The record-union., 1891-12-07
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Condensed kilograms From All Parts
of the World.

Condensed kilograms From All Parts
of the World.
Governor Campbell of Ohio is suffering
from a severe case of the grippe.
LeMonier, President of the Interna-
tional League of Peace, died at Paris on
Saturday.
E. B. Whitney, Assistant General
Freight Agent of the Union Pacific road,
died at Omaha on Saturday.
Bishop Wadhams, of the diocese of
Ogdensburg, n. Y, died in Ogdensburg
on Saturday, aged "A years.
Advices have been received at Zanzi-
effect that Emin Pasha had arrived at
Wadelai.
Mrs. Parnell, the mother of the dead
Irish leader, sailed for England from
New York on Saturday, accompanied by
her son John.
The United States cruiser No. 9, named
the Montgomery, was launched at the
Columbia Iron Works, Baltimore, at ll:30
o'clock Saturday morning.
Revenue Officers Thomas, Clapp and
Borland captured $500 worth of opium in
Chinatown at Stockton on Friday night,
which had been stamped with sweated
stamps.
1t is learned on good authority that
Governor Francis of Missouri has de-
cided to call special session of the Leg
lslature in January with the intention of
redistricting the State.
Only two lives were lost by the sinking
OF the twelve barges on the Hudson FRI
day night. All on board of the barges
are accounted for. The only dead are
Nicholas Nagel and Frank Murray.
The returns issued by the Dominion
Government show the total debt of the
Dominion on the 30th ult. was S236, 1872, ILL.,
The revenue declined SI05, ,406 last month
owing to the removal of the sugar duties.
The President is still at work on his
message. 1t will not be sent to Congress
before Tuesday noon. The annual re-
port of the Secretary of the Treasury
will be sent to Congress at noon Wednes-
day.
Secretary Proctor severed his con-
nection with the War Department
Saturday afternoon and took official leave
ofan the officers in that department. He
Will take his seat in the Senate to-day,
and soon thereafter will be called to act
on the nomination of his successor.
An incendiary fire broke out at Reno
Saturday morning at 2 o'clock in low
groggery known as the "Gilmore Gar
dens," and William Hedges, 35 years of
age, was burned to crisp. His skull
was found fractured and foul play is sus-
pected. A man named Jack Savage has
been arrested as the incendiary.
Allen w. Fellows, civil engineer, who
has been at Salton five days in the inter-
est of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, and who has taken soundings and
observations of the famous Salton Sea,
reports that at the present rate of evapo-
ration there will be nothing left of the sea,
except the salty basin, in forty days more.
he found the greatest depth of the water
now to be three feet and four inches. The
average depth is six inches.
The large 60, ,0o0-gallon tank at the city
water works at Anaheim collapsed when
about half full of water Saturday morn
ing at half-past o'clock. The hoops
gave way and the tank fell with crash
to the ground, distance of thirty feet
The noise sounded as if boiler had
burst. The water spurted from the tank
and the slaves went flying in all direc-
tions, and many fell on the water works
and City Jail below. Engineer Schnei-
der, who was in the engine-house pump
ing water. was badly hurt, but stood al
his post bravely, opening the valves
shutting OFF the steam and drawing the
fires. He is badly cut about the head
The City Jail was demolished and the
boiler-house at the water works wrecked.