Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-23
ELECTRIC FLASHES
Condensed TeIegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

Condensed TeIegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
Seventeen miners are entombed in pit
at Newcastle, New South Wales.
Lord Dutferin has serious attack of
chronic ailment. The doctors are anxious
about him.
The condition of Mrs Hayes shows no
improvement, and no hope is entertained
of her recovery.
A report comes from Findlay, Ohio, that
twenty persons have been poisoned by eat
ing Chicago pressed corned beef.
The Navy Department is advised that
owing to some defect in the machinery,
the trial of the Petrol was postponed for
about ten days.
Advices frem Samoa say that Lieutenant
Thurston is inquiring into the charges
made by Germany that the British Consul
at Apia has been aiding Mataafa.
The French Senate Committee inquiring
into the charges against Boulanger has
finished its work and forwarded all the
documents to the Public Prosecutor.
Monsignor Persico, according to the Pail
Nall Gazette, reported to the Pope that he
had proofs of the intention of certain
parties TO kill him should he return to Ire
land.
Nicholas Foley, who murdered Mrs.
Pomeroy Clark, at Elgin, Neb was taken
from the Deputy Sheriff, who captured
him, and hanged to a bridge near the scene
of his crime.
The American bark Brazos, Captain Ed
sett from Newcastle n. S. W. for Hong
kong, was wrecked 500 miles from Sandy
Cape. Part of the crew were saved. The
remainder are missing.
Whom Eron ,r,,
United States Minister to Chile, he trans
ferred 10 Michael Davitt his shares in the
newspaper United Ireland. Parnell and
Davitt are now sole owners.
The Rev. James McAden, the oldest
Methodist minister in the South. died re-
Gently in Brunswick county, Va, in his
ninety-titth year. He had been in the
ministry for seventy-five years.
The church building of the Methodist
Church South, at Santa Rosa has been sold
to the Camphellites and is being removed.
The work of erecting a new Methodist
Church on the old site will be begun at
once.
By the exhaustion of tie pension appro-
priation between five and six thousand pen
sioners who draw pensions from the Office
in New York will not be paid this month.
Fifteen clerks have also been discharged
from office there.
The tour of the chess players to this
country, it is reported, resulted in financial
disaster to them. Tabenhaus borrowed S25
and went back to France in the steerage,
and Gossip of Australia is still here unable
to raise funds to get home.
Tom Desmond, of California, whom Luke
Dillon tried to connect with the Cronin
murder is still in Washington pushing his
claim for office. He was among the Presi-
dents callers to-day, but had no oppor-
tunity to secure an extended interview
The members of the Right, in the French
Chamber of Deputies, have issued mani
festo declaring that they are asgrieved at
the action of the Republican majority and
are advising the electors to unite in the
name of France for liberty against Parlia
ment and feudality.
The most important piece OF news in
turf circles the past few days has been the
engagement of Jockey Mclaughlin by
Pierre Lorillsrd as trainer for next year.
Mclaughlin will finish this seasons riding
for the Chicago stable and then bid fare
well to the pigskin and essay the roll of
trainer, in which he should be a success
from the nature of his experience.
compromise has been arranged be-
tween Sir George Chetwynd and Lord Dur
ham in connection with the turf scandal
Durham had charged Chetwynd with en-
ploying dishonest jockey named Woox,
thereby winning large sums of money.
Chetwynd brought libel suit for $4,000
Chetwynd was under cross-examination for
three days. His case was weakened, and
he accepted a compromise.
Two dairymen employed by Henry Fess-
Ter, three miles southeast of Truckee, quar-
relied this afternoon and one shot the other,
killing him instantly. The murderer then
shot at Fessler and fired two shots at Geo.
Schaffer Jr Fessler and Schaffer came to
town and reported the murder, but the
Nevada county officers refuse to make an
arrest without authority rom Placer
county. The Sheriff and Coroner Of Placer
have been notified