Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-02
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches from
All Parts of the World.

Condensed Telegraphic dispatches from
All Parts of the World.
George R. Cheever, D. D., LID, clergy
man and author, died at Englewood, n. j.,
yesterday morning.
Charles McElvaine, convicted of the MUIR
der of Christian w. Luca Brooklyn, New
York, grocer, has been sentenced to death
by electricity.
Walter Walker was arrested by officers
and brought into Salt Lake from Summit
county, charged with horrible crime. He
is brother of the Bishop of Peva.
The st. Petersburg Novisti publishes q
semi official denial of the report that Rus
STA proposed an alliance with France when
Spuller was French Minister Of Foreign
Affairs.
A British steamer, the Bushmills, from
London, reports that on September Dist,
300 miles east northeast from Cape Race,
she passed an enormous iceberg, which was
about three miles in circumference and 600
feet high.
Work on the Government jetties at Va
qulna bay, Or, was resumed Tuesday
morning, engineer ]. o. Polhemus being in
charge. The work will be pushed all win
ter. The ietties and plant are in excellent
condition.
Richard Watrous, miner, committed
suicide by dose of poison at Jackson,
Amador county, Tuesday. He left note
saying it was a clear case of suicide and
that neither Coroner nor autopsy was nee
essary. III health is supposed TO be the
cause.
A dispatch from Lordsburg, N. NJ. says
G. S. Cooper, a min er at Gold Hill, shot
himself in the head with a rife Tuesday,
-,-fa 6aaAaen4 lad
been drinking heavily for ten days. He
leaves brother at Wilcox, Arizona, and
another at Don Cabezes.
Abe Hahn, Is years old, of Tacoma,
was arrested Tuesday night for forgery.
Last Thursday young Hahn presented
check for S25 on the Tacoma National
Bank to William H. Dickson, merchant.
The check was made 10 order of young
Hahn with his fathers signature.
WORK is TO be resumed at once on the
construction of the Astoria and South Coast
Railway. and the contract has been let to
Chinese from Portland for grading seven
miles out from Hiilsboro, and at Astoria to
another Chinese firm for grading several
miles up the Lewis and Clarke rivers.
Fourteen miles of steel rails are due from
Pennsylvania.
Captain Symons of the United States
Engineer Corps, who has charge OF the i'm
provements at Coos bay, Oregon. has re-
ceived orders from the Chief of Engineers
to remove the wreck of the bark Charles
Devens from in front of the town of Glas-
gov. The upper part is now rotting away,
and the hull, being no longer visible, is be-
coming dangerous. 1t will be blown up
with dynamite and the debris removed.
Arrangements have been completed by
cable for the meeting of Peter Jackson and
Frank P. Slavin in the rooms of the Mel
bourne Athletic Club within the next six
months. a purse of So 600 has been guar
anteed, and Jack Dougherty has lodged a
deposit in Melbourne in behalf of Slavin,
who readily accepted Jackson's challenge
with the single stipulation that the fight be
arrange for such time as will not prevent
his presence in England to receive any sem
tence that may be imposed on him in con-
nection with his Ormonde Club fight.