Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-09
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.

Wilkie Collins is better.
Lord Tennyson's health is improving.
An earthquake shock was felt in Maine
Sunday night.
Russia will not take part in the Inter
national Labor Congress-
Four thousand weavers are on strike in
Jaegernsdorf, Austria.
w. B. Ayers was crushed to death at the
Bimetallic quartz mill, at Butte, Montana,
Sunday.
Miss Kate Fennell killed her friend, Mrs.
Carroll, near Albany, Or, Sunday with a
gun she didn't know was loaded.
The temperature yesterday was: New
York, 760;; Chicago, 76o;; St. Paul, 100;
Winnipeg, 620; New Orleans, 7S0.
Sackett CARMEL, editor of the Santa Ana
Chronicle, was arrested at Los Angeles on
Sunday on a charge of grand larceny.
The Indians at Cool Creek, Oak, held a
long council yesterday afternoon, but sep
arated without reaching conclusion.
A barn belonging to H. H. Chittenden,
near Vacaville, was destroyed by fire Satur-
day. The fire was the work of an incen-
diary.
II. A. Person, drowned at Chicago Sun
day night, was not citizen OF Idaho, but
of San Francisco. He was a member of
the Pacific Club there.
Last Friday a saloon keeper at Pine
Grove, Esmeralda county, Nevada, named
Lavarono, was shot to death by q man
named Stevens, over game of cards.
1t is reported that thirty Russian officers
passed Bralia, Roumania, on the way to
Servia, and that the Russian Government
has been sending materials of war and
pontoons to REM, in Bessarabia, and the
mouth of the Danube.
The late John Norquay, ex-Premier of
Manitoba, was given State burial yester-
day afternoon at Winnipeg. judges, men,
beers of the Legislature, Board of Trade,
City Council and other civic bodies took
part in the parade. The funeral was the
largest ever scene in the Canadian North
west.
A delegation representing the Bangor
and Piscatoques Railroad and Bangor and
Maine Board of Trade appeared before the
Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce
yesterday at Washington and argued in
favor of granting the Canadian Pacific even
terms with American roads on freight to
and from Western points.
The annual wrestling matches at Grass
Valley closed Saturday night, after three
days contests. There was a large attend
ance and successful sport. Saturday after
noon William Mutton, while wrestling
with Sam Sneel for the first prize, had his
right shoulder dislocated. The hurt is
dangerous, so the doctors say.
William Shady, who had been working
for William T. Coleman at Coleman Sta
ton, near Death Valley, left for Mojave Oh
foot on June 9th. He was found dead on
June 2lst. twenty-five miles from there,
near the road, with his canteen empty, by
two men passing on their return. They
took letters and other things from the
body and buried him.
Word has been received from Cairo from
Col. Wodehouse, commander of the Egypt
ian troops, that he has sighted the Der
vishers, who are moving northward 5000
strong. Wodehouse says his force is not
strong enough to make another attack, but
he is following them with all available
troops in steamers. He advises the collec-
| ton of strong force at Assouan to coop
| crate with him.
A fire broke out in Fresno building IN
| Chinatown, occupied as a laundry, at II
| O'Clock Sunday night, and before the flames
| could be checked eight fine buildings, the
| Joss House and two-story brick block,
the latter belonging to G. R. Rallins, were
destroyed. There was no insurance except
on the brick block, which was worth
| $4,000; insured for 5000. The stock of
| Wong Yong, in the same building was in
| sured for 81, 500 The fire originated from
! an explosion of a coal oil lamp.