Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-17
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches from
All Parts of the World.
Gottfried Keller, the poet, died at Zurich.
Switzerland, Tuesday.
Professor James r. Solev has been ap-
pointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
AT London, Tuesday, articles were signed
for the glove fight between McAuliffe and
Siavin.
The Government has accorded an in
crease OF pay and other concessions to the
London photographers.
Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of
Prince Ferdinand of Orleans, is betrothed
TO Prince Alphonso of Bavaria.
Congressman D. S. Hall. of the Third
District of Minnesota, was renominated
for Congress By the Republicans
The residence of John Hamlet, Val
parslso, was burned yesterday His wife
and four children were burned to death.
In the international cricket match at
Philadelphia: yesterday Canada VS.. United
States. the latter won by one inning and
thirty-one runs.
The temperature in the chief Eastern
cities yesterday was as follows: New York.
76o; New Orleans, $40; ST. Louis, 500; Gin.
cinnati, 7S0; Chicago, TAO; Winnipeg, $50.
Advices from Chile state that the strikers
IN the nitrate district number 1000. A con-
fiict occurred between the strikers and
troops: Forty strikers were killed and
wounded:
Mrs Lucia Quentin committed suicide at
the insane asylum at Napa. Tuesday night,
by hanging herself with sheet from her
bed. She was committed from Eureka
oaly week ago.
The Carpenters Union of Oakland has
rescinded all resolutions regarding the re-
fusal of carpenters to put up mill-work
manufactured by mills running over eight
hours after August LIST.
Charles Jones was shot and killed by G.
J. Weiss. at Scott Bar, Siskiyou county.
Tuesday night, in a quarrel over the settle
ment of an account. Weiss is under ar.
rest. He claims that the deed was done in
self-defense.
The volcanoes Fugnac and LLAMA, near
Cooks Inlet, Washington, have been very
active, and several severe shocks of earth
quake have been felt. A large quantity of
ashes, and in places large stones, have
fallen In the immediate vicinity.
A new Cabinet has been formed at Cape-
town, as follows: Prime Minister, with
out portfolio: Rhodes; Attorney General,
lnnes; Treasurer, Merriman; Commissioner
of Crown Lands and Public Works, Slew.
Wright; Secretary for Native Affairs, Satter.
The bear flag that General Fremont
first hoisted over the conquered city of
Monterey, in 1S47, is flying at half mast
from the headquarters of the Associated
Pioneers of 40, in Boston, and will SO re-
main until the Pathfnder's body is COM
mitted to dust.
Justice Andrews, of the New York Su-
preme Court, has given his Judgment of
foreclosure and sale in the suit of the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company against
the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph
Company and others, upon divisional
mortgage upon which is due $4,000 and
interest.
Lieutenant Peral, the inventor of the
submarine vessel which has created such a
sensation in Spain, was accorded an almost
royal reception on the occasion of his ar
rival at Madrid Monday. Upward of 25,-
600 people, with band of music, banners,
flags, etc, met him and cheered themselves
hoarse in his honor.
The completion of new fast ship. in
tended for the Russian fleet in the Black
Sea, is announced at St. Petersburg. She
is dispatch boat, 40 feet in length and
! fifteen feet beam, and is named the Adler.
On her trial trip she made twenty 81 Z
knots an hour. Three gunboats of equal
sEiftness are now being built.