Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-03

valley. Minn., Thursday. Four persons
were burned to death and another can
not live.
At Cleveland, O., Guy tried to beat
2:12, Thursday, but wearing himself out
in scoring, made only 2 :12, doing the last
quarter in 221a.
A cable message from the European
Union of Astronomy, announces the dis
covery of an asteroid (No. 2S1), of the
twelfth magnitude, by DIR. Pallisa, OF
Vienna.
Thomas Sayers, one OF the negro high
waymen who murdered and robbed two
peddlers, Sunday, in Mercer county
West Virginia, was caught and lynched
Wednesday night.
The failure of G. w. Durant is an
nounced on the New York Stock Ex-
change. The failure is the outcome OF
the assignment of the firm OF Durant,
Marsh & Co., few weeks ago.
Herbert l.. Critchett, of Daniels &
Critchett, Boston real estate firm, dis
appeared, leaving a deficit in his &C.
counts with the firm estimated at
$25 900, and 81, 900 in rents collected.
At Lynchburg, Va, disastrous fire
occurred Thursday night, burning Moor.
mans immense tobacco warehouse and
large portion of the whole block be-
sides. The loss is supposed to be very
great.
w. B. Forbes, President of the Ma
tional Bank of Redemption of Boston,
has made an assignment. Liabilities
unknown. Forbes has been dealing
heavily in real estate. The bank is in
no way involved.
Geo. H. Vanderbilt hss purchased
1000 acres of land at Ashville, N. c.,
and is negotiating for more, for the pur.
pose of founding a great industrial
school where poor white children may
taught how to earn living.
At Denver, Col, last Monday James
Longonetti, bartender, shot and killed
A. A. Chase in dispute over drinks.
The murderer was promptly jailed.
After his Incarceration he suffered from
nervous prostration and on Thursday
was taken with convulsions and died in
terrible agony, imagining that the muir.
dered man was torturing him.
Thursday, upon balancing their bank
accounts, the Bodman Tobacco Ware
house Company, of Cincinnati, found a
forged check for 81, 600 in each of three
banks. The checks in each case were
indorsed by Charles Tinker, collector for
the Warehouse Company, who received
the money. Tinker was only 10 years
old and left about the last of September.
His employers think he was the dupe ol
experienced criminals. The boy is
missing.
The question of issuing letters tesla
mentary on the estates of Rustiana Dehr.
ques and Ana r. Dehrques, his wife, who
were shot and killed by the formers bro.
ther at Monte Carlo some months ago
was passed upon Thursday, finally. by
Surrogate Ransom, of New York
He holds that the wife
survived the husband. The couple
made mutual wills. Dehrques appointed
his wife his executrix, but in the event
of her death before him, Courder,
Brothers were to be his executors. As
Mrs. Dehrques died before her husband,
and there being residuary legatee, the
Surrogate decides that letters shall issue
to the next of kin, or in default to the
Public Administrator.
A serious disturbance occurred in the
campus Of Dickinson College at Carlisle
Pa, Wednesday night, between students
of the college and The fire department O.
the city. During the evening the stu
dents arranged to paint the city red ant
tore away the paling fence which sur
rounded the college proper, placing it il
pile with other rubbish to which they
applied match, causing the entire
fire department to respond. When the
iremen reached the campus it was dis
covered that it was a Halloween bon
fire, which so enraged the firemen that
they turned the hose on the students
Stones were thrown from both sides, re-
sulting in about dozen injuries, some
severely. The Mayor issued warrents
and general arrests followed.