Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-15
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

| SohdShseu AeieSTdpHlC Dlspatches FROM
| All Parts of the World.
| McGregor Boy, horse valued at S.. 600,
was killed on the track at Dubuque, Iowa,
yesterday.
The Bimetallic Congress at Paris will
submit no proposal to vote. 1t will adopt
no resolutions.
i Fraudulent German and Austrian bonds
have been marketed at Cheyenne by
plausible sharper.
A crazy italian barber at Saratoga yester-
| day chased women and children with
razor in his hand.
1t is not believed the Baltimore will de.
velop high speed. 1t is claimed she is too
| deep in the water.
Mollie Kennedy, aged Is, in fit of jeal-
| ousy, killed herself at Willows. She was q
native of Red Bluff
The roadmasters, who have been in con-
vention at Denver, have adjourned to meet
at Detroit next year.
The defense of Adriano de Vale the
| would-be 1egicide, at Rio Janeiro, who IS to
be tried soon, will be drunkenness.
Captain Ross, noted Indian fighter,
who in hand-to hand fight killed Iron
Jacket, an Apache chief, is dying at Waco,
Texas.
Suit will be brought in a few DAYS at
Los Angeles to set aside the United States
patent for the island of Catalina, issued to
Mr. Covarrubias.
Alfred Salmon, noted musician, aged 90
years, committed suicide from ferry-bo
at New York Friday. Financial difficult
ties were the cause.
During the past few days twelve persons
have died of trichinosis in Eisleben, Prus-
sian Saxony. Eighteen others are reported
dying of the same disease.
Work on the new San Diego Courthouse
has been stopped, pending an investigation
There are charges that the contract is being
evaded and poor material used.
Il. o. Adkins, Manager of the Grand
Central Hotel dining. rooms at Los Angeles,
has suddenly left that town a deiaulter.
His debts are widely distributed
The bitter feeling between the citizens of
Rayenna and Eminence, kas., over the IN
settled county-seat question has been re-
newed and both towns are arming
The Paris Exposition is averaging $780,
900 people daily. Buffalo Bills Wild
West is turning people away, and his fifth
month finds the public interest uDabated
English operatives are endeavoring to
break down the cotton corner that is para
lying the trade of Lancashire. The wesy-
ers and manufa cturers propose a combina-
ton.
The latest returns from the general cleo
tons of August 31st in Brazil give the Lib
erals ninety-6ve and the opposition parties
thirty members in the House of Represent
atives.
Mayor Grant, of New York, has issued a
circular asking the States, Territories and
cities to cooperate with New York in
Ia
success.
The vineyard men in and about ST. He.
lena, Napa county, are picking their grapes
although the more hardy varieties will
not be taken from the vines until the first
of next week.
Monterey is somewhat agitated over the
rumor that deed to property was signed
by Mrs. Cervantes, an old lady, 70 David
Jacks, at night, and that she had been
compelled to sign it,
Martha Olsen died in New York yester-
day through her firm belief in the faith
cure. Although very sick she had no doc
tor. Carl Olsen, her husband, was arrested
for willful negligence.
The Supreme Court of New York has
granted the motion for a receiver for the
Equitable Reserve Fund Life Insurance
Association on account of conducting bust
ness in fraudulent manner.
The President of Honduras has started
for Guatemala to meet President Barillos
of Guatemala and President Mondez of
Salvador for the purpose of meiiating re-
gardlng the lnteroceanic canal.
In a fsticuff at Willows on Thursday
Con Cox threw a man named Howard to
the floor and bit off his left ear. Cox has
been held to answer before the Superior
Court on charge of mayhem.
A surveying party is seeking, between
Anderson and Redding, for feasible
course to build a large irrigating canal,
the water to be taken out of the Sscrs-
mento river at some point north of Red
ding.
A quarrel over passage in the Bible at
Saratoga Wednesday, between Major
Stevens, q rancher, and William Meers, a
laborer, resulted in the stabbing of the
former by the latter. The wound is not
dangerous.
Aunt Dinah Young, colored, who. it
is believed, was the oldest person in Ken
tuck, died in Louisville yesterday. She
was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, in
April, 1776. The records of her birth are
still in existence.
The stockholders of the Thomas Iron
Company at Hokendauqua, Penn, have
sold their plant to an English syndicate for
So, 500 600. The works are among the most
extensive as to the manufacture of pig-iron
in the country, but do not include mills.
I. Holman got hold of both wires while |
fixing an arc lamp at Salem on Friday and
received terrible shock. Mrs. Lunn, his
cousin, tried to rescue him, but received |
heavy shock when she touched him. Neigh
bors finally released Holman. His hands |
were horribly burned.