Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-22
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches From
All Parts of the World.
I.enrnsu Is said 10 he incrsasir,.. i,


Leprosy is said TO be increasing in
Russia.
The new English gunboats are all named
after birds.
stockton new jail wiz cost $4,000 and
have forty cells.
President Harrison yesterday left for
Cape May to remain until Monday.
foot man-eatiug shark was captured
off the wharf at San Diego yesterday
The mystery attending the death of
Flossie Lord near Grass Valley is still IN
rayeled
A male beauty show is to be opened in
Vienna and The decisions are to be made hy
jury of women,
President Harrison has accepted an IN
vitation to attend the Woodstock, Conn
Fourth Of judy Celebration.
The Indian Agents efforts to have
"squaw men" indicted for trespassng on
the reservations in Montana has failed.
The cornerstone of the new St. Mays
Catholic Home was laid at Beaverton near
Portland. Or, last Sunday. 1t viii cost
$lZ5000
Mormous are leaving Utah in such large
numbers that the leaders of the Mormon
Church have taken alarm and arc trying
to stay the exodus.
A Rome dispatch 10 the London Luucct
says that the Pope is well and hearty. He
has had the gates of the Vatican reopened
and resumed his receptions.
One million one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars worth o. gold was engaged
yesterday at New York for shipment. The
total to go by to-day's steamer is s. 400, coo.
Ex-Congressman Edward W. Seymour,
of Connecticut, has been appointed to the
Supreme Bench of his State. His father,
Origen S. Seymour, was the late Chief JUS
tice.
A smuggler arrested near Tacoma with a
| bagful of opium declares that smuggling is
extensively carried on and many men de.
vote their whole time to the unlawful
traffic.
Henry Hodges, of Lampasas, Texas, is
claimed to De the oldest living Mason and
Democrat. He is said to be 100 years old,
and 10 have cast his first vote tor Thomas
! Jefferson.
| It is said there is no doubt that con-
ference of the Powers will be held some
| time this year for the purpose of devising
measures for the suppression of the African
| slave trade.
Mrs, James Brown Potter declares that
she will never act in Chicago again so,
! there, now and all because poor Mr.. Bel
| lew was Missed during her recent engage
ment there.
Hon. T. c. Plat of New York and Cen
erai A. l.. Alger of Michigan, and party
arrived in Chicago yesterday morning and
left in the afternoon on trip to Alaska
Chief Justice Wright, of Arizona, has SEN
! fenced Dan Harwick, William Siren and
al no oh 10 frai
bers, to twenty five years each in the peni-
| Tertiary.
Farmers in the low lands of southern
Indiana are in bad way. Flooded streams
| have buried their corn fields from sight and
hundreds of fields of wheat about ready for
harvesting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mackay's solicitors have
begun legal proceedings against two we'll
| known papers in London, it is said, for
| libel, with view to putting a stop to per-
| iodical attacks.
| 1t is rumored that Michael Boland, City
Judge of Kansas City, will be indicted by
| the Grand Jury in the Cronin case. John
| F. Scanlan states positively that Boland
| knew of the murder.
The rivers have overhown the banks and
| partially submurged the town of Bar-le-
| Due, France, and the surrounding country.
| Many houses were destroyed and crops and
vineyards were ruined.
Thomas Dunstee was fatally stabbed by
| George Marks Thursday night on the Stan
| islaus river near Vallecito. Marks claims
that the stabbing was done in self-defeuse
and surrendered himself.
Andrew Carnegie, of Pittsburg, has been
| unable to reach an agreement with his men
as to wages, and the entire 5000 will strike
on the 30th inst. The company will en-
| deavor to secure new men.
Pittsburg has an association of Il e Cali.
fornia Pioneers of 40. 1t is going start
on pleasure excursion to San Francisco
| July Goth. The Pittsburg branch of the
| '49ers has forty-three members.
Rumors of the German Chancellor's suG.
den and serious illness are more common
than alarming in Berlin, where it has come
to be felt that though death loves shin
ing mark, he is specially exempted.
Rev. William E. Howard, convicted Of
grand larceny, in connection with the Elec'
tric Sugar Refinery Company funds, was
yesterday sentenced to nine years and eight
| months Imprisonment at hard labor.
The Prince of Wales having gone to the
top of the Eifel Tower, cynical London
| contemporary remarks; Most English
visitors will feel bound to follow his ex.
ample. All Americans will, of course"
An old man handed in a new $500 bill fol-
| the New York HerdldS Conemaugh fund.
What name ?" asked the Herdld'S cashier
THAT is none of your business" growled
the old man, and he slipped out of the
door.
At the Labor Congress in Paris there will
| be delegates from organizations in Ger.
| many. They have already been elected,
| and Bismarck has not as yet taken any
! steps to prevent the attendance at the con-
! gress in France.
Frank Stevenson, of New York, in
E! charge of all arrangements for the Sullivan
| Kilrain fight, leaves on Sunday for New
! Orleans. Sullivan is training as usual
walking fifteen miles day. He has re-
| duced to nearly POS pounds, his fighting
weight.
The husband, mother and sister of Ida
| WEIGH testified against her character yes
terday in Chicago. w. 4. Pinkerton, the
detective, was asked by lawyer Underwood
| if he had not been discharged by the elder
Pinkerton for stealing. You're liar ~ he
shouted several times before order was re-
! stored.
The stitchers, cutters and lasters at the
Sampson shoe factory, North Adams, Mass.
struck, aud the shop shut down. 1t is
feared the strike will become general and
include all the shops IN town. The wages
were reduced last Wednesday. and the mer
| want a new schedule. The shops have
| large orders.
negro drum corps parading in Viii
mington, Del, were annoyed by white lad'
and opened fire on them with pistols a
short range. Walter Wright, aged 16, wa
shot and killed Joseph Lawless, aged 5