Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-13
Eastern Echoes.

Kelly, Roper & Riley, Wholesale gro
GERS OF Memphis, Tenn, have assigned
liabilities, $l0S,000; assets, nominally
$175 700.
| At Omaha the heat on Thursday was
intense. The ball game was called wher
half over, the players not being able tc
stand the sun. AS 5 p. M. the ther
mometer was i02 in the shade.
| At Thursdays session of the National
| photographers Association, at Minneap
oils, H. McMichael, of Buffalo, was
elected President, and Geo. w. Morris
OF Boston, Vice President.
Ebenezer Stanyard, the Youngstown
O., murderer, who killed his sweetheart
Alice Hancock, early in 1887, was hanged
in the penitentiary at Columbus at / p
NJ. Thursday.
The strike situation among the Bur.
lington switchmen at Kansas City shows
little change, except that the boycott o
OF "Q' freight was raised at noon. All
is quiet around the yards, and all switch
ing is going on regularly.
At New York, Richard B. Garter
fatally wounded Theresa Adams this
evening, and then killed himself. The
couple had lived together, and the shoot
ing had followed her refusal to renew
such relations. Jhe is 40 years old and
has four daughters. He was 81 years
old.
The Executive Committee of the Ma.
tional Editorial Association completed its
| labors at Cincinnati Thursday. The next
meeting of the Association will be at San
Antonio, Texas, beginning Wednesday
November 2lst, and continuing three
days. 1t will be followed by a tour Of
Texas and visit to Mexico.
Jos. r. Dunlap, managing editor of the
| Chicago Times, and a Representative
newspaper man, was married Thursday
morning to Mrs. Helen Louise Thomp.
son, the widow of the late Henry Wen.
dell Thompson. The couple left at once
for California, where they will spend
their honeymoon.
The Ohio State Board of Pardons has
signed a recommendation asking Presi-
dent Cleveland to pardon from the Ohio
penitentiary Ben. E. Hopkins, one of the
officers of the lac Fidelity Bank of Gin
cinnati. The opinion is expressed that
Hopkins cannot live more than wear
owing to dropsical tendency.
The great Division and Statehood Con-
ventlon at Huron, DAKOTA, has completed
it's work. There is general feeling
among the delegates and others, that It
accomplished what it set out to do, and
that the result will be effective and en-
tlrely satisfactory to the people of the
Territory.
The only change in General Sheridan's
condition during the last twenty-four
hours has been in the condition of his
nervous system. He slept we'll last night
and has been very tranquil all day
more tranquil than at any previous time
since his arrival here. It is now thirty
five days since he had an attack of heart
failure.
Passengers reaching Pitts6eld, Mass. 8
from the West this evening reported that
Wednesday nights cyclone created terri
bic devastation between there and
Albany, sweeping from the State line to
East Chatham, levelling three paper
mills, many houses, etc. 1t is supposed
there was some loss of life but it is i'm
possible to obtain particulars.
A special from Trinidad, Colorado.
says: Fred Remington, a young man
representing himself as an artist of
Harper's Weekly, arrived in the CITY some
days ago and employed himself sketch
ing mountain scenery for his paper To-day
he took morphine with suicidal intent
and died this evening. Soon after his
arrival here he made the acquaintance
and fell in love with Miss White, and it
is thought she Tilted him, causing him to
commit the act. He left will bequeath.
ing Miss White 1000 and the Journal
lists Home $4,000. His father is sup
posed to be in New York.