Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-13
Eastern Echoes.


AT Ithaca. N. Y, four skaters broke
through the ice and two were drowned
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, has
been reelected by a practically unanl'
nous vote.
The boiler at Wilcox's steam mill near
Evergreen, Ala, exploded, killing 1oui
men and wounding several.
Telegrams from various points in Min
nesota and Dakota report the first snow
fall of the season, amounting to from one
to two inches.
Complete returns show the election OF
the en- ire anti Catholic School Committee
ticket of Boston. About 600 women,
out of 81 900 registered, voted.
A colored painter, named A. IT,.
Wright, Drained with an axe, his colored
paramour, Laura Dixon, in a Brooklyn,
N. Y, tenement. He gave himself up
to the police.
| William Newman, 20 years old, a
switchman on the Third avenue elevated
road, New York, was run over by an en-
gine on the elevated structure and in
stantly killed.
The trial of Gberkampf and Mack, who
will be remembered as having been en-.
gagged in the most extensive robbery of
letter boxes ever known, last summer,
has begun in the Unite States court in
Chicago.
At Bevier, Mo-, the officers decline to
say what the military will do in the
event of an attempt being made by the
strikers to erect Notifications, as they
coming for that purpose.
The bodies of two men have been
found hanging to a tree at point near
a school house six miles south OF Kansas
City, The supposition is that the bodies
are those Of two horse thieves who have
beeen lynched by farmers.
A special from Springfield. ILL.,, says
Governor Oglesby has refused to pardon
Joseph Mackin, who will be remembered
as having been sentenced to five years
imprisonment from Chicago for ''fine
work" in the election four years ago.
In New York Wednesday afternoon,
Mrs. Caroline Schmidt, aged 23, while
insane, threw herself from fourth story
window with her two children, three and
two years old. She was instantly killed
and the children badly injured.
Sergeant Darlington, Privates Fred
Petit and Benjamin Wilson of Company
A, Eleventh Infantry, located at Madi-
son Barracks, Sacketts Harbor, were
drowned in Lake Ontario by upsetting of
a boat in which they were fishing.
The switchmen in all the railway
yards at Toledo, Ohio, had agreed to
strike at noon Wednesday, but at 10
O'Clock the Pennsy lvania switchmen re-
turned to work on a compromise. The
others will probably follow the example
At Cleveland, Ohio, water main
burst on Hanover street early Wednes-
day morning, and ringing torrent went
through the streets and across lots, tear
ing everything up, flooding cellars, un-
dermining foundations and burying rail- |
road tracks in mud. The loss is fully |
$4,000.
Edward F. Honeywood, who was ar
rested at Newark, N. j., Monday night |
for forgery,is the son Of Lady Honeywood |
of England. He claims to have been |
sent to New Zealand to reform, and that |
on his return to England be was kept by |
his brother, Sir John, until he got his |
share of the property GELS .000), which !
he soon squandered and was then in
duced to come to America.
At meeting of the Medico-Legal So
ciety at New York, the report of the |
committee on the best method Of ex-
ecuting the law, providing for the put |!
ting to death of murders by electricity, |
was adopted. The report recommends |
that an alternating current should be
used with the alterations no fewer than
300 per second. Such current should
be allowed to pass from fifteen to thirty
seconds to insure death.
At New Orleans $50 telephones, here
tofore the property of the National I'M
proved Crescent City and New Orleans
Telephone Companies, were burned nm
der the direction of Frank B. Knight, of
the American Bell Telephone Company,
of Boston. These instruments were ad-
Judged by the United States Court to
Infringe on the patents of the Bell Com
pauy, and as they could not be utilized
they we're destroyed.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Western Union Directors the usual divi-
dend OF II per cent was declared out OF
the earnings of the current quarter. The
statement shows that the gross earnings
for the quarter ending September 30th
amounted to IS. .305, 703. The operating
expenses were So sos, 1924, and net earn
ings 81, 707 1879, an increase Of $400, ,468
over the corresponding quarter of last
year. The estimated surplus on Janu-
ary 1st will be $8, ,29l,7 1853.
Various rumors 90 to the proposed
changes in executive officers of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
have resulted in the issuing of state
ment by the parties now in control OF
the Board of Directors. The statement
is to the effect that the presidency of The
road has been offered to Charles F.
May er that he has accepted it and will
be elected at the meeting of the directors
| to be held on the 10th inst. The state
ment is considered evidence that the
Garrett party are to have things their
own way in the management of the
road.
A meeting of the Executive, or Strikers
Committee, appointed during the late
Burlington strike, took place at Chicago
Wednesday. The full committee was
present, with Michael Kavener in the
chair. Nothing of importance was trans
acted outside of discussion of the ways
and means by which the striking en-
gineers could obtain reinstatement by the
80" road. A committee is expected to
be appointed to visit the Burlington Off
cials. Superintendent Besler said that
the men should not be re employed in a
body, but a. individuals, and only as
vacancies occurred.