Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-17
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed TeIegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.


The Mexican Congress has closed.
There are 5000 people suffering from infu-
enza in st. Petersburg.
Santa Cruz is now Illuminated with the incln
descent electric light.
General Trevino is to build hotel at the City
of Mexico to cost 81 600.
George McQuade, Sheriff OF Tuolumne county,
died at Sonora yesterday.
Chinaman committed suicide yesterday in
the County Jail at Carson City.
The Tehsma County Teachers Institute as
sembled yesterday at Red Bluff.
The Cologne Gazette says Emin Pasha is max
ing rapid progress toward recovery.
Rev. DIR. Reuben Jeffrey, an eminent Baptist
clergyman of New York is dead, aged 62 years.
The United States steamship Dolphin reports
her arrival at St Nicholas mole, Hayti. All are
well.
Four burglars cut their way out of the 0lym-
pia, 1hurston county, Wash, jail Saturday
night.
A fire at New Carlisle, Ohio, Saturday night
destroyed almost the entire town. The loss is
$50 coo.
In Cajon Pass, San Bernardino county, land
slides have covered the railroad track for ABOUT
one mile.
The st. Louis Pretzel Company has been fined
81 for sending dunnlng postal card through
the postJff1ce
There are fears that the Mojave river, which
San Bernardino.
Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury Tichenor,
who has been quite i'll, is conyalescent and was
at his desk yesterday.
Professor Thomas Opie, Dean of the College of
Physicians aud Surgeons, is critically i'll with
pysemia in Baltimore.
Betty Emmons prevented a smash-up ON the
railroad near Birmingham Ala, Saturday, by
waving her red petticoat.
Heavy rains in Arizona have caused washouts
and consequent suspension OF railroad raii1c.
All trains were expected to be running again to-
day.
The breaks on the Yolo side, above Knights
Landing are secured. The river and back
water are falling fast The Fair ranch is safe
so far.
Jack McAulife says he will leave for San
Francis with Billy Madden as his trainer in
two weeks to prepire for his fight with Jimmy
Carroll.
Henry W Grady of the Atlanta Constitution
was taken seriou.ly Ill in New York Sunday
night and was hurried homeward on the MID
night express.
shock of earthquake was felt in Granada
Saturday night. AT the theater the audience be-
came panic-s;ricken and fled from the building
All escaped without serious injuries.
Henry Vsriau, a reporter on one of the San
Francisco morning papers, has been for several
poisoning caused by the bite of a mosquito.
Sunday E. W. Trail the oldest prospector res
ident of Rough and Ready, was found dead on
the porch of bis house in that town, age sew
enty five years. He was a native of Maryland
Peter Morris, a noted Arkansas desperate,
who teIroriz.d the people OF that State for sew
eral years. has been captured at Pc an Point.
Morris is the equal of the famous Rube Bur-
rows.
DR.. Seth Psneoast, the well Known homeop
sthi,t, died yesterday in Philadelphia. He was
a descendant Of one of the three Pancoast
brothers who came TO this country with William
Penn.
The Board of Health of Oakland has requested
the City Council and Board of Public Works to
compel the Contra Costa Water Company to
purify the water it delivers to consumers in the
city OF Oakland.
cable from Paris announces the death of
Hector G. Havemeyer, President Of the Have
meyer Sugar Refining Company of BROOKLYN
New York, OF Bright's disease. He was aged IS
years.
DR.. Edison, of the Board of Health, has been
notified that six cases of influenza have &c
Cured in New York. These are supposed to be
the 5rst cases of a threatened epidemic fun
Europe.
letter from Charley Mitchell says: "Kilrain,
in condition, can whip Jackson to moral GER
tainty. l saw Smith and Jackson fight. and
was convinced that Smith has turned out TO be
a rank cur"