Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-04
ELEoTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Teiegraphic News From All
Parts of The Worltf. -

Condensed Teiegraphic News From All
Parts of The Worltfs
The sealing schooner Sapphire captured
al seals. ,.-3s.is ..,s ).
Wheat is steady, potatoes frmer, grain
bags weaker.
Gold commands a premium of Sc per
cent in Brazil. = sss.;,e,-...s 4
The new license law in Boston closes
1000 dram shops.
A colored colony from. Fort Smith is en
route to Oklahoma.
Dissatisfied half-breeds in Manitoba
threaten another rebellion.
President Carnot OF Paris, is dining and
winning Thomas A. Edison.
The Mitchell-Regan fight will take place
in San Francisco October 10Th.
The supporters of General Boulanger
will meet in London on the 10th inst.
Eighty-one Chinese left San Francisco
yesterday for the Orient, never to return.
The value of lumber shipments from
Washington mills last year was So, 10000.
An attempt was made to burn the bridge
crossing the Yellowstone river at Helena.
Edward Mason Yard, an ex-navy officer,
is dead. He will be buried at Pittsburg to-
day.
The Supreme Court has denied New
stadt's petition for release on habeas cor
pus.
General Clinton B. F. Fish has re-
nounced his allegiance to the Prohibition
party.
A twelve-year old boy at Rockford,
Maine, died from the effects of smoking
cigarettes.
The noted Kentucky mare Fugne-record
2:l9l-died of pneumonia. She was valued
at $4,000.
Horace Bruni, young San Franciscan,
was accidentally killed at Champerico,
Guatemala.
Sir Morrell Mackenzie was offered $50 900
to treat an American patient and refused
He wants the earth.
The San Francisco Jail is overcrowded
| with prisoners. Sam Jones said itiwas the
wickedest place in the country :
The Freemdn'S Journal states that the
Marquis of Ormonde will succeed Lord
Londonderry as Viceroy of Ireland.
A sack of ore weighing 125 pounds was
taken from the Pamlico mine, near Haw-
thorne, New, last week to mill. 1t yielded
S., 200.
the death from fever of Lord Walter Camp
bell, third son of the Duke of Argyle. He
was Al years old.
The Governor General of Canada has pro-
rogued Parliament. The speech of proro-
CATION was merely summary reference to
the principal measures passed.
Theodore Winters stable of seven horses
which were at the Blood Horse races last
have E,or @po
of $50, 600 for the string.
Herbert Bismarck gave dinner yester-
day to the Commissioners to- the Samoan
Conference and the members of the British
and American Legations.
Mayor Cregier and several Chicago Alder
men are urging legislation designed to give
relief from extortionate charges OF tele-
phone and gas companies.
Sigsimund Sieburg of Tacoma was fatally
injured by the bursting of beer bottle that
he was filling. a piece of glass struck him
on the skull, fracturing it.
In the suit of A. R. Denike VS. The San
! Jose Times Publishing Company, for 800
900, the jury yesterday returned-a verdict
for the plaintiff, fixing the damages atsS5.
During the funeral services of abolish
| Jew 10 Rochester, y. Y, enemies of the
| dead man took his body froni the coffin
and dragged it through the street with a
rope.
The face of Broadway, New York. since
the late telegraph poles have been taken
away, resembles the face of.a man that had
been heavily bearded and lately freshly
| shaven. ~. - :
| Minnesota, which bought S17 900 worth
of grasshoppers last year at a dollar a
bushel, is this year going 10 fight the plague
by having the ground in injected districts
plowed up in time to destroy the eggs.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
statement for March shows that during the
| first three months of the present year the
earnings had fallen considerably below the
amount necessary to pay interest on the
bonds.
The Meridian Malleable Iron Works, one
of tine big concerns of Meridan,;is finan.
cially embarrassed, owing to several recent
failures of Western bouses. whose notes the
company held. The foundries are shut
down.
Owing to the improvement in the health
of the King of Holland, the Dutch Parlia
ment to- day, by unanimous vote, passed
resolution restoring his power. Tht
Duke of Nassau, now Regent of Luxem
burg, will retire to Taurus.
The Pittsburg Plate-glass Company ha.
purchased for 81, 500 900 the Fort City Plat,
Glass-works. They already owe two i'm
mense factories, and the acquisition of til.
third gives the corporation a practica
monopoly of the industry in the United
States.
Stockton has a Poll-tax Collector wht
means business. He visited Tang Lee,
wash house and demanded Sl4. Lee de
ciined to respond, when the tax man gath
cred up all the hot hat-irons and carried
them of. They were redeemed the follow
ing day.