Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-14


with a block and half Of other build
ings, was destroyed. The loss is over
900. 900.
Commandant Hereet, proprietor Of the
Louvre, and q warm advocate OF the
Boulanger cause, during tit OF tempo
rary mental alteration shot his young
wife and then shot himself. Both are In
a critical condition.
EASTERN.
The Grand Orange Lodge began its an
nual session at Cleveland Tuesday.
General John G. Fremont is visiting al
Omaha. lie returns to California in
lew days.
Mrs. Clara P. II. Pope, vile Of Major
General John Pope, died at the family
residence in st. Louis on Tuesday and
was buried Wednesday.
Jack Hanlon knocked Mike Coburn
out in three rounds at Pittsburg, Tues
day night The fight was for 5000 side.
DR.. Newman Bateman, president OF
Knox College at Galesburg, ILL.,, after
thirteen years service, has rendered his
resignation, owing to ill.health.
Dispatches from points in Iowa and H.
lnois state that millions OF locusts are
making their appearance. They are do
ing little yet beyond the killing OF young
and tender trees. Opinions differ as to
whether they are Of the seventeen years
variety.
August Michaelson and Hans Tidge
were drowned in Loup river, Nebraska
| Sunday. Michaelson, wishing to frighten
| Tidge, who couldn't swim, tipped the
boat until it finally capsized. In trying
to save himself Tidge clung to Michael
son and both were drowned.
The Western Union Telegraph direc
| tors declared quarterly dividend of | a
per cent. The statement for the quarter
estimates the gross earnings at So 5,000,-
900; net earnings, 81 ,550,000; fixet
charges and dividends, 81 .220 600; leav-
! ing surplus for the quarter OF 1880, 900
A man named Glasgo, a resident o.
| Glasgo, Cambridge county, Pa, shot and
killed his son-in-law, named Lanade
and then put bullet through his own
head yesterday. His son-in-law died in
stantly. Glasgo was reported dying
The cause OF the tragedy was family
| troubles.
The nursery tale of cinderella and
the Glass Slipper, has been transformed
into spectacular play, The Crystal Slip
per, or Prince Pret,iUitz and Little Gin
derelid. 1t was presented for the first or
Tuesday in the Chicago Opera House
before large and fashionable audience
with great success.
In the Diss de Barr case Tuesday the
General" denied that he had painted
spook pictures, but admitted his il
licit relations with Madame. Madame
in her testimony, gave rambling ac-
count OF her life, similar to that already
published, and went into paroxysm ol
rage at the testimony OF the Solomon's
her brother and sister.
Sarah Jane Whiteling, of Philadelphia
has made voluntary confession oi
ing the poison with which her husband
poisoned himself. She gave desponden
cy, caused by extreme poverty, as the
that she had insurance to Che amount Of
$1,000 on the lives Of the three, which she
collected.
PACIFIC COAST.
A patent has beeg granted to VIM. N.
Best, Of Los Angeles, for lifting jack.
The report of a prospective exodus
from Arkansas to California is the latest
news that has come to the State Board Of
Trade.
Patti Rosa, the actress, has married
her manager, John Dunno. The wedding
took place Juce 3rd, the affair being kept
a profound secret.
A close estimation of the total loss by
fire in the Canning block, Oakland, on
Monday evening, places it at $107 ,060
and insurance $75,526.
What was left OF the steamer Julia.
which was blown up near Vallejo several
months since, was sold on Tuesday by
United States Marshal Frienks, as trus-
tee, for $6l5.
Richard Van Staden was killed al
Mountain View, CAL, Tuesday evening,
by jumping from the Monterey express
train. Landing on bridge, he fell
through. His body was horribly man
gled.
The colored Masons closed their ses.
sion at Chico, CAL, Tuesday, electing
Thomas Smith, OF Marysville, Most Wor-
shipful Grand Master. The officers were
publicly installed. The next session con.
venes at Marysville.
The contract for the building of the
| first twenty miles of Governor Water.
mans San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern
Railway, has been let to Messrs. VALLEY
& Co., who will begin work at once, and
their contract will be finished within six
months.
The corner stone of Bourne & Wise's
mammoth wine cellar at st. Helena, Cal.
was laid Wednesday, with due cere
monies. The cellar will be one of the
largest in the world, and will cost with
equipments over a quarter OF million
dollars.
J. H. Garfield, Secretary of the Ma
tional Educational Association, has ar.
rived at San Francisco. He will estab.
lsh his office in San Francisco and re-
main until after the Convention. Can.
| field is Professor OF Political Science in
the University OF Kansas.
AT meeting OF the State Viticultural
| Commissioners at San Francisco, com.
mittee of three, Of which the President
is Chairman. was appointed to wait or
| Miss Kate Field and see if she would
accept the office OF lecturer for the East
ern States on subjects pertaining to the
wine industry.
James Porter, the convict who escaped
from the penitentiaTy at Yuma, Arizona
Tuesday night, was found ambushed near
the Gila river Wednesday, by Superin.
tendent Behan and Indian scouts. Porter
opened fire with a Winchester rifle which
he had. narrowly missing Behan, but
was finally taken.
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