Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-16
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

All Parts of the World.
Rust is in the wheat near Petaluma.
Potatoes are shipped East from San
Diego.
The black vomit has made its appear
ance at Vera Cruz.
Ed. Thore, San Franciscan, committed
suicide at Spokane Falls Friday.
The first span of the new iron bridge at
| Cloverdale has been put in place.
Anton Mellin was killed by a cave in a
mine at Walkerville, NJ. T., Friday.
D. w. Morris, for many years vegetable
peddler, died suddenly from hemorrhage
of the lungs yesterday, at Modesto.
The Manchester meeting, for the Whit
suntide plate, was won yesterday by Signor-
ina, with Martazon second, Istrozo third.
r. H. Hall died at Santa Cruz yesterday
He was a prominent citizen and formerly
owned the Miners Restaurant in San Fran
cisco.
G. K. Gilbert, now in the employ Of the
Geological Survey in Utah, has been made
| Chief Geologist. The salary is s., $50 per
year.
The Journal de 81. Petersburg makes an
emphatic denial of the alarmist reports cir
culated by foreign newspapers attributing
warlike intentions to Russia.
The roof of the Merced Market in the
City of Mexico fell in Friday, burying
nearly forty persons. Eight dead and four
teen wounded have already been taken out.
Estevan Soto, cattle king of San Diego
county, has been arrested by a United
States Marshal for killing an Indian who
| had corraled some of his trespassing stock.
There is less water in the streams of
Tulare county now than there was in the
month of June of last year. The trouble is,
very little snow fell in the mountains dur
ing the past winter.
McGarrahan is endeavoring to sell his
claim against the Government TO English
parties. If the sale is consummated he
says, the New Idria Company will withdraw
its opposition and his bill will be passed by
Congress.
A fire in a tenement house at New York
Friday burned so rapidly that two persons
were cut off and burned to death, two
others seriously injured by jumping from
window, and nearly all were affected by
inhaling the smoke.
The sugar war is raging again in Great
Britain. The Government wants TO give
refners a chance to live by taking steps in
conjunction with the other Powers to abol-
ish the bounty system, which is sweeping
refners out of existence.
On account of the lack of appropriations,
work on the Iroquois has been temporarily
suspended, and from advices received at the
! Navy Department it is not thought the ship
will be ready to leave the Mare Island
Navy Yard inside of the next six weeks.
All mechanics engaged in the building
trades at Peoria, Ill, met Friday and or
ganized Trades Council, the principal
feature of which is that no trade shall go
on a strike without the consent of all the
rest, thus avoiding frequent enforced idle
| ness.
| The body of a man named Mayes was
found Thursday morning in cabin ON the
Ball ranch, two miles from Geyserville,
where he had lain since death, which is
supposed to have occurred fifteen days ago.
| He is not known to have had any relatives
in this State.
Eighteen little maids from school, sill of
them members of aristocratic families,
played match game of baseball at Hing
| ham, near Boston, Friday. Among them
were Margaret and Helen, neither over Is
years of age, daughters of Ex-Governor
| John d. Long.
| The steamer Saale of the Nord Deutscher
| Lloyd's line, which arrived at New York
| Friday, while on the trip, in dense fog
ran on a submerged foot of a floating
mountain of ice and slid Oft The shock
was tremendous and exceedingly noisy.
1 but did no damage.
The Comptroller of the Currency has re-
ceived telegram from the Cashier of the
Puget Sound National Bank at Seattle, w.
T, saying the loss to the banks by the fire
! was nominal, and all the vaults stood the
test well. The banks are now doing busi-
| y,aeo IN teunorarv ouarfers
The chief of the Albertus branch of the
royal house of Victim, King Albert of Sax
ony, and his people, celebrated the s00th
anniversary of the sovereignty of the
house yesterday, the 18th of June, at Dres-
| den. A number of historical floats were
prepared for the occasion.
| Minnie Moses is sentenced to be hanged
at Birmingham. Ala, on June 18th. The
crime for which she was convicted was
highway robbery and an attempt to murder
| an old woman peddler. The old woman is
| still alive, and If the sentence is carried out
Minnie will be hanged for highway rob-
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