Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-31
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed TeIegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

All Parts of the World.
Lord Salisbury is quite i'll.
Peace has been restored in San Salvador.
Influenza of virulent type is raging in
Birmingham, England.
W. A Shippe has been appointed Post.
master at Avon, Butte county.
The death is announced from Vienna of
Judge Keller and BAron Hardie.
Cora Kennedy, the American poetess
died yesterday at Ospedalotto, Italy.
The wife of the late General Longstreet
died at Gainesville, Georgia Sunday.
Belgium, owing to the strike of 1900
miners, is threatened with q coal famine.
W. R. Boyd has been arrested at Little
Rock, Ark, charged with counterfeiting.
Henry Mollenhauer, a well-known must.
clan, died suddenly last evening in Brook
Ign.
A farmer, named Phillips, was frozen to
death near Huron, South Dakota, yester-
day.
The Umberto Theater in Florence, Italy,
was destroyed by fire last night. No lives
were lost.
Four tons of delayed Eastern mail ar
rived in Los Angeles yesterday. Ten
ions will arrive to-day.
Robert Carter is dead He was engaged
in the publishing business in New York
city for over half a century.
W. NJ. Brasher's oil cloth factory, Eigh-
tenth and Ninth avenue, Brooklyn, was
burned yesterday; loss, $4,000.
A violent winds storm swept Western
| Missouri yesterday, leveling fences, blow
ing down houses and doing immense dam
age.
George Hilton, a laborer, suicided by
! hanging at Los Angeles yesterday. He
was poor and disguised with that section Of
the country.
Edward Hanlan in reply to the challenge
| of Jake Gaudaur says he will row Gaudaur
for from $1,000 to So 600 before next July
| The choice of water is left 10 the referee.
At Papal consistory yesterday in Rome
| the Pope delivered an ALLEGATION censuring
the Governments Ecclesiastical Trusts bill,
and condemning the deposition of the
Bishop of Altamura, Italy.
Charles R. Van Romandt is dead He
was formerly Professor OF modern Ian
| guages at Rutgers College and for twenty
years has been connected with the State
Department at Washington.
The provisional committee of the Non
Partisan WomaH's Christian Temperance
! Union has issued a call for a national
| meeting at Cleveland, January Odd, pur-
posing organizing national association.
1t is stated the latest illness of the Gar
was brought on By excitement caused by
the sudden extinguishment of electric lights
in Gaischina Palace. There was violent
rush Of blood to the lungs and q conse-
quent collision of those organs.
The funeral of Mrs Admiral Rogers took
place in Washington Yesterday and wac
largely attended. Secretaries Blaine and
Tracy were present, while the navy was
/ strongly represented. The remains we're
taken to Annapolis on the noon train for
interment.
News from Pierre, South Dakota, says
there was no bloodshed at Bad river ia the
half breeds encounter with the settlers
| Two hundred shots were fired RI the air fol
the purpose of intimidating the settlers who
had settled on a piece of land one mile
square. Peace has not yet been restored.
Gladstone has sent to the newspapers 6
/ general reply of thanks to those who sent
him congratulations on the occasion of hi;
birthday. He refers to the indulgence
shown in the public estimation OF his par
liamentary and public labors, and says he
hopes it will help to make him more
vgatchful to avoid errors.