The record-union., 1893-09-14
ELECTRIC FLASHES
brIet kilograms From Various Sec
tions of the Globe.

Brief kilograms From Various Sec
t1ons of the Globe.
The Portuguese authorities have de-
clared a cholera quarantine at Lisbon
against New York as an infected port.
A million feet of lumber on John
Welch's docks, at West Bay City, Mich.
was burned yesterday morning. The
loss is 100000.
The Board of Supervisors Of Fresno
county IS now considering an ordinance
raising the saloon license TO $500 per quar-
ter. 1t will probably carry.
Judge Holmes of Fresno has received
the remittitur of the case of DR.. +. Vim
cent, and will proceed to resentence him
and fix the day Of execution.
There is a scarcity of sugar at st. Iouis
and in ell parts of the country snDpIied
by the trust. The retail grocers are short.
No orders are taken except for future de-
livery.
Of the 5000 pilgrims who went to
mecca ON May 4th, $40 perished of cholera
anu other diseases. or body OF Turkish
troops detailed to bury the dead, 500 Of
them also died.
n dispatch from Bangkok announces
that the relations between Siam and
France are more satisfactory. 1t is added.
however, the resumption of negotiations
is still uncertain.
The United States cricket team won the
hauonaI cricket match with the Canada
team at Toronto yesterday by four
Wlckets. The scores We're: Canada. 81 and
236; United States 1T and I4S, for six
wickets.
The steamer Byron Terrace, living at
the cock at bennington, Ontario, caught
hre early yesterday morning. The cap
tain, purser and cook jumped overheard.
1he cook was drowned. Two deck hands
were burned to death.
The highwayman who held nm the
Ager stage IN Oregon Sunday afternoon.
stopped the same stage yesterday and re-
lieved two Chinese passengers OF 500 and
returned to the driver two pension drafts
part OF the sDoils of his first adventure
The express box and mail pouches he
lett untouched this time.
The amount secured by the Lake Shore
train robbers is now put at $4,000. The
chlet detectives of Chicago put little
credence in the story that Bill Dalton
the notorious Southwestern train robher'
had anything to do with the robbery
1hey say the best information is the
gang consisted OF seven men, of whom
two were colored.
At meeting of the trust certificate
holders yesterday, the great Standard Oil
trust was formally dissolved. Hereafter.
IL is sald, the companies that were in the
$50 ANCpCL1QGnLly NO dSSuT-
ance is given, however, that there will he
any competition. The reason given for
the change is popular prejudice against
trusts.
1t IS said that a large lump has de-
YeIoped on the right arm OF Secretary
Carlisle and that he will in day or two
undergo surgical operation. The lumD
has long resisted treatment. The Secre-
tary has suffered great agony ana has lit
tie use OF his arm. He has endeavored to
Keep the fact OF the approaching operation
secret.
The Russian Government has ordered
that It's mints shall no longer receive
from individuals silver bars or worn sill
yer pieces to be converted into coin, and
that the importation offoreign silver coin
Is prohibited. This prohibition. how
ever, shall not apply TO Chinese liang.
which China may still send INTO Russia
over the frontier. No great significance is
attached to the order by the Treasury be-
partment, as most OF the money of Rus
sla is paper and the silver coins are few.