Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-27
Ea stern Echoes.


At Sioux Fall, Oak, 800 hands at
Ragan's quarry are on strike. The yre-
fuse to sign a contract relieving the COM
pany from damages for injuries to the
men.
The Governing Committee of the New
York Stock Exchange has ordered
number of securities placed on the regu-
lar list, among which is the Utah and
Northern Railway for $1,359 900 first
mortgage bonds.
}. W. Brown, convicted of bigamy at
Detroit, Mich, was sentenced to four
years and six months in the penitentiary.
Seven of the thirty three women he is
alleged to have married appeared as wit
nesses against him.
The Minneapolis Journals Wabasha,
Mimi, special says: An incendiary fire
which started at o'clock to-day in
business block Oh Main street, swept the
street as far as the docks. The total loss
is estimated at $l50,00O.
Two sections of Chicago and North
western freight train collided near Hum
boldt, Iowa. The engine of the second
section and eight cars were completely
wrecked. The debris caught fire and
was totally consumed. No lives were
lost.
There is no cessation in the east.bo
passenger rate war at st. Louis, and
there was another general cut all round
on Wednesday. The rates to New York
by the various lines are: Vandalia, $16;
Beeline, $l450; Wabash, $l3 so; Ohio
and Mississippi, $3.50.
The sixth annual meeting of the Lake
MOhonk, N. Y, Conference of Friends
OF the Indian, was called to order
Wednesday morning by Hon. Albert X
Smiley, member Of the Board of Indian
Commissioners. General Clinton B.
Fisk, President of the Board of Indian
Commissioners, was for the sixth year
elected President.
In sham battle at Fort Sully, OAK,
between Companies A, B, @ and D, hot
blood arose and the men got into such
close quarters that several were severely
injured, three being in the hospital now
with wounds received. The officers drew
their swords and Lieutenant Augrel re-
ceived severe wound in the arm.
In Chicago general strike of drivers,
conductors and grip-car men on the rail
ways in the north and west districts of
the city for Encouragement of rates and
hours is threatened. President Yerkes
refused request of that nature made by
committee of the men Tuesday, and at
secret meeting Tuesday night it was de-
cided to strike unless the decision ia
reversed.
All the lines in the Central Traffic AS
soclation are now unanimously in favor
OF restoring rates to the tariff of March |
9th on the fourth, fifth and sixth classes. |
The right to drop to present figures is re-
served by the Pennsylvania Company if |
the higher scale is broken by any other
line. Restoration will take effect Octo- |
Der Sth. vote will now be taken on |
proposition to restore rates on the higher |
classes OF freight.
The New York Post says it is an
nounced that Lombard & Ayers, who
have been the largest individual oil re-
finers in the United States, have sold
their refinery at Bayonne, N. j., to the
Ocean Oil Company, of New York, and
the Chester Oil Company, OF Philadel-
phia, both controlled by the Tidewater
Pipe Line Of Philadelphia. The consid-
GRAFTON for the sale is stated to be not
less than 50 100000.
The st. Paul, Mimi, Evening Dispatch
has Standing Rock special which saws
that Chief Justice John Gross, who has
more influence with his nation than anv
one else, said before leaving the Lower
Brule conference, that he will guarantees
that every Indian on the reservation will
sign the treaty if the Government will
pay them 81 per acre for their II 900, 600
acres of land, but they positively refuse
to come to terms at so cents per acre.
Mrs. Lena Schreiner, who poured kero.
sene on her husband while he was drunk I
and set him on fire, pleaded guilty to the $
charge of murder in the court at Chicago. j
with her baby on her knee. She listened t
stolidly while Judge Tuthill pronounced
q sentence of ten years in the peniten-
hary. The Judge said that in fixing the
sentence he had taken into consideration ,
The fact that Schreiner was a wife-beater
of the most brutal variety.