Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-18
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
There is a famine in Gslicia.

ALI Parts OF the WORLD
There is a famine in Galicia.
The noted Arab, Bnshiri, has been banged.
The Utah Commission is in session at Salt
Lake.
Snow is eight feet deep at La Porte, Plumas
county.
Boston will commence crusade on electric
| wires.
The New York Herald building has been sold
for 81 ,000tO).
The French Chamber of Deputies has I'M
| seated Naquet.
The almond trees of Tulare City are in full
| blossom this week
EsquIval the would be Dictator of Guate-
mala has been banished.
The defense of Clendenniu, who shot Judge
! Pierce, at San Diego, is insanity.
The Ryan smeter at Tacoma has been sold
and work is TO be resumed at once.
A successful surgical operation was performed
on Lawrence Barretts throat in Boston
: Contracts have been let for third bridge
across the Willamette RIVER at Portland.
The placer claims on the Colorado river,
near Fort Yuma are said to be paying IS to the
| pan.
Yesterday vas the eighty-second anniversary
of the biItn Of the poet Whittier. He is very
| feeble.
J.B Haggin is the heaviest individual tax
payer in Kern county. His assessment toots up
| S6O,246 20.
A shipment of sixty carloads of wine from
the Livermore winery OF Mr. Bustelli was made
last week.
Seventeen Chinese fishermen have been sent
to jail at Martinez t r 80 days EACH Tor using
too small nets
Louise Epperson. a Missouri girl shot and
| killed julius Hooper because he leased her at
| the dinner table.
Mrs. Farley wife of ex-senator James Far
ley is an applicant for the position of Post
| mistress ut Napa.
cleanup YVES made at the Union Shaft mine
at Mokelumne Hill last Friday. The yield for
| two weeks wss 81, COO.
company with s25O,OOO capital has been
| formed in san Diego 10 plant lemons They in
| teLd to set OUT 800 acres.
diamond expert, fresh from Africa, is look
| ing about the diggings of Amador county IL
search OF small diamonds.
At San Juan del Norte Jerome Heunessy, Su-
perintendent of Telegraphic Construction, sui
| cided while deliTious from fever.
The California State Teachers Association
viii meet at Los Angeles on December 3lst, and
! will hold sessions until January q, 1890
In a row in the First Baptist (coloredl Church,
at Kansas City, Sunday night, TWO negroes were
| badly cut and several wounded with chairs.
Charles 2. Delamater, prominent dentist in
| New York, was murderously assaulted in his Of
| flee on Monday by patient with an lion bar.
! General naturalization has been promulgated
| in Brazil by Il decree. All foreigners are Bra
lillian citizens unless they decline the privilege.
Visalia has doubled its municipal area by an
| nexing an adjoining strip OF territory, and H.
| creased its population about two hundred and
fifty.
| fist fight near Butte, Mont, Sunday, be-
| tween Jack Gallagher, Il miner, and j. II.
Ward a contractor, resulted in the death of the
| former.
| Chief Engineer Menocal of the Nicaragua
| Canal has arrived from G eytown. He says
woik hss been suspended en- the canal until
| spring.
The Iu'ch steamer Veendam, from Rotter-
dam December 10Th, for New YORK, ran into and
sank her lighter. Part of the lighters crew
| were drowned.
Schihiok Jugigo the first japanese ever con
| victed OF murder in New York, was sentenced
yesterday to die by electricity during the week
| beginning February Sd.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, the local sports organ
lied fight between gorilla and a noted bull
dog. I he gorilla killed the dog in two min
utes without suffering any injury.
The Wham robbery verdict is condemned in
Arizona. The case was thought to be so clearly
against the accused that the good people were
| dumfoundet at 'notguilty' verdict.
Several sawmills in Mendocino county have
been stopped from running for violating the
| provisions OF the law relating to the discharge
| OF sawdust into streams of running water.
Unless some unforeseen difficulty presents
| itself milk will be lowing through pipes from
| Middleton to New York before many months.
|
600 to build conduits, and the men are confident
| OF success.
| The opinions of the press on the verdict in the
Crouin case are generally that the jury did not
go far enough that three, at least, OF the five
| should have been hanged 1t is thought that
one OF the convicts Will yet tell the story OF the
| foul murder
Austin CoTbin, President of the Spokane ano
| Northern RAILROAD, was badly sand-bagged iii
] New York Monday night. Four men jumped
on him and beat him in an unmerciful manner
and left him for dead. They took his watch
and some $40 in money.
The town of la Grande Or, has new levied.
a municipal tax and is free from debt. Its credi Z
is good enough to sell $4,000 per cent. bonds
to san Francisco savings bank at par The
entire revenues of the town come from nine
saloons that pay S4O0 each for years license.
A contract has been given for the construe
ton OF the Colorado mineral palace to Morrison
Bros. Great Bend, Kan. Inc Iouhuatiotf 1 40
ssssvs.sAr built by other CONTRACTOR. Be
sides the contract work contributions of great
columns are being made from various quarries
in Colorado and Arizona. There are also con-
gtant arrivals nj mineral spppimpQS