Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-22
Letting Indlnn supply Contracts.

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NEW YORK, June 2l.-The first
of the awards of Indian supply
contracts was made this afternoon,
those for flour being the only ones
yet announced. Twenty.nine bid
ders receive contracts for five mil
lion pounds of flour, to be delivered
at various Indian agencies. The
contracts involve about three mill
lion dollars.
Hanged ne Chiisicoihe, OHIO.
CINCINNATI, June 21.-Perry
Bowsher, who murdered the aged
toll gate keeper and his wife on
the Clrcleville pike, short dis.
tance from Chillicothe, Ohio, last
October, was hung at Chillicothe
to-day.
Hanged As Chicago.
CHICAGO, June 2I.-This morn
ing jeremiah Connolly and George
Sherry were hanged at the jail for
the murder of Hugh McConville ON
the 10th of last January. They
we're quiet and composed, and
spent the last few minutes of their
lives in silent prayer.
A Converted Brahmin seut mp for
Bigamy.
TORONTO, June 21.-T. V. Ray, a
converted Brahmin priest, con-
victed of bigamy, has been
sentenced 10 three months impris-
Onment.
still Nj MassinE their FOs ces.
NEW YORK, June 2l.-Dlspatch.
es state that $1,000 Russians have
arrived at San Stefano from Odes.
sa, and that the Russians are cou-
centrating at Shumla and Varna.
The English Government is send
ing heavy reinforcements to Cape
of Good Hope.
Russia VIII Not Deviste.
NEW YORK, June 21.--A Berlin
dispatch says that Schouvaloff has
informed the Congress that Russia
Is determined to stand by the
Anglo.R Russian agreement and Will
not treat on any other basis nor
make further concessions.
The SOc1ntfnt TfOubics Ia Berlin.
BERLIN, June 21,-Agitatlon
continues about the measures
which the Government favors for
the repression of Socialism, and
newspapers are continually report.
ing arrests t Socialists and the In
terruption of meetings. The Neue
Presse (Socialist) asserts that the
Examining Magistrate Of one Ber-
lin Court said recently, that as far
as his investigation had proceeded
there was not the least reason to
suppose that Modelling was con-
nected with the Social Democrats.
1t is hoped that the Emperor will
shortly be able to 60 to Wilhelms-
hoe, and later in the year to Wei
mer and Gastien.
General Talk from London.
LONDON, June 2lst.-The Grego-
rian calendar is likely to be adopt
ed in Russia. The Council Of State
and Ministers have been using the
old and new styles heretofore.
The Russians are fOrtifyiDg Ro-
desto, evidently contrivlng every
means to gain a firm hold on Bull
garia and preparing to hold IL
against all adversaries. The meeting
of the Congress rather increased
than abated their activity in that
respect. Conservative members Of
Parliament will consider the action
to be taken by the party in refer
ence to the Cabinets policy in &C.
ceptlng the Schouvalof. Salisbury
memorandum to which the Con-
servatives are generally hostile.
president MacMahon Review Ing
she TrOOps.
PARIS, June 21.-President Mac
Mahon reviewed forty thousand
infantry and cavalry and several
batteries of artillery at Long
champs yesterday.
Nos as she Csnr Ex pecsed.
BERLIN, June 2l.-A messenger
has gone to st. Petersburg, 1t is
said, to report to the Car the prog
ress of negotiations, which are
taking a different course from what
Russia expected, owing mainly to
the fresh rapprochment between
England and Austria, which ap-
pears 10 render further concessions
on the part of Russia necessary.
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