she regarded chasti.
ty as crime and unbridled sensuality as g
virtue. The case was tried yesterday. The
Judge summed up strongly against tht
plaintiff. The jury disagreed.