Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-16
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches from
All Parts of the World.
Admiral Dupetit Thomas is dead at
Toulon.
Colonel Francis A. Osgood, Commander
of the Eighth Massachusetts, Regiment, is
dead.
F. NJ. Wadsworth has been appointed
Gauger in the Oregon Internal Revenue
District.
The bio brokerage firm of Wright & Do
ran, at New York, has collapsed. The
liabilities are about 100000.
An immense Touring mill at Winona,
Wis, was destroyed by fire Yesterday. Loss,
$500 600; insurance, 5000 900.
Oliver Bell Bruce better known as
Bachelor Buff" the head of Appleton's
publishing house for many years, is dead.
The Cuban mail steamship City Of Alex
andria has been stranded on the Florida
coast. No particulars have been received.
Burglars entered the mounted police
barracks at Macleod, n. w. T., Tuesday
night, carried away the safe, and secured
81 900.
The President yesterday appointed Chue
Ah Sine, a Chinese subject, to be inter-
prefer 10 the United States Consul at Hong
kong, China.
Five of the persons who were injured by
the explosion of balistile at Evlgiliana,
Italy, have since died, making the total
fatalities nineteen.
An unknown vessel, supposed to be the
French brig Louis, sank off Lawn Point,
Saint Pierre, Miquelon, yesterday, and all
on board were lost.
The President has sent to the Senate the
r,r, mott tny,o oNfa t,ar x~fD
Among them were the following: Hollis
ter, Cal, Asa 7. Butler; Astoria, Or, Jas.
W. Hare.
Nelson H. Davis, Brigadier General, U.
s. A, retired, died al Governors Island
He had just arrived, and was apparently
in good health. He was taken with an
apoplectic fit and quickly expired.
The Indians on the Iowa, Kickapoo and
Sac and Fox Reservations are to be allotted
lands and given sufficient TO set them up as
farmers, or they will be removed, as they
hold the land only by an Executive order.
The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
has written to Senator Hearst and Repre-
sentative Clunie that the Commissioners to
locate the San Jose Postoffice site need not
be recommended until special Treasury
agent is sent out and makes a report.
The Marquis de Leuville, now in Lon
don, authorizes the statement that he and
Mrs. Frank Leslie are engaged. Their
| marriage will take place next month. The
Marquis wears corsets, permits his hair to
grow to unusual length, and writes love.
sick poetry.
The Secretary of War has issued an order
| that ANY office created by State statutes is,
| within the spirit of the law, a civil Office,
| and an officer of the army on the active
| list cannot lawfully accept or hold such
| office, whether in a State military organ
| izatlon or otherwise"
Some days ago Dee Griffin, negress,
gave birth to illegitimate twins at Hunter
| vile, Ala. George Griffin and John Robert
son (negroes) killed both and sewed the
| bodies up in shawl, which they left in
| the woods and fled. They have been ar
| rested in Fayetteville, Tenn.
Nine. Diss de Bar, the notorious spirit
| ualist, who defrauded awyer Marsh of
| New York out of large sums of money by
| means of bogus spook paintings, has been
| arrested at Rome. She contracted hotel
and wine debts, and was unable to meet
| them when called upon to do so.
| Carl Strakosh, the impressario, has Of
| fered Miss Lizzie Boyer, formerly of Oak
| land, Cal, contract as prima donna in a
| new grand opera company which is now
| organizing. Strakosh is the husband OF
| Clara Louise Kellogg. Miss Boyer sings in
| DIR. Alexander's Presbyterian Church at
New York.
| Lubbock, Germany, is greatly excited over
the mysterious murder of young girl, the
daughter of a prominent lawyer named
Peterson. The body was found in badly
| mangled condition. From the nature of
the mutilation it is believed that the deed
was committed by Jack the Ripper or
some emulator of that mysterious mur.
derer.
Adv ertisements have been issued from
the Navy Department for bids for the con-
struction of three steam tugs for the United
States Navy. These tugs are to be COM
pleted and ready for delivery within eight
months from the date of the contracts.
The cost of each tug, including the equip
ment, outfit and furniture. is limited to
$35 900. The bids are to be opened at the
Navy Department at .Ioon on the 18th oil
June