Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-28
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches frsm
All Parts of the World.
BIackleg is spreading among the cattle in
sections of Schoharie county, N. Y.
Temperance women at Topeka, Kan. propose
to raid Original package saloons.
IFrosts in Iowa and Illinois have caused con-
siderable injury to fruit ana vegetables.
An epidemic with fatal results prevails
among sheep in various sections of Vermont.
Bishop James OConnor. OF the Catholic do.
cese of Omaha, died yesterday, aged 60 years.
President Harrison will be the guest of D. P.
Eells when he visits Cleveland, Ohio, Memorial
Day.
An examination of the casket has set at rest
the rumors that President Garfeld'e remains
were not therein.
Anthony Comstock has caused the arrest of
Providence man for sending lottery tickets
through the mails.
1t is reported that the largest tin-plete mill in
the world will be erected in Pittsburg Penn, if
the Mckinley bill passes.
The German societies have petitiened Con-
gress not to change immigration laws and to
construe the pauper laws literally.
A stone was thrown into the courtyard of
the Marlborough House Saturday, wrapped in q
paper bearing the words. "Give us bread if you
would reign, and signed, thousands OF Starry
ing Englishmen."
An attempt was made at Merrill, Wis, Sum
day night to blew up Chinese laundry with
dynamite. The floor was blown into splinters,
the machinery and furniture wrecked and the
windows smashed.
The admirers of Stanley at the University of
Cambridge have subscribed for a gown to be
presented to the great explorer ON the occasion
of his receiving the honorary degree conferred
upon him by the University.
A. N. Kimball. Receiver of Public Moneys at
Jackson, Miss, was murdered Monday night on
his way home. The body was found yesterday
| morning. 1t is supposed the crime was COM
| nlitted for the purpose of robbery.
| Sixty-eight election officers have been in.
| dicted for election frauds by the Hudson county
| (N.J.) Grand Jury: Seventeen true bills were
| returned against the members of each Election
| Board. Each Board is composed Of four mem
| bers. The charge is conspiracy
human being is said to have been living for
over thirty six years in wild and naked con
dition in the mountains near Grimbsy, Ont. He
was recently talked with and gave no reason
| for his living in this way. He claims to read
| the violin.
If indications in the East are counted for
anything, baseball, as profession, has gone to
| join the roller-skate. For some time past the
| nocuous desuetude, and now carefully obtained
figures leave little doubt that the great fad of
fads in America is rapidly becoming a thing of
the past.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico says that
financial circles are agltated in apprehension
of what might be done with the silver bill in
the United States Senate. The Mexican press
simultaneously takes up the discussion of the
filibustering scheme against Lower California
The conservative journals are making the affair
the excuse for attacks against Americans
General Schofeld has publicly censured Cap
tain Charles Morton, Third Cavalry, for pub
fishing letter in Chicago newspaper CRITICS
ing the management OF affairs at West Point
and in the Adiutant- Generals Office, alleging
imposition by staff officers upon officers of the
line Future publications of like character
win be the cause of charges against the offend
ing officer and trial by court-martial.
The --latest report from jersey is that General
Boulanger contemplates making an expedition
to Africa. He says he will never again enter
politics. The French people are ungrateful to
their exies and martyrs. He is anxious to serve
his country on the remote frontier il not per-
mitted TO do SO at home. and declares that he
in political exile.