Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-21
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed relegraphic Dispatches From

condensed leteSraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
The King of Holland has had a serious
relapse.
The steamer ST. Mark foundered of the
Spanish coast yesterday.
An Indianapolis barber has begun q suit
to test the Sunday closing law.
Three boys went fishing in a boat on the
ST. Lawrence yesterday and were drowned.
The business men of Spokane Falls, w.
l., intend to form local insurance COM
pany.
The Secretary of the Navy has ordered an
inquiry into the grounding of the steamer
Constellation.
1t is said that in Cornwall England. 500
families wear mourning for relatives lost in
the Conemaugh flood
General A. c. Myers, the late Quarter
master of the Confederate srmy. died yes
terday at Washington.
The floods in Cedar county, Penn. re-
suited in the loss of forty lives and s., co.,
600 damage to property.
Andrew Grimes (colored) was hanged
yesterday at Mays Landing, n. j.. for a
murder committed last Christmas.
Buck Mead, deserter fIom the man-of.
war SwlttsuTe, was drowned about eigh-
teen miles out from Juneau, Alaska.
Last year natural gas displaced IA IG3, $50
tons OF coal, worth 500 662, l2S The effect
upon the coal market has been severe.
Ex-Governor Hariranft of PennsyIvania
has been appointed member of the Cbero-
kee Commission. This fills the Com
mission.
Certificates of election have now been
issued to all the members of the next
House, and it stands l64 Republicans and
161 Democrats.
1t is estimated that the aggregate amount
OF lumber and logs swept away by the re-
cent high water in Pennsylvania, will foot
up 250,0000O0 feet.
A man named Griffith died suddenly at
Tracy on Wednesday. The Coroner ascer-
tained that death was caused from drink
ing too much ice water.
Three hundred and forty-fve Mormon
proselytes, under the guidance of Elders
Ellis and Anderson, landed at Castle
Garden yesterday. They so to Utah by
way of Norfolk, Va
AT New London, Connecticut, Yesterday
Alvin Park, a widower, aged 40, a fisher
man, murdered a girl named Littlefeld,
aged IA, because she did not reciprocate his
lOVe. lie ShOt her four times.
DR.. R. w. H. Duncan, surgeon of the
Pacific Mail steamship Colon, from Aspin-
wall, down with yellow fever, was removed
from Brooklyn to the quarantine yester-
day. lie is very much weaker.
A mausoleum company has been organ
lied in New York. 1t proposes to erect
mausolei in all the large cities to hold
thousands of dead-a substitute for the
modern cemetery. 1t is an Egyptian idea.
The two largest contributors to the relief
fund for the Johnstown sufferers are the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, S35 OOO
and the Cambria Iron Company. $25. 600
Both companies lost heavily by the flood.
Brink Bros shipped a crate of water
melons and canteloupes from Winters 10
San Francisco Wednesday. This is two
weeks earlier than any previous shipment.
The melons were grown on Yolo county
soil.
The Civil Service Commissioners declare
that political considerations will be allowed
to have no weight in the examinations.
Any Government employe violating the
law, they add, will be most vigorously
punished"
Dispatches from southeastern Kansas
say that the Neosho river is at flood hight
-toJJ NhOuSdllu ctIGS VI wheat ana OIDef
grain were destroyed. In Morris county
alone the damage to crops is estimated at
over half million dollars.
O'Donovan Rosa and Wilkur H. Hem
dricksen were arrested yesterday in New
York, at the office of the United bishmaa
on complaint of Patrick Sarsfield Cassidy,
charging them with criminal libel. The
prisoners were locked up. They will be
arraigned this afternoon.
George Mulholland, of Australia, knocked
out Billy" Manning, of Los Angeles, in
the torty-seventh round of finish fight,
Queensberry rules, at the rooms of the
Southern California Athletic Club We'd
nesday night. Mulholland's weight was
l37 pounds and Mannings 135 pounds.
The Union Pacific officials say they have
no advices such as come from Chicago as
to threatened strike on their lines. They
stated that there is some trouble with
engineers, but its settlement rests with Mr.
kimball, and he will, it is believed by the
officials, secure an early adjustment of the
difficulty.
The funeral of the late John F. Gilbert
the vet eran actor, took place Yesterday
afternoon from the Church of UNITY, Bos-
ton. The Rev. Minot J. Savage conducted
the ceremonies, which were simple and
olIel. Large numbers Oh relatives and
friends were present. including Joseph JET
ferson, George Wilson, Harry Noglessen.
and many well-known ladies and gentle
men of the profession The interment was
at Forest Hill Cemetery.
Morris Baum has been found. He is in
Sioux City, dead broke, and has tele-
graphed to friends in San Francisco for
money. He says he will come back and
square up: He said; My shortage is
dae to cards. gambled, and lost not only
all had, but about $4,000 of other peo-
pies money. If the accounts that are due
me were settled | could straighten ont the
notes l forged. Every effort is now being
made to collect the money by nv San
Francisco friends, that 1 may keep my free
dom. Miss Wier has been a true friend.
and if ever l get out of this scrape shall
make man of myself and take good care
of her.