Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-21
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed kilograms from All Parts Of
the World.

Condensed kilograms from All Parts of
the World.
Spokane Falls has seven banks
Jem Smith has challenged Peter Jackson.
Woodland complains OF Migrants and burg
lars.
The report of the Pope's illness is said to be
untrue.
Mrs Frank Leslie will start fashion paper
| in London.
Nearly $500 immigrants arrived in New York
one day last week.
The late storm did considerable damage to
crops in Wisconsin.
| The British Minister Pauncefote is scoring a
| social success at Washington.
| 1t is said that James Russell Lowell is to
marry an English lady of rank.
Max o. Reil thinks the Count of Paris is the
coming man in France.
| The proposed American International Confer
ence promises to be success.
| A railroad from the city of Mexico TO the
| California coast is said to be assured.
| Crops in the South are suffering seriously
from the prolonged heat and drought.
A large peach crop is predicted for all parts OF
the East where the peach ought to grow.
| The French army bill is not likely to become
law at the present session of the Chambers
Eastern music teachers predicta great future
for Slbyl Sanderson, CalifOrnia's pima donna.
|
placing the st. ;uis road in the hands OF q re-
ceiver.
| The President has declared that he will moi
| make appointments hastily to please the Office
| seekers.
| The Paymaster-General is endeayoring Ia
| devise system TO prevent the duplication OF
pay accounts in the army.
Fort Ssseton, military reservation embrac.
| ing 100000 acres of land, will be thrown open
| to settlement on June list.
| Miss Mamie Ladd and Charles Reed ran away
| from Mamie's parents at Paicines, Saturday
night, and were married at Santa Cruz
A number of Members of Parliament will
| entertain Senator John Sherman upon his re-
| turn to London from Paris. Sir Lyon Playfair
will preside
| President Carnot yesterday gave an audience
to McLane, the retiring United States Minister.
| To-day Carnot will receive Whitelow Reid, the
new Minister.
| New York has two cases of leprosy one in a
I well-known family, isolated in suburban villa,
the other that of a young South American in the
| German Hospital.
| The Democrats in the Indiana Legislature
| have secured Court decision against the Gov
ernor forcing him to issue commission to J.
W. Riley, an elected Democratic member
| Jonathan L.. Herget. a middle-weight from the
racine coast, is visiting Boston with Billy Jor-
| dan and Joe Rogers He is matched to meet
Johnny Regain in October at l47 pounds.
Rochefort, who was arrested on Saturday on a
| charge of assaulting Pilotel, was arraigned in
| the Police Court in London yesterday, and
bound over to keep the peace for six months.
Dwight Hackett, editor of the Napa Reporter,
returned yesterday from st. Louis in charge OF a
keeper of the Missouri Insane Asylum almost
entirely recovered from the insanity attack
Minnesota is about to enforce a law making
drunkenness crime. Artful dodgers who
| nave been escaping the penalty for their mis-
deeds under excuse OF drunkenness will have
| to emigrate.
! The strikes among the peasants in the pro
vince OF Milan are spreading. A conflict oc
Cured between strikers and the military One
peasant was killed and eight injured Four car
blnlers were injured.
The will of Mary A. Troosi, beauea.hine
| 81 100000 TO charity, was Saturday. at Ksnsa.
City, admitted 10 probate, verdict being re-
turned against the heirs, who endeavored tC
have the will set aside.
Miss Kate Eunice Beecher and William Armi
tage Harper were married at New York on the
l4th The former is granddaughter of Henry
Ward Beecher and the latter grandson of the
senior member of Harper Brothers
Rev. John F. Hooper, of the North New York
congregational Church, has given Mott Haven
another sensation. This time it is an elopement
On Friday he ran away with Miss Mary Curtis
daughter of his former landlady and they were
married at Union Hill, N
Secretary Blaine has appointed Louis Dent
his private Secretary, III place of Thomas II
Sherman, the new Consul to Liverpool Mr.
Dent is a nephew OF Mrs. General Grant and as
sisted Mr.. Blaine in the preparation of his
| Twenty years in Congress-
One of the appointments which the President
| Will probably make within the next fortnight
| is that of SolicitorGeneral. The office carries
with 1t salary of 5000 per annum, and in
dignity and importance a little less prominent
| than that OF Cabinet position.
William B. Derby, of Boston, cashier of the
Mutual District Messenger Company, is under
| arrest charged with embezzling $4,000 from the
| Western Union Telegraph Company. He did
| this by raising the amount of monthly bills
| against me telegraph company and pocketing
\ the difference.
The President has signed patent for the
Ceur d Alene Mission claim, in Idaho Territory
containing Go acres in favor of Joseph NJ
Cataldo SUPERINTENDENT of the Rocky Mount
| ain Mission of the Society of Jesus. The case
has been pending in the General Land Office fol
| the last ten years.
In the insane asylum investigation at Chicago
! Dr. Alexander OF the asylum medical staff testi
fed that he would advise the friends of any in
how violent she might be. II would be better
| for her 10 commit suicide rather than be sent to
| the asylum in its present condition.
The people poisoned by the ice cream at the
GladstoD bury festival are all doing we'll and il
is not expected now that any of them will die
| The first reports sent out were much exag
gerated, as usual. The chemist, investigating
the matter is yet undetermined whether the
poison came from the favoring extract or un
| clean freezing.
The survivors of the pilot-boat Charlotte Webt
declare that the fault for the collision by which
their coat was lost is entirely due to the reck
lessDes5 OF the steamer Normgndies officer,
plungiDg at high rate of speed through the
| thick fog, paying no affection to signals fiasl
| lights and fog horn on the pilot-boat. Captain
| Webb and boat-keeper Fitzgerald were the only
| ones drowned.
William Miner, convict at San Quentin
where he is serving twenty-five years tor stage
| robbery was stabbed three times yesterday by
another convict. The prison authorities refuse
| TO give the assailants name. Miner, duriug MS
| incarceration, has made several attempts tc
escape, and at one time succeeded. He was al
| liberty for about two months, but was finally
1 captured in the lower part of the State The
| prison officials always considered Miner hard
character, and he was kept under the strictesI
| surveillance.