Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-17

Condensed relegraphic Dispatches from
All Parts of the World.

ST. Helena IS putting on city airs. der strSSls
are TO be lighted by electricity
The steamer West Coast has arrived at San
Francisco after an eventful voyage.
scheme is on foot to convert 5000 acres of
land in New Mexico into vineyard.
Ex-Collector Brooks of Port Townsend has
been arrested on charge OF embezzlement.
The Hessian fly is in many of the wheat farms
in the Petaluma valley and doing much dam
age.
was murdered sunday on his ranch near Aztec.
A. t.
Advices show that from three to five inches of
snow has fallen ali over Northern Wisconsin
and Michigan.
Mary Mohr refuses to prosecute Henry Bosh,
who took two shots at her in a jealous freak
some time ago.
The Labor Commissioner is making an inves-
tigstion of the business operations OF building
and loan associations.
thousand-acre field of wheat on the Ma
chado ranch. near Santa Monica, was burned
over Wednesday night.
A small caterpillar has appeared in myriads
at Gilroy. So far it has only fed on certain
kinds OF marsh and garden plants.
San Francisco saloon keepers have organized
to break the soda water trust by establishing a
large independent establishment
Five minutes after the new steamer Fair
haven was launched at Tacoma Wednesday, she
steamed down the river propelled by her own
engines.
whitelaw Reid was received by spuller, the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, yesterday. Presi-
dent Carnot will receive Minister Reid at the
end OF the week.
The Coroners jury inquiring into the killing
of John P. Dunbar by City Marshal Misenhel-
mer at Paso Robes found a verdict Wednesday
of justifiable homicide.
The Secretary of State has been informed that
Peru will send delegate to the Conference OF
American States, which meets at Washington
on the 4th of October next.
The total for the two days land sales at
Bakersfield is S121 ,529 13, and the number of
acres sold, 1920. Both principals and pur-
chasers seem to be satisfied.
DR.. Crowley, Oakland's Health officer,
ascribes the prevalence of Typhoid fever in the
city to the late rains, which have caused vege-
table matter to ferment and decay.
While several men were making casting at
the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, the hot
metal exploded burning twelve men. An Ital-
ian named Joe Bunith was badly injured.
A firm believer in perpetual motion, one Van
Patton. died day or two ago, in Spartanburg.
S. G. For years he attempted to solve the diff
cult question, almost beggarlpg himself in the
work.
Tim Sullivan, eighteen years old, and Tom
Curry, nineteen, drank a bucket Of whisky in
Chicago Wednesday. 1t paralyzed them. Sulli-
van died within two hours and Curry cannot
recover.
r. G. Sheath, dairyman near San Bruno says
that 500 out of the 10000 cows which supply
San Francisco with milk are swill fed, and thst
that is great reason for the increase in the
death rate.
Judge Wilson has signed a decree giving
frankie White all the CON munity property, es-
timated to be worth 100000. Lawyer Highton
gets Is per cent of it for his fee in the divorce
proceedings.
Numa Gilly, a member of the French Cham
Der of Deputies, has been convicted of libeling
Sails member OF the Chamber, and sentenced
to one months imprisonment and to pay fine
of go francs.
The anxiety to get in the Sioux Reservation
win be intense says the IolCG Register There
Will be IL 100000 acres, enough for nearly 10000
homes. The lands Will probably be open by
September LIST.
At Portland, Wednesday, Judge Stearns
granted stay of proceedings for Chez Gong,
sentenced to be hanged Friday for the murder
of Lee Yick. The case has been appealed to the
Supreme Court
The Government at Ottawa has received a
copy of The treaty with Mexico, ratified Febru-
airy 11th. Canada has two years i'll which to de-
clare whether or not she desires to avail herself
of its provisions.
A Penang dispatch announces the resump-
ton OF hostiliiies at Acheen, Sumatra, between
the Dutch and Malays The latter invaded fdi.
The garrison lost five killed and twenty-five
wounded. The Malays left 80 dead.
William Baldwin, of Smartsville, Yuba
county was committed to the Insane Asylum at
Stockton Wednesday. He is very dangerous,
and imagines that spirits order him 10 kill peo-
pie. He has been in an asylum before
In one of the natural-gas towns the local paper
tells some stirring experiences that followed its
Introduction. One cook gave her mistress
prompt notice to leave, as she would never be
willing to cook Gods meat with hell fire.
a petition is being circulated among the at
torneys of Oakland, asking the Governor 10 APP
point Judge w. 4. Greene 10 the vacancy ON
the Supreme Bench which will be caused by
the retirement of Justice Jackson Temple.
The magazine of the fortress at Konigstein,
Ssxopy, was struck by lightning and exploded.
1t contained thousands OF shells The sertinels
on duty escaped unhurt. The windows in the
houses in the adjacent village were shattered.
The contest for the seat in the next Congress
for the Fourth Congressional District of Connec-
ticut will be abandoned by the contestant, ex-
Congressman f. W. Seymour, Democrat who
expected to find evidence of miscount, but
does not.
Mary Amigo, the Indian girl who objected
to- the attentions of Aleck Blue of Livermore,
anf when he became too pressing stabbed him
in the breast, had the charge against her dis
missed before Judge Greene, on motion of the
district Attorney.
The friends of x-Postmaster-GeneralC ress-
we'll, of MARYLAND are urging his name for the
vacancy on the Supreme Court bench. Presi-
dent Harrison says that he does not propose to
consider the question of the appointment Tor
several months yet.
Chief Engineer Harris, U. 8. ", who was
taken ashore from the Charleston while the
cruiser was at Santa Barbara, suffering from de-
lirium tremens Gied al midnight Wednesday at
the Arlington Hotel. The immediate case OF
death was pneumonia.
United States Inspectors Bryant and Bullere
have revoked the license of Captain Oliver of
the ferry City OF Seattle, which collided with
the steamer Emma Hayward in Seattle harbor
two weeks since. Captain Greene of the Hay
ward was suspended for thirty days.
A. Fl. Leslie, Secretary of the Prohibition
Committee in charge of the amendment cam
paign in Pennsylvania, says the liquor dealers
in Philadelphia alone have raised between
500, GOO and $500 600 to be used in the campaign.
while the Prohibitionists have but little money.
Railway mail service has been established
between Cloverdale and Ukiah and postal
service between San Bernardino and Orange.
Clarence l.. Hobbs, of San Francisco, has been
appointed Railway Mail Clerk between San
Francisco and Ogden, vice +. G. Slower, re-
signed.
Rev. G. w. James, late pastor of the Methodist
Church at Long Beach, who was deposed for
immortality and abuse of his wife, left Los An
geles suddenly on Tuesday night for Spokane
Falls. his fight is said 10 be caused by the is
sue OF a warrant for his arrest on telonious
charge.
Among the topics to be discussed at the meet
ing of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, which opens to-day in New York will
sion of faith concerning predestination,
arbitrary election and the use of wine at the
communion.
Giacomo Armanno, who is evidently an in
sane Italian, has been amusing himself for
about ten days past by putting gold coins in
various letter boxes CT San Jose, accompanied
by scrap OF paper, acting under the delusion
that both money and paper would be forwarded
to the King of Italy.
The employees in the departments of the Ma
tional Tube Works at McKeesport, Pa, struck
for an advance in wages OF ten per cent. Two
thousand men are out. The employees of the
galvanizing and rolling departments threaten
to join the strikers. six thousand men are en-
ployed in the plant.
A fire broke out at noon yesterday in the
stable at the rear of Boyd & Morgans black
smith shop, on Market street, opposite the jail.
Stockton. The fire spread to the blacksmith
shop and the bakery of Charles Christian, adj
joining. and the two buildings were totally de-
stroyed. The property belonged to the estate of
L. Chicard. The loss is about $1,000
The representatives of the copper mines ron
cluded their conference in New York yesterday.
The only result appears to be in fixing the price
of lake copper at twelve cents pound II is
stated that no step was taken toward the ac-
ceptance of any proposition from the European
stockholders in the copper syndicate. All hopes
of a compromise are abandoned.
Emilia Balkenhouse has instituted suit in the
Superior Court of San Francisco against w. /.
Casey, the son-in-law of j. p Pierce, the mill
ionaire farmer and owner of water stock of
Santa Clara, asking $1,000 damages, and alleg-
ing as n cause of action that while she was at