Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-09-20
lQSaNdELES WEEKLY HERALD
Morning kilograms.


MOJAVE Sept. l9.-JnO. Omltn.
Col Deane, Miss Emma Sears, l.,
S. b. Sawyer and d. Young for Los
Angeles; r. C. Ames, J. B. Hoss,
VIM. b. Ready, and Mrs Brown
and child, for Yuma; w. A. Rowe
and Mrs. Warnock, for Mnrlc0pa.
Meeting NJ Democratic Executive
Committee.
WASHINGTON, September 18Th.
The members of the National
and Congressional Democratic Ex-
/. ecutive Committees met to-day.
The only business transacted thus
far was with regard to the APP
preaching State election in Ohio.
A statement was read, showing the
present outlook and making GER.
tain suggestions as to the best
method of conducting tue camp
align. A member of the National
Committee states that the call did
not contemplate meeting to take
action on the New York Difference
es, and he did not anticipate that
anything would be done in refer
ence to such differences.
Tho Boston FIre-N"mbrr of We
aims.
BOSTON, Sept. 1Sth.-The occu-
pants of the tenement, 12S Gold
street, burned last night, were: On
the first floor, an aged couple, whom
no one in the vicinity seems to
have known, and one Gillespie and
wife; on the second floor, German
family, consisting of father,
mother and three children, named
PhefIer; on the third floor, Ferdi-
nand Meroth, wife and two chill
dreu, and George Holdreith, wife
and two children, making fifteen
persons asleep In the house when
the incendiary kindled the fire.
When the fire was discovered
by a policeman it was
quarter to twelve. The
front door, having burned through
the stairs, making them impassa-
bic. The smoke was rolling up the
narrow staircase, and the awakened
inmates, before the firemen could
arrive with their ladders, had
either leaped from the windows,
gone to the roof in hope of safety,
or dropped suffocated in the halls.
The list of dead comprises five,
which number may be increased to
seven or eight. The old couple on
the first floor made their es-
cape and were not heard of
during the night. The Gillespie
family escaped with the exception
of the wife and mother. The
mother, SO years old, might have
escaped by walking only about six
feet, but became bewildered and
swooned in her room. She was
found by the firemen in an appar-
entity dying condition, and was
taken to the station with the other
victims of the fire. Her injuries
were terrible from burns external
and internal. Rose Pfeiffer, and
aged %, was found in the
hall of the second floor. Mrs
Pfeiffer and two children, jumped
from the window and were
but slightly hurt. But Pfeiffer,
the father, was lost. Meroth, on
the third floor, lifted his son
Charles, aged IA, out of the window
and allowed him to drop to the
ground, distance of forty feet,
Then instructed his wife and daugh-
ter Rosie to jump, which they did.
Last of all he himself jumped to
the ground, and in falling met in
: slant death. Mrs. Meroth is at the
City Hospital with fractures
of both legs and one arm, and
her face bruised beyond all recog-
nition. The daughter Rosie sus-
tanned no serious injury, but
Charles is badly hurt. Holdried
took his wife to the roof and then
went down stairs, where he was
caught by the flames and was
burned, probably fatally. Mrs
recognition, was found on the roof
hospital, internally injured from
jumping to the ground, and witt
an arm broken.
lau'tstaud COrnsit Eou the C0s;k
ing Machine.
NEW YORK, Sept. 18th
circular published to-day will
sixty signatures says; "The under
signed Republican voters OF tn
rank and file appeal, in the interes
of good government, to the Rspuo
lican and Independent voters of th
State of New YORK 10 secure III
cuccess of the Republican part
end the defeat of Cornell and G
Sou,e. We heartily endorse tn
Republican platform adopted g
saratoga 1t denounces the mi
government attempted by the Den
ocrstie majority in Congress II
IIr.p- Two administration of Fla. ei
repudiate. tQcAtln- iAN' -
tIae. and nrrR ga Cornell iu.
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