Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-18
Eastern Echoes.

Freight rates both east and West-bound
were restored by the trunk lines Monday
morning.
DIR. James Scott, author of the famous
Scott liquor law, died at Lebanon, O =,
Sunday, aged 73.
James G. Morford, aged SO, the last
member of the Association OF Old De-
Tenders of Baltimore, is dead.
1t is rumored that General Alger has
been the bearer OF an important message
from General Harrison to Blaine.
By the bursting of steam pipe at the
Cincinnati Spring Company's Works,
three men were severely, perhaps fatally
injured.
George Beechman, OF Boston, has ac-
cepted the challenge of Bolton, of the
Pacific Coast, to skate for the roller
championship.
As Pittsburg furnace at the Edgar
Thompson Steel works was badly dam
aged by an explosion of metal. Three
workmen were terribly burned.
Officials of the Southern Express Com
pany say their loss by the train robbery
Saturday night near Duck Hill, Miss,
will not exceed $4,000. The train that
followed had $4,000 in the express car.
In disreputab1e saloon on State
street, Chicago. Edward Bonner shot
Kitty Kent, alias Nellie Wilson, dead.
He then killed himself. Drunken jeal-
ousy was the cause of the tragedy. Both
Bonner and the woman were social out
casts.
John G. Whittier, the poet, on Monday
reached his eighty-frst birthday. Many
friends and neighbors called to pay their
respects. A large number of congratu-
Whittier is in fairly good health.
Gilbert Larrios, a clothing merchant
of Nicaragua, arrived at New York from
Europe with $25, 900 worth of diamonds
on which he had not paid duty. They
were seized. Larrios says he was ig-
norant of our customs laws. The dia-
monds were intended for his betrothed.
Representative Breckinridge, of Ken
lucky, has introduced joint resolution
reported during the last Congress by
Representative Tucker, proposing an
amendment to the Constitution defining
polygamy and making it unlawful at
any place in the jurisdiction of the
United States or OF any State.
A proposition to prosecute the Chicago
ticket scalpers under the State law, pro.
hibiting any person from carrying on a
brokerage business in railroad tickets in
Illinois, which practically has been a
dead letter, is being quietly talked of
among the railroad managers, and an
effort is being made to secure concerted
action.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow of the exc
cuted anarchist, arrived at Chicago Mon
day morning from her trip abroad. No
demonstration was made by her friends
and she proceeded quietly to her home.
1t is rumored that she has again left the
city without stating where she was
going.
At Westminster, Md, Fanny Jones
tcolored), is under arrest charged with
killing 4.year-old child by inhuman
treatment. The child had been left with
her by it's mother to be taken care of,
and she tortured it to death. Its body
was covered with scars and burns. The
woman is also accused of having tortured
other children.
A call for convention is published to
take measures to prevent, if possible, the
division of Dakota. A quiet meeting oi
the leading citizens Of Aberdeen was
held Saturday to devise means to defeat
1.-THE divisionists. They say division is
purely political move and opposed to
the best interests OF the taxpayers.
| A dispatch from the City of Mexico
saws that in Congress Saturday night the
Union Light, Fuel and Gas Company oi
America, in which st. Louis, Chicago,
New York and Detroit parties are largely
interested, obtained q concession fol
the introduction of water, fuel and gas
into all the city and Government build
fings throughout the Republic.
At Oberlin, Ohio, Sunday night, sew
eral of the college students enticed Frank
d. Wolcott, member of the preparatory
class, into a secluded street, threw him
to the ground and coated him with tar.
l. Little, one Of the assailants, was ar.
rested and fined $40 and costs. Other
arrests will follow. The cause of the
assault was suspicion that Wolcott had
told the faculty about students drinking
and gambling.