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Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-03

Directors-J. D. Bicknell, J. F. Crank H
Eabury, e. F. Spence, William Lacy, s. H. Mott
]. NJ. Elliott
Stockholders-Es Of A. II. Wilcox, o. s.
Witherby, s. 81. Mott J. F. Crank, A. L Lanker
SHIN, E. Hollenbeck K. F. Spence, H. Mabury
F. Q. Story, L. H. Carlton, Jas. Mccoy, J. D.
Bicknell, William Lacy, J. M. Elliott. au1
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-03
r .Os ANGELES COUNTY BANK,
Temple Block, Los Angeles, Cal.
Capital Stock Paid Up, 100000.
Reserve Fund, 100000.

UIKECTUKS:
H. L. Macneil, lothian Bixby,
John E. Platter, Robert s. Baker,
John A. Paxton, Geo. w. Prescott,
Geo. H. Stewart
Buy and Sell Exchange on San Fran
cisco, New York, London, Paris. Berlin and
Frankfort.
Buy Exchange on all parts of the United States
and Europe.
Receive Money on open account and GER
tificatc of del osit, and do a general banking
and exchange business.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-03

X H. BROWN, ARCHITECT, OFFICE, 8 N.
block. Los Angeles. Telephone 9lO. iy12tf
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
That Of MeSsrS. Guenther and
McFetridge Over the Wis
conSin Governorship.
The Democrats Are Watching
the Battle With a Great
Deal of Amusement.
Another Scene Regarding the
Affairs Of the Government
Printing Office.
Work Of Minnesota Repre-
sentativeS in the Ma
tional Congress.
Special 10 the Globe.

Special 70 the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-The gossip of
the day amongst Wisconsin senators
and representatives is the recent utter
mceS of Congressman Guenther and eX-
Treasurer McFeridge. Both are we'll
known Republicans, and their fight is
interesting 10 Democrats. McFetridge
is prominent candidate for the COVER
norShip, and Guenther is a lead
ing representative of a large Ger
man element in Wisconsin. The gen.
eral impression seems to be that
Guenther has effectually settled the
aspirations of McFetridge by exposing
the political treachery of that gentle
man during the congressional cam
paign of 1856. Guenther said to-day:
Il have received letters from prominent
Republicans of the Second district in
forming me that my position is abso-
lutely correct. and that McFetridge did
work for Delany as against me,
as charged by me. Beside
McFetridge has admitted the facts in an
interview had in st. Paul" Guenther
declares he is not a candidate for the
governOrShip of Wisconsin, but it is
suggested by his friends here that the
exposure of McFetridge'S treachery may
create wave of public opinion, es-
pecially in the German element, which
may carry him into Jere Rusk's seat.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
SUPREME COURT.
The Case OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company Versus G.
r. Hail.

The Case OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company Versus G.
f. Hall.
decisions rendered by the supreme
court of the United states to-day was
one involving the question of the re-
spOnSibility of a telegraph company for
neglect and delay in the delivery of
telegram. The case in which this
question arises is that Of the Western
F. Hall, brought here by writ of error
to the United States district court for
the Southern district of Iowa. Nov. 9,
1882, George F. Hall telegraphed from
Des Moines, To-, to Charles 7. Hall, at
Oil City, Pa, an order to buy 10000 bar
relS of petroleum if thought Safe
Through alleged negligence on the part
of employees of the Western Union Tel
egraph company this telegram was not
delivered to the address until p. m.,
when, the exchange having closed, it
was too late to execute the order. At
the opening of the exchange the follow
vanced Is cents barrel. Hall con-
tends that, by reason of the failure
of the telegraph company to de-
liver his message promptly, he lost
S1,SOO, viz: the sum which he would
have made had his order to buy been
duly executed and had the oil so bought
been sold at the advance of 1S cents on
the following day. This court in an
elaborate opinion by Justice Mathews
holds that the only theory on which the
plaintiff could show actual damage or
loss is on the suppOsition that if he had
bought Nov. 9 he might and would
have sold on the 10th. 1t is clear. how
ever, that in point of fact he has not
suffered any actual loss. No transaction
was in fact made, and there being
neither purchase nor sale there was
no actual difference between the sums
paid out and the sums received in con-
sequence of it which could be set down
in profit and loss account. If the order
had been promptly delivered on the day
it was sent and had been executed on
that day, it is not found that Hall would
have sold the next day at the advance,
nor that he could have resold at profit
at any subsequent day. The only dam
age for which he is entitled to recover
is the cost of transmitting the delayed
message. The Judgment is reversed
and the cause remanded, with directions
to enter Judgment for that sum merely
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31

10 o'clock Sunday evening. They ate
supper and then prepared for the night.
"Mr. Wilkin," said Mr.. Thompson,
''you have your choice either Of two
separate rooms or of one"
''Have you one room with two beds in
it?'' he replied.
eyes"
"Well, let US have that one"
ISIS this your wish, Mrs. Stetson?
She replied affirmatively, and they
were given the room. Mr.. Thompson
and the detective occupied cots outside
in the hall in order to prevent their es-
cape, etc. The people of the town were
wildly curious and swarmed about the
hotel, indulging in various comments
and
81 TOLD YOU SOS"
The prisoners, however. were kept
out of sight and hustled to the train on
the morrow without delay. At Fergus
Falls was another large and curious
group. and attempts were made to see
the prisoners and converse with them,
TO no avail. The party arrived in st.
Paul last night at 6:45, and the pris-
oners were at once concealed. No one
knows their whereabouts, and early to-
day Mr.. Thompson will swear ont
warrant for their arrest on the charge
OF adultery. According to law. if the
case is proven, it will go as hard with
the woman as with the man. Mrs.
Wilkin No. is smarting wonderfully,
and is desirOus of prosecuting both TO
the full extent of the law.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
1T ALL DEPENDS.
New York Newspaper Comment on the
State Committee Meeting.
YOU CAN TAKE YOUR CHOICE
A Scheme to Force Organized Labor to
Abandon Both Old Parties---Rtiss
Will Resign.

New YORK, Jan. 3O.-Everything
seems to depend on the point of view
from which you look at the recent meet
ing OF the Democratic state committee.
The Herald says: David has fired the
first shot from his ambuscade and
brought down the great American bird
the goose. 1t is clear that he got moth
ing else. He feels very sick i'll conse-
quence. A week ago he was the sup
posed friend of Cleveland, the trusted
champion of the Democracy of the state,
and sure candidate for governor. To-
day Gov. Hills real purpose stands re-
vealed. He is no longer the friend of
Cleveland, he is diStrusted by the DEM
ocracy, and his chances for renomina-
ton are far from certain. This great
change in Hills prospects was brought
to light in the confessed attempt he
made to capture the state committee last
Thursday.
The World, which is generally sup
posed to look at the governor with
friendly eyes, says: ''Since the little
skirmish last Thursday between the adj
mirers of President Cleveland and Gov.
Hill for the capture of national COM
mitteeman tO succeed Hubert o. Thomp-
son, Republican newspapers, and mug
wump sheets more especially, have de-
voted columns to heartrending tales as
to how the governor was bent upon
undermining Mr.. Cleveland. By the
friends of both gentlemen these stories
are regarded as the sheerest nonsense,
and friends of both have not hesitated
to denOunce them as SUCH:
A former state official, who was a
member of Cleveland's staff when he
was governor, and has been and is now
on terms of intimacy with the president,
laughed at the idea that relations be-
tween Mr.. Cleveland and the governor
are at all strained: Il beiieve,n said he
10 the World correspondent, that a
sincere friendship exists between the
president and Gov. Hill. All reports to
the contrary emanate, in my opinion,
from those who would like nothing
better than to provoke a factional fight
in the Democratic party
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
Introduced by Sabin.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Sa-
bin introduced a petition from the grand
division of the Sons of Temperance,
Minneapolis, for an amendment to the
constitution of the United States. pro-
nlDltlng the manufacture of alcoholic
liquor; also resolutions from the Mime
sofa State Dairy association urging an
amendment to the existing law to con-
troi the production and sale of the imi-
tatlon OF butter; also resolutions of the
Duluth chamber of commerce recon-
mending legislation clearing obstruc-
tlonS, establishing light houses, fog sig
mails and llfe-Saving stations upon the
great lakes, and secure additional safe
guards to life and property, signed by
President NJ. r. Baldwin and Secretary
William +. Phelps; also a memorial
from the same chamber of commerce
inclosing resolutions and recommend
ing that an international marine confer
ence be invited by the United States to
formulate for leSSehing dangers of nav
lgatlon. for amendments to the present
international regulations, for preven-
tlon OF collisions, to aid steerage in
thick water, believing such authorized
assemblage empowered to discuss and
compare marine systems in use, will
naturally result in great benefit to mar
lnerS and shippers: also resolutions of
the board OF trade of Ortonville, Mimi.
asking an appropriation of 900 for
dyklng and dredging Big Stone lake.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
A FAIR PROPOSITION.
The Men Ask the Right to Organ
iZe and Arbftrate Differences.

The Men Ask the Right to Organ
ize and Arbitrate Differences.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3O.-The follow
ing letter, which was sent last Wednes-
day to President Corbin by the central
city committee Of the strikers, in reply
to his latest manifesto, has not been
published before:
Austin Corbin, President Etc, Dear
Sir: In your letter of Jan. 81 to the
public you say you can see but one al
tentative for the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad company to insist upon:
First, the right to manage its affairs;
and, second, the right to employ labor
in the mining of its coal, so that it will
have at least an equal chance with its
neighbOrs in every competitive market
to which anthracite goes. These condi-
items or rules, Mr.. Corbin, are accept
able to your striking employees, and fit
sgas because you thought that your en-
ployes attempted to debar you Of these
Sweigard to enforce this strike, you
have been fearfully misled.
If that is the only question of differ
ences you have with them, this great
strike will come to an end in less than
thirty minutes, providing you grant to
your employees the following:
First, that they have the right to or
ganize; second, that when difficulties
arise between the companies and the
employees, these questions shall be
settled by arbitration.
These conditions of the employees will
not interfere with the managing of the
road, nor shut the coal and iron company
out of any market. l am, yours respect
fully, JOSEPH T. COGHLAN,
In Behalf of the EMPLOYEES.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31

get the pettiest Office for Union
widow even if she should be dying of
starvation. That is your reform.
AFTER further debate Mr.. Cutcheon
onered resolution for the appoint
ment OF a special committee to inveSti-
gate the present administration of the
printing office. Mr.. Springer, of Illi-
nolS, offered as substitute resolution
lnStructing the committee on printing,
win the addition of two members, one
from each side of the house to inVeSti-
gate the administration of the printing
once during the incumbency of the
present public printer and that of his
predecessor.
Mr.. Reed, of Maine, suggested that
the investigation of a man who is dead
could hardly help members to get their
documentS quicker, and he appealed to
MI. Springer not to make a partisan
thing out of the inquiry.
Mr. Springer denied that this was
anything partisan in his resolution. He
wanted to Institute comparison be-
tween the work of the printing office
under the present administration and
under that of the former public prin-
ter.
The substitute offered by Mr..
Springer was then agreed to. The
house then adjourned.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
SERIOUS CHARGES.

The Strikers Committee Says
There lis a Syndicate Formed to
Raise the Price OF Coal.
WASHINGTON, Jan, 80. - John H.
Davis, John Il. Lee and Ii. McGarvey, a
committee representing the striking
operatives and miners of the Philadel-
phia & Reading and Lehigh Valley rail
road companies and the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal and Iron company, ar
rived In Washington to-day for the pur-
pose of urging congress to take action
with reference to the Reading traubles.
They will present to the house to-mor-
row the following petition:
Whereas, The Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad company, the Philadelphia
d Reading Coal and Iron company, the
Lehigh Valley Railroad company and
other corporations have unlawfully con-
spired with individuals to raise the
price Of coal to an unreasonable figure,
and for this purpose have by enforcing
a lockout in the entire Lehigh and
Schuylkill anthracite coal system pre-
vented the mining and shipping of coal
from these systems to any part OF the
United states; we, the undersigned, re-
spectfully ask congress to appoint
special committee of the house of rep
reSentatlVeS to investigate the cause or
said lOck-outs as pOrmptly as the same
can be done.
The committee who claim to repre-
sent $4,000 workingmen say that the
object of this petition is to have an in
vestigatiOn that will go to the bottom of
the pool, which they assert has been
formed for the purpose of controlling
the price of coal. They declare that
the companies are paving large diVid-
bonded Indebtedness and are reaping
revenue from the anthracite coal fields
to which they are in no way entitled.
Such an Investigation as that for
which they ask. will, they think, elicit
information that will lead to the enact
ment of laws to prevent these unjust
enactions and thus remove the cause Of
the strikes.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
Latest Advices From the
! Striking Miners Show No
Signs of the End.
The Men Ask the Right to
Organize and Arbitrate
Differences.
The Syndicate Urge Corbin to
Apbitrate With His EN-
pl0yes.
POttSville Merchants Refuse
to Sell to the Miners on
Credit.

READING, Jan. 30.-To-day's advices
from the coal regions strengthen the
belief that there are no signs of the end
OF the strike. The miners show no sign
of yielding, so far as the Reading cor
poration is concerned, and the only IN
dications of discomfort among them are
shown by those who are offered by the
operators of individual collieries the
wages demanded. A majority of this
class of miners are still ready to work,
believing that the advanced basis of
wages is the only one involved, but they
are held in idleness by the influence of
the greater number of miners who are
employed at the Reading companies
collieries and who are refused the ad-
vanced wages. The influence of the
railroad strikers also continues to be
felt in deterring the miners at individ-
ual collieries from returning to work
even at the advanced basis. The rail-
road strikers objection to these miners
working is that whatever coal they
mine mast be shipped over the Reading
railroad.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
CHILDS' ADVICE.
He Says the Strike Is a Fit Sub
.ject for Arbitration.

He Says the Strike Is a Fit Sub
.ject for Arbitration.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3O.-Rumors of
strained relations between President
Corbin, Of the Reading railroad and the
syndicate that has been identified with
the recent reorganization of the COM
pany have been in circulation for few
days past. The differences have not
amounted to severance of friendly re-
lations, nor is anything of the kind eX-
pected to result, but there has been
trouble enough to disturb the pleasant
feelings that existed between Mr.. Cor
BIN and the financial supporters of the
Reading company. The trouble grew
out of the Reading strike. 1t seems
few weeks ago A. j.. Drexel,
George w. Childs and a few others took
dinner together at the house of Mr.. Cor
bin. The subject of the strike came up
and general discussion of the relations
of capital and labor was indulged in.
All sides of the strike were considered,
and Mr.. COrbin cOntended that the
company could not afford to give in. Mr..
ChildS was of the opinion that the
strike was fit subject for arbitration.
Members of the syndicate were entirely
satisfied with this statement on the part
of MI. Childs, and, it is said, indOrsed
his position. They are reported to have
urged Mr.. COrbin to follow the line of
action suggested, but Mr.. COrbin was i'm
no mood to do so,
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
AN INDEPENDENT PARTY.
Trying to Force Organized Labor
to Abandon Both Old Parties.

AIy ihS W 1t OECc OfSdltZcu llaOOr
to Abandon Both Old Parties.
CHICAGO, Jan. 30.-The Times this
morning says: There is plan on foot
among the Chicago labor organizations
that, if carried out, will either keep the
Democratic national convention away
from Chicago or else place all organized
labor in antagOnISm to the candidates of
the convention. 1t is being pushed by
some of the enthusiasts for an indie
pendent political labor movement for
the purpose of forcing organized labor
to abandon the old parties and join the
independent radical political move
ment. Of late it has come to be gener-
ally believed among labor men that not
only did the contractors on the audi
tOrlum building employ nOn-uniOn
labor, but they used stone
that came from the Chester peniten-
tiary, and the most aggravating circum-
stance in the eyes of the staunch union
men is that this stone was hauled from
the Chester penitentiary by the Wabash,
Chester IL Western railroad, of which
the principal owner is Charles B. Cole,
who, in the last session of the legiSla-
ture introduced the bill making the boy
colt criminal conspiracy. The inten-
tion is to again bring about concerted
movement of all the Chicago central
labor organizations similar to the one at
the time of President Cleveland's visit
and to petition the president or the DEM
ocratic national committee not to hold
the national convention in the audi
torium building, although they would
be glad to have the convention come to
Chicago. The proceedings will be
secret, as they will be in the hands of
the boycott boards, which of late have
become very secret bodies. The plan is
to have q committee appointed consist
ing of delegates of the boycott on exec
utive boards of the various centarl
bodies, and to inaugurate correspond
cnce with the president of the national
committee.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
OUTLAW BARBARISM.
A Wealthy Cattle Owner Inhu-
manly Ire ated by Robbers.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Jan. 30.-In the
Kimishi mountains, Indian territory,
Saturday morning, five masked men
called at the house of Reuben William
son, wealthy cattle owner, seized and
bound him and demanded of Mrs. Will
hanson to be shown where the money
was concealed. He was supposed to
have about $4,000 in the house. The
robbers then held Williamson's bare
hands on the hot stove. When William
sou became unconscious his wife gave
them $500 and the certificate of deposit
for the balance of the money, which
was in Kansas City bank. after which
they left. Williamson's injuries are
supposed to be fatal. Settlers and
ranchers are after the outlaws and they
will probably be lynched.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
Sensational Divorce Case.

CHICAGO, Jan. 3O.-Very sensational
indeed was the main charge preferred
by Leslie A. Carter in the crOss-bill he
filed to-day in the divorce proceedings
pending between himself and his wife.
Caroline Louise Carter. The Carter
divorce case has already acquired a
widespread notoriety, partly from the
high standing of the defendant in
society and at the bar in Chicago, and
partly from the peculiarly brutal nature
of the offenses charged by the com
plainant in her bill, But an additional
piQuancy has been given the case by the
charge made in the cross-bill to-day
that the fair defendant has beer guilty
of adultery with Kyrle Bellew, the
present playing in New York.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
A MINNEAPOLIS PARK.
A Bill Granting Land on Nicollet
Avenue for a Public Park.

- NJ oi NlCOtlCU
Avenue for Public Park.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Mr. Rice in
troduced the pension bill for Pierre Bot
uneau, late Indian agent, of $50 per
month; also bill directing the secre-
tary of the interior to pay Nathan But
ler Sl6l for services as agent of the inte-
rlor department, who examined and es-
tlmated the amount of dead
pine timber on the Red Lake
Indian reservation; also bill
granting the city Of Minneapolis land
bordering on Nicollet island for public
park purposes, being lot l, section %,
town 20 north, range "A west, which lies
n0rthwesterly of highway crossing on
island called bridge street, viz: All
those pieces and strips of land lying
between the original government
line as high water mark and
the waters of the Mississippi
river, including those lands which
Deen made by accretiOn or filling and
natural accretiOnS thereto. The grant
made by this act being relinquishment
only OF the rights of the United States
III and to said premises, and to forever
remain subject to the government right
10 require said tracts to be removed, if
ever deemed eXpedient to do so, for i'm
provementS of navigation of the river,
the patent to issue through the general
land Office as in other eases.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-01-31
A Fiendish Outrage.

CoLFAX, w. t.. Jan. 3O.-Dan Con-
roy, foreman of track laying on the
Spokane & Palouse railway, called on
Miss Hughes, daughter of l. I. Hughes,
editor of the Palouse City News, to at
tend dance to be given at Garfield.
While in buggy he managed to drug
her in some way, then placed
her in a box car near PalOuse City,
and ravlshed her. Not satisfied with
his own guilt, he induced ten of his
gang to do likewise. The girl is about
eighteen years of age aud of prepossess-
ing appearance. She is not expected to
live. She was kept a prisoner in the
car for twenty-five hours. The wretch
was caught in Spokane Falls. Sheriff
Berry will bring him here provided he
is not lynched before.