Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-06
WEEKLY HERALD.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
IsPEcIAL TO THE HERALL.l
Csiifsrnla Steamship Company
lae0rpNrate.

C8uun0E8I0 6tG0A8mIV SVMs Y1uy
lseerperate.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5.--The CHlifor-
mia Steamship Company incorporated
yesterday 10 carry on business on this
coast and the waters Of the Pacific with
capital stock OF 100 shares Of 500
each.
Jerome y Cox Heid TO Answer.
SAN FkANcIsco, Jan. 5.--Jerome b.
Cox was held in the police court this
morning for the murder Of Charles Nc
Laughhn.
Pages Views or Mu stingtem ~ .
Letter Writer sud on Other
Matters.
CHICAGO, Jan. 8. - Ex-Congresslnan
Page Of California passed through this
city yesterday on his way to Dakota.
Sps aking Of the Huntington letters. he
raid: II think the letters Harrington
wrote very injudicious and very unjust
to many Congressman and Senators, in
that they did not fully explain. That
10, he left in doubt whether his adverse
criticlsm was directed against them as
friends or enemies, or because Of their
weakness ~ Representatives. He spoke
Of different parties, among others my
sell, - being always right" Page de-
eIased that o number Of San Francisco
papers when he was first nominated for
Congress minated that he was in the
interest Of the Central Pacific, but be
contends bis vote was never in their in.
terest unless ii was his vote. last Feb
ruary. to consolidate uLder one inansgs-
ment the Southern Pacific with connect
ing lines to the Gulf. He declared
taAt in his view the Kansas Pacific Won d
fail to rescue the fourteen million acre
land grant. lie said he believed the
Democrats would favor free trade and
free ships. but would not dare carry tho
doctrine into practice on the eve Of =
Presidential election. He believed the
Republican party has one platform ON
which TO win, an Incorporating pro-
tective tariff.
4 California Csngressasa After
the Alaska Monopoly.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-One Of the
members Of the California delegation
has, II IL unde8tood, ia preparation a
resolution which l. to b offered in the
House. ordering IN investigation into
the affairs Of the Alaska Seal Fur Com
pany. He proposes after the facts are
all brought ont, to follow 1t mp by bill
taking from the Alaska Seal Fur Com
psny the privilege Of catching seals for
the reasons that it has never carried out
the provisions OF its contract, but al
ways has violated it by catching more
seals than allowed by law.
UspsralleA Geld In the North
west Twenty g Thirty -fsur
Degrees Below zers.
CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-The thermometer
at s o'clock this morning dropped to q
point 27' below zero which, taken with
the cold record Of yesterday. makes it
the most severe showing in the way Of
extreme weather known for many years.
Al 8 o'clock the Thermometer stood 24s.
At the same hour ct Kansas City 1t was
reported "a below; St. Paul, 90;
Omaha. 81; Dubuque, 32'; Des Moines,
26', and Keokuk 25'. The effect in this
city has been in MEASURE partially to
paraIyze the ordinary course Of business
Dwelling Barnsd- --Fsur Chilarcn
Perish.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. "a Duke Centre,
Pennsylvania, dispatch to-day says: The
dwelling Of J. V. Garner, an employee Of
the Keystone Oil Co., on the kinsvillc
Branch, near here, caught fire from over
pressure Of gas while Mrs. Garner was
hb .ent and in . few minutes il was in
u.,e. Four little children, aged from
0ae to tx years, were left in the house
sud oil perished in the flames. Thomas
McHale iished the bodies out Of the
ruins this afternoon. They presented a
horrible sight. The parents are wild
with grief.
ME-. =. \. Onseers.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 5.--Private aiv.ces
from New York give the follow iug as the
new list Of officers of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad: President aud Genera
Manager, Thos. 2. Oakes: General and
Chief Engineer, Adna Ander son, Ires. n t
Chief Engineer; Superintendent of Trans
portation, j. 7. Odell. now Saperintend-
ent Of the Eastern Division.
Msw They Trest Kansas Prohibit
tIsnists.
LEAvESwoRTH, Kan. Jan. 5.-The
Office Of the Kansas Prohibition ia was
entered by unknown persons tonight,
the forms ''pied. "and the type tht9wn
into the stove and melted.
Dr. Lasker Dies In New York.
NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Dr. Edward
Lasker. the eminent German, died sud-
denly Of heart disease at a. M. in this
city.
How Carey Was Killed Perhaps.
DUBLIN, Jan. g. United ireland pub
fishes IN account Of the murder Of Carey
written by gentlemen who received 1t
from O'DonneIl. The account shows
that O'Donnell deliberately killed Carey,
that there was no attack on O'Donnell.
Had Judge Denman permitted O'Don.
nell to speak be would have told the
xUhAIo ofr Al. n.