Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-08
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches from
All Parts of the World.
Bismarck is compiling book of his
life.
Forty thousand men are on strike in
Catalonia, Spain.
Rich coal discoveries have been made at
Queretaro, Mexico.
The Prince of Wales visited Dom Pedro
at Cannes Tuesday.
Henry NJ. Stanley sailed from Cairo for
England yesterday.
The Shah of Persia is going to introduce
gas into his domain
France has ordered the construction of
thirty tlrst-class torpedo boats.
The Baptists have chosen Santa Cruz as
the place for their permanent camp ground
The American Consul at Plauen, Sax
ony, has been robbed of jewels valued at
5000.
The person responsible for the tearing up
OF the Carlson Railroad at San Diego is not
known.
Many Oakland refugees fleeing from the
wrath to come on the 14th have located at
San Jose.
The Supervisors of San Diego county
propose erecting iron guide posts on the
COloraQ0 desert.
The Chinese are strengthening themselves
on the northern frontier in anticipation of
an attack from Russia.
The census enumerators want it under
stood that ladies refusing to tell their ages
are liable to fine of $50.
The entire thrashiDg outfit and ware
house of Peake Brothers, near Henleyville,
Tehama county, were burned Saturday.
Nationalist society, based on Bellamy's
Looking Backward" has been organized
at Santa Rosa with about twenty members.
The Prince of Wales met the Duke of
Marlborough in the streets of Paris and
refused to notice the laters passing salu-
tation.
The yacht Idler, belonging to ex-Commo-
dore Fisher, of the Chicago Yacht Club,
was found capsized a few miles off Toronto,
and the crew is supposed to have been lost
There are 5000 drinking saloons in Chi
cago. Each pays a license of $500 per an
mum, yielding total revenue of nearly
So, 100000.
The system of overhead electric street
cars is in full operation at San Jose, and
horse-cars are thing of the past on Santa
Clara street.
Two young farmers in Cornwall, En-
gland, have been bound over to keep the
peace for threatening the life of woman
whom they believed had bewitched their
cattle.
Emma Nevada has entirely recovered
from her long attack of influenza in Spain,
and will soon go to Lille to appear in
"Lakme." She will return to Spain to sing
in opera at Seville.
The tornado which swept through Louis
10 IL
course and in the direction from which 1t
came with one that played havoc in the
same city IN the year 1895.
The unveiling of the monument pre-
sented by the Queen in memory of the late
Duke of Albany was performed yesterday
morning, by the Prince of Wales, in the
Albany Memorial Chapel of st. George, at
Cannes.
The So called "high license" bill which
has just passed the Maryland Legislature
fixes the license fee at $3.50 The revenue
to be received from the city from this
source is estimated at from 1915 600 to
S430,0o0 per annum.
British capital is pouring into Mexico.
Four years ago the amount registered on
the London markets was about Sl2 500 OOO
Now more than 500 100000 of British
money is interested in the railways, mines,
banks, ETC., of the Republic.
Henry Perkin and Albert Kunsberg. two
New York pickpockets, set FIRE to a mans
overcoat and then. under pretense of assist
ing in extinguishing the fire, robbed their
victim. A detective fortunately witnessed
the act and captured the thieves.
Rev. DR.. Theodore L. Cuyler resigned
Sunday his thirty years pastorate of the
Lafay yette avenue Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn. His last serm On was impress.
i've, and neither pastor nor congregation
were able to control their emotions.
Jack, the Dye Singer" is the name
given TO an unknown person who threw an
indelible dye upon the rich garments of
many ladies who passed on Fifth street,
Easter Sunday, in New York. He is be.
lieved to be religious crank, with an
accepted mission to abolish the yanities of
life
Several hundred boxes of oranges have
fioated ashore near Newport, Or, bearing
the mark &c. c., Tacoma" The weather
has been good, and, as no wreck is sup
posed to have occurred, much speculation
has been INDUCED in to account for the ap.
pearance of the fruit.
Keely, of motor fame, claims an inven-
ton by which weights are raised and low
cred and slow and violent motions pro-
duced by musical tones. and Professor
Joseph Leidy, of the University of Penn
sylvania, President of the famous Phila-
delphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
attests to having witnessed the experiments.
Keely claims that this force is the same as
that which holds the planets together.
No danger ever attends the use of 81 M