Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-31
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed Telegraphic Dispatches from
All Parts of tho World.

Condensed IeIeSraphic dispatches from
All Parts of the World.
A great Cracker and Biscuit Trust is be.
ing formed in New England and the Mid
die States.
Jean Haskell Hosmer, the actress, died
at New York yesterday of Ia grippe, aged
forty eight.
Mason Brown, the most prominent law
yer OF Kentucky, man of national reputa-
ton, died yesterday.
Christopher D. Woods, Treasurer of the
Switchmen's Union of Kansas City, has
disappeared with 81 900 of the unions
money.
The leading Catholic organ in Montreal
says Archbishop Fabre at the next Consis-
tory at Rome viii be made Prince of the
Church.
The son and wife of the deceased Post
master st Portland, Mo, have been arrested
for rifing the mails and lodged in the jail
at Springfield.
The books of the Sugar Trust are to be
taken into Court. Secrets hitherto guarded
as too sacred for the scrutiny of the public
are to be unsesled.
Ex-President Cleveland has rid himself
of all connection with Bufialo's interests by
selling to real-estate men the only piece OF
property he held there.
The managers Of the Baseball League
| Club of Pittsburg are going to sue the man
ayers OF the brotherhood Club for con-
spiracy and $4,000 damages.
1t is rumored that Kinlock Cook, editor
| of an English illustrated magazine, will be
nomin ated by England for Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Samoa.
at Paramount. H., Jacob Adell saturated
his clothes with kerosene and set himself
on fire ITO expiate his sins and to propiti-
ate the favor of the Almighty"
A bill has been introduced in the Senate
| by Senator Spooner to confer upon the In
terstate Commerce Commission authority
to regulate Geographic commerce.
a hot political fight is going on in the
New York Legislature over the proportion
of politicians placed IN the Worlds Fair
billto control the great exhibition.
Americans in Mesopotamia unearthed at
Niffer the ruins of a temple, and there they
found bell, tablets and cylinders bearing
inscriptions dating back to $3.50 B. G.
A mob of 800 men started out at Cold
water, Kan, to lynch DIR. Stratum, vino
killed Dudley Murphy, but the prisoner
had been taken from jail by the Sheriff.
The employees discharged from the Queen
and Crescent Railway at Cincinnati are
members,of Brotherhoods. It is proposed
| to settle the matter in the Courts, if neces-
sary.
Switzerland is about tc negotiate large
loan from English capitalists with the pur-
pose of buying up her railroads, now owned
| by Germans who could control them in the
event OF war.
Wells, EaIgo.t6 Co.'s Express train on
| the Erie Railroad collided with a passenger
| train last night near 0swego, n. Y. One
/ sleeper was wrecked. Three persons are
I reported killed.
I Whispers ere going about in London to
The effect that further dynamite outrages
! are contemplated By American extremists
| a. the Irish Eome-rEle party Scotland
Yard has been warned.
| Charles Stallsr5, q mining engineer and
| former Californian, now IN New York, SAYS
! he net Morris BaGIn, of San Francisco, in
Berlin, and BauR told him he expected
shor1y 10 return 10 San Francisco.
| BuSslo Bill has spilled for permission
| to use the Colosseum in Rome for his
Wild West ShoWp when that institution
| arrives IL the Eternal City" and there is
every probability that the request will be
granted
The Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation
saws they will sell the strip to the Govern
ment for $50, 100000. He says private par
ties have offered the nation 3 % per acre,
aud deposited 100000 as rental of the strip
for pasturage.
Iaterest in the coming Mardi Grss festi-
val IN New Orleans is intensified by the
announcement that tEo of the carnival So
cieties will parade simultaneously on carni-
val night Mayor Shakespeare fears trouble
and viii probable ask the police 10 inter-
fere.